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Educational Leadership (EdD)
Department of Educational Leadership and Postsecondary Education
www.uni.edu/coe/departments/educational-leadership-postsecondary-education/educational-leadership
508 Schindler Education Center
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0604
Head: Dr. Victoria Robinson
Phone: (319) 273-3070
E-mail: victoria.robinson@uni.edu
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Robert Decker
Phone: (319) 273-2443
E-mail: robert.decker@uni.edu
Read the UNI Catalog description:
This program is intended to provide practicing educators the opportunity to continue their study and earn the terminal professional degree in their field. The Ed.D. degree requires a minimum of 60 semester hours of credit beyond the master's degree, including a minimum of 45 hours of course work at the 200/6000-level or 300/7000-level. Some intensive study areas may require more hours of 200/6000-level or 300/7000-level course work.
There are three components to the program: 15 semester hours in a Professional Common Core of work in educational foundations, fundamentals, and research; 38 semester hours of Advanced Professional Study in one of four areas of intensive study and a related area; and a Dissertation of 7 semester hours.
The Educational Leadership area of intensive study involves the preparation of personnel for leadership roles in PK-12 schools, postsecondary institutions, and non-school educational settings. (For more information, contact the Head, Department of Educational Leadership and Postsecondary Education.)
The Graduate Record Examination (General Test) is required for admission to the program.
Students interested in this program must submit a completed Application for Admission to Graduate Study and should contact the Department of Educational Leadership and Postsecondary Education for any other admission requirements. Graduate information and application for graduate admission can be found at www.grad.uni.edu/admission. For requirements concerning admission, candidacy, scholarship, residence, examinations, dissertation, and graduation for the Doctor of Education degree refer to appropriate sections of this University Catalog or visit www.uni.edu/coe/departments/educational-leadership-postsecondary-education.
| I. Professional Common Core (15 hours) | ||
| Education Foundations | ||
| INTDEPED 7301 (190:301) | Context of Contemporary Education | 3 |
| Research | ||
| Indepartmental, Education: | 9 | |
| Inquiry | ||
| Qualitative Methods in Educational Research | ||
| Quantitative Methods in Educational Research | ||
| Measurement and Research: | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Educational Program Evaluation | ||
| Descriptive Educational Research | ||
| Advanced Experimental Research in Education | ||
| Advanced Qualitative Methods in Educational Research | ||
| II. Advanced Professional Studies (38 hours) | ||
| Requirements for the Educational Leadership Intensive area | ||
| Educational Leadership: | 3 | |
| Educational Leadership and Systems Change | ||
| Educational Leadership and Systems Change | ||
| Seminar: | 3 | |
| Seminar in Postsecondary Education | ||
| Seminar in Educational Leadership | ||
| Practicum: | 3 | |
| Practicum: Postsecondary Education | ||
| Practicum in Educational Leadership | ||
| OR | ||
| Internship: | ||
| Internship in Postsecondary Education | ||
| Internship in Educational Leadership | ||
| Electives as follows | 29 | |
| Choose from the following courses (but not limited to these courses) At least 6 hours must be in an area outside of the elected area of intensive study. Courses used for an Advanced Studies Certificate cannot be used as courses outside the area of intensive study. | ||
| Orientation to ISSL and Educational Leadership | ||
| Organizational Studies | ||
| School Governance, Law and Intersystems Relations | ||
| Leadership for Effective Schools | ||
| School Management for Student Learning | ||
| Leading Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum | ||
| Leading School Growth and Improvement | ||
| Evaluator Approval for Improved Student Learning | ||
| Readings in Educational Leadership * | ||
| Seminar in Educational Leadership * | ||
| Practicum in Principalship | ||
| Internship | ||
| Capstone ISSL | ||
| Human Resource Administration | ||
| Educational Leadership and Systems Change | ||
| Leading Teaching, Learning and Assessment | ||
| Evaluation of Administrators | ||
| Power, Politics, and Ethics in School District Leadership | ||
| Organization, Governance, and Administration of Public Education | ||
| Funding the Educational Program for Improved Student Achievement | ||
| School Business Management | ||
| Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector | ||
| Readings in Educational Leadership | ||
| Seminar in Educational Leadership * | ||
| Internship in Educational Leadership | ||
| Practicum in Educational Leadership | ||
| III. Dissertation (7 hours) | ||
| This is the program component in which the student demonstrates proficiency in the integration of theory and practice (i.e., it involves the application of existing knowledge and/or results of individual research to an educational problem or situation). | ||
| Doctoral Seminar: | 1 | |
| Doctoral Seminar | ||
| Dissertation Research: | 6 | |
| Dissertation Research | ||
| Total Hours | 60 | |
| * | 1-3 hrs.; may be repeated with department approval. |