WKU Educational Leadership Program Selects Second Cohort Of Students For Doctorate

November 20, 2008

Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University’s new doctoral program in educational leadership has selected its second cohort of students.

The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership, WKU’s first independent doctoral degree program, was approved in February by the Council on Postsecondary Education and admitted its first cohort of students in July.

Members of the program’s second cohort, which will start on Jan. 2, are: Michael Barlow of Louisville; Justin Braxton-Brown of Florence; Edwin Craft of Roundhill; Beth Fleming of Greenville; Jessica Thompson of Bowling Green; Sonya House of Bowling Green; Robert Jackson of Murray; Greta Jones of Hopkinsville; Linda Keller of Owensboro; Anthony Kirchner of Bowling Green; Benny Lile of  Hardyville; Jamie Martin of Portland, Tenn.; Evgenia Mauzy of Radcliff; Lesley McConn of Elizabethtown; Milli McIntosh of Bowling Green; Adam Murray of Murray; Penny Olmstead of Steubenville, Ohio; Annette Parker of Lexington; Brittany Richey of Bowling Green; Christopher Schmidt of Columbia; Teresa Spann of Paducah; Tom Stewart of Bowling Green; and Carmen Varney of Bowling Green.

WKU’s interdisciplinary program develops “practitioner scholars” in four specialty areas – Administrative Leaders, Teacher Leaders, Postsecondary Leaders and Organizational Leaders -- equipped to assume leadership roles in the multiple venues where education takes place and to work with educational partners to improve academic performance and increased learning at all levels.

Using blended delivery methods, including traditional face-to-face classroom settings, distance-learning formats, online platforms and on-site practicum settings, the WKU program makes it possible for students to remain in their current professional positions while completing the doctoral degree.

Students in the program’s first cohort are John Paul Baker, Dan Costellow, Wes Cottongim, Cindy Ehresman, Eric Gregory, Tracy Inman, Donna Renaud, Carol Schreiber, Kelly Davis-Scott and Kevin Thomas, all of Bowling Green; Glynna Bowles-Earle of Greenville; Matthew Constant, Angela Gunter, Lee Maglinger and Eugenios Patsalides, all of Owensboro; Stephanie Cornwell of Franklin; Terry Elliott, Christopher Mueller and Wesley Waddle, all of Munfordville; Penelope Logdson of Leitchfield; Jace Lux of White House, Tenn.; Sheri McGuffin of Bardstown; Holly Ross of Flatwoods; and Lee Ann Smith of Glasgow.
               
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