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Updates and Musings – 3 weeks until my dissertation defense!
Apr 7th
I haven’t written a post in over 2 months — shame on me!!
I’ve often thought about writing a post but then was reminded of that looming deadline I have approaching. In less than 3 weeks I will defend my dissertation and if all goes well, I will become a Ph.D!! It has been a long road to get here but a wonderful one. I am so thankful for my amazing professors and mentors I have encountered along the way. All four years have led up to this moment — where I will defend my dissertation study and then be sent out into the world.
Words cannot express how grateful I am for this experience and how my PhD program has prepared me for my future endeavors. If you or anyone you know is interested in pursuing a Ph.D. with a specialization in nonprofit and philanthropic studies, please have them contact me. I’d be happy to share with them about my experience and the various programs that offer a similar type of experience! Each year that I’ve been in the program I’ve written about my experiences:
- Confessions of a first year doctoral student
- Confessions of a second year doctoral student
- Confessions of a Third Year Doctoral Student: Interpersonal Skills Matter the Most
- Confessions of a Forth Year Doctoral Student: Persistence Pays Off
A lot of exciting things have happened in the past couple of months including, my first peer reviewed article was published in the Journal of Public Affairs Education! It is titled: How We Could Measure Community Impact of Nonprofit Graduate Students’ Service-Learning Projects: Lessons from the Literature.
I love this work and I am really excited to see where it takes me next. I’ve been interviewing for faculty jobs in nonprofit-focused master’s degree programs — so we’ll see!!
On another note, I organized the social media team for the BenchMark 3.5 conference: The 4th Conference on Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies. BenchMark 3.5 was designed to consider the development of nonprofit/nongovernmental management, voluntarism, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy as a field of study in higher education. I am so thankful for the team, which was primarily made up of graduate students from DePaul University. The social media team wrote over 30 blog posts from the conference – I’m still putting them up on the conference blog! The social media team also took numerous videos throughout the conference, which are also posted on the blog, and they tweeted the conference using the hash tag #benchmark3 If you are interested in learning more about the field of nonprofit management and philanthropy as a field of study in higher education please check out the conference coverage!!
Fund my Dissertation Research: Experiential Education within Nonprofit Management and Leadership Education
May 17th
My committee has approved my dissertation proposal so now I can begin my dissertation study!
As with any study, there are costs associated with doing my dissertation. I am currently looking for foundations, corporations, and/or individuals who will fund my dissertation study.
I've developed a proposal that outlines the specific costs associated with this research. If you are interested, or know of anyone who might be interested in funding this type of research, please let me know and I will forward you/or them the proposal. Email me: hcarpenter at sandiego dot edu Thanks!
EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION IN NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP EDUCATION: AN EXAMINATION OF MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NONPROFIT ACADEMIC CENTERS COUNCIL
Currently there is no comprehensive picture of the various experiential education strategies employed in nonprofit management education programs in the United States. A comprehensive picture is not even available for the master’s degree programs associated with the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC), the organization that supposedly includes the country’s trend-setting nonprofit programs. This preliminary study will document (a) the types of experiential education approaches offered in master’s degree programs associated with NACC-affiliated institutions; (b) the programmatic contexts in which the different types of experiential education occur; and (c) the larger organizational settings and the different levels of institutional support associated with the use of different experiential education approaches.
A two-phase mixed method exploratory design (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2007) will be employed to accomplish the three goals listed above. In the first phase, qualitative interviews will be conducted in order to explore the phenomenon of experiential education within a limited number of purposefully-selected master's degree programs. Once the phenomenon has been explored and common themes and definitions have been identified with representatives from a limited number of sites, a second phase of the research will focus on the development and administration of a survey instrument. The survey instrument will be administered to representatives from all eligible NACC institutions and will be used to confirm or disconfirm common themes that emerged during the qualitative interviews.
This study will aid in creating a better understanding of the pedagogy and curricula employed in master's degree programs associated with NACC member centers. The study also should reveal how a variety of contextual factors influence these programs. This information, in turn, should provide empirical grounding for the nonprofit field’s ongoing discussion and debate about the form and function of nonprofit management and leadership education.
As with any study, there are costs associated with doing my dissertation. I am currently looking for foundations, corporations, and/or individuals who will fund my dissertation study.
I've developed a proposal that outlines the specific costs associated with this research. If you are interested, or know of anyone who might be interested in funding this type of research, please let me know and I will forward you/or them the proposal. Email me: hcarpenter at sandiego dot edu Thanks!
EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION IN NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP EDUCATION: AN EXAMINATION OF MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NONPROFIT ACADEMIC CENTERS COUNCIL
Currently there is no comprehensive picture of the various experiential education strategies employed in nonprofit management education programs in the United States. A comprehensive picture is not even available for the master’s degree programs associated with the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC), the organization that supposedly includes the country’s trend-setting nonprofit programs. This preliminary study will document (a) the types of experiential education approaches offered in master’s degree programs associated with NACC-affiliated institutions; (b) the programmatic contexts in which the different types of experiential education occur; and (c) the larger organizational settings and the different levels of institutional support associated with the use of different experiential education approaches.
A two-phase mixed method exploratory design (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2007) will be employed to accomplish the three goals listed above. In the first phase, qualitative interviews will be conducted in order to explore the phenomenon of experiential education within a limited number of purposefully-selected master's degree programs. Once the phenomenon has been explored and common themes and definitions have been identified with representatives from a limited number of sites, a second phase of the research will focus on the development and administration of a survey instrument. The survey instrument will be administered to representatives from all eligible NACC institutions and will be used to confirm or disconfirm common themes that emerged during the qualitative interviews.
This study will aid in creating a better understanding of the pedagogy and curricula employed in master's degree programs associated with NACC member centers. The study also should reveal how a variety of contextual factors influence these programs. This information, in turn, should provide empirical grounding for the nonprofit field’s ongoing discussion and debate about the form and function of nonprofit management and leadership education.
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