University of Louisville

College of Education & College of Education & Human Development

• Similar missions and complementary faculty expertise
• Focus on challenge of cities and metropolitan communities
• 3 depts in each institution

• 71 faculty, 235 doctoral students, 3 PhD programs

Teacher education and organizational leadership

UK: EdD in Higher Ed with focus on Community & Technical Colleges

develop a practice-oriented professional degree for teacher leaders, teacher educators, and P-12 principals

• Dual institutional effort to address P-20 policy challenge in Kentucky
• 3 depts in each institution
• UK-hybrid delivery design following executive doctorate program, applied orientation, modular approach

• UK Administrators & faculty from Kentucky Community and Technical College system (KCTCS)
• Cohort group- UK 2007 cohort of 28 admitted students; 23 currently enrolled rom 12 campuses and central administration
• All participants have full support of their supervisors that participation in EdD program is assigned as part of workload.

• What are the issues
• How are these issues embedded in contxt of the time, place, people, economies, etc
• How do we inquire about these issues? Form, implement, and evaluate policies iteratively?
• How do we do the above collaboratively and ethically?

• Develop common curriculum
• Implement evaluation plan

• Formative evaluional model
• Track program development
• Student data
• Threaded Blackboard discussion
• Curriculum evaluations by students
• Action project impact

• Redesign of comprehensive and qualifying exams

• Statewide budget cuts to higher education
• Faculty turn over
• Council of Postsecondary Education approval of EdD programs at 3 regional public universities none of which want to work cooperatively on EdD redesign