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Educational Leadership Doctoral Student Portfolio Requirement
The following courses meet the new Portfolio Requirement
for doctoral students in Educational Leadership:
EDU 411 Education Finance Issues in K-12 School
Systems
EDU 413 Contemporary Issues in Education Policy
EDU 478 Professional Education, Past and Present
EDU 488 Students and the College: Past and
Present
EDU 492 Governance, Policy and Administration
of Higher Education
EDU 493 History of Higher Education
ED 464 State and Federal Education Policy
Educational Leadership Course Descriptions:
EDU 403 · Public School Choice
An in-depth exploration of the details surrounding school choice policies in the United States, including magnet and charter schools as well as intra- and interdistrict choice plans. Examines differences between the underlying theories and assumptions of different school choice policies. Focuses on the impact of choice policies on the public school system, the school organization, educational performance, and equity.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Finnigan
EDU 404 · School Leadership in Diverse Settings
Given the increased diversity in American public schools, this course provides a historical and contemporary examination of how race and socioeconomic status affect the educational opportunities, experiences, and outcomes students in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions. In our exploration of the challenges students of color and the poor confront in the pursuit of quality education, the course grapples with how school leaders are in a position to create the conditions necessary to foster success. Focuses on the structural, cultural, and psychological factors that affect the response of students in schools. Investigates how notions of racial and socioeconomic diversity and associated attributes often place students at a disadvantage in U.S. schools. Explores how schools can positively impact students from these communities.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally (next offered Spring 2008)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): James-Wilson; Harris
EDU 407 · Curricular and Instructional Leadership
Provides an overview of critical leadership issues related to curriculum policy and classroom practice. Explores the “coherent curriculum” and the many complex layers involved in creating, implementing, and assessing the connectedness among everyday educational experiences. Reflects on the role of educational leaders in creating and shaping learning communities. Develops leadership practices and strategies that build a healthy learning climate by focusing on applying theory to practice; develops authentic contexts for learning; uses results to inform decisions; creates successful learners; and generates enthusiasm for rich learning experiences.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring and most Summers B
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Kirst
EDU 408 · Law of Private Schools
Examines the basic principles of law relevant to the administration of private schools, explores the practical implications of the law for the administration of private schools and provides an introduction to applied ethics. Topics include compulsory education, home instruction, state regulation of the curriculum, financial assistance to church-affiliated schools, torts and
the safe school, ethical dilemmas of relevance to school leaders, rights of students, anti-
discrimination laws, contracts with students and employees, and other employee rights.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Most odd falls (next offered Fall 2007)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Blokhuis
EDU 409 · Business Affairs in Private K–12 School Systems
Provides an introduction to the fiscal management skills needed to effectively conduct business affairs of private K–12 school systems. Explores the nature and scope of private K–12 education in America, with attention to sources of revenue that distinguish private schools from their public counterparts, as well as the uses of school resources. Topics include admission and tuition policies; alternative revenue sources; accounting systems and how to prepare budgets for schools, programs, and activities; resources management issues, including purchasing, cash and inventory management, facilities and maintenance; and compensation.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every third summer B (next offered Summer B 2007)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Brent
EDU 411 · Education Finance Issues in K–12 School Systems
Examines school finance policy issues related to the origination, allocation, and utilization of resources in public K–12 school systems. Addresses resource allocation processes at the state, district, and school levels; alternative methods of financing schools; and the perplexing issues of equity and efficiency.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Brent; DeAngelis
ED 413 · Student Affairs Administration: Academic Support Services
Provides an introduction and practitioner’s overview of academic support services in American higher education, including history and theories, student experiences, organization and administration, technology, current issues, and future challenges. Guest presentations by practicing professionals will complement class offerings. Prerequisites: None
Offered: Even summers
Restrictions: None
Instructors: TBD
EDU 413 · Contemporary Issues in Education Policy
Examines the case for public education and a variety of education policy debates. Considers conceptions of equity and their application to both students and taxpayers. Examines various reform efforts that attempt to increase the productivity of educational systems, including school report cards and other accountability measures; restructuring classroom instruction; school choice and privatization; early childhood programs; home-school relations/partnerships; teacher and administrator recruitment, training, and compensation policies; and union influence on educational practice.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Finnigan; Harris; DeAngelis
EDU 416 · Conflict Management in Schools and Universities
