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Creating Scholar Leaders in Education
College of Education
Location: Lincoln, Bellevue
Degree Type: Graduate
Doane University's Doctorate of Education (EdD) prepares scholar leaders by developing the highly specialized knowledge and skills required of modern educational leaders. This practitioner's degree has an added focus on research and its applications.
EdD graduates develop the capacity to make an impact in their professional and personal roles in the communities they serve. Graduates gain expertise, knowledge, skills and disposition to continuously engage in issues of policy, program and practice. This degree is for anyone seeking a degree as a capstone of their preparation to be an educational leader.
Program Requirements
Doane's Doctorate of Education EdD includes 57 hours of post-graduate level coursework, seminars and stand-alone courses, culminating in a dissertation. The 30 core hours of EdD coursework are in a sequenced cadre format, similar to the Education Specialist program. We recommended your 27 post-master's specialization courses be complete before beginning core classes, but arrangements may be made for this coursework to be taken concurrently with core courses. If taken before the completion of the original master's degree, we do not count elective coursework.
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Professional Advising
We take education and student goals personally. That's why from the moment our students register for classes to the day they graduate, they are assigned to a professional academic advisor.
Academic Support
The Academic Support Center is dedication to providing students with the support, resources and tools to succeed. Support is available in a variety of areas including writing, reading, time management, proofreading and tutoring.
Career Development
We provide support for students and alumni to advance their carers and cultivate job search skills in resume writing, interviewing and more. Key relationships are fostered with employers to open pathways for internships and employment.
Doane EdD students are exposed to a wide variety of thinking patterns and ideas in the EdD program. They encounter ideas that enhance their understanding of research and the role that empathy, creativity and information play in research.
Students are exposed to a variety of perspectives and opinions through reading memoirs, fiction and philosophy. They also learn visual thinking strategies. Observation is critical to research, so students learn how to view artwork and think about it on a deeper level. Doane's unique cadre-style learning ensures students develop close bonds with their classmates as they lean on them for support and collaboration.
Doane's EdD program attracts individuals from education, business, healthcare, counseling, pastoral work and the not-for-profit sector. This cross-pollination of ideas helps students stay out of the silos of their disciplines and consider the relationship each focus has on the other. Students also are periodically taught by faculty who are not traditional education leadership professors. Exposure to different ideas and the ability to make connections helps students understand where their degree fits within and interacts with their jobs and their past education.
Dissertation committees must be chaired by someone with a Doane affiliation, but committee members may come from other areas if they have experience and a terminal degree. We have had committee members from Johns Hopkins University, Madonna Hospital, University of Chicago as well as many from area schools and other universities.
Doane's EdD program is deeply rooted in practical application. As is the purpose of a doctorate of education vs. a doctorate of philosophy, each dissertation is meant to answer a pragmatic question — one the student faces in their daily jobs. Leading up to the dissertation classes, students may use real data for homework assignments. The added benefit of having instructors from various disciplines is that there are real-world examples and problems to solve. The purpose of a dissertation is to teach students how to solve a real-world problem by asking the right questions, identifying the best way to answer the questions and collecting and analyzing data. These skills can be used to address any real-world problem.
Doane EdD students are exposed to a wide variety of thinking patterns and ideas in the EdD program. They encounter ideas that enhance their understanding of research and the role that empathy, creativity and information play in research.
Students are exposed to a variety of perspectives and opinions through reading memoirs, fiction and philosophy. They also learn visual thinking strategies. Observation is critical to research, so students learn how to view artwork and think about it on a deeper level. Doane's unique cadre-style learning ensures students develop close bonds with their classmates as they lean on them for support and collaboration.
Doane's EdD program attracts individuals from education, business, healthcare, counseling, pastoral work and the not-for-profit sector. This cross-pollination of ideas helps students stay out of the silos of their disciplines and consider the relationship each focus has on the other. Students also are periodically taught by faculty who are not traditional education leadership professors. Exposure to different ideas and the ability to make connections helps students understand where their degree fits within and interacts with their jobs and their past education.
Dissertation committees must be chaired by someone with a Doane affiliation, but committee members may come from other areas if they have experience and a terminal degree. We have had committee members from Johns Hopkins University, Madonna Hospital, University of Chicago as well as many from area schools and other universities.
Doane's EdD program is deeply rooted in practical application. As is the purpose of a doctorate of education vs. a doctorate of philosophy, each dissertation is meant to answer a pragmatic question — one the student faces in their daily jobs. Leading up to the dissertation classes, students may use real data for homework assignments. The added benefit of having instructors from various disciplines is that there are real-world examples and problems to solve. The purpose of a dissertation is to teach students how to solve a real-world problem by asking the right questions, identifying the best way to answer the questions and collecting and analyzing data. These skills can be used to address any real-world problem.
