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| EDU404 | School Leadership in Diverse Settings Given the increased diversity in American public schools, this course provides a historical and contemporary examination of how race and socioeconomic status affect the educational opportunities, experiences, and outcomes of students in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions. In our exploration of the challenges students of color and the poor confront in the pursuit of quality education, the course grapples with how school leaders are in a position to create the conditions necessary to foster success. Focuses on the structural, cultural, and psychological factors that affect the response of students in schools. Investigates how notions of racial and socioeconomic diversity and associated attributes often place students at a disadvantage in U.S. schools. Explores how schools can positively impact students from these communities. Frequency: Most springs Instructors: Harris |
| EDU407 | Curricular and Instructional Leadership Provides an overview of critical leadership issues related to curriculum policy and classroom practice. Explores the "coherent curriculum" and the many complex layers involved in creating, implementing, and assessing the connectedness among everyday educational experiences. Reflects on the role of educational leaders in creating and shaping learning communities. Develops leadership practices and strategies that build a healthy learning climate by focusing on applying theory to practice; develops authentic contexts for learning; uses results to inform decisions; creates successful learners; and generates enthusiasm for rich learning experiences. Frequency: Every spring and summer B Instructors: Kirst, Meier, Rapp |
| EDU411 | Education Finance Issues in K-12 School Systems Examines school finance policy issues related to the origination, allocation, and utilization of resources in public K-12 school systems. Addresses resource allocation processes at the state, district, and school levels; alternative methods of financing schools; and the perplexing issues of equity and efficiency. Frequency: Every even fall Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis |
| ED413 | Student Affairs Administration: Academic Support Services Provides an introduction and practitioner’s overview of academic support services in American higher education, including history and theories, student experiences, organization and administration, technology, current issues, and future challenges. Guest presentations by practicing professionals complement class offerings. Frequency: Every even summer Instructors: Herzberg, Kraus |
| EDU413 | Contemporary Issues in Education Policy Introduces students to several currently pressing educational policy issues and debates, including class size reduction, school choice, and teacher recruitment and retention. Provides content knowledge and encourages critical thinking about the issues/problems being addressed by state and local policies; the nature and effects of these policies; and the complexities of major policy issues. Focuses on the impact recent policies have had on the public school system, the school organization, educational performance, and equity. Restrictions: Open to graduate level students or by permission of intructor Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Finnigan |
| EDU416 | Conflict Management in Schools and Universities Provides emerging educational leaders with effective conflict management skills to optimize the daily performance of faculty, staff, and students to solve problems, make the best decisions, and achieve educational goals. Examines the theoretical underpinnings of conflict resolution, the practice of skills, and the identification of dispositions necessary for successful collaboration, negotiation, and mediation in schools and universities. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Shuherk |
| EDU418 | Leadership in Education Introduces and surveys the theory and research on leadership and what leaders in educational organizations do. Develops leaders’ abilities to analyze problems in education and apply successful leadership approaches to them and to successfully lead an educational organization. Frequency: Most even falls Instructors: Uebbing |
| ED421 | Reform in Public Schools Examines how federal, state, and local reform efforts impact teaching and learning, focusing on implications for administrators, teachers, and students in American public schools. Evaluates past and current large-scale strategies to transform the organizational, curricular, and instructional capacity of schools. Considers whether such changes have improved student access, engagement, and outcomes. The influence of race, class, and gender is addressed. Topics covered include: Title I, comprehensive school reform, standards-based education, and high-stakes testing. Frequency: Most falls Instructors: Harris |
| EDU421 | Human Resource Management Provides an introduction to, and an overview of, human resource management in educational organizations. Emphasizes issues related to working with people in organizations, and on policies and procedures for sound personnel administration practice. Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Uebbing |
| ED430 | College Retention: Theory, Research, and Practice Introduces students to research and theory regarding college student retention. Explores cultural, institutional, and individual factors that contribute to college student attrition and provides implications for improving college retention practices. Frequency: Every even fall Instructors: Guiffrida |
| ED433 | Student Affairs Administration: Admissions and Financial Aid Two critical and heavily intertwined areas of higher education administration are admissions and financial aid. This course focuses on the history, underlying philosophies, organizational structures and professional staffing, current issues and future challenges facing these organizations. Guest presentations by practicing professionals will complement class offerings. Frequency: Every odd summer Instructors: Hazen |