Provides emerging educational leaders with effective conflict management skills to optimize the daily performance of faculty, staff, and students to solve problems, make the best decisions, and achieve educational goals. Examines the theoretical underpinnings of conflict resolution, the practice of skills, and the identification of dispositions necessary for successful collaboration, negotiation, and mediation in schools and universities.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally (next offered Spring 2007)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Jefferson; Shuherk
EDU 418 · Leadership in Education
Introduces and surveys the theory and research on leadership and what leaders in educational organizations do. Develops leaders’ abilities to analyze problems in education and apply successful leadership approaches to these problems and to successfully lead an educational organization.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Uebbing
ED 420 · Learning and Assessment in Higher Education
Examines models of student learning and assessment both in and out of the classroom. After reviewing some of the ways students learn and the assessment of that learning, evaluates whether these models are appropriate and sufficient to support students’ learning given the current environment in higher education. Also explores the process of articulating learning goals and outcomes at a departmental and institutional level. Current or future student affairs staff, faculty, and administrators interested in learning and assessment will find this course beneficial.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasional summers
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Donahue
EDU 421 · Human Resource Management
Provides an introduction to and an overview of human resources management in educational organizations. Emphasizes issues related to working with people in organizations, and policies and procedures for sound personnel administration practice.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Uebbing
EDU 422 · Educational Leadership: Implications for the 21st Century
Studies historical and philosophical influences on the development of contemporary educational leaders. Explores the impact of religion on education in the United States and the ways that the religious school is singularly consonant with the ideals characterized by colonial America, the early republic, and the beginning of the twenty-first century. In a time of citizen concern about schools and universal questioning of educational issues, this course is helpful to those interested in both the government as well as the church-affiliated school.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every third summer (next offered Summer B 2008)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Graf
EDU 423 · Educational Management and Human Relations
Prepares educational leaders to manage the groups that constitute the private school’s environment and institutional organization. Examines the major models of managerial styles and institutional organization, principles of educational leadership, levels of group and individual development, and models of value management and choices. Prepares leaders to analyze and meet managerial needs, produce ethical arguments for institutional goals, and productively assess the institution and individuals within the institution.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every third summer (next offered Summer B 2009)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Kohler
EDU 424 · The Principal and Christian Concepts of Virtue
Provides a solid theoretical basis as well as practical suggestions, which will assist the Catholic/religious school administrator in developing a community of virtue among the faculty and students of his or her school. Examines the Judeo-Christian tradition and reflects on the distinction between the Christian/Catholic world view and other contemporary world views, drawing out implications for the educational process. Discussions center on establishing a community of virtue fostering moral and ethical development.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every third summer (next offered Summer 2007)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Graf
ED 430 · College Retention: Theory, Research, and Practice
Introduces students to research and theory regarding college student retention. Explores cultural, institutional, and individual factors that contribute to college student attrition and provides implications for improving college retention practices.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Guiffrida
ED 433 · Student Affairs Administration: Admissions and Financial Aid
Two critical and heavily intertwined areas of higher education administration are admissions and financial aid. This course focuses on the history, underlying philosophies, organizational structures and professional staffing, current issues and future challenges facing these organizations. Guest presentations by practicing professionals will complement class offerings.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Odd Summers
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Nicoletti; V. Hazen
ED 434 · Student Affairs Administration: Minority Student Affairs
With changing demographics and institutional emphasis on promoting diverse student populations, support services for minority students have emerged in higher education administration. This course focuses on the history, underlying philosophies, organizational structures and professional staffing in minority student affairs. In addressing current issues and future challenges facing such organizations, topics will explore the complexity of racial identity; offer reflections on Brown v. Board of Education; and illuminate why affirmative action in higher education is necessary to achieve diversity. Guest presentations by practicing professionals may complement class offerings.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Odd summers
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Burnett; Lipscomb
ED 436: How Universities Work
Today’s universities are far from simple organizations and do not conform to the traditional organizational models and cultures seen in business, government or even K-12 operations. This course explores the obvious and hidden complexities, interdependencies and organizational challenges of the modern university through a combination of academic content and practitioner presentations by key leaders from the university and higher education.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally (next offered Spring 2008)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Hazen
ED 437: Diversity and Equity in Higher Education
(New course under development.)
