UK's College of Education is one of the 25 Original Participants in the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate

The Department of Educational Policy Studies, is completing the first cohort of a project to redesign the EdD in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation. 

Working with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, the department enrolled a cohort of 28 students in the fall of 2007.  The first cohort represents community and technical colleges across the Commonwealth of Kentucky including faculty, administrators, and student affairs practitioners.  KCTCS offered release time to allow participating students to travel to class and provides classroom space at the system offices in Versailles, KY.

Course delivery followed an "executive" model of monthly class meetings complemented by on-line learning.  Another innovative feature of this project is a collaborative capstone process in which students are working on companion dissertations including co-authored elements as well as individual scholarship.  These capstone projects reflect compelling problems of practice identified by KCTCS leadership.

In October of 2009, the KCTCS cohort presented a symposium, "Partnership Cohort to Prepare Community College Leaders: Participant Perspectives," at the 50th annual meeting of the Southern Regional Council on Educational Administration (SCREA) in Atlanta.  See below for copies of these conference papers.

• Innovative Leadership Preparation: What Works and Why
• Stages of Group Development: From Strangers to Partners
• Being Students Again: Balancing Ambiguities, Expectations, and Responsibilities
• Being and Becoming Leaders: Application of Learning
• Preparing for the Group Dissertation: Pitfalls and Potentialities

19 of the original cohort members are currently completing their dissertations and expect to defend in the fall of 2011.  A second cohort following a similar program design is being formed to begin coursework in the Spring of 2012.

Information on the next cohort can be found here.