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| EDU403 | Public School Choice An in-depth exploration of the details surrounding school choice policies in the United States, including magnet and charter schools, as well as intra- and interdistrict choice plans. Examines differences between the underlying theories and assumptions of different school choice policies. Focuses on the impact of choice policies on the public school system, the school organization, educational performance, and equity. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: Finnigan |
| 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 stuents 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 most summers B Instructors: Kirst, Rapp |
| EDU408 | Law of Private Schools Examines the basic principles of law relevant to the administration of private schools, explores the practical implications of the law for the administration of private schools and provides an introduction to applied ethics. Topics include compulsory education, home instruction, state regulation of the curriculum, financial assistance to church-affiliated schools, torts and the safe school, ethical dilemmas of relevance to school leaders, rights of students, anti-discrimination laws, contracts with students and employees and other employee rights. Frequency: Most odd falls (next offered fall 2009) |
| EDU409 | Business Affairs in Private K-12 School Systems Provides an introduction to the fiscal management skills needed to effectively conduct business affairs of private K-12 school systems. Explores the nature and scope of private K-12 education in America, with attention to sources of revenue that distinguish private schools from their public counterparts, as well as the uses of school resources. Topics include admission and tuition policies; alternative revenue sources; accounting systems and how to prepare budgets for schools, programs, and activities; resources management issues, including purchasing, cash and inventory management, facilities and maintenance; and compensation. Frequency: Every third summer (next offered summer B 2010) Instructors: Brent |
| 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 |
| ED 413 | 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: Kraus |
| EDU413 | Contemporary Issues in Education Policy Examines the case for public education and a variety of education policy debates. Considers conceptions of equity and their application to both students and taxpayers. Examines various reform efforts that attempt to increase the productivity of educational systems, including school report cards and other accountability measures; restructuring classroom instruction; school choice and privatization; early childhood programs; home-school relations/partnerships; teacher and administrator recruitment, training, and compensation policies; and union influence on educational practice. Frequency: Every fall (next offered summer B 2009 instead of fall 2009) Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Finnigan, Harris, Stewart |
| 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: Every even fall Instructors: Uebbing |
| ED 420 | Learning and Assessment in Higher Education Examines models of student learning and assessment both in and out of the classroom. After reviewing some of the ways students learn, and the assessment of that learning, evaluates whether these models are appropriate and sufficient to support students’ learning given the current environment in higher education. Also explores the process of articulating learning goals and outcomes at a departmental and institutional level. Current or future student affairs staff, faculty, and administrators interested in learning and assessment will find this course beneficial. Frequency: Occasional summers Instructors: Donahue |
| ED 421 | 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 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 |
| EDU422 | Educational Leadership: Implications for the 21st Century Studies historical and philosophical influences on the development of contemporary educational leaders. Explores the impact of religion on education in the United States and the ways that the religious school is singularly consonant with the ideals characterized by colonial America, the early republic, and the early 21st century. In a time of citizen concern about schools and universal questioning of educational issues, this course will be helpful to those interested in both the government as well as the church-affiliated school. Frequency: Every third summer (next offered summer B 2011) Instructors: Graf |
| EDU423 | Educational Management and Human Relations Prepares educational leaders to manage the groups that constitute the private school’s environment and institutional organization. Examines the major models of managerial styles and institutional organization, principles of educational leadership, levels of group and individual development, and models of value management and choices. Prepares leaders to analyze and meet managerial needs, produce ethical arguments for institutional goals, and productively assess the institution and individuals within the institution. Frequency: Every third summer (next offered summer B 2009) Instructors: Kollar |
| EDU424 | The Principal and Christian Concepts of Virtue Provides a solid theoretical basis as well as practical suggestions to assist the Catholic/religious school administrator in developing a community of virtue among the faculty and students of his or her school. Examines the Judeo-Christian tradition and reflects on the distinction between the Christian/Catholic world view and other contemporary world views, drawing out implications for the educational process. Discussions center on establishing a community of virtue fostering moral and ethical development. Frequency: Every third summer (next offered summer B 2010) Instructors: Graf |
| ED 430 | 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 |
| ED 433 | 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, Nicoletti |
| ED 434 | 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: Every odd summer Instructors: Burnett, Lipscomb |
| ED 436 | 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 |
| ED 437 | 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: Waterman |
| ED 439 | 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: Most springs (next offered fall 2009) Instructors: Harris |
| EDF444 | Field Experiences in American Higher Education (variable credits) Provides students an opportunity to meet and discuss various topics and ideas originating in students’ coursework. Offers support and clarity to the first-year experience of international students. Extends and elaborates on topics covered in EDU 414, and visits to local schools, other Warner classes, and local socio-cultural settings are offered to elucidate the American institutions studied by Warner students. This is an optional extension offered to EDU 414 Restrictions: Restricted to matriculated international students Frequency: Every fall and spring Instructors: Clawson |
