1. Challenges and Strategies Identified by CPED Institutions Impacting Program Transition from a Traditional
Dissertation Model to a Professional Practice DiP model
Feedback from Fall Convening, 2013
Common Themes Challenges Strategies
Institutional barriers  Institutional culture
 Graduate School “rules.” e.g. proposal comps.
 Bureaucratic levels of agreement required
Dean leadership & support
Utilize resources from CPED website
Senior faculty engagement
Intentionality
Dialogue
Critical Friends/Mentors
Faculty development
University preference for certain epistemologies PAEI – Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory
http://www.labr.net/apps/paei/
Breadth or depth re: research methods Action Research
Mixed Methods
Translational Research
Client-based
Stakeholder involvement
DiP communicated to varied stakeholder audiences
Changing faculty mindset to understand:
 Program design
 Research methods
 Rigor of action research
Problem of Practice drives program design and determines the
relevance of the inquiry
Partnership with field mentors
Impact of DiP in the field
Faculty skills & capacity
Faculty have quantitative training, are not comfortable
with/accept other methodologies
Hiring of scholarly practitioners as clinical faculty
Creation of a new category of faculty called “practice “faculty
DiP Committee membership Clinical faculty as members of the DiP Committee
CPED Issues What does program (re) design look like? Examples of program (re) design on CPED website
http://cpedinitiative.org/consortium-members
Lack of clarity re: terminology people are using to describe Design concept definitions on CPED website

2. Challenges and Strategies Identified by CPED Institutions Impacting Program Transition from a Traditional
Dissertation Model to a Professional Practice DiP model
Feedback from Fall Convening, 2013
the DiP http://cpedinitiative.org/design-concept-definitions
Lack of DiP models DiP models to be reviewed as part of FIPSE products
Examples on CPED website
http://cpedinitiative.org/resource-library/dissertations
Purpose & format of the DiP Engage other stakeholders in defining the needs around DiP
Keep pushing framework and rubric
http://cpedinitiative.org/dissertation-practice-year-award
Program Quality University push for raising rankings (PhD is valued) Faculty reward system in higher education needs significant
modifications
Definitions/criteria for rigor DiP Award criteria applicable for quality assurance