Learning Outcomes

The students in the Community College Leadership Program must show proficiency in the following roles as defined in terms of learning outcomes. All doctoral programs in the College of Education at Oregon State University share the first six learning outcomes; the last two are unique to the Community College Leadership Program:

1. Lifelong Learner
• Transcend personal belief systems, seeking and understanding multiple and diverse perspectives; link personal belief systems to scholarly literature.
• Collaborate and establish a supporting professional network.
• Take care of personal health (physical, emotional) in order to be effective in professional roles.
2. Scholar/Researcher
• Pose and systematically examine critical issues facing society and identify an area of scholarship.
• Critically analyze and interpret studies from a variety of research perspectives.
• Design, conduct, and report scholarly work.
3. Instructor/Instructional Leader
• Teach/Lead adults in learning experiences that are consistent with an articulated theoretical framework that incorporates a social justice perspective.
• Design academic programs and course for adult learners from an articulated theoretical framework that incorporates a social justice perspective.
• Integrate research with teaching and service.
• Participate as a faculty leader in an academic unit in an interdisciplinary environment.
4. Professional/Organizational Leader
• Think systematically about organizational cultures, structures, and functions.
• Incorporates legal issues and professional ethics into professional decision making processes; separate personal values from professional decision making responsibilities.
• Advocate for change from a theoretical perspective that incorporates a social justice perspective.
• Provide leadership that is consistent with articulated professional principles.
• Integrate with academic and nonacademic communities.
• Identify educational needs, develop resources, conduct research, mange projects, evaluate and disseminate results.
• Influence, develop, and implement educational policy.
• Influence programs and policies of professional groups.
5. Supervisor/Staff Developer
• Create an organizational environment that supports continuous learning.
• Supervise interns and professional staff from a theoretical model that incorporates a social justice perspective.
6. User of Technologies
• Use current technologies to increase effectiveness of instruction and scholarly activities.
7. Community College Leader
• Articulate and promote the unique mission of the community college.
• Establish college policies and procedures that protect faulty, staff, and student’s rights and responsibilities.
• Analyze college structure, processes, and policies for their impact on students and college student services.
• Collaborate with community agencies, business and industry, and other schools and colleges involved in the education of adult learners.
• Analyze policy related to workforce education and training.
• Lead from a systems perspective that includes local, state, national, and international perspectives.
• Promote and demonstrate the value of diversity and multiculturalism.
8. Community College Administrator/Manager
• Provide competent oversight to student services programs in the community college.
• Develop and effectively mange college facilities, fiscal resources, and human resources.
• Be accountable for the protection of the institutions under the law.
• Assess stages of conflict development among faculty, staff and/or students; conduct simple conflict interventions; determine when expert, external intervention is needed.

These learning outcomes can be met through professional work experience, formal educational study, or other learning experiences. Evidence of achieving these outcomes is provided by students through successful completion of a program of study, preparation of a professional portfolio, completion of an oral preliminary examination, and production and defense of a dissertation.