October 2014 CPED Convening

1. Candyce Reynolds, PhD
Ryan Palmer, EdD

2. • What are the common challenges you face in advising your doctoral
students?

3. • Background
• Long history of non and slow completers
• Lots of support at the beginning, little support at the end
• 3 years and done

4. Re-envisioned program
Post- masters
EdD not PhD
Split off
Cohort based
Commitment to high quality examinations of problem in practice

6. • MFA to to medical education course administrator to EdD in 3 years
• Award-winning, high-quality dissertation in practice
• With great prospects for the future
HOW????

8. • Post-secondary specialization faculty
•Worked with 4 advisees in the new cohort
•3 of the 4 students finished in 3 years

10. • Selection Process
• Picky
• Making sure this was the right program for student..Higher Education Leadership
• Disposition—commitment to success
• Matching faculty/student interests

11. • Early Contact and Availability of adviser
• You will be DONE in 3 years…

12. • Cohort structure
• Curriculum structure—focus on Problem on Practice
• Everything built to the dissertation

13. • Nag
• Be his biggest fan
• And then…

14. • Started working on Problem in Practice in first term
• Skill development

15. • Second year:
• Small cohort—my advisees
• Focus on writing proposal: Anatomy of Dissertation
• Fall, Chapter one
• Winter, Chapter two
• Spring, Chapter three (and you are ready to defend your proposal!)
• Third Year
• Friendly, supportive competition
• Cohort writing structure

16. • Made sure he was ready.

17. • I kept my eye on the prize- "Perfect is the enemy of done."

18. • Stayed focused and sought guidance
• Based dissertation on my work

19. • Facebook page
• Cohort—encouraging each other

20. • Good email communicator
• Not an perfectionist
• Ideas versus details

21. • Program Structures make a difference
• apples make applesauce
• cohort model
• skill and idea development embedded in curriculum

22. • Ongoing support of adviser
• Creating context for success
• Goals change over time but still a focus on finishing

23. • Tenacity trumps brillance
• Early and ongoing contact
• Build the relationship--working and personal
• Asked for what I needed

26. • How do you take these lessons learned and apply them to your
"problems in practice?
• What have you found that works in your advising relationships?

27.  Share your discussion