December 09, 2010
Bowling
Green, Ky. -
Western Kentucky University’s doctoral program in educational leadership has selected its fourth cohort of students.
The fourth group of students will begin the program in February and will complete it in December 2013.
Students selected are: Jennifer Anderson of Fort Campbell; Kirk Biggerstaff of Tompkinsville; Steven Briggs of Bowling Green; Joel Carwile of Louisville; Kay Combs of Louisville; April Craft of Lafayette, Tenn.; Heidi Crocker of Des Peres, Mo.; Kim Cunningham of Bowling Green; Donna Dietz of Wingo; Jennifer Flowers of Burkesville; Christopher Gaddis of Owensboro; Kristie Guffey of Smiths Grove; Terry Hall of Bowling Green; Walter Malone of Louisville; John Marshall of Louisville; Mary Moore of Bowling Green; Shahbaz Munawar of Louisville; David Oliver of Shelby Township, Mich.; Leslie Peek of Bowling Green; Jo Shackelford of Bowling Green; Rhonda Simpson of Glasgow; Douglas Spainhower of Elizabethtown; Olympia Stewart of Murray; Lee Ann Wall of Columbia; and Gary Wiser of Bowling Green.
The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership, WKU’s first independent doctoral degree program, was approved in February 2008 by the Council on Postsecondary Education. WKU admitted its first cohort of students in July 2008; its second cohort in January 2009; and its third cohort in July 2009.
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 increase 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.
More information about the program is available online at http://edtech.wku.edu/programs/doctorate/
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