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Bartlett, James E., II; Bartlett, Michelle E.; Dolfi, J. Jordan; Jaeger, Audrey J.; Chapman, Diane D. – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2018
This paper describes the redesign of a community college executive leadership doctoral program that seeks to develop senior-level leaders. The paper provides how the redesign was intentionally aligned with the CPED principles and specifically the sixth principle. The paper sought data from students, faculty and other documents to gain an insight…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Doctoral Programs, Community Colleges, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
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Higgs, Philip – Africa Education Review, 2016
The curriculum is a critical element in the transformation of higher education, and as a result, I argue for the inclusion of what I refer to as an African epistemic in higher education curricula in South Africa. In so doing, attention is directed at the decolonisation of the curriculum in higher education in South Africa, which aims to give…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, African Studies, Educational Change
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Akay, Adnan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
This paper addresses the role of engineering PhD education and its relationship to innovation and technology, and the need to reconsider how we educate PhD engineers. Much of the effort on engineering education in the last two decades focused on undergraduate education with a few exceptions that relate to master degree programs. Doctoral education…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Doctoral Programs, Engineering, Specialization
Groff, Warren H. – 1985
The ultimate goal of graduate education is to design programs of preparation to promote improvement in the quality of education and training services that are provided in a variety of different contexts. In the 1960s, Nova University developed field-based doctoral programs as a strategy to prepare individuals to become agents of change in the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Programs, Educational Change
Conrad, Clifton F. – 1986
Patterns that emerged from reviewing 12 syllabi for courses on the college and university curriculum are discussed, and a sample syllabus is presented. These courses are offered as part of graduate level studies in the field of higher education administration. A marked similarity across curriculum courses was found in terms of overall course…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
Conrad, Clifton F., Ed. – 1985
Historical and philosophical perspectives on college academic programs, current curriculum practices and agendas, and academic program development and implementation are considered in 20 articles in a reader designed for graduate classes in higher education administration. Titles and authors are as follows: "Frames of Reference" (Frederick…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, College Programs, Curriculum Development