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even Spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Waterman
ED 439 · Policy Analysis in Education
This course focuses on the fundamental principles of policy analysis with a review of literature from education, public policy, and political science. The major requirement for this course will be a group project examining a substantive K-20 policy issue.
Prerequisites: None
Offered:
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Harris
ED 456 · Leadership and Special Education
Examines federal and state laws, regulations, and critical issues regarding the education of students with disabilities. Explores the implications for policy and practice these legal and ethical issues impose on districts, schools, and teachers. Issues of access, diversity accountability, including classification, placement, assessments, interventions, and professional development are explored.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): TBD
ED 462 · Managing School Resources
Provides students with the skills needed to manage school resources (both fiscal and physical) effectively. Prepares candidates to prepare a budget for school, programs, and activities and to conduct a cost analysis. Addresses resource management issues in specific program areas, including cash management and inventory, risk management, scheduling and enrollment management, and facilities and maintenance.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Brent
ED 464 · State and Federal Education Policy
Studies state (emphasis on New York) and federal policy process for K–12 schools. Candidates learn to identify problems and challenges in policy design and implementation by examining the construction of policy problems, the instruments used, and the theories and assumptions underlying policies. Drawing on literature from political science, sociology, and educational policy, the course provides students with skills to analyze education policies and infer their implications. Discussions include the No Child Left Behind Act, charter school policies, class-size reduction policies, and issues related to high-stakes testing.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even spring (not offered Spring 2008)
Restrictions: None
Instructors(s): Finnigan
ED 465 · School Governance and the Rights of Students and Teachers
Provides an overview of legal principles and rules of particular relevance to school building administrators and introduces issues of applied ethics. Answers those legal questions of most relevance to school building administrators. Develops skills in the interpretation and application of law to school situations. Provides insight into some fundamental issues addressed by school law and ethical dilemmas of relevance to school leaders.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Uebbing
ED 467 · Student Affairs Administration: International Student Affairs
Focuses on both the practices and philosophy of working with international students on campus. Governmental policy changes since 9/11 and their impact on higher education, issues related to immigration advising, career counseling, cross-cultural advising, student advocacy, crisis management in a cross-cultural setting, intercultural programming, publications and forms, ethics and the legal responsibilities of those advising international students will be examined through the use of lecture, discussion, videos and case studies.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Most even summers
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Kless
EDU 468 · Data-Driven School Improvement
School leaders work in a climate that increasingly stresses the role of data collection and analysis as vital tools in decision making. Stakeholders, including parents, faculty, board members, state and federal governmental agencies, and the press, rely on data reporting to judge the quality of school programs. In this course, students are instructed on how to plan, design, implement, and complete an evaluation of an educational program using student achievement data.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Vitagliano; Iverson
ED 468 · Leadership in Urban Schools
Focuses on teaching, leadership, and administration in urban school settings. Candidates investigate the “realities” and misconceptions of these environments and probe and clarify their own conceptions of and attitudes toward urban schools. Candidates draw on theoretical literature, empirical research, case studies, and the personal experience of others in the class and community to think about ways to apply theory to practice. Engagement with administrators, teachers, students, and community members who work and/or live in the city of Rochester is a requirement of this course, and opportunities for this interaction are made available during and outside of course meetings.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every summer B
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): James-Wilson
ED 469 · Leadership and Organizational Dynamics
Examines organizational theory and dynamics focusing on school as a complex organization, and emphasizing school culture and the change process in schools. Explores leadership theory and models to help participants understand and prepare for leadership.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every summer A
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Vitagliano; Uebbing
ED 470 · Leading Effective Program Design
Develops skills and strategies educational leaders need to become effective program designers. Examines research on instructional theory and practice as connected to improving student achievement. Prepares leaders to address current reform issues through consistent, systemic program design K-12. Explores the use and application of curricular and instructional analysis. Participants design educational programs to meet the needs of specific student populations.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Vitagliano
ED 472 · Transforming Campus Communities through Experiential Learning
Examines how initiatives such as collaborative learning, living/learning collaborations, service-learning, outdoor adventure, and field study can transform campus communities in dramatic ways. Explores both the philosophical rationale and the practical implications of these initiatives through written assignments, guest speakers, and experiential practice. Current or future student affairs staff, faculty, and administrators interested in experiential learning and institutional collaborations find this course beneficial.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasional summers
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Donahue
ED 473 · Technology for Educational Leaders
Examines leadership issues in the area of information and communication technologies through critical reflection, discussion, and the co-construction of knowledge. Broadly aligned with the Technology Standards for School Administrators, topics include leadership and vision; learning and teaching; productivity and professional practice; support, management, and operations; assessment and evaluation; and social, legal, and ethical standards.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): TBD
