Organization and Leadership, EdD

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Doctoral Program

The doctoral program consists of 60 credit hours of study beyond the master’s degree and culminates in the completion of a doctoral dissertation. Students will complete 60 credits of coursework that satisfy the following requirements:

The Organization and Leadership Program Learning Outcomes:

The programs brings before students a continuum of new knowledge and understanding that reflects current theories, research, and innovative practices.
The program equips students to apply the principles of leadership theory in a broad range of settings to effectively lead individuals and organizations to success.
The program equips students to select, implement, and manage appropriate leadership methodologies to meet individual, group, and organizational needs in K-12 through higher education, for-profit, and nonprofit settings.
The program equips students to utilize and conduct research to evaluate and improve organizational processes.
Create leaders who are able to critically examine organizations in order to promote equitable outcomes.
Foster advocacy for social justice with a consciousness around the experiences and challenges facing historically underrepresented groups.
Understand and apply research to problems of practice.
Develop leaders who are self-reflective of their practice and its implications for social justice and equity.

The Organizational and Leadership Program Student Learning Outcomes:

Graduates will have acquired the knowledge, understanding, tools and skills necessary to assume leadership roles in organizations at the local, state, national and international levels.
Graduates will have an understanding of research methods and demonstrate competencies to engage in rigorous scholarship.
Graduates will be able to relate theory to practice and demonstrate synthesis of advanced knowledge by improving organizations.
Graduates will have adopted habits of personal and scholarly reflections that examine professional practice and lead to systemic renewal.

The following Foundation Core courses are required (12 Units):

GEDU 706 - Applied Educational Statistics
GEDU 708 - Research Methods in Education
One Foundation course selected in consultation with the student’s adviser
One Advanced Research course selected in consultation with the student’s adviser

Students are required to complete the following 6 units:

Students are required to complete 9 credits of O&L program core courses.

Students can then select, with the consultation of their adviser, one of the following:

Note:

Students can choose any doctoral level course within the O&L department to meet the remaining 18 O&L credits. The 12 credits of the elective courses may be drawn from the O&L courses or from other doctoral level courses within the School of Education. Students may elect to use the 12-credit block to design a minor.

The 9 units associated with the development, research, and writing of a doctoral dissertation are:

Note:

Students complete the program by successfully defending their dissertation research in O&L 791 - Dissertation Research and Writing .