Bulletin of the National Ed.D. Program for Educational Leaders Spring 1974 Nova University
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Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks Fischler Postgraduate Course Catalogs NSU Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions Spring 1974 Bulletin of the National Ed.D. Program for Educational Leaders Spring 1974 Nova University Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/abe_pgcoursecatalogs Part of the Education Commons NSUWorks Citation Nova University, "Bulletin of the National Ed.D. Program for Educational Leaders Spring 1974" (1974). Fischler Postgraduate Course Catalogs. 4. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/abe_pgcoursecatalogs/4 This Bulletin is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fischler Postgraduate Course Catalogs by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bulletin of the National Ed. D. Program for Educational Leaders Spring, 19711 Nova University Fort Lauderdale, Florida CONTENTS 2 PURPOSES OF THE PROGRAM 3 ADVISORY BOARD OF THE NATIONAL Ed.D. PROGRAM FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERS 4 STUDY AREAS 5 Curriculum Development 6 Education Policy Systems 7 Evaluation 8 Finance 9 Managing the Schools 10 Resources for Improving Education 11 Supervision 12 Technology and Systems Management 13 STUDY GUIDES 14 SCHEDULE Study Areas for the First 32 Clusters 15 STUDY MATERIALS By Study Areas, Provided 10 Each Gluster 16 PRACTICUMS 18 SUMMER INSTITUTES 21 CLUSTER DIRECTORY 22 Atlanta, Georgia 22 Austin, Texas 23 Baltimore, Maryland 23 Boston, Massachusetts 24 Bucks County, Pennsylvania 24 Chicago, illinois 25 Cincinnati, Oh io 25 Dallas, Texas 26 Dallas II , Texas 26 Delaware 27 Denver, Colorado 27 Erie, Pennsylvania 28 Fairfield, California 28 Fort Lauderdale, Florida 29 Gainesville, Florida 29 Hartford, Connecticut 30 Jacksonville, Florida 30 los Angeles, California 31 Michigan 31 New Haven, Connecticut 32 New Rochelle, New York 32 New York City, New York 33 Old Westbury, New York 33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 34 Pinellas County, Florida 34 Portland, Oregon 35 Providence, Rhode Island 35 Richmond, Virginia 36 Sacramento, California 36 Was hington, D.C. 37 Waukegan , Illinois 37 West Palm Beach, Florida 38 ADMISSIONS Requirements for Enrollment, Financial Assistance, Costs, Credits and Certification Requirements 39 THE STAFF 40 THE NOVA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES AN OVERVIEW E_47 • operate a total program involving a significant number of peers in both individual and group efforts-not bits PURPOSES and pieces whereby each person alone shops around OF THE PROGRAM from university to university • provide support and help to participants beyond the period of actual involvement in graduate work- not to The purpose of this report is to present in one document communicate only for alumni funding events complete information concerning the Nova University National Ed.D. Program for Educational Leaders-a new • assure its financial continuance as a program by pro program for improving leadership in the elementary and viding its essential elements through the tuition paid by secondary schools of the-United States. This program is its working candidates- not to depend on the whims and designed to: fancies of governmental or philanthropic groups' sup port for survival • develop persons already in administrative roles in the schools to assure that leadership improvements attained • offer a unique national laboratory for the research and by candidates are felt in the schools immediately-not to development interests of the participants, local and state add to the oversupply of trained persons for jobs that authorities, foundations and others interested in the probably will not exist improvement of the schools, by keeping the emphasis on growth and change throughout the system-not by plac • focus on real life situations and real job problems by ing a research cachet on existing systems using the schools as real laboratories- not by pulling participants out of the system to spend time on university • keep testing whether the program is fulfilling its pur campuses and then be reintroduced through artificial poses in the real world-not assuming that meeting "internships" standards in treatises based on theories is the only sure road to credibility. • make maximum use of the top talents of outstanding scholars and practitioners drawn from the universities Nova University attained its accredited status at the end and educational systems of the entire nation~not to of 1971 from the Southern Association of Colleges and presume that any single university or system in isolation Schools. The Sou them Association had spent three years is able to provide the level and diversity of talent needed studying "non-traditional study programs" and thus • provide a national point of view through systematic was receptive to external degree proposals in December interaction w itb those from other areas and backgrounds 1971. The program was announced to the education to mitigate the provincialism now present in local school field in January 1972. By June of 1972 eleven clusters systems and local universities- not to reinforce inbred were in operation. There are now 32, the "maxi-!llum num attitudes ber planned for the first cycle (Group I) of three years. • work through a supportive mechanism- the cluster The Nova program is under continual evaluation by (both local and national)- where candidates aid one both internal and external bodies. A summary of a full another in a professional manner-flol to encourage scale evaluation by the Educational Research Corpora competition in isolation for individual trophies tion, funded by the Ford Foundation, appears in the 2 Summer 1973 issue of The Gatekeepers' Gazette, a peri NOVA UNIVERSITY odical publication uf the Nova program. Copies are available on request. The National Ed.D. Program The following sections describe the substantive areas, the for Educational Leaders practicums, and the Summer Institutes; throughout de tails are given on the persons involved- the participants, ADVISORY BOARD cluster coordinators, national lecturers, Institute contrib January 1, 1974-December 31,1974 utors and central staff. Detailed administrative informa Alonzo A. Crim, Chairman tion is included with regard to admission, costs and Superintendent of Schools fut ure program plans. Atlanta, Georgia Medill Bair Executive Director EDCO, Inc. Cambridge, Massachusetts Robert W. Blanchard Su peri ntendent Df Schools Portland, Oregon Nolan Estes Superintendent of Schools D ESCRIPTIVE MATERIALS IN T HIS B UL Dallas Independent School District LETIN R ELATE LARGELY TO GROUP I Dallas, Texas C LUSTERS. Abraham S. Fischler, President Nova University Fort Lauderdale, F lorida Richard A. Keeler, Principa!* Matoaca High School Ettri ck , Virginia Virginia F. Lewis** Assistant Superintendent, Retired GROUP" CLUST E RS 1974-1976 Chicago, Illinois Donald P Mitchell, Secretary Present plans for beginning new clusters are Director, National Ed.D. Program for Educational Leaders directed towards those areas of the country Nova University where Group I clusters are presently not Fort Lauderdale, Florida operating. A. Craig Phillips Superintendent of Public Instruction Persons interested in the program should State Department of Education note that Group II clusters will operate under Raleigh, North Carolina somewhat different conditions, i.e. tuition, study Martha L. Smith* areas, oracticums. Director, Resources Development Southwest Educational Laboratory Austin, Texas *Participant **Cluster Coordinator 3 understandings that help the cluster and participants to STUDY AREAS move ahead on their own. Local clusters and individual participants have much opportunity to shape their own Among the requirements for successful completion of the learning experiences in each study area. They inform Nova Ed.D. Program is the following: each participant lecturers of foci within the study area especially relevant must demonstrate competency in each of eight substan to the cluster; they use special cluster funds to involve tive a rea s. Participants are helped to develop their com local experts in the instructional program; they develop petencies in these areas through all-day seminars with or purchase special materials or equipment and they use National Lecturers, specially prepared study guides, one another as resources by forming task-oriented study local cluster activities, and study group activities; they groups. must also devote a great deal of time to independent Participants are formaUy evaluated on the basis of ex study. aminations, projects, or papers. The common character The study areas are designed to provide participants an istic of the evaluation procedure is that they emphasize opportunity to gain conceptual skills and substantive analyt ic, interpretative, and conceptual skills rather than understanding that will assist them in providing leader information recall. Instruction and evaluation procedures ship to schools and school systems. The primary goal of are increasingly process oriented. When appropriate, improving the leadership of shool administrators pro however, participants may test out of a given study area vides a rationale for content and pedagogy associated by working out a suitable evaluation procedure with the with each study area. Similarly, the instructional program Senior National Lecturer, is not equally helpful to all persons seeking graduate preparation: those who are interested in a career as a ALTERNATIVE EVALUATION PROCEDURES basic researcher or specialist