| ED434 | Student Affairs Administration: Minority Student Affairs With changing demographics and institutional emphasis on promoting diverse student populations, support services for minority students have emerged in higher education administration. This course focuses on the history, underlying philosophies, organizational structures, and professional staffing in minority student affairs. In addressing current issues and future challenges facing such organizations, topics explore the complexity of racial identity; offer reflections on Brown v. Board of Education; and illuminate why affirmative action in higher education is necessary to achieve diversity. Guest presentations by practicing professionals may complement class offerings. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: Burnett, Lipscomb |
| ED436 | How Universities Work Today’s universities are far from simple organizations and do not conform to the traditional organizational models and cultures seen in business, government or even K-12 operations. This course explores the obvious and hidden complexities, interdependencies and organizational challenges of the modern university through a combination of academic content and practitioner presentations by key leaders from the university and higher education. Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Hazen |
| ED437 | Diversity and Equity in Higher Education Examines the educational history of non-dominant populations. Critical race theory will be used to explore the institution of higher education. While race and gender are broad topics, these issues will be complicated with those of class, disability, power, and our role in the power structure. Critical multiculturalism provides the basis for transformation in higher education. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Wall, Waterman |
| ED439 | Policy Analysis in Education Focuses on the fundamental principles of policy analysis with a review of literature from education, public policy, and political science. The major requirement for this course will be a group project examining a substantive K-20 policy issue. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Harris |
| ED456 | Leadership and Special Education Examines federal and state laws, regulations, and critical issues regarding the education of students with disabilities. Explores the implications for policy and practice these legal and ethical issues impose on districts, schools, and teachers. Issues of access, diversity accountability, including classification, placement, assessments, interventions, and professional development are explored. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: White |
| ED461 | The Politics of Education Introduces candidates to the recurrent forces and competing values that shape decision making in local school districts, focusing on the local level of educational politics. Examines the role of school boards, parents, teachers unions, mayors, and others. Provides candidates with the knowledge and skills necessary to work effectively as education leaders in this political environment. Frequency: Most odd springs (next offered spring 2013) Instructors: Finnigan, McGowan |
| ED462 | Managing School Resources Provides students with the skills needed to manage school resources (both fiscal and physical) effectively. Prepares students to prepare a budget for school, programs, and activities and to conduct a cost analysis. Addresses resource management issues in specific program areas, including cash management and inventory, risk management, scheduling and enrollment management, and facilities and maintenance. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Brent |
| ED464 | State and Federal Education Policy Studies state (emphasis on New York) and federal policy process for Kâ€"12 schools. Candidates learn to identify problems and challenges in policy design and implementation by examining the construction of policy problems, the instruments used, and the theories and assumptions underlying policies. Drawing on literature from political science, sociology, and educational policy, the course provides students with skills to analyze education policies and infer their implications. Discussions include the No Child Left Behind Act, charter school policies, class-size reduction policies, and issues related to high-stakes testing. Frequency: Every even spring Instructors: Finnigan |
| ED465 | School Governance and the Rights of Students and Teachers Provides an overview of legal principles and rules of particular relevance to school building administrators and introduces issues of applied ethics. Answers those legal questions of most relevance to school building administrators. Develops skills in the interpretation and application of law to school situations. Provides insight into some fundamental issues addressed by school law and ethical dilemmas of relevance to school leaders. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Uebbing |
| ED466 | Leading Change in Schools Examines issues of leadership and change in education and the many sources of pressure on schools to change. Prepares developing school leaders to identify situations that require change and the skills needed to make change happen. Applying the ideas of change theorists, including Lewin, Senge, and Kotter, to educational problems is the foundation of this course. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: Uebbing |
| EDE466 | Educational Legal Theories and Policies From the perspective of the legal system, examines students’ rights and efforts to achieve equal educational opportunity in public K-12 school systems. Topics explored include students’ civil liberties, such as free speech and due process rights; legal efforts to achieve desegregated schools; equitable school funding; and legal rights of students in the special education process. Also examines the structure of the legal system and the role of legal precedent in the context of K-12 education. Frequency: Most springs Instructors: Feldman |
