Comprehensive Programs, Designed to Prepare
Educational Leaders for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Graduate professional education is concerned with enhancing a broad spectrum of talents in students. Some of these talents are addressed by structured, in-class activities determined primarily by faculty, while others are addressed by out-of-class activities that often are student-directed. Both types of learning opportunities are incorporated into each student's Plan of Study.
The Higher Education program at Virginia Tech is built upon collegial relationships between faculty and students throughout the period of graduate study. Faculty serve as teachers, advisors, colleagues, and mentors to students. For full consideration all application materials must be received by February 1st of each year. The program does not participate in rolling admissions.
Highlights of the program:
- Professional and scholarly development in higher education policy and leadership
- High professor and student interaction
- Opportunities for student scholarship and research
- Funding availability for both Masters and Doctoral students
- Part-time enrollment for working professionals
The Higher Education program affirms the Virginia Tech Principles of Community and strives to incorporate these principals into our programming. Furthermore, we are committed to increasing diversity on campus through recruitment and retention of qualified faculty, staff and students and support policies, programs and practices needed to maintain this effort. For more information, please visit www.multicultural.vt.edu.
The spring semester preliminary exam for doctoral students in the Higher Education program has been scheduled for January 21 & 22, 2010. Please contact Dr. Steve Janosik if you plan to take this exam.
It is with great pleasure that we announce this year's winners of the 2009 Don G. Creamer Research Awards. Please congratulate Dexter Bush-Scott and Valerie Shayman for their project titled, "Assessing Case Management Services for Virginia Tech Employees and Students"; Fulya Marsh for her project titled, "Revisiting Transition: Experiences of Middle Eastern Graduate Students in the United States"; and Cara McFadden for her project titled, "Sense of Competence Scale-Revised (SCS-R): An Instrument Development and Validation Study for an Existing Instrument to Measure Traditional Age College Students Sense of Competence."
Each year students in the Higher Education Program submit their research proposals for competitive blind review to a selection committee. Dr. Diana Ridgwell (chair), Director of Student Development College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; Dr. Bethany Flora, Assistant Provost; and Dr. Don Creamer, Professor Emeritus served on this year's committee. Contributors to the Don G. Creamer Fund for Excellence make these research grants possible. Congratulations to this year's recipients and thanks so much to our Selection Committee members.
Higher Education Update and Foundation Newsletter.