Educational Leadership in Higher Education (Ed.D.)

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 51

The Foundation Courses provide the framework for what we mean by scholar practitioner. Each of  the Foundation Courses is grounded in the assumption that research in service of improved practice will facilitate deliberate change.

These courses address such issues as: how bias and our histories  inform how we understand the world; how we can ethically identify and describe practice-embedded  educational research; how conducting a literature review and integrating, from both practice and  research, allows us to be transparent and critical about the ways we pursue and generate knowledge;  how we can align research questions and approaches; and what it looks like to gather and work with  research data to affect change.

Foundation Courses

• EDL 703 - History of Higher Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 710 - Sociology of Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 708 - Change Leadership in Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 730 - Current Issues in Educational Policy (Cr: 3)
  

Method Courses

• EDL 715 - Introduction to Qualitative Research (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 716 - Literature Review I (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 735 - Introduction to Quantitative Research (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 736 - Literature Review II (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 752A - Action Research (Cr: 3)
  

Leadership Courses

Students Choose two from the following:

• EDL 738 - Ethical Leadership in Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 720 - Transformational Leadership in Contemporary Education (Cr: 3)
  

Higher Education Leadership Electives

Electives - 9 credits

Students must choose from three of the following:

• EDL 711 - Prior Learning Assessment Seminar (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 712 - Organizational Consulting: A Fieldwork Approach (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 746 - Finance, Budget, and Operations (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 760 - Student Development: History and Issues (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 764 - Theories and Practice in Academic Leadership (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 768 - Teaching, Learning & Institutional Culture (Cr: 3)
  

Misc Courses

• EXM 700 - Research Defense Proposal (Cr: 0)
  

Experiential Courses

• EDL 772A/772B - Doctoral Apprenticeship I & II (Cr: 6)
  

Dissertation Courses

• EDL 755A - Dissertation Study Part I (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 755B - Dissertation Study Part II (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 755C - Dissertation Study Part III (Cr: 3)
  

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will:

• Locate, analyze and synthesize existing research to address problems in the field.
• ​Apply key concepts, theories, and frameworks from education and related fields of inquiry to critically examine leadership issues and decisions in higher education settings.
• Utilize social scientific research processes (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) to develop and evaluate research.
• Communicate clearly with a scholarly audience via written research, oral presentations, and in dialog with each other.
• Conduct original scholarship that contributes significantly to the field.

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