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Purpose

The purpose of the doctoral program is to develop transformative leaders who embody the knowledge, competencies, and skills necessary to guide organizations toward continuous improvement and sustained effectiveness. The program accomplishes this purpose through a rigorous and integrated curriculum focusing on theory and applied research in leadership, with emphasis on systems thinking in the development of analytical skills applicable to dynamic and diverse learning organizations.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

During this program of study, each candidate will:

EdD Program Learning Outcomes
Program Learning Outcomes GLO Alignment

Formulate Systems Thinking (FST):
Graduates will analyze and apply concepts and skills
necessary to create, lead, and manage learning organizations
as complex, responsive, and adaptive systems.
  • Integrated Learning
  • Community Engagement
  • Effective Communication

Develop Scholarly Research (DSR):
EDD Graduates will initiate, assemble, arrange, and reformulate
ideas, concepts, designs, and methods in carrying out a research
project directed at a problem in their field of interest.
  • Scholarly Research
  • Integrated Learning
  • Effective Communication
  • Reflective Practice
  • Community Engagement

Model Ethical Leadership (MEL):
EDD Graduates will analyze and apply standards of ethics
informed by Christian teachings as they fulfill their vocations
as servant leaders within our diverse and democratic society.
  • Ethical Leadership
  • Effective Communication
  • Reflective Practice

Illustrate Effective Communication (IEC):
EDD graduates will express cogent, concise and clear communication
that begins with empathic attunement, is built upon truthfulness,
trust and vulnerability, establishes genuine rapport, invites
participation, simultaneously embodies confidence and humility,
and engenders mutual respect and shared responsibility.
  • Effective Communication
  • Reflective Practice
  • Ethical Leadership

Exercise Informed Reflection (EIR):
Establish reflective behaviors and principles that are
self-aware, non-reactive, and intrinsically motivated to
honor the heart of God and serve my neighbor.
  • Reflective Practice
  • Effective Communication
  • Ethical Leadership

Build Community Engagement (BCE):
Cultivate a passion for deepening understandings across
cultures and contexts, engaging in honorable conversations,
citizenly partnerships and wise initiatives across diverse
communities, demographics and geographies.
  • Community Engagement
  • Effective Communication
  • Reflective Practice

Utilize Disciplinary Competencies (UDC):
EDD Graduates will analyze, apply, and integrate concepts and
skills across disciplines to create, lead, and manage learning
organizations as complex, responsive, and adaptive systems.
  • Integrated Learning
  • Community Engagement
  • Systems Thinking
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