Educational Administration (EDAD)

Description: A written report is required. Investigation and analysis of current problems in education administration and supervision.

Description: For those interested in exploring leadership and leadership issues from a cross-cultural perspective. Students construct their understanding of different cultural perspectives on leadership through readings, interviews, and field trips. Provides students with a valuable perspective on their own and other cultural perspectives through the comparison of cultural viewpoints. Native American understanding of leadership.

Description: May be repeated for credit. Rating and supervision of teachers; principles and procedures in the development of school policies; selection and promotion of teachers; courses of study and professional ethics.

Description: Foundation and scope of current and projected vocational cooperative education programs and general education work experience. Coordination techniques, selection and placement, instructional procedures, youth leadership activities, organization and administration, and evaluation of cooperative occupational education.

Description: Introduction to classic and contemporary administrative theory as applied to educational organizations. The theoretical nature of the course content is relevant to those with an interest in a broad variety of educational institutions. General organizational theory, organizational models, historical schools of administrative theory, authority, power, motivation, and leadership. Frequently students are involved in studying problems of practice as a means of testing theory.

Description: History and development of America's colleges and universities and a study of some recent trends and problems in higher education.

Description: Critical analysis of the political and economic elements impacting K-12 school finance. Content and activities address both building and district level concerns with an emphasis on principles, programs, and trends in school finance.

Description: The role of P-12 district leadership in school finance, including tools for efficient and equitable management of operations; local, state, and federal finance and policy processes; and communication of financial information with multiple stakeholders.

Description: Introduction to concepts related to educational leadership, identity conscious supervision in higher education, and other higher education management topics including budgeting. Exploration of topics including supervision, hiring, professional development, personnel evaluation, budgeting, politics, and planning.

Description: Evolution, principles, and practice of education law in relation to local, state, and national units of organization. Education law of Nebraska.

Description: Review of a variety resources used to evaluate programs and assess student learning in student affairs programs. Presentation of theory and practice with various tools for the assessment and evaluation of student affairs programs.

Description: Introduction to human development theories; psychosocial, cognitive, and structural theories, with a focus on learning to use theory to improve skills in working with students.

Description: This course is designed to provide students an understanding of a broad range of facts and issues pertaining to undergraduate college students in America.

Description: This is an introductory level counseling course designed specifically for educational administrators. It is not intended to prepare individuals to become professional counseling practitioners. It offers a broad overview of counsel principles. This is a theory-to-practice course.

Description: Human resources and personnel work in education. Relevant for school administrators and leaders who lead human resource activities including recruiting, hiring, induction, professional development, evaluation, and compensation. Roles and responsibilities of superintendents, HR professionals, building principals, and other supervisors are considered through readings, discussions, activities, and case studies. For graduate students who are pursuing Master's or Doctoral degrees and/or administrative certification in educational administration. Students in other areas who are interested in planning, organizing, and implementing human resource programs might also find the course of interest.

Description: The various aspects of human resources (HR) management and how they contribute to mission accomplishment and organizational success in American higher education (HIED). Students will examine traditional HR responsibilities (e.g., recruitment and selection, supervision and utilization, evaluation, professional development, pay and benefits, etc.) and how these activities operate within a college/university setting. Strategic HR planning concepts will be emphasized for optimizing human capital and strengthening institutional capabilities in the ever-changing HIED environment.

Description: Equips leaders to develop educational organizations that value professional development and match research-based professional learning to meet the daily needs of students. Creation of a professional learning culture to provide opportunity for professional learning opportunities. Improve effectiveness in increasing student achievement.

Description: Equips leaders to develop educational organizations that value professional development and match research-based professional learning to meet the daily needs of students. Creation of a professional learning culture to provide opportunity for professional learning opportunities. Improve effectiveness in increasing student achievement.

Description: Equips leaders to develop educational organizations that value professional development and match research-based professional learning to meet the daily needs of students. Creation of a professional learning culture to provide opportunity for professional learning opportunities. Improve effectiveness in increasing student achievement.

Description: Students will examine emerging issues related to selected educational leadership challenges and develop implementation strategies for resolving these issues. Using the standards for professional development identified by Learning Forward (formerly the National Council for Staff Development), students will review the literature and define the selected issue, discuss and evaluate examples of best practice, complete case study analysis activities, and collaboratively develop a professional development plan of response.

Description: Educators must utilize a roadmap to provide quality professional learning opportunities for teachers, principals, superintendents, boards of education and education stakeholders. This course will enable participants to use professional development standards focused on context, process and content identified by learning forward, formerly the National Staff Development Council, to deliver high quality professional development based on your specific role and responsibilities.

