Professor Michael L. Skolnik
William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership

   

A big, perhaps the biggest, part of my "teaching" is supervision of doctoral students who are working on their dissertations. I am delighted to note that students whom I have supervised recently have won three national and/or international dissertation awards. I am equally proud of the other excellent dissertations which I have had the privilege of supervising which may not have fit the particular criteria for various awards.

The graduate courses which I have taught the past seven years are:

TPS1803 Recurring Issues in Higher Education
TPS1805 The Community College
TPS1819 Governance in Higher Education

TPS1821

Diversity and Differentiation in Postsecondary Education
TPS3801 Research Methods in Higher Education

 

 

 

 

 

Increasingly my teaching and supervision is being focused within the doctorate in community college leadership for which I am the Director. The formal title for this program is The Doctor of Education in Higher Education for Community College Leaders. This is a nontraditional program designed to meet the needs of practicing educators in community colleges and related organizations. The required residence for this program consists of intensive sessions in two consecutive summers. There are also weekend and individualized courses during the fall and winter. The first cohort began in January, 1999. By April, 2003, four members of Cohort I had obtained their doctorate. Cohort II began in July, 2002. It has not yet been determined when the next cohort will be started. A glimpse into the experience of the first two cohorts can be found on the Cohortian web page.

Dissertations that I have supervised most recently:

Mary Victoria Greenslade, Faculty Practice as Scholarship in University Schools of Nursing, July, 2003.

Stanley L. Braithwaite, The Role of the Board of Governors in the Presidential Transition Process at Ontario's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, June, 2003.

Cherylyn Cameron, The Lived Experience of Transfer Students in a Collaborative Baccalaureate Nursing Programs, April, 2003.

Aiping Zhan, A Study of Recent Developments in Institutional Planning in Chinese Universities: Three Case Studies, July, 2002.

Laureen Hayes, An Analysis of Marketing Strategies for the Recruitment of Students into Baccalaureate Nursing Programs in Ontario, September, 2002.

Renate Krakauer, A Learning College for Health Care: The Applicability of Learning-Centered Education to The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, January, 2001.

Adrienne Galway, Going Global: Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, International Student Recruitment, and the Export of Education, June, 2000.

Richard Malinski, An Examination of the Experiences that Teachers have in the Process of Incorporating Computer Mediated Instruction Techniques into their Courses, November, 1999.

Marilyn Thompson, A Degree of Difference: Educational Restructuring and the Perspectives of Faculty in Newfoundland Schools of Nursing, October, 1999.

Elizabeth Pearce, King's College: Purpose and Accountability in Higher Education - the Dilemma of King's College, 1827-1853, June, 1999.

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