PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
(K-12 Supervisor Option)
School Curriculum and Culture
(18 hours earned through 6 courses)
- Issues and Trends in Literacy
- Curriculum/Instruction and School Improvement
- Administrative strategies for School Improvement
- Grant Writing and Proposal Development
- Strategic Planning and School-Based Decision-Making
- Selection, Evaluation, and Development of Instructional Staff
School Administration (24 hours)
- The Politics of Educational Decision-Making
- The Change Process
- Educational Program Evaluation
- Internship in Educational Administration
- The School administrator and IDEA
- Advanced Educational Law
- Administration in a Multicultural and Diverse Environment
- Assessment and Development of School Leaders
Practitioner Seminar Workshop
(1 credit hour, repeated 3 times)
Professional and Practical Research
(15 hours)
Inferential Statistics
Advanced Educational Research
Dissertation Seminar
Dissertation (six hours)
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
(Academic Administration in Higher Education)
The program is built on a 42-hour core of studies that focuses on the politics of educational decision-making, program evaluation and assessment, institutional improvement, understanding diversity, grant-writing, and strategic planning as well as sound research skills. The Academic Administration in Higher Education Option features 18 hours of graduate coursework earned beyond the Master’s degree in one or more of the following specialty areas: business, education, English, history, math, or psychology.
Program Structure, 60 Graduate Hours*
(Core 42 hours)
The Politics of Educational Decision-making
Practitioner Seminar Workshop (3 hours)
Administrative Strategies for School Improvement
Educational Program Evaluation
Administration in a Multi-cultural Environment
Grant Writing and Proposal Development
Strategic Planning and Decision-making
Internship in Educational Administration
Inferential Statistics and Advanced Educational Research
The Change Process
Dissertation Seminar
Dissertation (six hours)
Academic Administration in Higher Education Specialty Areas
Business, Education, English, History, Math
and/or Psychology
* No more than 18 hours may be transferred into the Academic Administration Option. Transfer hours must form all or part of a specialty area as noted above. The 42-hour core must be completed at the University of the Cumberlands. The
program requires 60 graduate hours beyond the master’s degree.
Additional information about the program and about the admission process is available by contacting
Dr. Barry A. Vann, Program Director
Graduate Education
University of the Cumberlands
7792 College Station Drive
Williamsburg, KY 40769
Phone:1-800-343-1609
FAX: 606-539-4014
Email: bvann@ucumberlands.edu
