EdD Educational Leadership and Management

Covers leadership characteristics, styles, and profiles along with the dynamics of the change process. Students develop an action plan for a school-based project, keep a log, and do reflective analysis. Students will interview a leader about their experiences in change and develop a leadership portfolio.

This course is an introduction to the concepts of financial accounting and financial management. The content of this course includes preparation and analysis of financial statements. Also covered are the time value of money, risk and return, and corporate financing choices.

Covers learning theories and integrative models as they use instructional software in different contexts and subject areas. Demonstrates strategies for using and implementing multimedia, hypermedia, and electronic networking for candidates to implement in their own school settings.

This course helps students develop knowledge and skills to enhance their professional development and to become effective leaders. Students will understand trends in contemporary organizations, enhance their self-awareness, refine their interpersonal skills, and apply these skills to improve their work effectiveness.

Covers the differences between evaluation and other disciplines; how to design an evaluation framework; transformations in evaluation; new methodological approaches, including performance measurement; and issues that with which evaluators must deal.

Topics in macroeconomics and microeconomics, including market equilibrium, monetary and fiscal policy, profit maximization, and market future.

Study of historical growth and advancement of colleges and universities in the U.S. from the Colonial era to "virtual" public and private universities. Integrated overview of contemporary issues and policies and practices that characterize the operational environments of higher education institutions in the 21st century; including financial management, accreditation, curriculum, and institutional planning.

Organizational and administrative structures within the institutional hierarchy are explored as students examine the relationship between the university and the community it serves, the role of outreach in the modern university, and the role of faculty, staff, and student unions in academic operations and risk management.

This course is designed to assist students with their understanding of how law, politics, and power structures interact to influence the goals and operations of schools. Students will explore the roles of school boards and community organizations, state boards of education, state government agencies, special interest groups, professional organizations, and unions.

Strategies for attaining continuous success in the academic marketplace are examined including concept development activities, the role of professional development in attaining faculty and administrative performance to sustain these strategies.

Provides understanding of the career patterns of faculty, deans, vice presidents, provosts, and presidents while exploring academic employment markets of these professions. Traditional career paths, diverse points of entry in higher education, and career development of faculty are explored as well as administrative roles of managing academic units, decision making, and change implementation.

Examines the theoretical and research issues pertaining to creativity and the development of the creative thought process. Emphasizes how role playing and drama techniques can become a powerful tool to promote creative thinking, innovation, and change for educational leaders.

Allows candidates to develop models of curricula aligned with local, state, and national standards. Presents strategies for interdisciplinary teaching, creating constructivist learning environments, and developing integrative curriculum modules. Considers learning styles and effective methods that will be modeled and implemented in the course.

This course is designed to provide both theoretical and practical insights into the evolving responsibilities associated with being the chief executive officer of a school system.
Prerequisites: EDUC 801 Minimum Grade: C and EDUC 802 Minimum Grade: C

This course provides the candidate with the skills required by system-level administrators to work with a broad spectrum of constituencies. Students will focus on the major issues facing families, especially those that mitigate against strong home-school relations, such as poverty, domestic violence, and drug abuse.
Prerequisites: EDUC 827 Minimum Grade: B

This is a quarter of a yearlong internship in various central office positions depending on the candidate's career preferences. The experience will focus on school issues of a system-wide impact, such as policy development, long-range planning, school board function, and personnel management.
Prerequisites: EDUC 820 Minimum Grade: C

This is a quarter of a yearlong internship in various central office positions depending on the candidate's career preferences. The experience will focus on school issues of a system-wide impact, such as policy development, long-range planning, school board function, and personnel management.
Prerequisites: EDUC 827 Minimum Grade: C

This is a quarter of a yearlong internship in various central office positions depending on the candidate's career preferences. The experience will focus on school issues of a system-wide impact, such as policy development, long-range planning, school board function, and personnel management.
Prerequisites: EDUC 828 Minimum Grade: C

This is a quarter of a yearlong internship in various central office positions depending on the candidate's career preferences. The experience will focus on school issues of a system-wide impact, such as policy development, long-range planning, school board function and personnel management.
Prerequisites: EDUC 829 Minimum Grade: C

Introduces students to research design paradigms and the assumptions behind them, the use of the literature, developing research questions, qualitative and quantitative procedures, and research study formats.

The course builds upon Educational Research Design I and focuses on five main themes: research design, sampling design, data collection, data analysis, and reporting research results using educational applications.
Prerequisites: EDUC 803 Minimum Grade: C

Continuation of EDUC 810. Use of statistical methods using real-world problems and real-world data to gain experience with the following topics: analysis of variance and covariance, simple and multiple linear regression, multivariate techniques of factor analysis, cluster analysis, and multi-level and structural equation modeling. Course includes a lab for practice-based learning using SPSS.
Prerequisites: EDUC 803 Minimum Grade: C and EDUC 810 Minimum Grade: C

Continuation of EDUC 835. Use of qualitative methods using real-world problems and real-world data to gain experience withresearch techniques such as ethnography and case studies to gain skills in participant observation, interviewing, archival research, and historical analysis. Other theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches for qualitative research will be discussed. Course includes a lab for practice-based learning to use computer software for data collection/analysis.
Prerequisites: EDUC 835 Minimum Grade: C

Guides students in the writing for research, publication, and funding in education by studying examples of effective writing formats written by successful practitioners and by using an active writing process approach: writing drafts and giving feedback in small peer groups. Students produce a final document for each type of writing that employs authentic tasks and assessments.

Offers candidates a field-based opportunity to design and implement a pilot research study that will be presented and defended. Steps include framing the question and methodological approach, collecting and analyzing data, interpreting the results, and writing a report. Students document their research activities in a log. Research approaches can include action research, case studies, experimental designs, etc.

Seminar to prepare students who have completed the core doctoral courses and residency requirement to work with their dissertation advisor in the development of their dissertation research proposal.

Allows candidates to conduct an original research study that will comprise the dissertation.