UIUC Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
- UIUC Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
The School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) is a graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Founded in 1946, the school is the second oldest labor and industrial relations school in the nation. Currently, LER is one of the top 3 programs of its kind in the nation along with Cornell University and the University of Minnesota [ [http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/abouttheschool/index.html LER : About the School, University of Illinois ] ] . Students at Illinois can earn a Masters of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (terminal professional degree) or a PhD in Industrial Relations (which is typically accompanied by an M.S. degree during the process of earning the doctorate). The school focuses on the MHRIR program and boasts the best placement statistics in the nation for the field [ [http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/career/placementdata.htm LER : Career Services ] ] [ [http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/gradDegreePrograms/careers/ ILR Graduate Degree Programs: Career Opportunities ] ] [ [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page5907.aspx Career Management ] ] . Until August 2008, LER was known as the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. [ [http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/abouttheschool/deandesk.html Name Change ] ]
Facilities
The School of Labor and Employment Relations is located at 504 East Armory Avenue in Champaign, just a couple blocks off the South end of the quad. The facility hosts most of the faculty offices, the administrative offices, two classrooms, interview rooms and conference rooms. As much of the LER program has interdisciplinary ties with law, psychology and business, some classes and faculty are affiliated with those program's facilities as well.
Departments
Faculty are organized into the following areas:
* Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior
* Industrial Relations and Labor Studies
* Labor Economics
* Labor Law, Public Policy and Ethics
* International, Comparative, and Cross-Cultural Studies
* SocioTechnical Systems
References
External links
* [http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/ School of Labor and Employment Relations]
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