Doctor of Education – Specialization in Career and Technical Education Leadership

The Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) is an online program. The program offers students who have demonstrated superior scholastic ability and special interest and aptitude in areas of P-12 administrative leadership, educational technology leadership, exceptional child leadership, career and technical education leadership, and adult and higher education leadership to gain an advanced level degree within the field. This Doctorate in Education Program will help prepare student to become practitioner educational leaders, Doctoral candidates should consult the Ed.D. Handbook for additional information. 

Requirements for Degree

1. Satisfy general degree requirements.

2. The students must successfully complete and defend a qualifying examination in order to enroll in the EDD 899 capstone courses and continue within the doctoral program.

3. Students are required to successfully complete and defend a doctoral capstone.

4. The student must apply for graduation in their self-service account at the beginning of the semester in which they intend to complete.

5. Maintain a cumulative 3.0 GPA in all courses taken.

6. Must be unconditionally admitted. If a student has not been unconditionally admitted after completing 12 graduate hours he/she will not be allowed to register for additional hours.

7. Students are encouraged to complete the program within the cohort time limit. The maximum allowed time for completion is 10 years.

8. A maximum of 18 post-master's hours may be permitted to be transferred from other universities.

9. No more than 24 hours of previously completed postgraduate work from MSU may be counted in the Ed.D. program.

Program Requirements

Core

EDD 801	Principles of Leadership: Service to Others	3
EDD 804	Analysis and Synthesis: Problem Framing and Problem Solving	3
EDD 806	Educational Change: Change Theory, Futuring and Creative Planning	3
EDD 808	Legal and Ethical Issues: The Exercise of Judgement in Education	3
EDD 810	Understanding and Conducting Research	3
EDD 811	Action Research and Grant Writing	3
Total Credit Hours:		18

Career and Technical Education Leadership

CTE 640	Administration and Supervision of CTE	3
CTE 650	Organization and Administration of CTE	3
CTE 670	Workforce/Curriculum Development	3
CTE 680	Facilities Development	3
Total Credit Hours:		12

Emphasis Areas (12 hours minimum)

Graduate-level courses will be selected for emphasis areas by the student and doctoral committee to support the student's professional goals and dissertation/capstone project requirements.

Examples of emphases areas for Career and Technical Education Leadership Specialization:

• CTE Principal*
• Research
• Assessment Coordination
• Instructional Support

*If certification is desired for this area the student must also apply to that program.

Total Credit Hours:

12

Applied and Capstone Courses

EDD 800	Doctoral Seminar (must be taken three times)	3
EDD 876 or EDD 880	Directed Doctoral Study or Current Trends and Issues in Education	3
EDD 899	Doctoral Capstone	1-12
Total Credit Hours:		18

*EDD 800: This one-credit-hour course must be taken each summer for a total of three credit hours.
*EDD 899 requires all coursework to be completed before enrolling.

Program Competencies

Students will:

1. Support current and aspiring school leaders who are seeking opportunities for educational advancement while providing on-going, day-to-day leadership.
2. Strengthen partnerships between public schools and universities in order to bring about improved student achievement.
3. Mine the rich data resources that are already currently available in the educational settings and assist participants in making data-driven decisions.
4. Use current technologies to deliver content, facilitate discussions, share data, and provide alternative forms of instruction that provide flexibility for practitioners to be involved in advanced educational study.
5. Incorporate field-based components and activities in each of the required courses thereby enabling students to design, test, and analyze solutions to authentic challenges faced by today's school leaders.
6. Incorporate performance-driven participant assessments that demonstrate advanced knowledge and skill in authentic settings.
7. Collaborate with other universities both within and outside the state that have similar programs in order to facilitate the transfer of student hours as well and tap into the expertise of faculty and services provided at other universities. 

Total Credit Hours: 60