Prospective Students
The Masters of Arts in Education with a Concentration in Educational Leadership and a Specialization in Student Affairs in Postsecondary Education curriculum at San Diego State University
is designed for practitioners. The program emphasizes student learning centeredness, integration of the curricular and co- curricular learning paradigms, and analysis, planning, and responsible practice of leaders in a socially just and global environment.
The program utilizes leadership theories to educate students in a manner that will allow them to become savvy consumers of research in order to apply ethical evidence-based decision making to promote access, equity, and quality student development and learning.
Through students' coursework and interactions with professional staff and faculty, as well as their peers, students will achieve the following learning outcomes in this program. Students will be able to:
- Articulate the theoretical foundation of the student affairs/services profession and its research
- Identify integration of student developmental epistemologies with student learning epistemologies and opportunities to apply them
- Identify opportunities for and apply basic concepts of fund-raising via external grants and contracts and/or donor relations
- Evaluate student inputs and propose strategies for engagement and retention
- Identify opportunities for and apply basic concepts of integrative learning and engagement
- Identify and strategically work with varying leadership styles that are prevalent within a postsecondary context
- Identify one’s own leadership strengths and identify areas in need of further development
- Identify ethical dilemmas in postsecondary leadership and propose multiple solutions
- Engage in meaningful outcomes-based assessment of planned integrated student learning and development
- Articulate agency and opportunities to express social justice and universal design in their environment
- Apply research to practice, particularly in their area of specialization and focus
- Reflect on their day-to-day learning and apply lessons learned in order to enhance their programs and promote social justice and civic responsibility
- Articulate international postsecondary issues and identify means in which to engage the international community in their own institution
- Communicate ideas and concepts effectively in both the written and spoken word
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