Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership

Annual Doctoral Symposium

2023 Doctoral Symposium is Thursday, November 9, and Friday, November 10
Oct 31, 2023

The Reich College of Education’s (RCOE) Doctoral Program in Education Leadership will host the 2023 Doctoral Symposium online on Thursday,...

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Doctoral Candidate Selected For Flood Fellowship
Oct 24, 2023

Doctoral candidate Kesha Branch Hood was selected for the Flood Center Educational Equity Fellowship. This fellowship is specifically geared to recrui...

Rebecca Burry and Kimberly Nava Eggett

Alumni Update: Dr. Rebecca Burry ’14 ’22 and Dr. Kimberly Nava Eggett ’12 ’22
Jun 26, 2023

In the spring semester of 2022, Dr. Rebecca Burry and Dr. Kimberly Nava Eggett became the first doctoral candidates to complete a co-dissertation enti...

Tim Scapin in front of London Bridge

Augmented Reality Research Becomes Reality for Doctoral Student Scapin
Jun 7, 2023

Over the last four years Tim Scapin, a graduate of the Master of Arts in media, technology, and learning design program and current doctoral student, ...

Students visit the state capitol

Seeing Policy in Action: Field Trip to the State Capitol
May 30, 2023

Field trips to the capitol are not just for the K-12 students. As part of Dr. Jason Lynch’s HE 6340 Policy Analysis in Higher Education course this ...

Leslie Alexander

Alumna Dr. Leslie Alexander ’11 ’18 Named New Watauga County Schools Superintendent
May 16, 2023

The Watauga County Board of Education named Appalachian State University alumna Dr. Leslie Alexander ’11 ’18 as the new superintendent of Watauga ...

Alecia Jackson

Dr. Alecia Jackson Inducted Into the Academy of Outstanding Mentors
May 8, 2023

Dr. Alecia Jackson, professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies, was inducted into the Cratis D. Williams Graduate School’s Ac...

Scotty Huger, on a visit with his class, tries out a typewriter for the first time.

Typewriter Fest sparks heightened creativity
May 2, 2023

Vanessa Barlow, a sophomore English secondary education major, decided a few weeks ago to write a “sappy love letter,” to her boyfriend, but was u...