Congratulations to Dr. Susan McCracken!
Dr. Susan McCracken has been unanimously chosen for the 2010 Alice Phoebe Naylor Outstanding Dissertation Award by the Nominating Review Committee. The committee's recommendation has been accepted and the Award will be presented during the luncheon at the Doctoral Spring Symposium at the Hickory Higher Education Center on Friday, April 23, 2010. Dr. McCracken has been invited to serve as the luncheon speaker at the 2011 Doctoral Spring Symposium tentatively scheduled for April 22, 2011 in Hickory.
Dr. McCracken has finished her position as Director of Sponsored Programs and is the Director of External Affairs & Community Relations for Appalachian State University. The Naylor Dissertation Award is the Doctoral Program's highest honor recognizing outstanding scholarly work. The award was established by alumni and friends of the program to honor Alice P. Naylor, who retired in June 2008 after nine years as director of the program and 33 years on the faculty at Appalachian.
Congratulations to the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program December Graduates!
The ASU Graduate School has invited the Educational Leadership Doctoral program to identify a student leader for the University Commencement Exercises in December. Susan McCracken was nominated and accepted the invitation. This is the first time that a doctoral student has represented the program in this manner.
Congratulations to our current December graduates:
Max Allen Diggs from Cohort 14
Susan McCracken from Cohort 14
Greg Taylor from Cohort 14
Jamie Johnson from Cohort 10
Lisa Harrington from Cohort 14
The Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership Fall 2009 Symposium Gathering
The Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership Fall 2009 Fall Symposium Gathering for alumni, students, faculty and friends was held November 20, 2009 in Edwin Duncan Hall. The Symposium focussed on issues of International Education and Connections with the Global Community. We were so pleased to have a distinguished panel of speakers including the following:
Dr. Jim Killacky, Program Director gave opening remarks and welcomed the students, alumni, faculty and friends into the conversation concerning International Education.
Dr. Jesse Lutabingwa, Associate Vice Chancellor for International Education briefly addressed International Education at ASU and abroad in which he laid out some major issues, worldwide, that should be noted and of concern in the realm of international education (IE).
Arshad Bashir, Doctoral student from Cohort 17 and the first Fulbright Scholar in the Educational Doctoral program discussed International relationships and Peace Education. Mr. Bashir focused on the need to incorporate peace studies in all curriculums for both countries at peace and countries at war.
Christy Forrest, Doctoral Student from Cohort 16 and Associate Dean at Davidson Community College discussed the importance of incorporating International Education into the Community College curriculum. She made the compelling point that 44% of all undergraduates go to community colleges, and of those many don't go any futher; therefore, if IE is important (and it is), then the classroom in a community college maybe their only source of exposure to IE.
Marian Johnson, Doctoral student from Cohort 15 and Doctoral Research Assistant discussed the efforts made to include International components into the curriculum at ASU.
Dr. Rob Sanders discussed ASU connections with Latin American Education in addition to his personal international education experiences in Australia, France, Mexico and Bolivua.
Dr. Kelly Clarke-Keefe, Educational Leadership doctoral program faculty engaged symposium members in connected conversations related to the topics discussed by the panel.
Dr. Vachel Miller, Educational Leadership doctoral program faculty closed the symposium with a discussion of the connections that ASU already has with the global community. He emphasized our growing role in the International community.
Members of the symposium were invited to attend the International Coffee House light lunch event in the Union afterwards and that was also very successful. The ASU Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership 2010 Spring Symposium in Hickory, NC will focus on issues in Social Justice and Doctoral Studies. We hope to see you there!
Doctoral Website Construction
We are pleased to announce the unveiling of our new doctoral website. Emily Miller and Dr. Jim Killacky have created a new and exciting online format for students, faculty and alumni to engage with the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program. We invite you to explore this new venue as we continue to work to improve it.
