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ITESM PhD | U de Los Andes PhD | Tulane-IESA Ph.D. | LA Doctoral Consortium
LA Doctoral Consortium The business and law schools of Tulane recognize the shortage of doctorally qualified faculty members in higher education in Latin America and propose to establish a faculty development program at the doctoral level to serve the region. The importance of professional school faculty development stems from the increasing reliance on markets, business institutions, and the legal infrastructure to support the emerging economies of Latin America. Professional school enrollments in Latin America are growing rapidly with the increased development of competitive markets, market transactions, and increased role of international trade for growth. Local professional schools must be able to respond to this growing need for business and legal professionals to facilitate the growth process. In addition, these professional schools must meet increasingly high international standards of professional education and research to be competitive in their own educational markets. That is, Latin American professional schools must develop strong, terminally qualified, faculties in order to meet the challenges of market development and to insure their own position as leaders in higher education in the region. Under the LADC concept, Tulane will offer PhD curricula in law and business with the assistance of a consortium of top Latin American professional schools using New Orleans as the homebase with satellite facilities located in Central America and South America. The project is intended to enroll qualified faculty from professional schools in Central and South America. The program delivery will be designed so that participants can maintain their full-time employment as faculty members while pursuing their PhD degree. The goal of this project is to provide a select number of experienced faculty with the research skills and in-depth knowledge to prepare them for enhanced careers in teaching and scholarly research in an area of concentration in business or law. A program for experienced faculty in Latin America is of particular importance for several reasons. Many of the best candidates are former students of top Latin American institutions who received an advanced degree at that institution, or abroad, and then joined the faculty. These individuals represent a crucial group of talented professionals who have demonstrated their interest and commitment to careers in academics. After they have worked for several years as faculty, the personal and institutional cost of pursuing a full-time PhD program is often prohibitive. The LADC PhD programs provide a unique opportunity for Latin American institutions to capitalize on their current faculty members' experience and commitment to careers in academics as a resource to upgrade their faculty's skills and credentials. Simultaneously, it provides the individual faculty member a unique opportunity to enhance their professional careers while continuing in the current positions. The PhD curricula offered through the LADC in Latin America would be of the highest quality in terms of program requirements and academic rigor. The coursework in these curricula would be taught by the Graduate Faculty of Tulane and by associated faculty from selected Latin American professional schools. The PhD program would require 48 hours of coursework, comprehensive exams, and a dissertation. Students on the business side would be encouraged to develop dissertation research on Latin American markets and business institutions; and those on the law side, on the legal issues pertaining to Latin American integration and institution building, as well as to public and private aspects of the trading relationship between Latin America and the rest of the world. The PhD program offered by LADC is essentially a five year project for participants. Courses would be offered at the two satellite facilities during the academic calendar, and during a two month summer (winter) residency in New Orleans that is required by Tulane University. Students would commute to satellite locations eight times each year for intensive weekends of coursework. They would travel to Tulane once each year for the two months residency, during which classes would also be offered. The required coursework and comprehensive exams would be completed in three calendar years. Years four and five would be dedicated to writing a dissertation. Students would receive a Masters degree, typically at the end of year two, upon completion of 24-36 hours of doctoral coursework. The PhD degree would be awarded to those successfully completing all the requirements for the doctorate including the dissertation. Telecommunications and computer technology would be used to enhance communications and course delivery. Several of the courses will be provided via internet and teleconferencing will be employed when appropriate. The professional schools at Tulane currently have teleconferencing and satellite link capability and will use this long-distance teaching opportunity to enhance their skills with this technology. |
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