Dear CPED Community,
The leadership of CPED stands in solidarity with Black and Brown communities, and we grieve with them for the injustices they have and continue to face. In 2009, the founding CPED membership placed equity, justice, and ethics as the first principle upon which EdD programs should be designed to prepare educational leaders.
Just like everywhere else, higher education has been highly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the semester comes to a close and most of us are embarking on a summer semester teaching online, we would like to provide you with a supportive “just in time” webinar to help with your continued transitions to online instruction.
By: Deanna Hill, J.D., Ph.D. and Kathy Geller, Ph.D, Drexel University
Dr. Stephen Pape - Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Stephen Pape was named as a finalist for the 2020 Brock Prize in Education Innovation for his leadership in designing and implementing an online EdD program at Johns Hopkins University. The online EdD program has the same rigor as a face-to-face program and is available to students globally. The innovation behind the design of JHU’s EdD program prepared scholarly practitioners to leverage leadership skills in creating a positive educational impact in all sectors of the 21st century economy.
By: Yasha Jones Becton
The CPED program design concepts state that mentoring and advising should be guided by: equity and justice, mutual respect, dynamic learning, flexibility, intellectual space, supportive learning environments, cohort and individualized attention, rigorous practices, and integration.
The defining feature and key strength of Florida State University’s online EdD program in Educational Leadership and Administration is the integrated approach to coursework, advising, and research in practice culminating in the Dissertation in Practice (DiP). Courses are designed around and sequenced in a manner that scaffolds toward the DiP.
Developing and launching a new EdD program in a Community College Leadership program is an exciting yet overwhelming task. As a faculty member and co-coordinator of a program that launched last summer, I thought I’d share some tips for those of you embarking on this journey.
CPED strives to provide enriching collaborative learning and networking opportunities for our members. We’ve been doing this through convenings, meetings and workshops at other conferences, CIGs, and committees.
CPED’s Program of the Year Award (POY) is presented to distinctive and innovative programs. Explain how your program meets these qualities and the role each member in your team played in developing a program of this caliber.
What’s CPED Facilitation all about anyway?
In the last 12 years, the understanding of the EdD has shifted. The field of Education now, by and large, views the degree as a professional practice doctorate. CPED members have utilized our Framework to create programs that meet local contexts and professional practice needs. But as CPED grows, we still see new faculty and new programs struggle with understanding how to design EdD programs that look different than how they were trained or how programs have been modeled for nearly a century.
The University of Iowa recently joined the CPED consortium to enhance its EdD program. UI's EdD program was launched after the University's Board of Regents approved it in 2017. UI's EdD program is the Doctor of the Education in Education Policy and Leadership Studies. Please join us in welcoming The University of Iowa to CPED!
Read this article from The Daily Iowan - UI's student newspaper - to learn more about their EdD program and why they joined CPED.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Suzanne Rodriguez from Fresno State University for being selected as the recipient of the 2019 Carnegie Project of the Education Doctorate (CPED) Dissertation in Practice Award! Dr. Rodriguez is being recognized for her work entitled, "The Urgency of Principal Professional Development and the Implications for Policy and Practice."
The CPED Dissertation in Practice Award Committee received numerous high-quality nominations, all of which were strong examples in the field. The purpose of this award is to honor scholarly practitioner work that adheres to the CPED definition of Dissertation in Practice (DiP):