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Foci:
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Educational Policy Studies and Leadership
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Pilot Project Description:
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EdD in Educational Policy Studies with Emphasis on Community & Technical College Leadership
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Purpose/Goals:
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develop a practice-oriented professional degree for post-secondary and P-20 leadership
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Key Characteristics:
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- Dual institutional effort to address P-20 policy challenge in Kentucky
- UK-hybrid delivery design following executive doctorate program, applied orientation, modular approach
- Collaboration with Kentucky Community and Technical College (KCTCS) system administration
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Student profile
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- Administrators & faculty from Kentucky Community and Technical College system (KCTCS)
- Cohort group--2007 cohort of 28 admitted students; 22 currently enrolled from 12 campuses and central administration departments
- All participants have full support of their supervisors that participation in EdD program is assigned as part of workload.
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Admissions:
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- Traditional admissions process controlled by department faculty.
- Additional writing assignment that acts as the first piece of assessment portfolio
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Core Courses:
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- What are the issues
- How are these issues embedded in contxt of the time, place, people, economies, etc
- How do we inquire about these issues? Form, implement, and evaluate policies iteratively?
- How do we do the above collaboratively and ethically?
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Action steps:
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- Establish core faculty from among UK faculty and KCTCS leaders
- Develop common curriculum
- Deliver on Blackboard and in weekend sessions
- Implement evaluation plan
- Program approved by UK Graduate School
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Evaluation steps:
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- Formative evaluional model
- Track program development
- Student data
- Threaded Blackboard discussion
- Curriculum evaluations by students
- Action project impact
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Progress toward design concepts:
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- UK dissertation = applied group research project presented in "manuscript" model dissertation consisting of three distinct parts (approved by Graduate School)
- UK monthly face-to-face meetings with KCTCS system practitioners
- UK working core faculty group
- Redesign of qualifying exams to include comprehensive and specialty components
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Challenges:
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- Statewide budget cuts to higher education
- Faculty turn over
- Council of Postsecondary Education approval of EdD programs at 3 regional public universities none of which want to work cooperatively on EdD redesign
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