THE Ed.D. DOCTORAL COMMITTEE: POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND
FACULTY LISTS
Fall 2016
♦ Must have a minimum of four members
♦ All the members must be UCLA faculty (except in specific cases and involves a
petition)
♦ One member must be an Adjunct Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,
Professor in a department at UCLA that is not Education. The Department of
Information Studies is in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
but is a separate department.
♦ Three members must be faculty (Adjunct Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate
Professor, Professor, Professor Emeritus) in the Department of Education, UCLA.
This includes the Professor-in-Residence series.
♦ Two of the four members must be any combination of Associate Professor, Professor,
Professor Emeritus. This includes the Professor-in-Residence series.
♦ Only one Adjunct Professor can serve on a committee
♦ The committee chair can be a Professor Emeritus, Professor, Associate Professor, or
Assistant Professor. If there are co-chairs and one chair is an Adjunct Professor, both
co-chairs must be in the Education Department. A Professor Emeritus, Professor,
Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor from another Department at UCLA can
co-chair a doctoral committee with a Professor Emeritus, Professor, Associate
Professor, or Assistant Professor from the Department of Education.
♦ All committee members read, approve and certify the dissertation.
♦ A doctoral committee has four members but students may appoint a fifth member
(from UCLA) if they wish to do so.
♦ The Preliminary Oral Exam is closed to outsiders while the Final Oral Exam is open
to outsiders.
♦ The GSE&IS web site (gseis.ucla.edu/about/directory/ describes each Education and
Information Studies faculty member and their interests and publications. “Find an
Expert,”(gseis.ucla.edu/about/find-an-expert/) describes faculty with expertise on a
specific topic.
♦ The Graduate Division (UCLA) appoints doctoral committees after a student has
passed the doctoral qualifying examination. Students submit the names (by email) of
the members of their doctoral committees to Cathleen Gearin in the ELP Office and
she does the required Nomination of Doctoral Committee Form and submits it to the
Graduate Division. It generally several weeks to gain approval. The Preliminary
Oral Exam cannot be held prior to approval of the Nomination of Doctoral
Committee by the Graduate Division.
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Department of Education Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Sandy Astin
James Catterall
John McNeil
Buzz Wilms
Research Professor
Marv Alkin
Eva Baker
Patricia Gandara
Carollee Howes
Mike Rose
Concepcion Valadez
Distinguished Research Professor
Eva Baker
Sandra Harding
Gary Orfield
Distinguished Professor
Doug Kellner
Pedro Noguera
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Carlos Torres
Professor
Walter Allen
Alison Bailey
Li Cai
Tina Christie*
Mitch Chang
Noel Enyedy
Megan Franke
Sandra Graham
Tyrone Howard
Sylvia Hurtado
Connie Kasari
Reynaldo Macias
Teresa McCarty
Pat McDonough
Rashmita Mistry
Marjorie Orellana
Rob Rhoads*
John Rogers
Bill Sandoval
Linda Sax
Mike Seltzer
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Daniel Solorzano
Robert Teranishi
Noreen Webb
Jeff Wood
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Associate Professor
Robert Cooper*
Richard Desjardins
Kim Gomez
Jose-Felipe Martinez
Edith Mukudi Omwami
Thomas Philip
Cecilia Rios-Aguilar
Assistant Professor
Jennie Grammar
Gerardo Ramirez
Assistant Professor in Residence
Kevin Eagan*
Mark Hansen*
Federica Raia
Adjunct Professor
Katie Anderson-Levitt*
Diane Durkin*
Faye Peitzman
Jody Priselac
Linda Rose*
*ELP core faculty.
Faculty - Other Departments
Name
McDonough, John
Juvonen, Jaana
Lavine, Adrienne
Leap, Jorja
Myers, David
Lynch, Beverly
Furner, Jonathan
Richardson, John
Leazer, Greg
Asimow, Michael
Department
Anderson
Psychology
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
Social Welfare
History
Info Studies
Info Studies
Info Studies
Info Studies
Law School
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Faculty Level
Professor
Professor
Professor
Adjunct Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Assoc. Prof.
Prof Emrt
Mays, Vickie
Fox, Michelle
Spiegel, Steven
Adelman, Howard
Sandhofer, Catherine
Shapiro, Jenessa
Stigler, James
Weisner, Thomas
Abrams, Laura
Alfreda Iglehart
Franke, Todd
Hunt, Darnell
Zhou, Min
Godwin, Hilary
Estrada, Leobardo
Psychology
Medicine – Pediatric Genetics
Political Science
Psych
Psych
Psych
Psych
Professor
Adj. Assist Professor
Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Psych & Bio-behavior
Science/Anthropology
Social Welfare
Social Welfare
Social Welfare
Sociology, African American
Studies
Sociology, Asian American Studies
Public Health
Public Affairs
Professor Emeritus
in Residence
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
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Professor
Professor
Professor
Associate Professor