Doctor of Management - Higher Education Leadership and Change Concentration
Effective February 2019, this program is no longer available for future enrollments at the Denver South campus.
Effective July 2, 2019, this program is no longer available for future enrollments at the Virtual campus.
The Doctor of Management with a concentration in Higher Education Leadership and Change is a 100-credit-hour terminal degree in management. The program includes 40 credit hours of core management courses, 20 credit hours of higher education leadership and change concentration courses, 4 credit hours of symposium-related courses, and 36 credit hours of doctoral research. The research element will culminate in a dissertation.
The Doctor of Management is a terminal degree for management professionals. The program helps students prepare to think and act strategically and provides the opportunity to enhance their abilities to make positive contributions in their chosen area of management expertise. This degree program addresses current, real-world challenges faced by leaders and teachers in a school environment or organization. This program is for students who want to demonstrate fluency with the higher education leadership body of knowledge and demonstrate the ability to apply relevant knowledge to their chosen field. This program is for those looking to utilize analytical and critical-thinking proficiencies as a means of synthesizing, evaluating, and integrating higher education leadership concepts and knowledge for effective decision analysis, and solution generation, in the context of their managerial interests and responsibilities. This concentration is heavily focused on the challenges leaders and teachers face in dealing with the areas of professional ethics and diversity.
This program does not lead to additional licensure or certification. As such, CTU has made no determination regarding prerequisites for licensure or certification in any state or jurisdiction.
Degree Requirements
Courses- Concentration
HEDL870 | Higher Education Organizational Structure and Design | 4 |
HEDL872 | Higher Education Learning Outcomes | 4 |
HEDL874 | Policy and Regulatory Practices in Higher Education | 4 |
HEDL876 | Managing Resources in Higher Education | 4 |
MGMT878 | Advanced Career Strategies for the Scholar-Practitioner | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 20 |
Courses- Core
MGMT802 | Management Theory | 4 |
MGMT808 | Management and Ethics | 4 |
MGMT818 | Leadership Theory and Development | 4 |
MGMT822 | Application of Action Research | 4 |
MGMT824 | Strategic Thinking and Organizational Alignment | 4 |
MGMT828 | Practice and Theory of Consulting and Intervention | 4 |
MGMT832 | Organization Innovation and Scenario Thinking | 4 |
RES804 | Principles of Research Methods and Design | 4 |
RES812 | Qualitative Research Methods | 4 |
RES814 | Quantitative Research Methods | 4 |
RES860 | Doctoral Research I: Principles of Research and Writing | 4 |
RES861 | Doctoral Research II: Annotated Bibliography | 4 |
RES862 | Dissertation Research Process | 4 |
RES863 | Doctoral Research III: Dissertation Literature Review | 4 |
RES864 | Doctoral Research IV: Dissertation Methods | 4 |
RES865 | Doctoral Research V: Dissertation Introduction | 4 |
RES866 | Doctoral Research VI: Dissertation Findings | 4 |
RES867 | Doctoral Research VII: Dissertation Discussion and Conclusion | 4 |
RES868 | Doctoral Research VIII: Dissertation Conclusion | 4 |
SYMP801 | Doctoral Symposium I | 2 |
SYMP802 | Doctoral Symposium II | 2 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 80 |
Total Credit Hours: 100
Program Areas of Focus
The program emphasizes three areas of focus: Research and Writing; Leadership and Change Management; and the specific concentration discipline.
Graduation Requirements
In addition to the successful completion of 100 credit hours with an acceptable GPA, students must also satisfactorily complete their research proposal and final dissertation. The research proposal must be approved by the student’s Research Supervisor and University Reviewer. The dissertation, which must be approved by the student’s dissertation committee, is an extensive document that includes the research study. In addition, graduation requires presentation of the final dissertation.
Symposium
Doctoral programs at Colorado Technical University require a residential symposium. Additional information about CTU's doctoral symposium can be located in the Doctoral Symposium section of this catalog.