Residency Goals

Year One Residency (five days)

• Learners will demonstrate the use of creative and critical thinking to analyze situations, identify relevant problems or issues and develop solutions.
• Learners will be able to analyze and discuss various issues within creative and critical thinking, such as cognitive dissonance, hindrances to creativity and critical processes, use of cognitive strategies to enhance creativity and critical thinking.
• Learners will understand the application of creative and critical thinking within their roles as doctoral learners and as leaders.
• Learners will understand that a component of leadership must be an important part of their research study.

Year Two Residency (three days)

During this residency, learners begin to focus on their dissertation studies with the guidance of faculty members.

• Learners will have a clear understanding of the components of an effective problem statement and purpose statement.
• Learners will know how to choose a mentor and the steps involved in this process.
• Learners will have an understanding of the differences between developing a qualitative versus quantitative prospectus.
• Learners will understand that a component of leadership must be an important part of their research study.

Year Three Residency (eight days)

This residency offers learners the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of leadership skills supported with research. Instead of a traditional, comprehensive examination, learners in the third residency are presented with case studies in which to demonstrate their knowledge of leadership in real-life situations. During the first five days of this residency:

• Learners will demonstrate both leadership and followership skills and abilities.
• Learners will incorporate their learning and research of leadership and followership into a revised leadership statement.
• Learners will utilize feedback to enhance their leadership and followership experiences and conceptualizations.

An additional three days at the end of the third-year residency allows learners to take the live experiences gathered during the previous five-day residency and apply their expanded knowledge back to their research. During this portion of the year-three residency:

• Learners will have clearly defined problem and purpose statements.
• Learners will have a research design and research methods that are clearly defined.
• Learners will understand the program timeline, including the sequence of courses, approval process and the logistics of the oral defense.