Courses in the Higher Education Program
EDAE 5604 Seminar: Research in Student Affairs
Explores research paradigms, how research is conducted within those paradigms, frameworks for research proposals and reports, and components of proposals and reports. Multiple research designs and techniques included. Focus on understanding and appreciating how research is conducted. Students apply knowledge gained by developing a research proposal on a topic of interest.
EDAE 6914 Problems in Education: Advanced Topics in Higher Education Law
This seminar will give students an opportunity to explore specific legal issues more deeply. Students will research pre-selected topics, present their findings, and prepare their work for potential conference presentations and publication. Enrollment in this course is by permission of the instructor only. ELPS 6074 is a pre-requisite.
EDAE 6914 Problems in Education: Practice of Educational Research and Assessment
This seminar will provide students an opportunity to conceptualize, design and implement a research project. The instructor will employ constructivist pedagogy in examining the use of technology in higher education administration. The instructor will serve as a coach to the team of students who will conduct a literature search, identify research questions/hypotheses, and select research techniques appropriate to gather data related to those questions/hypotheses. Students will collect and analyze data and learn to write about research in a format acceptable for publication in a refereed journal.
ELPS 5304 Student Development in Higher Education
The evolution and current practice of student development in higher education. Study of literature and conceptual models emphasized. Emphasis on philosophical, conceptual, and research foundations for practice and on the organizational contexts of professional practice.
ELPS 5314 Theory and Appraisal of College Student Development
Theories explaining college student development and change. Cognitive-developmental, psycho-social, person-environment interaction, and humanistic-existential theories are included. Emphasis on late adolescent and adult theories about effects of college on students. Also includes procedures for measuring student development and change.
ELPS 5324 Program Interventions for Promoting College Student Development
Analysis of applications of college student theories and models for practice for the design of programs to promote college student development and change.
ELPS 5334 The American College Student and the College Environment
Study of the characteristics and attitudes of traditional and nontraditional college students; effect of the college environment on students.
ELPS 5284 Practicum in Student Affairs
Supervised on-the-job experiences in college and university settings and public agencies. Experiences accompanied by regularly scheduled seminars designed to provide positive evaluation and analysis of the supervised experience.
ELPS 6044 Governance and Policy in Education
Study of philosophical, social, and political contexts of governance and policy in education.
ELPS 6054 College and University Administration
Study of administration of the modern university in the United States with a focus on the research literature of the field.
ELPS 6064 Higher Education in the United States
Diversity of institutions of higher learning is examined. Distinct types of institutions and their respective goals and purposes are examined. Includes study of managerial, faculty, and curriculum issues.
ELPS 6074 Higher Education Law
The purpose of the course is to provide students with an overview of the legal issues which arise in the administration of colleges and universities. The course is not designed to provide legal training or substitute for advice from legal counsel.
ELPS 6084 Financial Administration in Higher Education
Emphasis on examination of the revenue sources and patterns of funding and the roles of federal, state, and local governments in the fiscal support of higher education. Examines methods of determining institutional resource allocations, program and financial planning, and the internal allocation and effective use of resources.
ELPS 6114 Staffing Practices in Education
Study of personnel practices in schools and colleges and universities. Emphasis is on recruitment and selection, orientation, supervision, staff development, and performance appraisal of staff. A human resource development perspective will be taken in research and assessment of current and future practices.
ELPS 6204 Policy Studies in Education
Study of policy-making, policy analysis, and educational reform. Emphasis will be given to the policy-making process, state and federal roles in public education, the role of values and interest groups, policy analysis, equality of educational opportunity, systematic reform and implementation, and politics of education.
ELPS 6214 State Role in Education
Study of the state government's role in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Emphasis given to state constitutions, state governmental structures, and special interest groups.
ELPS 6304 Theories of Educational Organizations
Study of educational organization theory and behavior. Emphasis will be given to understanding institutional structures and cultures in their educational, social, economic, and political contexts with a view toward organization improvement, development, and reform.
ELPS 6424 Institutional Effectiveness and Student Outcome Assessment
Study of institutional conditions that determine effectiveness including effects of institutions on student learning and personal development. Includes assessment of general education, the academic major, affective student learning, retention, employment suitability, and other aspects of student life related to teaching and learning.
Other department-level courses and courses in other departments also are available.