Description: Every professional development initiative must yield results that are measurable and allow educators to continually improve their effectiveness. Ultimately, improving educator effectiveness enhances student achievement. This course will focus upon designing initiatives and measuring the impact of professional learning for all educational stakeholders.

Description: An introduction to current research and practices on using data for decision-making and school improvement.

Description: An introduction to the ethical, social, and technical dimensions of current educational leadership practice of the elementary and secondary principal.

Description: Faculty and support staff in P-12 schools: appraisal, professional learning communities, high standards/high performance and accountability.

Description: School culture and student behavior in P-12 schools. Personalized teaching and learning environments that address student diversity, needs and interests.

Description: An examination of the evolving roles of the modern principal and U.S. society.

Description: Effective teachers facilitate student learning. Facilitating student learning depends on understanding learning principles and on designing instruction that is compatible with learning principles. Instructors can provide learning-compatible instruction that helps students learn more effectively and ultimately teaches them how to learn. Assists teachers to teach in learning-compatible ways and helps them embed within their curriculum a program for teaching learners to learn.

Description: For principals or other administrators who have special education programs in their buildings. Overview of disabilities, related law, special education programs, personnel issues, etc., and instructional methods and administrative support for effective integration of disabled students into regular programs.

Description: Intensive preparation for special educators who intend to administer special education programs in the public schools. Information about best practices in special education, including programming, supervision, legal/regulatory issues, financing, personnel, as well as current controversial topics which are affecting these programs in the schools.

Description: Body of law that pertains to the organization, administration, and implementation of special education programs in PreK-12 schools. Substantive and procedural rights of disabled students, and the authority and responsibility of states and school districts that are grounded in state and federal law.

Description: Capstone for MA students specializing in Higher Education or Community Colleges.

Description: Current professional issues related to the organization and administration of student personnel within higher education. Exploration of research literature, some field experiences, and in-depth examination of special topics.

Description: Student Affairs Program cohort members meet to discuss and review current issues in order to become more familiar with special topics related to professional practice and best practice in the field of student affairs.

Description: Survey and analysis of the application of technology to improve teaching. Research and related literature on learning, teaching and curriculum, and the critical application of technology and the development of teaching strategies.

Description: Culminating experience for students enrolled in the Student Affairs specialization. Integration of learning outcomes across students' coursework and application to their future careers.

Description: Aspects of education not covered elsewhere in the curriculum.

Description: Selected topic with the direction and guidance of a staff member.

Description: Provides an opportunity for PhD students in Educational Leadership and Higher Education to gain a better understanding of the expectations and skills necessary for doctoral education. Students will gain knowledge of the skills and habits necessary to successfully navigate their doctoral program. In addition, the foundations of educational inquiry as well as personal development related to research will be addressed, including the development of critical reading and thinking skills, writing skills, and analytical skills.

Description: An introduction to doctoral study in educational administration for students in the EdD program.

Description: Foundations of disciplined inquiry for continuous improvement, including application of systems and ecological analysis, data analysis for understanding problems of educational practice, theory of action development, change leadership, and measurement and evaluation of change efforts. Introduction to critical approaches to systems-level improvement. Applicable to P-20 leaders.

Description: Applied research methods course using disciplined inquiry for continuous improvement, including application of systems and ecological analysis; outcome and process data collection; and data analysis to evaluate change efforts. Critical and reflective approaches to systems-level improvement. Applicable to P-20 leaders.

Description: Principles of community relations and public relations; development of school and community understanding; collaboration of educators and community agents and agencies; communication tools and evaluation.

Description: Analyze how staff attitudes and behaviors are impacted through the improvement process.

Description: Examination of how P-20 educational systems are structured, including critiques of those structures through new and emerging frameworks to understand why and how they work. Includes governance of educational institutions at the federal, state, and institutional level, and the impact of demographic, social, legal, political, and financial influences on governance.

Description: Selected system level issues faced by pre-K to grade 12 school administrators.

Description: Analyze and evaluate policy processes involved in making choices; develop understanding, apply and evaluate knowledge about key political concepts and theories to the analysis of educational policy issues; analyze and evaluate issues as points of political conflict between institutional structures with competing interests; understand people as the actors in roles they occupy in the political system.

Description: Universities are adaptive, living systems interacting with their environment. Equips participants with the skills required to analyze and assess the environment of higher education institutions. Environment concepts, components and structures are studied together with analysis techniques and methodological approaches to future study.

