Last month I attended both the hooding ceremony and commencement ceremony for my doctoral program. I was asked to speak at each event, which was a tremendous honor, if a bit intimidating. Below is the text of my speech at the 44th Annual Commencement Ceremony at Wilmington University on January 25, 2015….
Category: Doctoral Studies
Unaccustomed As I Am to Public Speaking
Last weekend I attended both the hooding ceremony and commencement ceremony for my doctoral program. I was asked to speak at each event, which was a tremendous honor, if a bit intimidating. Below is the text of my speech at the Hooding Ceremony for the Doctor of Business Administration and Doctor…
Looking Back, Looking Forward
From a blog post I wrote on 23 December 2013: If nothing else, hopefully it will be an entry I can look back on this time next year, as I’m preparing to graduate, and laugh at, remembering that time I panicked unnecessarily and frantically spat out a blog post full…
Standing On the Shoulders of Giants
I included an Acknowledgements page early in my dissertation to thank all the people who have supported me in one way or another throughout my doctoral studies. Since most of the people I thank will never read the thing, I thought I would reproduce that page here in order to…
Achievement Unlocked!
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. Over 200 pages and 30 PowerPoint slides later, today I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation, Sustaining distributed leadership: Lessons learned from a case study of Delaware middle schools. I am both elated and…