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Program Overview
The Doctor of Education (EdD) in Organizational Leadership degree program is designed to meet the special requirements of working professionals who wish to develop their knowledge and skills to handle the changing needs of modern organizations. The program is designed to enable working professionals to pursue their personal and professional goals through the completion of a graduate program.
Based on the belief that success for an organization is directly and substantially linked to leaders within the organization, Argosy University offers the EdD in Organizational Leadership degree program, which is designed to provide practicing professionals with opportunities for personal and professional development. Argosy University is committed to providing students with a learning environment that informs, enhances, challenges, and supports the development of organizational leaders ready to face the complex issues present in an ever-changing world.
The program focuses on the qualities of transformational leadership, not just managerial attributes. This approach is designed to prepare students to lead complex organizations faced with an abundance of strategic challenges, such as increasing globalization, changing economies, societal shifts, and individual organizational relationships. Argosy University believes that leaders prepared in this manner can be visionaries and innovators, and can lead organizations to meet the challenges of the future. Some assignments will require applying principles in “live” situations. Students should be aware that they will at times need access to an organization–whether their employer or any other organization–to maximize the opportunity to develop their competencies.
Program Learning Outcomes
Program Outcome One
Leadership in Teams
Given an organizational situation, identify strategies to develop, maintain, motivate, and sustain self-managed teams using concepts, theories and techniques of team leadership.
Program Outcome Two
Collaboration in Teams
Given a case study or leadership situation, collect, assimilate, disseminate, and maximize the views of team stakeholders in order to reach defensible goals with minimal conflict.
Program Outcome Three
Conflict
Given an organizational situation that requires interpersonal or interdepartmental action, identify situations of conflict, diagnose the impact of both overt and covert behavior, and develop a plan for conflict resolution using evidence-based methods.
Program Outcome Four
Ethics
Given an organizational setting, identify ethical and dilemma-resolution practices, and make evidence-based decisions that integrate personal, social, and corporate responsibility.
Program Outcome Five
Communication
Communicate orally and in writing to individuals and groups in a concise, clear, organized, and well-supported manner using formats and technology relevant to the organizational context.
Program Outcome Six
Motivation
Given a leadership situation, identify workplace commitment theories to incorporate influences and power as a leader to motivate organizational stakeholders.
Program Outcome Seven
Research
Given an organizational need to evaluate and defend its actions or potential actions, select, analyze, and apply the assessment techniques, research methods, and/or statistical analyses needed to evaluate and defend those actions based on evidence
Program Outcome Eight
Knowledge and Understanding of the Field
Demonstrate competency in identifying and integrating the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, historical trends, and key figures in the field of organizational leadership.
Program Outcome Nine
Change
Evaluate the impact of change on organizations, organizational members, and other stakeholders and apply appropriate change models and theories to facilitate successful change.
Program Outcome Ten
Global Diversity
Analyze and evaluate the involvement of diversity in leadership issues, with special attention to the implications of diversity for individuals, organizations, and societies.
Program Outcome Eleven
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Achieve personal development and demonstrate positive relationship skills via effective communication, respect for others, and awareness of their impact on others.
Admission Requirements
- A graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution, a nationally accredited institution approved and documented by dean of the College of Business, or an appropriately certified foreign institution.
- A grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a scale of 4.0) in work leading to the master’s degree and in any subsequent graduate study.
- A minimum score on an Argosy University pre-approved English language proficiency test is required for all applicants whose native language is not English or who have not graduated from an institution at which English is the language of instruction as specified in Section Five, Admission Policies, “English Language Proficiency Policy .”
All applications for admission must be submitted to the Admissions Department of the individual campus to which application is being made. An admissions representative is available to help interested applicants complete the following required documentation:
- Completed Application for Admission Form
- Application fee (Non-refundable, except in California and Arizona. In the state of Arizona, the application fee is refundable if the application is canceled within three business days of the applicant signing the Enrollment Agreement.)
- Official transcripts from the institution that conferred the master’s degree and any institutions where graduate coursework was subsequently taken. Bachelor’s level transcripts are not required.
Graduation Requirements
- Satisfactory completion of 60 semester credit hours beyond the master’s degree, including 48 credit hours of coursework and 12 credit hours of dissertation
- A grade point average of 3.0 or higher (on a scale of 4.0); any course in which a student earns a grade below “B-“ must be retaken
- Satisfactory performance on the Comprehensive Examination
- Successful completion and defense of the dissertation
- Completion of these requirements within seven years of matriculation into the program
- A completed Petition to Graduate submitted to campus administration
Academic Progress Requirements
Students who earn a grade below B- in any course are required to retake the course and raise the grade to at least a B-.
Dissertation
Upon successful completion of required coursework and comprehensive examinations, students enroll in dissertation courses. To progress through each dissertation course, students must complete specified course objectives. If progress is made and all objectives met, students enroll in the next dissertation block. If progress is made and objectives are substantively but not fully met by the end of each course (as determined by the dissertation chair in discussion with the dissertation committee) students must enroll in a zero credit extension course (tuition based on a credit hour equivalent as defined in Appendix IV, Schedule of Tuition and Fees ). If it is determined that no progress has been made, students will be required to retake the block in which no progress was made. If the student is required to retake a block due to no progress, the dissertation chair will assign a grade of No Credit (NC). Students are required to enroll in a Dissertation course or Dissertation Extension course every session from the
beginning of the dissertation until passing the final defense earning 12 semester credit hours for dissertation. A student may only receive any combination of two NC, W, or WF grades during the dissertation sequence. Upon receiving the third NC, W, or WF within the dissertation sequence, the student will be dismissed from the program. Published course objectives for each dissertation course apply unless the student and dissertation committee/chair agree to and confirm in writing alternative specified objectives more appropriate for a particular dissertation topic.
Program Requirements
The EdD in Organizational Leadership degree program requires the satisfactory completion of 60 semester credit hours, distributed as follows: research core requirements, 15 credit hours; core requirements, 24 credit hours; elective requirements, 9 credit hours; and dissertation requirements, 12 credit hours.
