Three Doctoral Degrees to be Awarded at ESU’s Spring Commencement

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Three doctoral degrees in administration and leadership studies will be awarded during the graduate spring commencement exercises at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania on Friday, May 8, at 7 p.m. in Koehler Fieldhouse. Doctorates are awarded as part of a collaborative program with Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP).

Mrs. Ellen I. Harney currently lives in South Korea where she works as a math support specialist at a school that educates the children of military families. She earned her Bachelor of Science in biology from East Stroudsburg University. She also earned master’s degrees in secondary education and educational administration at ESU. She is married to John Harney and they have four children. Together, they love to travel the world. She wrote her dissertation on the topic, “The Correlation of Emotional Intelligence of School Leaders and School Climate as Perceived by Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between American and South Korean Schools.”

Like Harney, Carolyn Headley has also spent most of her life in education. She immigrated to the United States from Barbados, West Indies when she was 19. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from York College, City University of New York and her master’s degree in education from Brooklyn College. She has been a teacher for 17 years. The topic for her dissertation is “A Case Study of the Effects of National Board Certification on School Climate: Perceptions of Teachers, Staff, and Administrators.”

Kelly Lynch McKenzie focused her career on advising students. She is an instructor in the department of academic enrichment and learning at ESU, where she advises undeclared students, interdisciplinary studies students, and international studies minor students. She received her B.A. in communication studies from California State University, San Bernardino and her M.Ed. in professional and secondary education from ESU. Her dissertation topic is“The Relationship between Organizational Communication and Campus Climate as an Indicator of Organizational Effectiveness.” She and her husband, Robert, have two children, Fiona and Gordon, and reside in East Stroudsburg, Pa.

About the Doctoral Program in Education Administration and Leadership

The professional and secondary education department at ESU developed the idea for the collaborative doctoral degree program with IUP in 1999. The collaborative delivery program provides accessibility to the program for students who live in proximity to East Stroudsburg and northeast Pennsylvania.

The three-year academic package is designed to provide continuous skill development in leadership, writing, reading and research. The program is intended for leaders in education wishing to further their knowledge, skills and expertise in the area of educational leadership.

For more information about the doctoral program, including applying for admission/acceptance, contact Kevin Quintero, graduate admissions coordinator at 570-422-3890 or kquintero@esu.edu or Doug Lare, Ed.D., professor of professional and secondary education, at dlare@esu.edu or 570-422-3374.