I will write this in the first person, because writing it in the third person just feels weird. In May I graduated from my Master’s program earning my Master’s of Science in Leadership Education! I finished the program in just under four years. I would have liked to do it in two, but having two kids during my time in the program slowed me down a bit. I figure, I get one extra year per child :-).
While in the program, I turned most of my focus toward improving my teaching abilities. I took classes in Leadership, Program Planning, Advanced Teaching, Educational Psychology and Statistics. I have no doubt that these courses helped me to improve my teaching abilities and they have given me the tools to continue to improve as I progress through my career.
In addition to the coursework, I also completed a thesis project as part of my program requirements. My thesis project was aimed at creating a historical review of the PGA Golf Management Program at UNL. The entire project was completed using publicly available data and serves as a timeline of the program up through the end of writing in April of 2017. My hope is that a future grad student will pick up the project in a decade or so and add the next ten years to it! For anyone interested in the final product of this project, visit this link (digital commons).
More details at: http://pgm.unl.edu/