Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership
Mission Statement
The Organizational Leadership (OL) programs prepare students to effectively lead the change process and enhance performance within profit or non-profit organizations. The program provides students with necessary expertise to create a learning organization and enhance performance throughout the workplace. Specifically, this program assists aspiring OL practitioners in becoming successful change agents and performance analysts, coaches, mentors and team leaders in informal learning environments, as well as trainers and instructors in formal learning programs. The curriculum goal of the program centers around a framework that is grounded in an assumption that organizational effectiveness is linked to learning at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
Specializations:
Educational Leadership—Human Resource Development—Higher Education Administration
Overview
The Vision of the Doctor of Education (EdD) at Barry University is based on the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED). Barry University applies the CPED framework to the preparation of leaders to become well-equipped scholarly practitioners who provide stewardship of their profession and meet the organizational and educational challenges of the 21st century.
The Education Doctorate (Ed.D.) in Organizational Leadership has specializations in Educational Leadership, Higher Education Administration and Human Resource Development (HRD).
The EdD is a practitioner-doctorate program that prepares future and present leaders to develop essential knowledge and skills in solving complex problems of practice to improve the performance of organizations in both educational and non-educational settings.
Aligning with Barry’s mission statement to support communities through service learning, this program allows students to utilize their lifelong skill set and knowledge base to enhance performance in local organizations. This program, is centered around the goal of improvement and growth, both on individual and organizational levels. Students will therefore learn how to be of service to organizations and, especially, the people who those organizations employ. The design and the content of the program is aimed at equipping students with necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to become successful change agents in organizations.
Specific Learner Outcomes
| Educational Leadership |
Higher Education Administration |
Human Resource Development |
Develop on-going inquiry and innovation around challenges in professional practice;
Evaluate, design, and apply research to make a positive difference in the lives of students, families, and all members of the educational community;
Construct, lead, and change learning organizations and systems that are purposeful, successful, and socially just contexts for learning; |
Evaluate current trends within multidisciplinary frames, ranging from community college and university administration as well as student affairs administration, based on The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (2006);
Analyze the dimensions of leadership to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and organizational learning across postsecondary institutions, or organizations; |
Project trends in human resource development (HRD) and discuss their implications, including aspects of return–on-investment (ROI) for HRD interventions;
Acquire the competencies and attitudes necessary to become outstanding leaders;
Engage in a variety of settings including education, health care, social service, religion, business, and government; |
Develop skills and knowledge needed for the effective leadership and management of complex organizations in a global technological and culturally diverse society;
Contrast and compare educational issues that affect the educational enterprise;
Design sound, educational policy and practice, including data-driven decision making; and
Create and sustain a community of leaders committed to collaboration, mutual support, and continuous learning. |
Understand governance models across institutions and how these may impact on institutional change and policy development agendas;
Evaluate the myriad of action research traditions to identify appropriate solutions to problems of practice within institutions, or organizations;
Create synergies within institutions, or organizations, to promote an ongoing commitment to social justice and community engagement; and
Develop an understanding of entrepreneurial elements, such as academic capitalism and the international student market, vis-à-vis the internationalization of colleges and universities. |
Investigate problems with originality and scholarship;
Be involved in study that enhances and improves professional practice in Human Resource Development;
Lead a high priority project at a client organization to effect change; n Serve as a consultant to the client organization; and
Utilize their analytical abilities, contextual knowledge, conceptual tools, and professional judgment, developed during their doctoral program, and apply these capabilities to solving real world problems within the client organization. |
Graduation Requirements
- A GPA of 3.25 or higher with no more than one C;
- A passing score on a comprehensive written examination;
- Approval of dissertation in practice by a faculty committee and the Institution; and
- Completion of degree within eight years from the date enrolled in the program.
Doctor of Education (54 credits)
Leadership Core Courses (18 credits)
Specialization Courses (12 credits)
Inquiry Courses (18 credits)
Dissertation in Practice Seminar Courses (6 credits)
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