MS in Higher Education Leadership

What We Need From You

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• 2.75 cumulative undergraduate GPA

Apply Now by Submitting the Following

• Completed application form
• $20 application fee
• Official transcripts* from all undergraduate institutions attended
• Official transcript indicating a bachelor’s degree** conferred from a regionally accredited institution of higher education with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.75
• For international students, please contact us at education@bakerU.edu

*How to send transcripts to Baker.
**If you already have a master’s degree, we require only your master’s transcripts.

SAHE 5100 Foundations of Higher Education – 3 hrs.
This course presents an overview of the United States higher education historical development with a contemporary context. The course also explores higher education missions and goals, multiple sectors, and current and future challenges.

SAHE 5110 Leading Through Change, Innovation, and Strategic Planning – 3 hrs.
This course examines institutional strategic planning and leadership models for organizing, staffing, and funding programs and services across the institution. Special attention is given to institutional culture adapting to change and innovation.

SAHE 5200 Student Development and Mental Health Theory and Practice – 3 hrs.
The course provides major student development theories with special attention given to student mental health. Course participants are supported in application of theories to practice.

SAHE 5210 The College Student, Enrollment Management, and Articulation – 3 hrs.
This course provides an overview of the college environment through the student paradigm. Enrollment management is defined with an emphasis on shifting student recruitment, retention, and articulation patterns.

SAHE 5220 Adaptive and Ethical Leadership – 3 hrs.
This course examines ethical frameworks, professional code of ethics, and ethical dilemmas and issues. Institutional leadership and strategic planning theories, including self and team building as well as conflict management, are the course’s key foci.

SAHE 5230 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice – 3 hrs.
This course presents the reframing of institutional multicultural dynamics. Course participants study the evolution of diversity, equity, and inclusion with a focus on the emerging implication for higher education. Diversity is framed institutionally, and how institutions educate diverse students, and create pluralistic communities.

SAHE 5240 Institutional Governance and Legal Issues, and Financial Management – 3 hrs.
The course provides an understanding of institutional leadership and governance roles and responsibilities. This course also emphasizes postsecondary institutional legal environments, legal processes and analyses, and application of education law. Additionally, this course introduces higher education institutional financial management related to revenue generation and student affordability.

SAHE 5250 Resource Development and External Relations – 3 hrs.
This course presents participants with an understanding of higher education financial resources, resource allocation, and budget management. The course emphasizes resource development and capacity building for stakeholder resources. This course also covers institutional advancement, including grant awards and other philanthropic initiatives. Further focus is devoted to external partnership building and community relations.

SAHE 5260 Assessment, Evaluation, and Technology – 3 hrs.
This course addresses program assessment and evaluation research with applications for student learning and general education outcomes. The course also offers an overview of relevant research methodologies. Candidates will apply these skills through an evaluation project plan. Additionally, this course addresses the connection between institutional technology resources and successful application.

SAHE 5310 Supervised Practice I – 3 hrs.
Supervised Practice I affords students with an opportunity to gain practical hands-on work experience under practitioner guidance. The field supervisor (host) provides on-site supervision, and the university instructor provides individual/group processing of the experience. The supervised practice will provide leadership in meeting the candidates’ self-educational needs, inspire self-confidence and self-reliance in dealing with students, and encourage a sense of responsibility to those whom he/she serves. Through the candidate’s portfolio and site supervisor evaluation, the university instructor determines the final course grade.

SAHE 5312 Supervised Practice II/Capstone – 6 hrs.
Supervised Practice II affords students with an opportunity to gain practical hands-on work experience under practitioner guidance. This course provides the opportunity to gain practical, in-depth experience in one institutional setting in multiple departments/divisions. The field supervisor (host) provides on-site supervision, and the university instructor provides individual/group processing of the experience. The supervised practice will provide leadership in meeting the student’s self-educational needs, inspire self-confidence and self-reliance in dealing with students, and encourage a sense of responsibility to those whom he/she serves. The student’s portfolio and leadership reflection, in addition to the site supervisor evaluation, contribute to the degree’s capstone experience and evaluation.

• Completion of the approved 36-credit-hour curriculum
• A minimum graduate grade point average of 3.0 with no more than one course completed with a grade of  C (D and F grades are not acceptable.)
• Completion of all course work within six years of the date of initial enrollment
• Submission of intent to graduate form six months before anticipated degree completion
• Payment all tuition and fees

Graduate courses taken before application to the Master of  Science in Higher Education Leadership program will be evaluated upon request at the time of application to the program. Up to 6 graduate semester credits may be considered for transfer into the program, provided these courses meet the following criteria:

1. Were taken for graduate credit from a regionally accredited institution of higher education
2. Received a grade of A or B
3. Are germane to the Master of Science in Higher Education Leadership curriculum
4. Were not used in acquiring another degree
5. Are not outdated in content (not older than six years)
6. Were not earned through correspondence study or independent study

Additionally, a course description from the catalog in effect at the time the course was taken must be on file, and an official transcript sent directly from the granting institution must be received. The total number of transfer credits may not exceed 6 credits.