ED 475 · Leadership and Management in Higher Education
Assists those in higher education in understanding different leadership and management approaches in the context of the academy. Opens with an overview of theory associated with leadership and management, and then applies major theoretic constructs to higher education. The course delves into application of leadership and management ideas for students, both for their development and management. Examines in detail administration leadership in an effort to shed light on the roles of different leadership approaches in generating socially just institutions of higher education.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Wall
ED 476 · Administration of Student Affairs in Higher Education
Introduces the history, philosophy, and purposes of student affairs administration. Examines the theoretical and practical foundations of the student affairs profession. Explores issues and problems currently facing student affairs administration in the larger context of an ever-changing environment and the future of student affairs as higher education evolves.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Hazen
ED 479 · Human Capital Management in Higher Education
Discusses the full spectrum of human capital issues facing modern leaders in complex organizations, including the development of employment criteria and the establishment of post-retirement benefits. Includes active discussion of various topical areas and also utilizes the case analysis approach.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Most springs (next offered Spring 2008)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Murphy
ED 482 · Technology and Higher Education
(New course under development).
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Most odd springs
Instructor(s): Fredericksen
ED 484 · Student Affairs Administration: Residential Life
Provides an introduction and overview of student residential living and residential life administration in American higher education, including history and theories, student experiences, organization and administration, technology, current issues, and future challenges.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Most even summers
Restrictions:
Instructors: Hazen
ED 485 · College Students and Student Development Theory
Explores psychosocial, cognitive-structural, identity, and typology theories of college student development. Discusses examples of application and use of student development theory in everyday student affairs practice. Drawing from current research in the field of higher education, the course provides information about the behavior and trends related to American college students.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Waterman
ED 486 · Curricular Innovations in Higher Education
Explores current curricular, pedagogical, and out of the classroom innovations that seek to improve student learning and campus community. Examines innovations such experiential learning, living/learning collaborations, learning communities, service-learning, and adventure curriculum and the implications of creating academic/student affairs and campus/community partnerships.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasional summers
Restrictions: None
Instructors: Donahue
EDU 490 · Higher Education Law
Investigates legal concepts and issues in higher education as a guide for improved understanding and management of institutions, and as an opportunity to consider the role higher education plays in society and the effect society’s rules have on higher education. Introduces the legal system and law of higher education governance. Illuminates common legal and educational management and policy issues in higher education, with an emphasis on student and faculty issues. Develops basic problem-solving skills. Provides insight into broader constitutional and policy issues.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Most even summers
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Susan S. Stewart
EDU 492 · Governance, Policy, and Administration of Higher Education
Examines the organization and governance of American higher education institutions, giving due weight to the context in which trustees, presidents, academic administrators, and faculty members make decisions.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Wall
EDU 493 · History of Higher Education
Provides a historical survey of and examines critical issues in the evolution of American higher education, beginning in the colonial era and extending to the present.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Most even falls
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Waterman
EDU 496 · Fiscal Issues in Higher Education
Introduces the financing and economics of higher education in the United States, with an emphasis on four-year institutions, although some attention is also given to community colleges. Examines the benefits and costs of higher education; revenue resources, with particular attention to tuition, admissions, financial aid, and endowment policies; expenditure trends, resource allocation, and budgetary practices; and fiscal policies that affect faculty and students.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Brent
EDU 502 · Leading the School District: The Superintendency in the 21st Century
Intended for those preparing for district-level leadership positions, including the superintendency. Focuses on the role of the superintendency and the perspective of that position on the challenges, needs, and opportunities facing school districts. Major emphasis is on leading a school district and managing school district operations.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every summer B
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Uebbing
EDU 515 · Decision Making for Educational Leaders I: Analyzing Problems in Schools and Universities
Introduces and examines the process of analyzing problems and making decisions in educational administration. Links current decision theory with contemporary educational problems. Through a series of case studies, considers a variety of decision-making approaches ranging from the classical model of optimizing to normative models of shared decision making.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Brent; Uebbing; DeAngelis
EDU 516 · Decision Making for Educational Leaders II: Making Decisions in Schools and Universities
Advances understanding of effective leadership by emphasizing those factors that affect the rational models of decision making in ways that make decision making harder, more complex, and even “irrational.” Draws on literature from psychology, political science, and public choice to help in understanding and improving decision making in educational institutions.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring (next offered Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Brent; Uebbing; DeAngelis
ED 540 · Program Evaluation Proposal Seminar
Provides students with support as they develop their program evaluation dissertation proposal.
