EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY STUDIES

Thomas Barone
Professor

David Berliner
Regents' Professor

Bianca Bernstein
Professor

Bryan Brayboy
Borderlands Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Arnold Danzig
Professor/Division Director

Gustavo Fischman
Associate Professor

David Garcia
Assistant Professor

Gene Glass
Regents' Professor

Josue Gonzalez
Professor

Kay Hunnicutt
Associate Professor

Eric Margolis
Associate Professor

Teresa McCarty
Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies

Alex Molnar
Professor

Carlos Ovando
Professor

Jeanne Powers
Associate Professor

Kimberly Scott
Associate Professor

Mary Lee Smith
Regents' Professor

Elizabeth Swadener
Professor

Joseph Tobin
Nadine Basha Professor in Early Childhood Education

Caroline Turner
Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Education and Director of EdD Program in Higher and Postsecondary Education

Leonard Valverde
Professor

L. Dean Webb
Professor & NAEL Program Coordinator

Terrence Wiley
Professor

The faculty in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies offer a PhD degree with an interdisciplinary approach to complex problems of educational policy and leadership. It brings together scholarly interests found in educational administration, higher education and social and philosophical foundations of education.

To be eligible to serve as a member of the ELPS PhD faculty, a faculty member must satisfy a stringent set of criteria of scholarly productivity.

Membership on the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies PhD faculty is recognized for those faculty members who have been approved to chair PhD dissertations by the dean of the Graduate College. Approval to chair is given to those faculty members who satisfy the criteria spelled out in the ELPS PhD Proposal that was approved by the Arizona Board of Regents on September 9, 1988.

From the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies PhD Proposal:

"Criteria for Dissertation Committee Chairs: Faculty who wish to chair dissertation committees must meet the criteria established by the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education, the Graduate College, and the Division of Advanced Studies in Education Policy, Leadership, and Curriculum. Faculty who wish to chair dissertation committees may submit their requests and vitae to the PhD program faculty for evaluation. Once they have been recommended by the program faculty and approved by the chair [Director], their names will be sent to the dean of the Graduate College for authorization. Faculty are expected to continue doing research and writing in tandem with their supervision of student research, and so every three years their vitae will be examined to see if they still meet the criteria outlined below. Also, their work in supervising student dissertations will be reviewed. Any faculty member receiving more than one 'below average' evaluation on the overall quality of a dissertation during the preceding three years will need to bring some counterbalancing evidence of successful work with graduate students to the program chair and the graduate dean before he or she will be recommended for another three-year approval. "

To be a faculty member of the ELPS PhD program means to have been approved by Graduate College to chair doctoral dissertations. To be approved by the Graduate College to chair doctoral dissertations, a faculty member must meet the following criteria:

• An earned doctorate and a member of tenure track faculty.
• A record of current scholarly activity as manifested in publication. The faculty member's research record should show evidence of either data-based or theoretical research in the field. Minimum evidence of meeting this requirement is three journal articles published in appropriate, refereed, scholarly journals or one scholarly book published within the last five years. Published research abstracts, presentations at refereed conferences, service on editorial boards of research journals, and the receipt of funding for research projects may also be considered, but the burden of proof will be on the faculty member.
• Experience in graduate education as demonstrated by successfully chairing master's thesis committees and/or chairing or serving on doctoral dissertation committees.