To be considered for admission, applicants must submit the following items through the Graduate School application dashboard:
- Evidence of a completed a master’s degree with a minimum GPA of 3.00
- All documents required by the UCA Graduate School including official copies of all undergraduate and graduate transcripts
- A completed application to the Change Leadership PhD program that includes contact information for three references
- Respond to the following prompt (limited to 500 words): PhD Program Writing Prompt
- Choose and read one of the following articles and write a 500–1000-word article review. Article Review for Admission Instructions
- Leading Social Transformations: Creating Public Value and Advancing the Common Good (Community Leadership & Change Concentration)
- Best Practices in Leadership Curriculum Development: A Case Study of a Curriculum Designed to Foster Authentic Leadership Skills in Graduate Students (Digital Age Curriculum & Instruction Concentration)
- Resilience, Reorientation, and Reinvention: School Leadership During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic (K-12 Education Leadership Concentration)
- Leveraging brain science for impactful advocacy and policymaking: The synergistic partnership between developmental cognitive neuroscientists and a parent-led grassroots movement to drive dyslexia prevention policy and legislation (Literacy Leadership Concentration)
- Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: traditionalist, reformist, pragmatist (Higher Education Leadership Concentration)
ATTENTION: This is a Fall admission only program. Therefore, during the application process you must select the Fall term and the corresponding year you are applying for.