LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

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EdD Program Learning Outcomes: (Students admitted in Fall 2021 and later)

  • 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.

  • Articulate strategies to effectively lead higher education institutions

  • Identify leadership practices that can make institutions more inclusive and equitable

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

PhD Program Learning Outcomes: (Students admitted in Fall 2024 and later)

 

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Produce and defend an original significant contribution to knowledge (Doctoral only)
  • Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work (Master’s only)
  • Demonstrate mastery of the subject material
  • Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner

For more information:

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