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The Dissertation-in-Practice: A Dissertation Proposal Workshop to Support the Ed.D. Scholar-Practitioner
Friday, January 17, 2025, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
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CPED January Challenge Friday

The Dissertation-in-Practice: A Dissertation Proposal Workshop to Support the Ed.D. Scholar-Practitioner

Date: Friday, January 17, 2025

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET 

The Johnson & Wales University Educational Leadership Doctoral Program faculty collaboratively developed a one-day workshop designed to support dissertation proposal development for third year doctoral candidates. This Dissertation Proposal Workshop supported students as they refined their Problem of Practice, established scholarly grounding, and finalized research methodologies, building on the work they had accomplished in their prior two years of course work. The goal was to ensure that students had a working draft of their proposal and solid work plan toward degree completion. Faculty will share the workshop goals and program content, common challenges students face in the process, connections with other advising practices in the program, student feedback from the experience, and faculty thoughts about future improvements.

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Presenters:

Victor Mercurio 

Victor D. Mercurio is an associate professor at JWU’s Providence Campus. Prior to joining JWU, he served as superintendent of the East Greenwich Public Schools in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, for over ten years. In addition, he spent more than 30 years as an educator in the K-12 public system in Rhode Island. He has served as a middle/high school English/language arts teacher, high school assistant principal, high school principal, director of secondary programs, and superintendent of schools. In the past, he has served as chair for the Commission on Public Secondary Schools for the New England Association of Schools & Colleges, as president of the Rhode Island School Superintendents' Association, and as a board member of the New England School Development Council. He holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Boston College, an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Providence College, and a B.A. in English from Boston College.

Felice Billups

Felice Billups joined Johnson & Wales University after working for nearly 30 years as a college administrator, specializing in educational research, strategic planning, institutional accreditation and program review/assessment. Dr. Billups teaches courses in research methods, in organizational theory/behavior and in higher education as a field of practice. Her research focuses on collegiate culture/subcultures, qualitative and mixed methods research approaches, organizational effectiveness, and the doctoral student experience.

Stacey Kite

Stacey Kite has served as a professor of research in JWU’s Educational Leadership doctoral program since 2003. Earlier in her career, she served as the assistant dean of the College of Business, where she focused on satisfaction and loyalty research. Since joining the doctoral program, her research has focused on student satisfaction, service learning, assessment and cyberbullying/internet predators. Since 2007, the focus of Kite’s research has been in the area of cyberbullying and Internet risk. More recently, Professor Kite has extended the scope of her research to include social media and self-concept. She was the lead author of the first two versions of the “Survey of Internet Risk and Behavior,” which were used to measure middle school and high school students’ knowledge of the risks of inappropriate behavior, including risks involving cyberbullying and internet predators. More recently, she has broadened her focus to encompass college student and parent perceptions and knowledge of cyberbullying and internet risk.

Suzanne Buglione

Suzanne M. Buglione joined JWU’s Educational Leadership doctoral program in 2022, where she teaches Leadership in Higher Education and Resource Planning and Management in Higher Education. She previously served as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at Bristol Community College, where she advanced innovation and strategy including high impact practices, innovative curriculum and course delivery models, reduced equity gaps, and grew online learning during her tenure. Suzanne has worked with the MA Department of Higher Education to develop a Racial Equity Strategic Plan, delivered ongoing training for community college deans and campus leaders, and led proposal development and negotiations for union contracts. Buglione’s experience includes over two decades of college teaching in undergraduate and graduate education, developing First Year Experience programming, outcomes assessment, prior learning assessment, and a center for service-learning and civic engagement. She has presented widely and has authored articles, chapters and a monograph related to the community college, the scholarship of engagement, adult learning, identity development and social justice, faculty development, and equity-conscious leadership and organizational culture. 

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