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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into any UVU graduate program. Examines multiple critical lenses informing the higher education landscape on issues related to marginalization, identity, silence, under-representation and other factors that American higher education has historically been inadequate at addressing. Guides students to develop a personal framework based in reflexivity around biases. Synthesizes collegial, institutional, historical and contextual nuances to provide foundational knowledge. Develops a dispositional and interdisciplinary approach to facilitate inclusion within particular higher education roles and activities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into any UVU graduate program. Presents various theories relevant to college student development and applies those theories to the field through class discussion, papers, and special projects. Introduces students to the major theories of learning, development, and retention and connects them with current practice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into any UVU graduate program. Examines organizational theory, models, governance, and management processes in higher education, leadership perspectives and leadership theory. Explores leadership as a discipline that transcends functional area, serving as a framework to lead and guide within higher education. Investigates leadership theories and formulates personal approach as an educational leader.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Education in Higher Education Leadership program, or permission of the graduate program director.. Examines legal frameworks, liability, compliance, constitutional and civil rights, competing rights of institutions, faculty, staff, and students, and contractual obligations in higher education. Explores the legal, ethical, institutional, and political processes that influence higher education and the relationship between law and the system of higher education. Critiques legal issues as a way to define the role and meaning of higher education in today's society.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Education in Higher Education Leadership program, or permission of the graduate program director.. Examines the principles and practices of strategic planning, evaluation, accountability, and financial management in higher education institutions, operating units, and academic programs.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to Master Education Higher Education Leadership program. Addresses the three phases of capstone project development. Provides instruction on writing the literature review. Examines the development of the capstone proposal and presentation. Incorporates feedback and reflection on proposal presentations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to Master of Education in K-12 Education Leadership or Graduate Certificate leading to USBE K-12 Education Leadership License Area of Concentration, or permission of the graduate program director.. Introduces students to critical concepts about leadership theories and practice. Provides both historical perspective and current understanding to approaches, methods, and practices of leaders. Provides insight into how leadership skills and organization strategies produce increased productivity and better learning/working environments for P-12 students' academic success and well-being. Provides opportunity for class members to examine their own beliefs and develop a personal model of leadership. Emphasizes attributes that promote integrity, fairness, transparency and trust.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Education in K-12 Education Leadership program, the Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership program, or permission of the graduate program director.. Explores school finance, law, and safety as primary themes in school management and operations. Provides an overview of current K-12 management conditions and theory. Discusses these themes 1) best management theories and practices for not-for-profit organizations, 2) rules and regulations that govern school finance, 3) court rulings in areas of student speech, discipline, and other points of tensions in public schools, and 4) school organization to keep students physically and emotional safe.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Education in K-12 Education Leadership program, the Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership program, or permission of the graduate program director.. Advances student understanding, skill, and capacity to facilitate coherent systems of curriculum development, impactful instruction, valid assessment. Builds professional capacity for data interpretation and decision making for the success and well-being of students and faculty.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Education in K-12 Education Leadership program, the Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership program, or permission of the graduate program director.. Explores school communication, planning, human resources, and evaluation as primary themes in school management and operations. Provides an overview of current K-12 management conditions and theory. Reviews the role of legislation, policy, and leadership on the primary themes. Prepares students to communicate with stakeholders, strategically plan for school improvement, know best practices in the hiring and retention of public school staff.