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Information about the Educational Leadership Programs:
Dr. Thomas Alsbury, Program Coordinator
513-4321
tom_alsbury@ncsu.edu
Mission
Objectives
Masters of School Administration (MSA)
Doctorate in Educational Administration and Supervision Ed.D.
Admissions
Mission
The Program in Educational Leadership for school administrators is designed to improve the quality of K-12 schools by preparing leaders who are dedicated to educational excellence and equity. Graduates are expected to use leadership strategies that will improve student performance in environments that are dynamic, interactive, and culturally diverse.
Program Offerings in Educational Leadership
The program offers the Master of School Administration leading to principalship licensure and the Doctor of Education degree leading to Superintendent's Licensure. Licensure is controlled by the state, and it is the student's responsibility to understand and comply with the state's requirements.
Objectives
The Educational Leadership Program seeks to prepare highly trained school leaders who can:
• Provide sound instructional leadership at all levels
• Use qualitative and quantitative data as a basis for school improvement
• Employ ethical and professional practices
• Effectively administer fiscal, curricular, and personnel resources
• Exhibit strong written and oral communications skills.
• Participate effectively in educational politics, policy analysis, and development
• Critically and strategically analyze school problems
• Demonstrate effective leadership at the school and district level
• Administer schools in a legally and ethically defensible manner
• Demonstrate competence in administration
MSA program
Basic Requirements for the Master of School Administration (MSA) Degree Program
(42 required credit hours)
In summary, the MSA program includes eight courses plus a year-long full-time building level internship. The courses are all prescribed, except for students who have done previous graduate work that overlaps with one or more prescribed courses. In such cases, alternative courses can be selected with the consent of the student's advisor (two course transfer limit and other restrictions). The eight core courses plus the internship listed below are required for the MSA Program.
ELP 550: Principles of Educational Administration
ELP 532: Introduction to Educational Inquiry, or any basic comprehensive course in social science research
ELP 580: Program Planning, Management and Evaluation
ELP 518: School Law
ELP 589: Personnel Appraisal in Education
ELP 520: School Based Budgeting
ELP 515: Social Diversity, or a similar course in diversity
ELP 534: Ethics in Educational Decision Making
ELP 651: Internship in Educational Leadership and Program Evaluation. This is a year-long (10 months) internship with required seminars (nine credit hours each semester)
*Students employed full-time and enrolled in the MSA, Ed.D., or Ph.D.
programs may not enroll for more than 12 credit hours in any one semester.
Ed.D. Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision
Basic Requirements for the Ed.D. Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision
(54 credit hours minimum required beyond the Master’s degree)
In summary, the Ed.D. requires core courses in educational leadership, research methods courses, an internship, and a dissertation. A minimum of 54 credit hours beyond the master's degree is required for doctoral degrees. Students must be officially admitted to the Ed.D. program to enroll in doctoral classes.A copy of the Doctoral Student Handbook is located: Ed.D Handbook
Students should be aware that a Ph.D. degree in Educational Research and Policy Analysis is also offered, but only the EdD leads to superintendent licensure.
The courses for the Ed.D. are listed below:
**Basic Courses [Choose a minimum of 7]
ELP 724 Contemporary Educational Thought
ELP 795D Human Relations: Communication, Culture, & Change
ELP 751 Politics of P-12 Education
ELP 756 Organizational Leadership & Management
ELP 795A Leadership for School Improvement
ELP 735 Policy Research in Education
ELP 757 Research in P-12 Administrative Leadership
ELP 720 Cases in Educational Administration
ELP 780 Evaluation Theory & Practice
ELP 795F Formative Ideas in American Education
ELP 753 Data-Based Decision Making for School Administrators
ELP 795* Special Topics
ELP 820 Independent Study [6 credits max.-permission req.]
ELP 729 Educational Finance
ELP 728 Educational Law
ELP 789 Personnel In Education
ELP 795N Seminar in Leadership Studies
*Note: ELP 795 is a course number assigned to many courses, including new piloted courses. Therefore you may have multiple 795 courses listed on your Plan of Work as approved by your advisor.
**Note: In addition to the courses listed above, students may take additional or alternative courses as approved by their advisor
Research Courses [Choose a minimum of 3]:
ELP 742 Applied Research Methods [Generally offered- Fall]
ELP 736 Qualitative Research in Education [Generally offered-Fall]
ELP 737 Advanced Quantitative [Generally offered-Spring]
ELP 743 Advanced Qualitative [Generally offered-Spring]
Internship [Two 3-Credit Courses]:
ELP 851 Internship [Taken two Semesters]
Dissertation Preparation: [Take last to prepare your dissertation proposal]
ELP 891 Problems in Research Design in Education
Dissertation Writing [9 credits]:
ELP 895 Doctoral Dissertation Research
Admission Procedures for Educational Leadership
You may complete an online application or check the status of your application at Graduate School. When completing the application, select Education in the Discipline section of the drop down menu. Within the Program section choose one of the following:
Ph.D - Educational Research and Policy Analysis
Ed.D (Superintendent) - Education Admininstration and Supervision
MSA (Principals Licensure) - School Administration
Application materials will include the following:
* Non refundable application fee
* North Carolina Residency statement
* One official transcript is required from all institutions school attended except NCSU
* Official statement of GRE or MAT scores, taken within the last 5 yearsTo find information about the Millers Analogy Test (MAT) and to sign up to take the test at NCSU click on: www.ncsu.edu/psychology/mat
* Three letters of reference
* Statement of purpose and career goals
* Resume
* Autobiographical Statement
* Test of English as a Second Language (if required)
Minimum Entry Requirements
Masters of School Administration (MSA) Program
* Have a minimum of three (3) years of successful teaching experience and are currently working in a K-12 environment
* Meet graduate school and program requirements
* Application Deadline for Fall 2010 is April 1, 2010. Applications are taken for Fall Semester only.
Doctoral Program (Ed. D.)
* Have a North Carolina's Principal's license or be eligible to receive one
* Meet graduate school and program requirements
* Admissions deadline: March 31 (Fall) and October 1 (Spring)
last updated 3/11/10