| ED 456 | 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 |
| ED 461 | 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: Occasionally Instructors: Finnigan |
| ED 462 | 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 |
| ED 464 | State and Federal Education Policy Studies state (emphasis on New York) and federal policy process for K–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 |
| ED 465 | 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 |
| ED 466 | 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 will be 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: Every Spring Instructors: Feldman |
| ED 467 | 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, 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 |
| ED 468 | 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 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: James-Wilson |
| 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 |
| ED 469 | 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: Rapp, Uebbing |
| ED 470 | 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 |
| ED 472 | Transforming Campus Communities through Experiential Learning Examines how initiatives such as collaborative learning, living/learning collaborations, service-learning, outdoor adventure, and field study can transform campus communities in dramatic ways. Explores both the philosophical rationale and the practical implications of these initiatives through written assignments, guest speakers, and experiential practice. Current or future student affairs staff, faculty, and administrators interested in experiential learning and institutional collaborations find this course beneficial. Frequency: Occasional summers Instructors: Donahue |
| ED 473 | Technology for Educational Leaders Examines leadership issues in the area of information and communication technologies through critical reflection, discussion, and the co-construction of knowledge. Broadly aligned with the Technology Standards for School Administrators, topics include: leadership and vision; learning and teaching; productivity and professional practice; support, management, and operations; assessment and evaluation; and social, legal, and ethical standards. Frequency: Occasionally |
| ED 475 | 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: Wall |
| ED 476 | 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 |
| ED 479 | 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: Most springs (next offered spring 2010) Instructors: Murphy |
| ED 482 | 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: Occasionally Instructors: Fredericksen |
| ED 484 | 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: Even summers Instructors: Hazen |
| ED 485 | 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 odd spring Instructors: Waterman |
| 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 (i.e., race, ethnicity, and social class), organizational levels (family, geography, high school context, and outreach), and field levels (i.e., financial aid, testing, rankings, media, and affirmative action). Special attention will be paid to the socio-cultural context, particularly on the role of families. Frequency: Occasionally Instructors: Kiyama |
| ED 486 | Curricular Innovations in Higher Education Explores current curricular, pedagogical, and out-of-the-classroom innovations that seek to improve student learning and campus community. Examines innovations such experiential learning, living/learning collaborations, learning communities, service-learning, and adventure curriculum and the implications of creating academic/student affairs and campus/community partnerships. Frequency: Occasional summers Instructors: Donahue |
| 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: Spring 2010 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 |
| EDU491 | History of Student Affairs Examines the history of student life and culture(s) within and around colleges and universities, as well as the institutional and administrative arrangements that have been made to address that life and culture. Frequency: Every odd spring |
| 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: Even falls Instructors: 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 (next offered fall 2009) 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 |
| ED 540 | 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, Kiyama, Wall, Waterman |
| ED 541 | 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, Kiyama, Wall |
| ED 542 | 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, Kiyama, Wall |
| ED 543 | 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] Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Brent, DeAngelis, Finnigan, Uebbing, Waterman |
| ED 544 | 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, Finnigan, Uebbing, Waterman |
| ED 545 | 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: Fall, spring, summer Instructors: Kohn, Wall |
| ED 546 | 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 thesis 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, Finnigan, Uebbing |
| ED 550 | 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 (i.e., Program Evaluation or Decision Analysis). Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every summer A Instructors: Brent |
| EDE551 | Qualifying Case Analysis - Higher Education Provides evidence that the candidate has mastered the knowledge needed to work in higher education 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 (i.e., Program Evaluation or Decision Analysis). Restrictions: Students in the higher education accelerated Ed.D. program Frequency: Every summer A Instructors: Hazen |
| 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 |
| EDU599 | Seminar in Higher Education Provides master’s students an opportunity—in a seminar setting— to study extensively a topic of their choice by thoroughly examining the existing scholarly literature and by writing a major paper addressing a significant research question (as opposed to ED 493, an individual writing process). This course is intended for master’s students to satisfy the master’s essay/thesis requirement. Restrictions: Permission of instructor Frequency: Every fall Instructors: Hazen |
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| EDU410 | Field Experience in Educational Leadership Directed and supervised experiences in a school, school district, or other educational institution, as required by New York State for candidates pursuing administrative certification prior to September 2006. Includes participation in regular university seminars. Frequency: Every semester Instructors: Kirst, Uebbing, Vitagliano |
| EDF497 | Supervised Internship in Higher Education (variable credits) Directed and supervised experiences in a higher education setting. Frequency: Every F, Sp, Su 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 semester Instructors: Kirst, Uebbing |