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Mission
Objectives
Masters of School Administration (MSA)
Doctorate in Educational Administration and Supervision Ed.D.
Admissions
Mission
The Program in Educational Leadership for school administrators is designed to improve the quality of K-12 schools by preparing leaders who are dedicated to educational excellence and equity. Graduates are expected to use leadership strategies that will improve student performance in environments that are dynamic, interactive, and culturally diverse.
Program Offerings in Educational Leadership
The program offers the Master of School Administration leading to principalship licensure and the Doctor of Education degree leading to Superintendent's Licensure. Licensure is controlled by the state, and it is the student's responsibility to understand and comply with the state's requirements.
Objectives
The Educational Leadership Program seeks to prepare highly trained school leaders who can:
• Provide sound instructional leadership at all levels
• Use qualitative and quantitative data as a basis for school improvement
• Employ ethical and professional practices
• Effectively administer fiscal, curricular, and personnel resources
• Exhibit strong written and oral communications skills.
• Participate effectively in educational politics, policy analysis, and development
• Critically and strategically analyze school problems
• Demonstrate effective leadership at the school and district level
• Administer schools in a legally and ethically defensible manner
• Demonstrate competence in administration
MSA program
Basic Requirements for the Master of School Administration (MSA) Degree Program
(42 required credit hours)
In summary, the MSA program includes eight courses plus a year-long full-time building level internship. The courses are all prescribed, except for students who have done previous graduate work that overlaps with one or more prescribed courses. In such cases, alternative courses can be selected with the consent of the student's advisor (two course transfer limit and other restrictions). The eight core courses plus the internship listed below are required for the MSA Program.
ELP 550: Principles of Educational Administration
ELP 532: Introduction to Educational Inquiry, or any basic comprehensive course in social science research
ELP 580: Program Planning, Management and Evaluation
ELP 518: School Law
ELP 589: Personnel Appraisal in Education
ELP 520: School Based Budgeting
ELP 515: Social Diversity, or a similar course in diversity
ELP 534: Ethics in Educational Decision Making
ELP 651: Internship in Educational Leadership and Program Evaluation. This is a year-long (10 months) internship with required seminars (nine credit hours each semester)
Ed.D. Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision
Basic Requirements for the Ed.D. Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision
(54 credit hours minimum required)
In summary, the Ed.D. requires core courses (10) in educational leadership, two courses outside the department, an internship and a dissertation. A minimum of 54 credit hours beyond the master's degree is required for doctoral degrees. For those students seeking the Superintendent's License, a year-long internship is required. Students must be officially admitted to the Ed.D. program to enroll in doctoral classes.
Students should be aware that a Ph.D. degree in Educational Research and Policy Analysis is also offered. This degree is distinguished from the Ed.D. in several respects. The Ed.D. is a practitioner's degree, is oriented toward licensure, and encourages a dissertation that is scholarly but practical. The Ph.D., by contrast, emphasizes research and university teaching, does not lead to licensure, and requires a theory-based dissertation.
The core courses for the Ed.D. are listed below together with a sample course number that satisfies the requirement.
Professional Core:
ELP 724: Contemporary Educational Thought or an advanced course in educational philosophy
ELP 728: School Law for the Administrator
ELP 729: Educational Finance
ELP 735: Policy Research in Education
ELP 736: Qualitative Research in Education
ELP 743: Either Advanced Quantitative Applications in School Leadership and Policy (ELP 743) or Advanced Qualitative Applications in School Leadership and Policy (ELP 737)
ELP 720: Cases in Educational Administration
ELP 742: Applied Research Methods in Education
ELP 780: Evaluation Theory and Practice in Education
ELP 789: School Personnel Recruitment, Selection, Development, and Appraisal
Focus Area:
Collateral area and courses must be approved by the program committee. Students seeking licensure as a superintendent must complete 6 credit hours of focus area coursework plus 6 credit hours of internship.
Internship:
ELP 851: Internship in Educational Leadership and Program Evaluation (year-long)
Dissertation Research:
ELP 891: Problems of Research Design in Education
ELP 895: Doctoral Dissertation Research (minimum of 12 credit hours)
* Students should select either the Advanced Qualitative or Advanced Quantitative sequence
Admission Procedures for Educational Leadership
You may obtain application materials online at [www2.acs.ncsu.edu/grad/eapp.htm]. The application may be submitted online or downloaded and submitted as hard copy. You may check the status of your application online at [www.acs.ncsu.edu/scripts/gradmiss/nondce/gsstatus.pl]. Application materials will include the following:
* Application for admission
* Non refundable application fee
* Residency statement
* Two official transcripts from each school attended
* Official statement of GRE or MAT scores, taken within the last 5 years
* Three letters of reference
* Letter of Application including statement of purpose and career goals
* Resume
* Autobiographical Statement
* Test of English as a Second Language (if required)
Minimum Entry Requirements
Masters of School Administration (MSA) Program
* Have a minimum of three (3) years of successful teaching experience and are currently working in a K-12 environment
* Meet graduate school and program requirements
* Rolling admissions for on-campus program
Doctoral Program (Ed. D.)
* Have a North Carolina's Principal's license or be eligible to receive one
* Meet graduate school and program requirements
* Admissions deadline: March 31 (Fall) and October 1 (Spring)
last updated 1/3/08
