Education, (Ph.D), Program Information

Faculty

Department Chair

Frim Ampaw, EdD

Professor

315 Banneker

TEL:  (443) 885-3780

E-mail:  frimpomaa.ampaw@morgan.edu

Program Faculty

Carolyn Anderson, EdD

Banneker Hall 202B

Tel:   (443) 885-4291

E-mail:  carolyn.anderson@morgan.edu

Rhonda E. Baylor, PhD

Banneker Hall 3150

Tel:  (443) 885-3384

E-mail:  rhonda.baylor@morgan.edu

Krishna Bista, EdD

Banneker Hall 200A

Tel:  (443) 885-4506

E-mail:  krishna.bista@morgan.edu

Shondricka Burrell, PhD

Banneker Hall 101B

Tel:  (443) 885-3419

E-mail:  shondricka.burrell@morgan.edu

Virginia Byrne, PhD

Banneker Hall 315P

Tel:  (443) 885-3382

E-mail:  virginia.byrne@morgan.edu

Vanessa Dodo Seriki, PhD

Banneker Hall 301H

Tel:  (443) 885-1972

E-mail:  vanessa.dodoseriki@morgan.edu

Myrtle B. Dorsey, PhD

Banneker Hall 200F

Tel:  (443) 885-4423

E-mail:  myrtle.dorsey@morgan.edu

Roni Ellington, PhD

Banneker Hall 315F

Tel:  (443) 885-3084

E-mail: roni.ellington@morgan.edu

Uttam Gaulee, PhD

Banneker Hall 200H

Tel:  (443) 885-4546

E-mail:  uttam.gaulee@morgan.edu

Niah Grimes, PhD

Banneker Hall 315N

Tel:  (443) 885-3452

E-mail:  niah.grimes@morgan.edu

Jordan Harper, PhD

Banneker Hall 315C

Tel:  (443) 885-4007

E-mail:  jordan.harper@morgan.edu

Christine Harrington, PhD

Banneker Hall 200

Tel:  (443) 885-4498

E-mail:  christine.harrington@morgan.edu

Wilbur Hicks, JD

Banneker Hall 200C

Tel:  (443) 885-4497

E-mail:  wilbur.hicks@morgan.edu

Whitney Johnson, PhD

Banneker Hall 315G

Tel:  (443) 885-3102

E-mail:  whitney.johnson@morgan.edu

Delois Maxwell, PhD

Banneker Hall 315D

Tel:  (443) 885-5404

E-mail:  delois.maxwell@morgan.edu

Kimberly McManus, EdD

Banneker Hall 110

Tel:  (443) 885-4496

E-mail:  kimberly.mcmanus@morgan.edu

Steve Mobley Jr., PhD

Banneker Hall 315H

Tel:  (443) 885-3292

E-mail:  steve.mobley@morgan.edu

C. Sean Robinson, PhD

Banneker Hall 310A

Tel:  (443) 885-4751

E-mail:  sean.robinson@morgan.edu

Camika Royal, Ph.D.

315 Banneker Building

Tel: (443) 885-5404; Fax: (443) 885-8238

E-Mail: camika.royal@morgan.edu

Gretchen Rudham, EdD

Banneker Hall 315B

Tel:  (443) 885-1984

E-mail:  gretchen.rudham@morgan.edu

Dia Sekayi, PhD

Bannker Hall 315E

Tel:  (443) 885-4384

E-mail:  dia.sekayi@morgan.edu

Robin Spaid, EdD

Banneker Hall 200D

Tel:  (443) 885-1903

E-mail:  robin.spaid@morgan.edu

Michael Sparrow, EdD

Banneker Hall

Tel:  (443) 885-1989

E-mail:  michael.sparrow@morgan.edu

Benjamin Welsh, PhD

Banneker Hall 315A

Tel:  (443) 885-3748

E-mail:  benjamin.welsh@morgan.edu

Concentrations

Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Community College Leadership

Comparative and International Education

Higher Education Leadership

Mathematics Education

Science Education

Urban Educational Leadership

Program Description

The  Ph.D. in Education will equip students to systematically examine educational inequities and conduct research to address these issues throughout all aspects of education. The Ph.D. program will have the following concentrations: Assessment, Evaluation, and Research, Community College Leadership, Comparative and International Education, Higher Education, Mathematics Education, Science Education, and Urban Educational Leadership

The Ph.D. in Education offers both high residency and low residency options.  High residency students will take courses on-campus, hy-flex, and remote synchronous modalities.  Students in the high residency option should be able to come to campus for evening courses.  Low residency students will take remote synchronous courses scheduled in the evenings and will be required to come to Baltimore for an in-person retreat during the Fall and Spring semesters.

Program Objectives

The educational objectives for the Ph.D. in Education are the following:

• To advance research on inequity issues within the full P-20 educational pipeline.
• To prepare students to use original and existing research to transform educational practice.
• To equip future educational researchers with innovative teaching experience and cutting-edge trans-disciplinary research experience to become attractive job candidates on the academic market.
• To prepare candidates to create a collaborative learning community that integrates all the various educational contexts.
• To prepare candidates to be critical thinkers who focus on leadership, policy, ethics, and social justice.

General Requirements

Candidates for the Ph.D. in Education degree must complete a minimum of 54 academic credit hours, pass the comprehensive exam, and submit and successfully defend a research-based dissertation.

“C” Grade Policy

All students are required to pass each course with a grade of “B” or better.  Courses for which a student has earned a “C” must be retaken.  A student will not be allowed to take the comprehensive exams or attain candidacy until such courses have been retaken and a grade of “B” or better has been earned.

Admission

To be eligible for admission to the Ph.D. in Education, an applicant must submit an application for admission to the School of Graduate Studies.  Students must select their area of concentration at the time of application.

The following required documents must be submitted as part of the application:

• Complete official academic transcripts documenting the possession of an earned Master’s degree from a regionally-accredited institution (or equivalent);
• Evidence f scholastic ability as demonstrated by achieving a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average (GPA) in all graduate study, with a preferred graduate GPA of 3.5;
• An autobiographical statement discussing the candidates personal academic and professional plans, research interests and reasons for selecting the Ph.D. in Education at Morgan State University;
• A minimum of two (2) written professional recommendations in support of the application (at least one of which should be from a person with a doctorate who can attest to the applicant’s capacity for successful study at the doctoral level);
• A writing sample or original research paper from their prior graduate program.
• Students for whom instruction has not been in English, must submit results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

Selected applicants will participate in an interview process by the Doctoral Admissions Committee.

Meeting the minimum eligibility requirements and submitting all the required documents does not guarantee that an offer of admission will be made to the applicant.  The decision of the Doctoral Admissions Committee involves a review and analysis of all the elements of the application as well as the availability of positions in the program.  The committee then recommends to the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies that an offer of admission should be made based on that review.

Candidacy

Students achieve candidacy by successfully passing the qualifying examination and completing all their coursework except ASLP 997/998.  If not taking a full-time load and during the semester in which students plan to take their qualifying exam, just prior to achieving candidacy, students may enroll in  ASLP 993  to achieve full-time status.

Dissertation Completion

Once a student attains candidacy, they must maintain status as a matriculated full-time student by enrolling in ASLP 997 every Fall and Spring semester until graduation.

Students must defend their dissertation proposal within tow years of attaining doctoral candidacy.

The Ph.D. dissertation must demonstrate conclusively the ability of the student to conceive, design, conduct, and interpret independent, original, and creative research.  It must attempt to describe significant original contributions to the advancement of knowledge and must demonstrate the student’s ability to organize, analyze and interpret data.  Students may write a traditional five-chapter dissertation or three empirical journal-ready articles for their dissertation.

Responsibility for writing and editing of the dissertation rests with the student, under the guidance of the chair of the student’s supervisory committee.  General guidelines for formatting and submitting dissertations are detailed in the School of Graduate Studies, Handbook for Dissertations and Theses, which may be downloaded from the School of Graduate Studies’ website.  Students must also have a working knowledge of the most recent version of the APA publication style manual.  The final defense of the dissertation research to the supervisory committee.  The presentation must be of the highest academic quality.  It is the responsibility of the chair of the supervisory committee to submit a letter to the department chair and the School of Graduate Studies affirming the successful defense of the dissertation, including a completed, and up-to-date plan of study.  Finally, the student must complete the administrative process for proper submission of the dissertation to the Graduate School.

Additional Requirements

First Year Review

Ph.D. students are required to complete the Preliminary Progress Assessment (PPA) upon completion of their first year in the doctoral program. The PPA will be scheduled annually in August as students begin their second year of doctoral work.  Students will be asked to submit a 10-15 page sample of their written work (e.g., revised class paper, research proposal, conference paper, manuscript for publication) and a 1-2 page reflection of their first year in the program.  The committee will also review students’ first-year transcripts and faculty evaluations to evaluate the student’s progress in the program.

Program of Study (54 credits)

All students in the program will be expected to complete academic core and research courses of 27 credits and concentration courses of 27 credits.

Suggested Curriculum Sequence

Education, (Ph.D), Curriculum Sequence