Description: Issues facing community college leaders and the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to provide effective leadership in the community college setting. Case studies of community colleges, combined with the literature on community college leadership, and active learning opportunities to examine current practices and develop a personal philosophy of leadership.

Description: Engagement with philosophical and theoretical analyses of sociocultural conditions of educational leadership and research, from different disciplinary perspectives, including how the educational research enterprise has been both complicit in and disruptive of unjust educational endeavors. Positioning of particular areas of inquiry within enduring issues and challenges of education.

Description: Understanding the individual and organizational issues of diversity and multiculturalism in P-20 schools. Increase the students' knowledge and appreciation of: cultural, social, political, and economic realities of our complex, pluralistic society in relation to our educational system. Through integration of relevant information from history, law, interpersonal development, organizational development, and philosophy, students will develop a complex, comprehensive understanding of diversity and equity.

Description: Introduction to contemporary issues in the administration of higher education with a focus on the scholarly literature, a comparative analysis of administration in types of institutions, leadership and planning, institutional environmental issues, and selected topics.

Description: Federal and state government funding, institutional planning, technological and community influences, human resources finance, budgeting, and sources of financial support as they relate to higher education institutions and agencies.

Description: Designed particularly for those interested in upper secondary and college levels. Junior college movement; relationship of movement to provisions for an adequate educational program; functions of the junior college; legal status and basis for extension of junior college; problems of organization, administration, and curriculum.

Description: Diverse perspectives, current issues and challenges pertaining to teaching, learning, and curriculum in higher education. For individuals who hold or in the future will serve in administrative, teaching, research or policy positions that require understanding of philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of teaching and learning in higher education.

Description: Examination of legal principles applicable to higher education institutions. Overview of the legal system, higher education institutions as legal entities, authority for governance and administration, faculty rights and responsibilities, student rights and responsibilities, institutional and personal liability, and other selected issues.

Description: Contemporary faculty issues in postsecondary education institutions from the perspective of college administrators. Current status of faculty, assigning faculty workloads and monitoring performance levels, evaluating faculty performance, structuring development activities, and special topics.

Description: Explore the study of P-20 educational leadership, organizational theory and the various ways to research, navigate, and lead organizational change efforts.

Description: A doctoral level course providing international comparative perspectives of key aspects of educational systems, policy, reform initiatives, and leadership practices in various contexts. Offers an overview of philosophical/theoretical grounds of comparative education, methodological challenges associated with comparison, and conceptual contributions that comparative research offers.

Description: Selected issues affecting global educational policies and practices.

Description: System theory, practice and problem solving. The strategic planning process in higher education. Models of strategic planning. EDAD 933 requires the student to analyze their respective institution's planning process and plan, and to participate in a simulation activity that reinforces the principles and practices of strategic planning.

Description: Develop comprehensive understanding of five aspects of the community college: Curriculur missions in general education, transfer education, career education, remedial/developmental education and community education; faculty and student populations; exemplary teaching and assessment of student learning outcomes; program and curriculum development; and human resources aspects related to instructional programs in hiring faculty and providing faculty development programs.

Description: Workforce, economic and community development role of education within the broader context of recent economic, social, and technological changes in communities, society, and the economy. Focuses on partnerships and policies as a lever for systems-level improvement in community level outcomes. Applicable to P-20 leaders.

Description: Rationale for planning in a changing environment will be explored; the theoretical base for planning presented; strategic, futuristic planning and operational planning explored; the development of planning strategies, techniques and procedures; the process of evaluation, feedback and revisions explored; and the management of the change process analyzed.

Description: Changing roles for persons engaged in instructional and curricular leadership in educational institutions. Literature on staff development, assessment and evaluation, and effective schools serve as the basis for studying and applying this information to a variety of educational settings. Issues such as teacher empowerment and site-based management, along with cooperative learning provide the focus of the activities.

Description: Education administration problems with an analysis of research and literature pertaining to these problems.

Description: Current knowledge, theories, and practices, and related issues in the area of college student development.

Description: Introduction to the concepts, principles, and methods in intermediate statistical analyses for educational administration research, with a focus throughout on applied data analysis. The frame of reference for this course is experimental and ex post facto research designs. We will review of descriptive statistics (including measures of central tendency, variability, proportions, and basics of probability theory), however, this course particularly focuses on inferential statistics (for example, bivariate correlation, t-tests, one-way ANOVA, chi-square, discriminate analysis, and linear regression). All concepts will be taught from an applied perspective. This course also provides hands-on application of planning, conducting, and reporting of analyses using APA style.

