Program Standard
As stated in the program curriculam, the ePortfolio assignment serves as a digital mechanism for students to begin demonstrating their achievement of the seven doctoral program standards. Therefore, content should focus on students’ performance-based learning experiences as well as their acquisition of key knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
PhD Program Standards
- Program completers promote a visionary mindset, and continuously develop, advocate for, and enact a mission, and core values that are shared and supported by organizational stakeholders.
- Program completers advocate for, nurture, and sustain a creative and caring culture consistent with the mission of the organization and embracing of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Program completers cooperatively, comprehensively, and effectively manage the people, resources, and ideas of their organizational context, while embracing flexibility and adaptability.
- Program completers assess organizational quality and make decisions to positively impact the organization informed by sound data analysis and evidence following accepted research methods and practices.
- Program completers model integrity, fairness, equity and ethical purpose while also personifying optimism, perseverance, self-efficacy, and composure.
- Program completers appreciate, respond to, and influence the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural contexts through their research, analysis, and evaluation of procedures and policies and empower others to join in the process with them.
- Program completers use current technologies to improve and enrich their practice and the work of the organization.