User login

Home

Virginia Tech

Name of institution:

Virginia Tech

College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences

Key Institutional Characteristics:

University Mission: "Ut Prosim: That I may serve."

6 campuses

Traditional Programs:
  • 6 EdD or PhD programs
  • 98 EdD
  • 321 PhD
  • 65 FT faculty
  • Programs centered on 4 principles: inquiry, culturally relevant pedagogy, strong professional communities, activism & civic engagement.
  • Commitment to Social Justice

Professional Practice Doctorate Pilot Program

Foci:

Educational Leadership

Pilot Project Description:
  • Pilot at Northern Virginia Campus & Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center

Purpose/Goals:
  • Teachers, counselors, & administrators working together on authentic problems
  • Stronger relationships with school districts
  • Potential model for SoE

Key Characteristics:
  • Mentoring system: students emulate faculty
  • Interdisciplinary experiences
  • Capstones based on university/public school partnerships, research teams

Student profile:

Cohort-based

Core Courses:

Action steps:
  • 2006 Doctoral Program Task Force: study doctoral ed nation-wide

  • Agree upon desired skills, knowledge & habits of graduates
  • Backward-map curriculum

Evaluation steps:
  • Monitor & collect data related to time-to-degree
  • Feedback from students & faculty
  • Evaluation of capstone projects to demonstrate growth toward goals

Progress toward design concepts:
  • Working with stakeholders in public collaboration to reach consensus regarding knowledge, practices and habits of professionals
  • Backward-mapping program from this consensus

Challenges:
AttachmentSize
VirginiaTech Proposal.doc93.5 KB
VirginiaTech Strategic Plan.doc86 KB