Title 53B State System Of Higher Education Chapter 18 Utah State University Section 901 Distance Education Doctorate Program.
53B-18-901.Distance Education Doctorate Program.
(1) The Legislature finds that:
(a) many Utah public education administrators are nearing the end of their careers and
will retire early in the 21st Century;
(b) Utah public schools have many mid-career faculty that could become the next wave
of administrators if they were prepared with a doctorate in education degree that emphasized
curriculum and instruction;
(c) each of Utah's community colleges have several faculty that need a terminal degree
and further knowledge in curriculum development and state-of-the-art instructional methodology,
and these individuals, being mid-career, find it difficult to relocate to a college campus for a
traditional program; and
(d) the state and its students will be better served if faculty and administrators are more
knowledgeable about the development of curriculum and the latest instructional methodology
based on documented research.
(2) Therefore, Utah State University shall establish a Distance Education Doctorate
Program to accommodate public education administrators and community college faculty and
administration.
(3) The program shall include the following components:
(a) the offering of courses for a doctorate degree in education over the UEN-EDNET
system established under Title 53B, Chapter 17, Part 1, Educational Telecommunications;
(b) structuring of the program to make it identical to a regular campus program in rigor
and course work; and
(c) providing a support system from at least the following five departments at the
university:
(i) Elementary Education;
(ii) Secondary Education;
(iii) Business Information Systems and Education;
(iv) Industrial Technology; and
(v) Agricultural Systems Technology and Education.
(4) The university shall augment the program with off-campus summer courses, with
those courses eventually being offered over the UEN-EDNET system.
(5) The Legislature shall provide an annual appropriation to fund the program established
under this part.
Enacted by Chapter 329, 2001 General Session
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