| ED467 | Student Affairs Administration: International Student Affairs Focuses on both the practices and philosophy of working with international students on campus. Examines governmental policy changes since 9/11 and their impact on higher education and issues related to immigration advising, career counseling, cross-cultural advising, student advocacy, crisis management in a cross-cultural setting, intercultural programming, publications and forms, ethics, and the legal responsibilities of those advising international students. Frequency: Every even summer Instructors: Kless |
| ED468 | Leadership in Urban Schools Focuses on teaching, leadership, and administration in urban school settings. Candidates investigate the realities and misconceptions of these environments and probe and clarify their own conceptions of, and attitudes toward, urban schools. Candidates draw on theoretical literature, empirical research, case studies, the personal experience of others in the class, and the community to think about ways to apply theory to practice. Engagement with administrators, teachers, students, and community members who work and/or live in the City of Rochester is a requirement of this course, and opportunities for this interaction will be made available during and outside of course meetings. Frequency: Every summer A Instructors: Brockenbrough, Nelms, Soler |
| EDU468 | Data-Driven School Improvement School leaders work in a climate that increasingly stresses the role of data collection and analysis as vital tools in decision making. Stakeholders, including parents, faculty, board members, state and federal governmental agencies, and the press, rely on data reporting to judge the quality of school programs. In this course, students will be instructed on how to plan, design, implement, and complete an evaluation of an educational program using student achievement data. Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Doughty |
| ED469 | Leadership and Organizational Dynamics Examines organizational theory and dynamics focusing on school as a complex organization, emphasizing school culture and the change process in schools. Explores leadership theory and models to help participants understand and prepare for leadership. Frequency: Every summer A Instructors: Kirst, Kissel, Rapp, Uebbing |
| ED470 | Leading Effective Program Design Develops skills and strategies that educational leaders need to become effective program designers. Examines research on instructional theory and practice as connected to improving student achievement. Prepares leaders to address current reform issues through consistent, systemic K-12 program design. Explores the use and application of curricular and instructional analysis. Participants design educational programs to meet the needs of specific student populations. Frequency: Occasionally |
| ED475 | Leadership and Management in Higher Education Assists those in higher education in understanding different leadership and management approaches in the context of the academy. Opens with an overview of theory associated with leadership and management and then applies major theoretic constructs to higher education. The course delves into application of leadership and management ideas for students, both for their development and management. Examines in detail administration leadership in an effort to shed light on the roles of different leadership approaches in generating socially just institutions of higher education. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Cooper, Wall |
| ED476 | Administration of Student Affairs in Higher Education Introduces the history, philosophy, and purposes of student affairs and student services administration. Examines the theoretical and practical foundations of the student affairs profession. Explores issues and problems currently facing student affairs administration in the larger context of an ever-changing environment and the future of student affairs as higher education evolves. Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Hazen |
| ED479 | Human Capital Management in Higher Education Discusses the full spectrum of human capital issues facing modern leaders in complex organizations, including the development of employment criteria and the establishment of post-retirement benefits. Includes active discussion of various topical areas and utilizes the case analysis approach. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: Murphy |
| EDE479 | Assessment, Accreditation and Accountability in Higher Education The determination of quality in education is an omnipresent issue, and this course examines how quality is being examined in contemporary higher education. This hybrid summer course begins by examining historic and contemporary accreditation process in US higher education in comparison to international quality assurance efforts, and then turns to the examination of how assessment and accountability are being employed in relationship to understanding and enhancing educational quality. The final product of the course is an individual assessment plan that aids each student’s exploration of quality in a given organizational entity in higher education. Instructors: Wall |
| EDE480 | Contemporary Issues in Student Affairs Explores contemporary issues in student affairs in higher education. Students will explore issues impacting the practice of student affairs such as globalization, accountability, finances, and today’s diverse student. The role of professional organizations will also be addressed. Instructors: Waterman |
| ED482 | Technology and Higher Education Provides students with an introduction to contemporary topics in information technology that are important to higher education institutions and their leaders. Explores areas of administrative computing, academic computing, IT infrastructure, networking and communication, IT issues and policy development, and other important application areas. Frequency: Every even spring Instructors: Fredericksen |
