M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration
The Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Higher Education Administration is a thirty-three-credit hour, non-thesis program consisting of 24 credits of required core courses, 6 credits of approved electives and 3 credits in a higher education internship. Although full-time study is possible, this is usually a part-time, nonresidential, evening and weekend program designed for students who are employed full-time. In accordance with the general mission of the School of Education represented in its conceptual framework, this program facilitates students' development as reflective practitioners who bring a variety of decision making skills to the enterprise of solving problems, as scholars who are able to study their own practice as well as the practice of others in their field, and as leaders who are able to accommodate diversity among people with whom they work.
The curriculum draws upon students' work experience to integrate theory and practice as it prepares them for positions of leadership in higher education settings. Those settings include postsecondary institutions as well as adult and continuing education programs.
As established by the program faculty, the program goals include:
- The development of candidates' ability to read critically and to analyze theoretical and empirical research on administration and leadership in adult education and post-secondary settings.
- The improvement of candidates' ability to write coherent analytical arguments.
- The development of candidates' ability to use research and theory for the analysis and evaluation of organizational issues occurring in their work settings.
- The encouragement of candidates' questioning current administrative and leadership practices and investigating the improvement of those practices.
- The development of candidates' administrative and leadership skills.
