Higher Education Leadership Concentration (5025)

The concentration in Higher Education Leadership is available for those students who have obtained a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and seeking a career in postsecondary institutions or educational organizations. The Graduate Faculty has adopted the theme, “Professional Educators as Leaders and Enhancers of Human Development,” to represent its goal in continuing an educator’s professional development. The Conceptual Framework includes the following: Knowledge, Application, and Professionalism. Inherent within each key component are outcomes that the candidate is expected to master upon completion of the program.

Concentration Requirements (30 Hours)

Foundation (12 hours)

EDST 720 - Learning and Foundations Credit(s): 3
EDFN 740 - History of Higher Education Credit(s): 3
EDFN 710 - Research in Education and Counseling Credit(s): 3
EDFN 720 - Multicultural Issues in Education and Counseling Credit(s): 3

Concentration (18 Hours)

EDST 760 - Organization and Administration of Postsecondary Education Credit(s): 3
EDLD 760 - Law, Policy, and Ethics in the Educational Setting Credit(s): 3
COUN 753 - Student Development and Higher Education Credit(s): 3
EDLD 710 - Introduction to Supervising and Leading Educational Change Credit(s): 3
EDLD 730 - School and Community Relations Credit(s): 3
EDFN 730 - Seminar in Post-Secondary Education Credit(s): 3