| EDE482 | Introduction to Fundraising in Higher Education Provides a comprehensive look at the principles and components of advancement in higher education. Delves deeply into each of the components of advancement and provides students with hands-on learning experiences through readings, case studies, and creative projects. Provides students with a full understanding of all the different aspects of advancement necessary to plan and execute comprehensive campaigns. By the end of the course, students will have full mastery of the components and principles of university advancement and will be equipped to contribute to the profession, both practically and theoretically. Frequency: Most falls Instructors: Croteau |
| EDE483 | Leadership & Management Competencies for Higher Educational Advancement Administrators Explores a variety of management approaches and encourage students to use real-life examples from their workplace to enhance discussions, projects, and assignments. Aims to provide students with competencies and knowledge about people management and leadership within the university advancement context. This course is designed for advancement administrators who seek to learn the theoretical foundations of people and organizational management as well as a practical application of the theory. Frequency: Occasional springs Instructors: Croteau |
| ED484 | Student Affairs Administration: Residential Life Provides an introduction and overview of student residential living and residential life administration in American higher education, including history and theories, student experiences, organization and administration, technology, current issues, and future challenges. Frequency: Every even summer Instructors: Hazen |
| ED485 | College Students and Student Development Theory Explores psychosocial, cognitive-structural, identity, and typology theories of college student development. Discusses examples of application and use of student development theory in everyday student affairs practice. Drawing from current research in the field of higher education, this course provides information about the behavior and trends related to American college students. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Kiyama, Waterman |
| EDE485 | Student Affairs Administration: Student Activities and Fraternity/Sorority Affairs Two critical, visible, intense, and often intertwined areas of higher education administration are student activities and Greek affairs. This course focuses on the history, underlying philosophies, organizational structures and professional staffing, current issues and future challenges facing these organizations. Guest presentations by practicing professionals will complement class offerings. Frequency: Every odd summer Instructors: Miranda Smalls |
| EDU485 | College Access and (In)Equity Addresses theories and research on a variety of issues related to college preparation, school structures, and inequalities in college access. The course is organized into three levels of analyses: individual levels (e.g., race, ethnicity, and social class), organizational levels (e.g.,family, geography, high school context, and outreach), and field levels (e.g., financial aid, testing, rankings, media, and affirmative action). Special attention will be paid to the sociocultural context, particularly on the role of families. Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Kiyama |
| EDE487 | The Role and Function of the American Community College in Higher Education The role and function of the American community college is impacted by the interests of constituencies, such as states and localities, workforce needs, students, faculty, administrators, trustees, and other institutions of higher education. Examines the educational, economic, political, and social forces that have influenced the development of the American community college. Addresses organizational culture, curriculum, student services, and current issues and trends that impact the current state and future development of the community college. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: White |
| EDU490 | Higher Education Law Investigates legal concepts and issues in higher education as a guide for improved understanding and management of institutions and as an opportunity to consider the role higher education plays in society and the effect society’s rules have on higher education. Introduces the legal system and law of higher education governance. Illuminates common legal and educational management and policy issues in higher education, with an emphasis on student and faculty issues. Develops basic problem-solving skills. Provides insight into broader constitutional and policy issues. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: Crummins, Stewart |
| EDE491 | The Entrepreneurial University This course is a critical examination of the emerging entrepreneurial University. Examines five generations of university history, including the emerging entrepreneurial context. Also examines the following major topics: university responses to fiscal resource tensions; advancement; technology transfer; changing faculty behavior and governance; the role of the university in globalization; entrepreneurial leadership and action; assessment and accountability; and development and shifting curriculum (e.g. entrepreneurial education). Frequency: Most odd springs Instructors: Wall |
| EDU492 | Governance, Policy, and Administration of Higher Education Examines the organization and governance of American higher education institutions, giving due weight to the context in which trustees, presidents, academic administrators, and faculty members make decisions. Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Kiyama, Wall |
| EDU493 | History of Higher Education Provides a historical survey of, and examines critical issues in, the evolution of American higher education, beginning in the colonial era and extending to the present. Frequency: Most even falls Instructors: Kiyama, Waterman |
