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AHE Discipline Mission

The Adult and Higher Education discipline area guides students in becoming socially just leaders and change agents in a variety of educational contexts.

 

AHE Discipline Vision

The Adult and Higher Education discipline area endeavors to prepare educators and educational leaders committed to social justice in nationally-recognized doctoral and master’s programs.

 

EdD Program Learning Outcomes

(Students admitted in Fall 2021 and later)

Research Domain:

  • Apply evaluation skills to assess efficacy and effectiveness of solutions for problems of practice 
  • Identify inequities in problems of practice 
  • Recognize structural conditions that serve to maintain/reproduce systemic inequities in higher education 

Leadership Domain:

  • Articulate strategies to effectively lead higher education institutions
  • Identify leadership practices that can make institutions more inclusive and equitable 

Content Expertise Domain:

  • Describe how institutions are governed and policies guiding the operation of institutions

 

PhD Program Learning Outcomes

(Students admitted in Fall 2024 and later)

Subject Mastery:

  • Demonstrate mastery of subject material
  • Identify structural conditions that maintain and reproduce systemic inequities in higher education
  • Describe student- and organizational-level factors that influence the structure, culture, and operation of institutions

Concept Application:

  • Apply concepts and theories to the development of research
  • Design and implement methodological approaches for social science research
  • Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner

Knowledge Production:

  • Produce and defend an original significant contribution to knowledge
  • Contribute to the production of higher education knowledge and theory
  • Conduct research that contributes to the understanding or mitigation of inequality

 

AHE EdD and PhD Learning Outcomes

(Students admitted in 2020 and prior)

  • produce an original significant contribution to knowledge in higher education
  • demonstrate mastery of subject material in higher education
  • conduct scholarly activities in an ethical manner

PhD learning outcomes will be updated pending approval of curriculum changes 

 

Graduate Learning Outcomes

  • Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work
  • Demonstrate mastery of the subject material
  • Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner

 

For more information or program questions, contact:

Lindsay Andrews
Adult & Higher Education Program Lead
[email protected] 
(541) 737-3574