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Nov 23, 2024
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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Higher Education Administration, Ed.S. (36 hrs)
Location(s):
Hybrid
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Program Overview
The higher education administration program prepares students for positions in four-year, community and technical colleges, and universities. Students interested in careers as future higher education administrators receive a comprehensive program of study that explores academic, student, and administrative affairs. Courses offered in the program develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for success in higher education administration.
Classes are offered in a combination of in-person, online, and hybrid formats, making it ideal for the working student who wants to take their education to the next level. William Carey uses Canvas as the learning management system for online coursework.
Goals and Objectives
The vision and values are instilled through the following principles:
- Effective institutional leaders will demonstrate knowledge of higher education history and foundations.
- Effective institutional leaders will understand legal and ethical issues related to higher education.
- Effective institutional leaders will understand the role and importance of curriculum in students’ lives.
- Effective institutional leaders will analyze current trends in higher education and understand how it might impact their institutions, faculty, staff, and students.
- Effective institutional leaders will understand finance and budgeting, and how to maintain financially solvent institutions.
- Effective leaders will understand the importance of the role of the two-year colleges in higher education.
Graduate Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of higher education foundations and principles through a study of higher education history and traditions.
- Students will describe and develop a curricular model for a higher education setting.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of legal and ethical practices related to higher education.
- Students will understand and demonstrate knowledge of the role of community/junior colleges in higher education.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of higher education finance and budgeting.
- Students will research continuing education programs and understand the role they have in colleges/universities and how they serve their communities.
- Students will distinguish, examine, and analyze current issues and trends in higher education.
- Students will analyze and synthesize existing knowledge and then develop and original problem to research in higher education.
Program Admission Requirements
Students can be admitted to the specialist in higher education administration program each term if the student meets the admission requirements. No student will be admitted on a provisional or probationary basis.
To fulfill requirements for admission to the specialist in higher education administration degree program, the student must:
- Meet the university’s general requirements for graduate admission.
- Hold (or qualify to hold) a master’s degree from an institution fully accredited by a recognized accrediting agency.
- Present evidence of acceptable scholarship with an average GPA > 3.00 on previous master’s degree work.
- Complete and file with the graduate admission office the proper application for admission to graduate school.
- Complete the interview and writing components of the admission process.
Transfer Credit
Students may transfer up to nine hours of course credit from a regionally accredited institution that have not been used toward a previous degree. The transfer course work must be relevant, comparable, and possess content and instructional rigor equivalent to that offered by WCU’s higher education administration program and approved by the program coordinator and dean of education. Only credits earned with grades of ‘B’ or higher and no more than six years old at the time of admission may be transferred from another institution into the higher education administration program.
Program Progression and Graduation Requirements
Refer to the Academic Regulations section in this catalog for program progression and graduation requirements.
Program of Study (36 hrs)
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