| EDU496 | Fiscal Issues in Higher Education Introduces the financing and economics of higher education in the United States, with an emphasis on four-year institutions, although some attention is also given to community colleges. Examines the benefits and costs of higher education; revenue resources, with particular attention to tuition, admissions, financial aid, and endowment policies; expenditure trends, resource allocation, and budgetary practices; and fiscal policies that affect faculty and students. Frequency: Every odd fall Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis |
| EDU502 | Leading the School District: The Superintendency in the 21st Century Intended for those preparing for district-level leadership positions, including the superintendency. Focuses on the role of the superintendency and the perspective of that position on the challenges, needs, and opportunities facing school districts. Major emphasis is placed on leading a school district and managing school district operations. Frequency: Every summer B Instructors: Uebbing |
| EDU504 | Economics of Education Applies theories and analytical methods from economics to the study of complex educational issues, including the value of education to individuals and society; the link between education and economic growth; school choice and its implications for public schools; teacher supply, demand, and quality; and the benefits and costs associated with investments in various educational programs, such as early childhood education. Aims to introduce students to important economic concepts and to develop students' ability to critically analyze the arguments and evidence surrounding educational policy options through an economics lens. Frequency: Most odd falls Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis |
| EDU515 | Decision Making for Educational Leaders I: Analyzing Problems in Schools and Universities Introduces and examines the process of analyzing problems and making decisions in educational administration. Links current decision theory with contemporary educational problems. Through a series of case studies, considers a variety of decision-making approaches ranging from the classical model of optimizing to normative models of shared decision making. Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Uebbing |
| EDU516 | Decision Making for Educational Leaders II: Making Decisions in Schools and Universities Advances understanding of effective leadership by emphasizing those factors that affect the rational models of decision making in ways that make decision making harder, more complex, and even "irrational." Draws on literature from psychology, political science, and public choice to help in understanding and improving decision making in educational institutions. Prerequisites: [EDU 515] Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Uebbing |
| EDE538 | Educational Policy Seminar Examines select educational policy issues in greater depth. The topics covered will be determined by the instructor's and student's interests. Spring 2011 focus: Much focus of educational policy since Brown v. Board of Education has focused on addressing racial, socioeconomic, and linguistic gaps in school outcomes. This course examines the various factors that students confront within schools and communities that contribute to educational inequities. We will examine the potential and limitations of local, state, and federal policies to adequately address educational disparities in K-12 schools. The course will also consider how broader social policies (i.e. economic and health policy) that aim to improve the social support systems in local communities can aid with increasing educational outcomes. Prerequisites: [ED 506 or completion of one or more policy courses] Restrictions: Doctoral students only, or by permission of instructor Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Finnigan, Harris |
| ED540 | Program Evaluation Dissertation Proposal Seminar Provides students with support as they develop their program evaluation dissertation proposal. This course is the first course in a series for students who are writing a thesis involving a program evaluation project that includes ED 540, ED 541, and ED 542. Prerequisites: [ED 550 or EDE 551] Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every summer Instructors: Finnigan, Harris, Hazen, Kiyama, Wall, Waterman |
| ED541 | Program Evaluation Dissertation Seminar I Provides students with support as they design and complete their program evaluation dissertation proposal. This course is the second course in a series for students who are writing a thesis involving a program evaluation project that includes ED 540, ED 541, and ED 542. Prerequisites: [ED 540] Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Finnigan, Harris, Hazen, Kiyama, Wall, Waterman |
| ED542 | Program Evaluation Dissertation Seminar II Provides students with support as they develop their program evaluation dissertation proposal. This course is the third course in a series for students who are writing a thesis involving a program evaluation project that includes ED 540, ED 541, and ED 542. Prerequisites: [ED 541] Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Finnigan, Harris, Hazen, Kiyama, Wall, Waterman |
| ED543 | Decision Making Dissertation Seminar I Provides students with support as they design and complete a decision analysis dissertation. This course is the second course in a series for students who are writing a thesis involving a decision making project that includes ED 546, ED 543, and ED 544. Prerequisites: [ED 546; permission of an instructor required] Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Uebbing |
| ED544 | Decision Making Dissertation Seminar II Provides students with support as they design and complete a decision analysis dissertation. This course is the third course in a series for students who are writing a thesis involving a decision making project that includes ED 546, ED 543, and ED 544. Prerequisites: [ED 543] Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every spring Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Uebbing |
