Doctoral Concentrations

You can individualize your doctoral program and expand your professional expertise by selecting one of our optional doctoral concentrations:

Community College Leadership for Change addresses the most current issues in community colleges and builds your knowledge and skills as a scholar-practitioner. It allows you to position yourself as a community college leader based on the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) leadership competencies.

Creative Longevity and Wisdom provides a focus on aging populations locally, nationally, regionally, and globally. Promote barrier-free, sustainable, and nurturing environments, and foster populations that will promote justice for aging populations.

Dual Language prepares educators to design an instructional program that supports bi-literacy development for language-majority and language-minority students. The focus is to bridge the achievement/opportunity gap for diverse under-served populations while addressing the goals of bilingualism and the development of multicultural competencies.

Evidence Based Coaching offers an interdisciplinary approach to integrating research-based coaching theory with professional practice in organizational and individual coaching. Participants will study the core theories that underpin principal practices of individual and organizational coaching, and they will undertake individual research to integrate theory with practice in individual and organizational settings.

Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice explores the relationship between transformative learning and social change for social justice. Become an effective and creative leader-participant in local and global efforts at creating a just, secure, and environmentally sustainable world.

Leadership of Higher Education focuses your doctoral study on the knowledge and skills you need to become a leader and change agent in higher education institutions such as 4-year colleges, universities, and graduate schools.

Media, Technology, and Innovation focuses on the ways in which media, information, and knowledge are transforming societies, cultures, organizations, and our own selves. Learn to live in an online world through virtual teams, and explore topics such as social justice and ethics.

Organization Development focuses on theoretical knowledge and practical skills that will allow you to lead change in the workplace. Learn how to engage in online environments and collaborate with other management and consulting leaders.

Reflective Practice/Supervision is designed to teach you the theory of reflective practice/supervision and how to apply it to your professional work experiences in clinical, educational, administrative, or organizational systems.

Somantics, Phenomenology and Communicative Leadership combines and integrates scholarly theory and mastery of embodied mindful awareness with substantial grounding in transformative phenomenology along with the interpretive and practical dynamics of social constructionism.

Sustainability Leadership produces leaders in businesses, nonprofits, governments, and educational institutions. This concentration includes the study of the history and practice of sustainability efforts, organization development for sustainability, and strategy development for sustainability.