A-8 Priority Statements Relating to Offsite Doctoral Programs in South Carolina 1.
Doctoral programs represent the pinnacle of higher education.
Thus, quality control over electronically delivered doctoral coursework and live, off-campus doctoral coursework must remain the Commission's and the colleges' and universities' highest priority. Moreover, as a means of ensuring access to as well as quality in doctoral programming, inter-institutional collaboration should remain a priority in planning for the delivery of any new offsite doctoral coursework in South Carolina. In terms of specific concentrations within education, educational leadership administration is frequently cited by institutions as being of great interest. Curriculum and instruction is also mentioned as a concentration where some additional coursework may be needed. Importantly, though, need also exists in varying degrees in fields of study outside education, especially in speech pathology and perhaps in psychology-related fields in some locations.