| ED545 | Program Evaluation Practicum Provides students with a guided independent experience in conducting a program evaluation in a higher education, K-12, or community setting. Students develop an evaluation site and proposal, carrying out the evaluation and submitting an evaluation report as a final practicum project, and work with an evaluation faculty member to develop their practicum experience. Prerequisites: [ED 520, ED 521] Restrictions: Doctoral students only Frequency: Every fall, spring, and summer Instructors: Kohn |
| ED546 | Decision Making Dissertation Proposal Seminar Provides students with support as they develop their decision analysis dissertation proposal. This course is the first course in a series for students who are writing a dissertation involving a decision making project that includes ED 546, ED 543, and ED 544. Prerequisites: [ED 550 or EDE 551] Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every summer Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Uebbing |
| ED550 | Qualifying Case Analysis Educational Administration Provides evidence that the candidate has mastered the knowledge needed to be an educational leader by allowing students to apply concepts, theories, and frameworks learned in their coursework to realistic scenarios. Successful completion of the Qualifying Case Analysis is required before students can advance to the proposal writing stage of a field-based dissertation (e.g., Program Evaluation or Decision Analysis). Prerequisites: Completion of Ed.D. coursework Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every summer A Instructors: Brent |
| EDE550 | Qualifying Case Analysis: Educational Leadership, K12 Administration EdD Provides evidence that the candidate has mastered the knowledge needed to be an educational leader by allowing students to apply concepts, theories, and frameworks learned in their coursework to realistic scenarios. Successful completion of the Qualifying Case Analysis is required before students can advance to the proposal writing stage of a field-based dissertation (e.g., Program Evaluation or Decision Analysis). Prerequisites: Completion of EdD Coursework Frequency: Every Summer A Instructors: Brent |
| EDE551 | Comprehensive Exam Research: Higher Education EdD Provides evidence that Ed.D. candidates have mastered the knowledge needed to work in higher education by allowing students to apply concepts, theories, and frameworks learned in their coursework. Successful completion of the Comprehensive Exam is required before students can advance to the proposal writing stage of their dissertation Prerequisites: Completion of Ed.D. coursework Restrictions: Students in the higher education Ed.D. program Frequency: Fall, Spring, Summer Instructors: Hazen |
| EDE552 | Comprehensive Exam Research: Educational Leadership, K12 Administration PhD Frequency: Fall, Spring, Summer |
| EDE553 | Comprehensive Exam Research: Higher Education PhD Frequency: Fall, Spring, Summer |
| EDE554 | Comprehensive Exam Research: Educational Policy & Theory PhD Frequency: Fall, Spring, Summer |
| ED570 | Dissertation Creation Seminar Prepares doctoral students for the process of writing their dissertation proposals. Provides students with the skills necessary to critically evaluate the design of published research in the field of higher education and in their respective areas of expertise. In addition to building upon the knowledge gained in students’ methods courses, this course will pay particular attention to the use of conceptual and theoretical frameworks in research design. This course is open to students in the PhD and traditional EdD higher education programs. Students who have completed their methods courses and comprehensive exams and who are at, or near, the proposal stage of their doctoral programs may enroll in this course. This course is not open to master’s students or doctoral students in the accelerated dissertation cohorts. Students’ final course assignment will include a draft of their dissertation proposal. Prerequisites: [ED 504, ED 507; completed or near complete comprehensive exams] Restrictions: This course is not open to Master’s students or doctoral students in the accelerated dissertation cohorts. Enrollment in the course must be approved by the instructor(s). Frequency: Occasionally (next offered fall 2013) Instructors: Kiyama, Waterman |
| EDU576 | Contemporary Issues in Higher Education Explores contemporary policy issues in higher education. The purpose of this course is threefold: to develop an understanding of key policy issues at the international, national, state, and institutional levels; to conduct policy analysis of national issues in American higher education; and to develop an integrated view of policy and practice for practitioners working in higher education. Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Wall |
Internships | |
The following internships can take place in any semester under the supervision of a faculty member in educational leadership. Each internship needs to be individually arranged through the faculty advisor(s) involved and the cooperating educational organization. | |
| EDF497 | Supervised Internship in Higher Education (variable credits) Directed and supervised experiences in a higher education setting. Frequency: Every fall, spring, and summer Instructors: Hazen |
| EDF498 | Supervised Internship in Educational Administration (variable credits) Directed and supervised experiences at both the building and district level for the equivalent of 15 weeks full time, as necessary to meet the new New York State requirements for administrative certification and NCATE standards. Includes participation in regular University seminars. Required of students matriculated after September 2006 who are seeking New York State administrative certification. Frequency: Every fall, spring, and summer Instructors: Kirst, Mace, Rapp, Uebbing, Wille |