M.Ed. in Higher Education

Effective reporting ensures appropriate data sharing in compliance with federal, state, and local requirements, and ethical practices.  Databases and tools are utilized to support accountability, transparency, information processes to ensure accreditation requirements are embedded in established evaluation processes.  Knowing how to read, apply, and evaluate expectations is given consideration.

Focused on helping students achieve academic goals, this course surveys critical services to eliminate obstacles for students during enrollment and student support. By investigating ways technology integrates processes - database management, student advising, and the use of evaluation to generate efficiencies, catalog development, transcript evaluation - expectations are established.

This course explores ways to understand marketing as it conveys the compelling story of an organization, communicating the brand and the promised deliverables. Using key audience perspectives, essential questions are addressed as they impact branding, the ethical implications of gainful employment, consumer voice and social media, and maximizing the message to demonstrate value. Actionable analytics are used to validate market spending in relation to student financial concerns.

Considering the practical day-to-day support of students, this course looks at critical functions including DSS, retention, and outreach to students through the structure of supporting departments. Topics range from ways to handle at-risk students to helping to build sustainable efforts, class scheduling, and support. From orientation to graduation, readings and discussions target issues related to helping students navigate the complexity of higher education.

Life exists after graduation. In this course, promoting interaction on multiple levels helps to define effective ways to support students as they move from personal learning to professional practice. With an emphasis on ethical practice, students learn how to establish networks and partnerships and foster collaborative sharing of ideas and concepts to support development within the field by exploring how to establish a career office.

This course will focus on examining statutory and regulatory compliance issues impacting institutions. This course is designed to heighten analytical skills to ensure an understanding of the intricacies influencing higher education in today’s society. The interrelationship between law and policy is explored through the use of readings, case studies, and scenario analysis, serving to establish a context for practice with the governance of an organization.

This course considers how to strategically manage human, financial, and data resources. Strategic thinking, planning, and development establish effective ways to 1) strengthen working relationships, 2) engage in financial practices which contain costs and advance the mission of an institution and 3) utilize data for continuous improvement. By comparing and evaluating institutional advancement strategies, activities are assessed to determine how they complement strategic priorities and goals, build and enhance program relevance, and add practical value.

Dependent upon function and service, student affairs influences the relationship between adult learning and instructional outcomes. Leadership practices, as seen through theoretical lens, explore personnel issues, student support, success, and retention, and assessment options which guide decision-making. Consideration is given to ways student perspectives shape the college experience and how these can be leveraged for change.

Through the application of statistics, this course reviews data warehousing to support decisions including institutional planning, program viability and quality, and how these impact retention and attrition. Current trends with institutional assessment and evaluation help to inform constituents and support student achievement.

The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout, and as a result of the Master of Education in Higher Education.

Faculty and student engagement is related to relationships focused on mission and vision. This course explores critical topics related to governance, building trust through demonstrated integrity, supporting practice founded on policies while addressing cross-functional teams supporting collaboration and inquiry.