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Ed.D. with P-12 School Administration Specialization and Leadership in School Reform Concentration—60 hours

Prerequisites: Candidates must have one of three qualifications to be admitted to the program:

  1. leadership experience,
  2. a school leadership license, or
  3. a school leadership degree.

Transfer Credit by Petition: Maximum of 12 semester hours of master’s credit and 15 semester hours of education specialist credit from regionally accredited institutions may be applied by petition upon approval of the Ed.D. Program Director.

 

Degree Requirements

Required Courses

EDU 723Faith and Ethics in Educational Leadership

3
EDU 606Accountability for Greater Student Learning

3
EDU 600Comnity Involv to Improve Sch

3
EDU 718The Changing Superintendency

3
EDU 722Teacher Leadership

3
EDU 716Purpose and Plan for Action Research

3
EDU 711Leadership Seminar: Politics, Policy and Instruction

3
EDU 741Leadership Development Research Project I

3
EDU 717Entrepreneurial School Leadership

3
EDU 742Leadership Development Research Project II

3
EDR 700Research Issues in Educational Leadership

3
EDR 710Intermediate Statistics

3

EDR 708Qualitative Inquiry in Education

3
Or
EDR 725Advanced Statistics and Design

3

EDR 712Dissertation Research Seminar

3
EDR 707Leadership Research Seminar

3
EDR 720Research Methods and Design

3
EDU 712Pre-Candidacy Resources

3
EDR 790Dissertation

1.0 - 4.0
Students must complete a minimum of 9 hours of EDR 790.

Exit Assessments

Completion of:

  • Minimum of 3.2 GPA in Ed.D. courses
  • The Qualifying Paper
  • Dissertation Proposal (with Approval by Committee)
  • Comprehensive Examination
  • Oral Defense of Comprehensive Examination
  • Dissertation
  • Oral Defense of Dissertation