The PhD program in Education and Leadership (PhDEL) is Pacific University’s first inter-professional graduate program, offering a joint-degree creatively designed by the College of Education and the College of Health Professions for the 21st century working professional. With a strong emphasis on evidence-based practice, this program explores themes and issues about the meaning of leadership and learning, and strategies to lead in a time of dynamic global change.
The curriculum encourages students to explore the role of technology in forming and supporting leaders and creating new distributed communities where leaders can gather and learn from each other across temporal and geographic environments.
The program has a contemporary approach to building an inter-professional virtual community of inquiry, offering students a collaborative, applied design to research, which has demonstrated success among adult learners who bring expertise from the field.
This scholarship-based program will produce leaders in their respective fields who are academically prepared to make future innovative contributions to the body of knowledge and pedagogy to influence practice and effect change within their own settings. Courses are offered online two nights weekly over fall, spring, and summer.
Students fulfill the low residency program requirement by coming to campus for one week each January to attend a formative applied, evidence-based research conference, which provides a rich opportunity to collaborate, showcase their current research, and learn about innovative inter-professional practices across diverse contexts.
Explore the role of technology in forming and supporting leaders, and engaging in new distributed community of inquiry where leaders, scholars, and educators gather and learn from each other across temporal and geographic environments. Students participate in weekly online synchronous sessions.
My name is Leigh G. Schaid, and I am an assistant professor and pediatric audiologist at Pacific University’s School of Audiology. Prior to joining Pacific in 2014, I worked as a research audiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. I hold a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and my doctor of audiology degree from Indiana […]
When I tell people I’m an audiologist, the typical response is, “What?” Sometimes people are joking, but often times people don’t know what audiologists do and the reasons why. I’m here to change that. To improve the quality of life for those Veterans, Service members, and patients with hearing loss, I serve as an audiologist, researcher, […]
Tatiana is an instructional designer who works with CETCI – Center for Educational Technology & Curricular Innovation at Pacific University.
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP), 2013 – 2014. College of Psychiatric and Neurological Pharmacists Therapeutic Case Award, Eyes playing tricks: A possible case of Charles Bonnet Syndrome. College of Psychiatric and Neurological Pharmacists, Phoenix, AZ. 2014 Presenter; Fuentes DG, El-Ibiary S, Wisneski S, McFadden DF. Resources used by faculty members to […]
Dr. Krusen’s research interests revolve around scholarship of teaching and learning including pedagogy, curriculum design, distance education, and mentoring mid-level practitioner educators. She is refining an assessment instrument within the theoretical frame of reference Occupational Adaptation. She also designs, implements, and analyses unique learning opportunities through mixed-methods, including through learning analytics. Dr. Krusen lives in […]
Hello ! My name is Tina Foss and I am currently serving as the Clinical Operations Director for the Department of Anesthesiology at OHSU. Prior to my career with OHSU, I was the Executive Manager for a private medical practice as well as an active Paramedic. I accidentally discovered my love for teaching and am […]
Greetings! My name is Ryan Aiello (@ryanaiello) and I am the Dean of Student Development at Portland Community College (PCC), Rock Creek and a past Doctoral student in Pacific University’s Education & Leadership program. I have spent my entire professional career in Student Affairs, most recently at Portland Community College, but also some seasons at […]
Welcome to Pacific! I am an Associate Professor at Pacific University and Coordinator of the Special Education Teacher Preparation program in Eugene. My doctorate was from Portland State University in Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction. The focus of my scholarship and research has been on the inclusion of students with disabilities, collaboration between general and […]
I have worked at Pacific University’s Forest Grove campus as the School & Community Partnership Coordinator for the School of Learning & Teaching since March 2016. My current role includes coordinating placements and placement processes for teacher candidates and practicum teachers, student teacher supervision, and fostering partnerships with K-12 schools and community organizations. I earned dual […]
Welcome! My name is Karolyn Ismay and I work at Pacific University’s Forest Grove campus as an Area Coordinator and Deputy Title IX Coordinator in the departments of Residence Life and Student Conduct in the Division of Student Affairs. I have been working in Student Affairs for 8 years in various departments including Academic Advising […]
