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2013-2014 University Catalog

■ Higher Education

Phone: 703-993-2310
Web: highered.gmu.edu

Faculty

Arminio (director), Forcier, Jenkins, Kelly, Kidd, Lester, Lucas, O’Connor, Owen, Rose, Salmon, Scher, Seiman, Schwartzstein, Shrum, L. Smith, Tarrd

Course Work

This program offers all course work designated CTCH in the Courses  section 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 and leadership roles in community colleges. They take course work in higher education pedagogy and if they choose in a disciplinary knowledge area. Working with an advisor, students choose appropriate courses from 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 growing fields in community colleges including: communication, English, information systems, mathematics, Spanish, and teaching English as a second language.

See Interdisciplinary Studies, MAIS  in this section.

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 Interdisciplinary Studies, MAIS  in this section.

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 core required coursework in higher education and through a secondary concentration that can further disciplinary expertise.

See the College of Education and Human Development  section 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 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

    Master’s Level Certificate(s)Doctoral Degree(s)