Prerequisites: ED 550
Offered: Every summer
Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program
Instructor(s): Wall; Harris; DeAngelis; Waterman
ED 541 · Program Evaluation Dissertation Seminar I
Provides students with support as they design and complete their program evaluation dissertation proposal.
Prerequisites: ED 540
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program
Instructor(s): Finnigan; Wall; Lauver; Harris
ED 542 · Program Evaluation Dissertation Seminar II
Provides students with support as they develop their program evaluation dissertation proposal.
Prerequisites: ED 541
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program
Instructor(s): Finnigan; Wall; Lauver; Harris
ED 543 · Decision Making Dissertation Seminar I
Provides students with support as they design and complete a decision analysis dissertation.
Prerequisites: ED 540
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program
Instructor(s): Brent; DeAngelis; Waterman
ED 544 · Decision Making Dissertation Seminar II
Provides students with support as they design and complete a decision analysis dissertation.
Prerequisites: ED 543
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program
Instructor(s): Brent; DeAngelis; Waterman
ED 546: Decision Making Dissertation Seminar
Provides students with support as they develop their decision analysis dissertation proposal
Prerequisites: ED 550
Offered: Every summer
Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program
Instructor(s): Brent, DeAngelis, Waterman
ED 550 · Qualifying Case Analysis
Provides evidence that the candidate has mastered the knowledge that they need to be an educational leader by allowing students to apply concepts, theories, and frameworks that they have learned in their coursework to realistic scenarios. Successful completion of the Qualifying Case Analysis is required before students can advance to the proposal writing stage of a field-based dissertation (i.e., Program Evaluation or Decision Analysis).
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every summer A
Restrictions: Students in the educational leadership accelerated Ed.D. program
Instructor(s): Brent
EDU 576 · Contemporary Issues in Higher Education
Explores contemporary policy issues in higher education. The purpose of this course is threefold: (1) To develop an understanding of key policy issues at the international, national, state and institutional levels. (2) To conduct policy analysis of national issues in American higher education. (3) To develop an integrated view of policy and practice for practitioners working in higher education.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Wall
EDU 599 · Seminar in Higher Education
Provides master’s students an opportunity – in a seminar setting -- to extensively study extensively a topic of their choice by thoroughly examining the existing scholarly literature and by writing a major paper addressing a significant research question (as opposed to ED 493, an individual writing process). This course is intended for master’s students to satisfy the master’s essay/thesis requirement.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Offered: Fall 2007 (last offered Fall 2007)
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Hazen
Internships
The following internships can take place in any semester under the supervision of a faculty member in Educational Leadership. Each internship needs to be individually arranged through the faculty advisor(s) involved and the cooperating educational organization.
EDU 410 · Field Experiences in Educational Leadership
Directed and supervised experiences in a school, school district, or other educational institution, as required by New York State for candidates pursuing administrative certification prior to September 2006. Includes participation in regular university seminars.
EDF 498 · Supervised Internship in Educational Administration (variable credits)
Directed and supervised experiences at both the building and district level for the equivalent of 15 weeks full time, as necessary to meet the new New York State requirements for administrative certification and NCATE standards. Includes participation in regular university seminars. Required of students matriculated after September 2005 who are seeking New York State administrative certification.
EDF 497 · Supervised Internship in Higher Education (variable credits)
Directed and supervised experiences in a higher education setting.
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