SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Faculty Recruitment | |
| Recruit doctoral faculty to fill vacant positions. Associated Goals: Faculty Excellence |
| Indicator | Faculty Recruitment Data from faculty searches and new faculty hired. |
| Criteria | Additional Faculty By fall 2007 at least one new faculty member will be hired with qualifications to teach in the doctoral program. |
| Finding | New Faculty A very qualified faculty member was hired but resigned in August, before relocating to SHSU. |
| Action | Faculty Recruitment Faculty have initiated an aggressive search to find a qualified doctoral faculty member. |
| Objective | Faculty Scholarly Activity | |
| Doctoral faculty members will increase their research and publications and involve doctoral students when possible. Associated Goals: Faculty Excellence |
| Indicator | Faculty Scholarship Evidence of submission and publication of articles. Evidence of grant application submissions. |
| Criteria | Faculty Publications One publication per academic year for faculty members teaching in the doctoral program. |
| Finding | Faculty Publications Vitae indicate that most faculty members working with doctoral students did submit articles and most were published. |
| Action | Faculty Scholarship Faculty will continue to work to increase publications and grants submissions. Collaboration with the doctoral students will facilitate this process. |
| Objective | Student Scholarly Activity | |
| Students will present at professional conferences and submit articles for publication in cooperation with doctoral faculty members. Associated Goals: Quality And Effectiveness |
| Indicator | Student Scholarship Evidence of submission of articles for publication. Conference programs indicating presentation or program submission forms. |
| Criteria | Conferences, Collaboration & Paper Submissions Increase the number of submissions for conference presentations from zero to 2; collaboration with students and faculty and increase student publication submissions from 0 to 2. |
| Finding | Conference Programs, Collaboration and Paper Subm Conference programs indicate that four presentations were given at the local, regional or national level by students enrolled in cohort one. One collaborative paper was written with 2 others under review. One single authored student paper was published. |
| Action | Faculty-Student Collaboration Faculty members are listed as co-presenters or as co-authors on the above indicators. Other faculty members have indicated through focus group discussions that they are working with students on research and writing projects |
| Objective | Student Success | |
| Students in the RDG EdD program will progress toward completing the program. Associated Goals: Quality And Effectiveness |
| Indicator | Student Success Student and faculty feedback on courses. |
| Criteria | Student and Faculty Feedback Students and faculty will provide feedback via course evaluations and focus group discussions. |
| Finding | Student & Faculty Feedback Focus groups of students and faculty provided feedback on the courses offered to date. |
| Action | Sequence of Courses As a result of this feedback, we revised the sequence of courses for future doctoral cohorts. We reconfigured the residency requirement for this cohort and future cohorts to allow them choices in how quickly they completed course work in the program. |