博士学位课程涵盖获取和公平，州和联邦政策，学生发展，工作场所学习以及机构发展和评估等问题。我们博士课程的力量来自我们在研究，政策制定和机构领导方面的兴趣和专长。该课程包括一系列广泛而严格的研究课程，这些课程为学生为论文做准备，其重点是需要结合使用文学的问题以及经过实证研究的研究问题。该课程提供了极大的灵活性，以确保学生可以构建个性化的课程来支持他们的研究兴趣。
Prepare to conduct research as a faculty member, researcher, government employee, or policy scholar. You’ll work with faculty with a range of interests and expertise to examine issues of access and equity, state and federal policy development, workplace learning, and institutional leadership, development, and assessment. Full-time PhD students are eligible for our competitive funding package.Our curriculum includes an extensive and rigorous sequence of research courses that will prepare you for the dissertation, which focuses on a question that requires the combined use of literature, and a research problem that is empirically investigated. The curriculum offers significant flexibility to ensure that you can construct an individualized program to support your research interests.To be admitted to PhD candidacy, you will prepare and defend a candidacy paper, which is an analytical synthesis of the research and related scholarly literature on a researchable problem of significant interest to higher and postsecondary education. Your PhD dissertation will be an empirical study that results in the creation of new knowledge.