SUBJ CAT NBR FORMAL DESCRIPTION A&S 465 A&S 469 The course examines historical and philosophical elements relative to the role of student affairs in higher education as well as the impact of changing demographics on current trends pertinent A&S 487 to the management of student affairs. The course also provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge about organization structure, services, and faculty/staff/administrative functions in student affairs. (prerequisites HSC 451 and HSC 452) This course will introduce students to theories and models of organizational behavior and consultation specific to student affairs. The course will also explore theories, models and A&S 488 practices of leadership and organizational management and methods of and approaches to organizational change, decision making, and conflict resolution.
Theories and methods of personnel selection, supervision, and performance evaluation as conducted in higher education will be included. (prerequisites HSC 451, HSC 452, and A&S 487) This course examines the impact of institutional mission and state and national policies on access, retention and graduation rates of traditional and nontraditional student populations. The A&S 489 course provides an overview of historical and contemporary theories and practices (in student affairs) which impact strategic planning and assessment for student success. (prerequisite A&S 488) This course will explore models for designing, managing, and evaluating student affairs programs, including the use of technological applications.
Students will become familiar with models and A&S 490 methodologies of program development and implementation in higher education and will understand how to use professional standards and other resources for program development. (prerequisites A&S 489) This course concerns theoretical concepts and empirical research relating to administrative behavior in organizations with special reference to educational organizations. Concepts are A&S 491 examined within the typical decisional framework of supervisors, chief school business officers, principles, and superintendents, and similar positions in the helping professions. Assignments are individualized.
An intensive study of factors involved in the administration and supervision of a school. Topics A&S 492 considered include the administration and supervision of student personnel, faculty, the instructional program, financial and physical resources, community reelations and other basic needs in administering and supervising schools. This course provides future administrators with the tools they need to critically examine A&S 493 demographic, financial, personnel and testing data and to use the insights gained in making well informed administrative decisions. Major consideration will be given to problems relating to the preparing of a school budget, A&S 494 procuring revenue, financial accounting, capital outlays, insurance on property, taking of inventory, and the social and political implications of how schools are financed.
Authority, powers and liability of school personnel; rights and status of students; character of A&S 495 districts and school board control of curriculum, school property, finances. Special emphasis on recent state and federal court decisions as they affect Illinois and neighboring states. This course will examine the formation of educational partnerships within the home, school, community for the general purpose of school improvement and more specifically to affect the improvement of student achievement within the context of school reform. Students will have the opportunity to critically examine their individual and collective roles as administrators and A&S 496 educators in the school reform movement and be reflective regarding actions taken and planned.
Among the issues to be discussed and integrated into the administrative role are how groups form, school leadership, group relations, power relationships, communications/public relations, collaborations, shared decision making, needs identification, resource identification and individual and collective action. Supervision viewed from a human resources perspective, dealing with motivation, responsibility A&S 498 and successes at work as a means to intrinsic satisfaction. A&S 499 Develops competencies in a system of person-to-person supervision that will give supervisors reasonable hope of accomplishing significant improvements in the personnel performance. A survey of the history of Catholic K-12 education in the United States and the foundational documents of Catholic Education.
Students will examine the history and A&S 570 philosophical/theological foundation of Catholic Schools in the United States and will be asked to reflect on the nature and mission of Catholic education in the multicultural, multiethnic milieu of Twenty-first Century America. Students will be asked to conceptualize leadership from the Transformational and Servant Leadership perspectives. Using these principles, students will examine the spirituality if Catholic A&S 571 School leadership, and its implications for them in their role as ministers and coordinators of ministries in the school setting. Students will then examine the unique administrative and managerial factors that impact Catholic schools from a leadership framework that is imbued with the spirituality of Servant Leadership.
Students will develop and refine skills in word processing, record keeping, presentation software, budget management and educational management. They will also discuss the role of technology A&S 586 for classroom instruction, the expansion of a school's research capacity through technology and develop a framework for the evaluation of these uses of technology. (Open to both Masters and Doctoral students) A development approach used in combining theory, research, and applications for improving interpersonal effectiveness and to develop problem-solving capacity of the organization. The A&S 590 course is about change theory, people in organizations and the achievement of individual and organizational goals.
A&S 591 Research seminar in educational leadership The practicum provides opportunities for advanced students in administration and supervision to participate in and complete a research project in selected systems on a full-time or part-time A&S 593 basis. The experiences are intended to provide, under professional direction and supervision for (1) study for major factions, policies, and problems for administration and supervision, and (2) intensive study of certain critical administrative and supervisory practices. PREREQUISITE(S): Advanced standing in administration and supervision and permission of faculty advisor. The internship provides supervised experiences in selected organizations on a full-time or part- time basis.
The student intern is cooperatively assigned to an organization under the immediate supervision of organizational personnel. The experiences provided are designed to enrich the A&S 594 student's theoretical background with practical opportunities of participating in (1) overall contact with personnel and with the major functions and problems of certain critical administrative and/or supervisory activities, and (2) a detailed study and analysis of a particular administrative and/or supervisory function or activity. PREREQUISITE(S): Advanced standing in administration and supervision and permission of faculty advisor. Topics of particular interest and concern to administrators and supervisors will be presented in a A&S 595 high-involvement seminar format.
Primary reliance will be on written materials; however, audio- visual and role-playing mechanisms may also be used. Participation in workshops is limited to advance students of administration and supervison. PREREQUISiTE(S): Consent of instructor. Theory, practice and relevant research in modern personnel administration.
Recruitment, staff- development, interviewing, collective bargaining, conflict resolution and employee evaluation A&S 596 are emphasized. Human resource administration, induction programs, and in-service opportunities are touched upon. Policy development in education as a political process; community power, state and national A&S 597 politics in educational decision-making and the role of leadership and pressure groups in the shaping of educational policy at local, state and national levels. A&S 598 PREREQUISITE(S): Permission of instructor, program chair and associate dean.
A student writing a thesis registers for this course for four quarter hours of credit. When the thesis research and the writing of the thesis itself are prolonged beyond the usual time, the A&S 599 program advisor may require the student to register for additional credit. PREREQUISITE(S): SCG 410 and approved thesis proposal. (0 credit) This registration is required of all students who are not enrolled in a course but are A&S 600 completing course requirements and/or research.
It provides access to University facilities. This paper will give students the opportunity to develop and demonstrate written competence in a subfield of their disciplines and to enhance life-long learning. Specifically, they will broaden A&S 606 their knowledge base and inform themselves about a topic, issue, theory, etc., reviewing and synthesizing existing literature. To do so, students will need a variety of bibliographic skills including searching databases.
In other words, student will need to be able to ask and answer such question as "What is know about? What are major issues and themes?" Students will observe and/or participate in the reciprocal interaction of theory and practice, by investigating actual practice in the field as it relates to theory. This might take the form of A&S 607 investigating how a particular theory is applied in the field, developing a practical application of a theory, or, conversely, developing/refining a theory based on investigations made in the field. In other words, as graduates encounter new theories and practices they wll need to be able to investigate and evaluate them, asking and answering questions about "how theories work." Students who have completed the majority of the program will engage in an analysis of an urban school. Students will be given demographic, financial and testing data; a narrative of the school's history and recent past; photographs of the setting, and other pertinent data and artifacts.
Using A&S 608 these artifacts, students will be asked to design their first year agenda as the chief administrator in the building. Using the ISLLC standards as a guideline, students will create a portfolio that clearly outlines, schedules, professional development plans, budgets, enrollment projections, and so forth. A&S 640 Legal aspects of special education for classroom teachers A&S 645 The administration and operation of special education Major consideration will be given to problems relating to the preparation of a school budget, A&S 694 procuring revenue, financial accounting, capital outlays, insurance on property, taking of inventory, and the social, political, and ethical implications of how schools are financed. Authority, powers and liability of school personnel; rights and status of students; character of A&S 695 districts and school board control of curriculum, school property, finances.
Special emphasis on recent state and federal court decisions as they affect Illinois and neighboring states. This registration is required of all doctoral students who are not enrolled in a A&S 700 doctoral course, but are completing course requirements and/or dissertation research. It provides access to University facilities. This registration indicates that a student has successfully completed the candidacy A&S 706 paper as specified in the Doctoral Student Handbook.
This course examines leadership theories from various social, psychological and philosophical perspectives both historical and contemporary. The student will also be called upon to reflect A&S 801 upon contemporary practice in K -16 educational leadership settings and evaluate the efficacy of the theoretical frameworks in light of practice. The development of school programs, based on current research and school laws and regulations, will be explored. The focus will be on the core curriculum, Education and Secondary A&S 803 Education Act (ESEA), State Chapter I, Bilingual and Special Education mandates and opportunities as well as on other discretionary school programs.
Responsibilities in relation to plant operation and management, staffing formulas for all staff, developing job descriptions, recuitment, and staff selection and evaluation are included. Students will focus on defining responsibilities and selecting those processes and instruments, A&S 811 qualitative as well as quantitative, that best assess staff performance and provide direction for elevating student achievement. Students will examine inclusive models for consensus building among school/community members that engage membership in processes and decision making through data collection, A&S 823 self-analysis, mission/vision development, goal setting and program planning, implementation and evaluation that leads to school and community improvement. Attention will be given to establishing linkages with local municipal, state, and federal resources, business and industrial recources, community services, and other community resources.
Students will examine stages and models of decision making and their appropriate use in an educational context that lead to effective problem solving through collaboration, group dialogue A&S 833 and negotiations, mediation, and other intervention strategies for resolving diverse needs and conflicts. Students will work collaboratively to develop processes and strategies that can be used to resolve conflicts and reduce tensions, through group processes and communications techniques for improving the quality of decision making and professional relationships with school staff, central office administrators and school board members.
