The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate

Name of institution:

Duquesne University
School of Education

Key Institutional Characteristics:

University mission to "serve God by serving students"

Traditional Programs:

2 PhD & 2 EdD
252 doctoral students
55 faculty

Foci:

Educational Leadership

Pilot Project Description:

Redesign of Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Educational Leaders

Purpose/Goals:

• Develop program with mission: Scholarship for Schools
• Generate final assessments
• Generate new structures and processes
• Test efficacy of structures and processes
• Build an intellectual community

Key Characteristics:

Build an intellectual community of stakeholders to direct reform and continuous improvement

Student profile:

Admissions:

Core Courses:

Action steps:

• 4 phases: understand the questions, create the structures and processes, demonstrate new structures and processes, use data generated to enact "design cycles" that will evaluate new structures and processes
• Coordinating committees
• Working groups
• Research advisory group
• CPED group

Evaluation steps:

Data collection to inform design

Progress toward design concepts:

Talking papers for student definition of capstone theme

Challenges: