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The Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Administration degree program is an interdisciplinary degree leading to multiple career paths and is especially designed for educators, business executives, organizational leaders and administrators, city and county government managers, college faculty and staff, and other non-profit personnel.

The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Organizational Change and Administration at California Baptist University is designed to prepares students to work in a wide variety of administrative and executive roles. The Ed.D. program includes intensive study and practice of the necessary theories, principles, and skills for transforming organizations to achieve optimal growth. This interdisciplinary terminal degree allows emerging organizational administrators and leaders to focus their learning and research on K-12 education, higher education, private/corporate sectors, or public/non-profit sectors. The fully online Ed.D. has no residency requirements and has a remote comprehensive experience and dissertation defense

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Leveraging Culture and Diversity

Evidence-Based Decision Making and Innovation

Comprehensive Experience

This course prepares administrators for gaining insight into identifying the barriers that exist within organizations that mitigate opportunities for diversity and inclusion. Students will survey the effects of culture on administrative strategies and actions, and policies and procedures. They will analyze strategies for leveraging diversity to promote greater organizational inclusivity and productivity. Ethical considerations and motivation for diversity are emphasized.

This course assesses the student's knowledge of the theoretical foundations in organizational administration. Students will identify and answer research questions by integrating and synthesizing knowledge from a broad range of content areas covered in the first two years of study.

Students will examine techniques and strategies that promote strategic data-driven decision making for effective administration and fostering innovative behaviors. Models for collecting, analyzing, and using organizational data effectively will be evaluated, and tactics for enhancing both collective and individualistic decision-making will be examined.

I have been a leader in higher education for 20-years, which includes serving as Academic Dean and Associate Vice President of Academics, and over 30-years of leadership and practitioner experience in the commercial diving industry, elementary education as a professional educator, and technology coordinator and master teacher.

Dirk Davis, Ed.D.

I have served in a variety of K-12 public education leadership positions and have taught at the university level since 2004. I firmly believe leadership and collaboration skills can be learned, and the value of relationships in the success of organizations remains central in my work as a program director, professor and coach. Ethical, visionary leadership are needed to confront the complex and multi-dimensional challenges ahead of us, and this is the core of the Ed.D. program

Greg Bowden, Ed.D.

I have 9-years of higher education experience as an associate professor, program director, department chair and curriculum course developer for online education in educational leadership, research methods, curriculum and instruction and early childhood education. In addition to holding my Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy, I am certified in K-12 Administration, K-8 Teacher Education, P-3 Early Childhood Education and 4-12 English. I have 20-years’ experience as a k-12 practitioner, specifically as a teacher, curriculum trainer, and in school leadership and administration.

Shari Farris, Ed.D.

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