Accreditation Ashland University holds accreditation in the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools at the baccalaureate and graduate degree levels. Authorization to offer the Doctor of Education degree was granted by the Ohio Board of Regents in 1997. Residency Residency is essential for doctoral candidates to become as thoroughly integrated in the process of scholarly endeavor as possible. Furthermore, residency enhances the development of mutual support among the members of the student cohort. Ashland University's Ed.
Residency is accomplished in several ways.
Each student is required to attend 12-week summer semesters during which 10 semester hours are earned each of the first two summers of the program. During the first summer, students will live on campus for approximately two weeks for an intensive foundations course in creative leadership. Over the first 15 months of the program, students will work in a partnership with a doctoral faculty mentor and their own employer as the student utilizes research gained from the program to propose and implement an actual redesign of a facet of the student's organization which is suboptimizing. Throughout the program students attend classes and related activities during consecutive semesters with other members of the cohort. Ashland's approach to residency builds relationships among members of the cohort, faculty, and other professionals while, at the same time, offers options to accommodate the work schedules of students.