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Web: highered.gmu.edu

Faculty

Gentemann, Jenkins, Kelly, Kettlewell, Kidd, Kuhta, Lester, Lucas, Lyne, J. Muir, S. Muir, O’Connor (director), Owen, Reybold, Salmon, Scales, Schwartzstein, Shrum, L. Smith, Snyder-Hall, Webster

Course Work

This program offers all course work designated CTCH in the Courses  chapter of this catalog.

Graduate Programs

The Higher Education Program prepares students for positions of leadership in teaching, research, and administration at community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities. The interdisciplinary curriculum emphasizes ethical leadership, assessment, and practice-based scholarship in teaching and learning. Students in these degrees come from varied professional backgrounds in college teaching, university administration, business, the performing arts, and government. They bring a vast spectrum of experience to their studies and fellow students.

Doctor of Arts in Community College Education

The doctor of arts in community college education prepares students for college teaching. They take course work in higher education pedagogy and in a disciplinary knowledge area. Working with an advisor, students choose appropriate courses from more than 20 participating departments. In addition to developing disciplinary expertise, the courses in higher education offers proficiency in core areas related to undergraduate education: the community college, college teaching, technology in higher education, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

MAIS Concentration in Community College Teaching

The program sponsors the concentration in community college teaching within the master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies (MAIS). This concentration prepares students to teach entry-level courses in these growing fields in community colleges: communication, English, information systems, mathematics, Spanish, and teaching English as a second language.

See the Interdisciplinary Studies, MAIS  section of this chapter.

MAIS Concentration in Higher Education

The program sponsors the concentration in higher education within the master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies (MAIS). This concentration prepares individuals for administrative and leadership positions in two-year colleges or four-year colleges and universities. Students may focus on administration or student services.

See the Interdisciplinary Studies, MAIS  section of this chapter.

Doctor of Philosophy in Education with Specialization in Higher Education

The doctor of philosophy in education with a specialization in higher education is offered jointly by the Higher Education Program and the College of Education and Human Development.  This doctoral program prepares students for positions of leadership in administration and student services through coursework in higher education administration and leadership and through a secondary concentration that can further disciplinary expertise.

See the College of Education and Human Development  chapter of the catalog.

Certificates

The program offers graduate certificates in college teaching and in higher education administration. Students may take these as stand-alone certificates or pursue them concurrently with a graduate degree program. Part of the certificate course work may be able to be applied to the degree subject to the approval of the director of the graduate degree program. Students must apply and be accepted to a graduate certificate program

Programs

• College Teaching Graduate Certificate
• Higher Education Administration Graduate Certificate

• Community College Education, DA

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