Description: Concepts, principles, and methods in advanced statistical analyses for educational administration research, with a focus throughout on applied data analysis. The frame of reference for this course is correlational and multivariate research designs. A variety of analytical approaches, in particular multiple regression, logistic and multinomial regression, factor analysis, and an introduction to concepts of multilevel models and structural equation modeling, among other possible topics.

Description: An overview of concepts and approaches to qualitative methodology in educational administration research including major methodological approaches (e.g. case study, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, and narrative inquiry). Overview of approaches to qualitative research design, fieldwork, data collection, and data analysis.

Description: Connections of the general study of history to the study of the history of education are the course's intents. Concepts employed in educational historical research and the methods used by historical researchers will be examined. Knowledge and skills will be developed through practical exercises demonstrating the methodology of historical research.

Description: Provides an introduction to case study methodology, with a focus on qualitative data collection and analysis. Focus on two traditions of case study methodology used in educational research (Yin and Stake). Learn about case study design from start to finish and conduct and write a small scale case study using either own data or data provided by the instructor.

Description: An advanced qualitative methods course providing an introduction to grounded theory methodology in educational administration research. Provides an overview of the history and development of grounded theory methodology, different traditions of grounded theory methods, and specific application of grounded theory methods in educational administration.

Description: Advanced qualitative methods providing an introduction to discourse analysis methodology in educational administration research with an emphasis on how systems of power, privilege, and oppression are embedded in discourse; a consideration of how discourse is constructed and informed by society as well as how discourse can influence society; and application to collecting and analyzing data.

Description: An advanced qualitative methods course providing an introduction to narrative inquiry methodology in educational administration research. Provides an overview of theoretical and philosophical groundings, genres, research design, data collection methods, analysis, and interpretation in narrative inquiry methodology.

Description: This course focuses on (1) the costs of public and private education to society and to individuals, (2) the expected benefits to students, to communities and to society in general and (3) the research associated with those costs and benefits as a result of continued engagement in education in P-20 settings and life experiences in community/family settings.

Description: The examination of leaders and leadership in educational organizations. Through assigned readings and written assignments, students will make applications of the readings to: a) the organization of educational institutions and programs, b) the leadership that occurs in educational organizations and programs, c) the leadership skills and actions that are necessary to achieve the mission, goals, and objectives of educational organizations, and d) the student's individual leadership growth and development.

Description: A forum for dialogue and an exchange of ideas and experiences while creating a network of support for colleagues. Exploration and developing the skills, knowledge, understandings and unique features required of the superintendent's roles and responsibilities. Multiple perspectives on effective leadership and participants will be challenged to look at educational issues in new ways. Participants will be encouraged to bring contemporary educational issues to the sessions for intensive, confidential review and discussion. Interaction with session leaders and participants will be facilitated in an effort to examine the rapidly changing realities of public education and the impact these changes are having on the roles/responsibilities of the public school superintendent.

Description: Designed to provide future school superintendents a link between theory and practice through case studies and voice-of-experience discussions. This academy is a forum for processing the "on-the-job" experiences with participants who are pursing doctoral studies, those who are about to enter the role of the superintendent, or those who are new to the work of school leadership. Provides training situations for developing leadership skills, examination of the practical challenges that school leaders face. Examination of contemporary educational issues through different organizational frameworks and review of various issues related to the management of change.

Description: Opportunity for educational administrators to gain an understanding of administering changes or innovations, and to obtain supervised field experience. Consideration will be given antecedents of change, change models, the role of government, forces that restrict or stimulate change, tools to implement change, and evaluation.

Description: Intended for students who are working on the development of their dissertation proposal. Component parts of the dissertation proposal. Students from all areas of Teachers College and the University of Nebraska who are in the process of developing their proposal will find this course to be of use. Typically the course should be taken after the research tools have been completed.

Description: Intended primarily for students of education who are candidates for doctoral degrees. Readings, discussions, and an analysis of educational problems and research.

Description: Identification and solutions of problems associated with program planning; organizational, administrative, and instructional procedures within an institutional setting. Designing, implementing, and evaluating new or modified patterns of operation and teaching within a public school, postsecondary institution, or adult education agency.

Description: Students are immersed in outcome-based scholarly activities with a faculty mentor. Working on either an individualized or small group basis, students develop, execute and report one or more projects addressing the interaction between research and practice. Intended primarily for doctoral students, although non-doctoral graduate students may be admitted with special permission of the instructor.

Description: Doctoral dissertation