ODU Announces Plans for New Offerings to Ph.D. Students

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

Old Dominion University soon will begin offering two new degree programs.

The State Council for Higher Education for Virginia unanimously approved on Tuesday ODUs request to offer Ph.D. programs in education and English.

ODU students will be able to take education classes for their doctoral degree this fall. The school will create its English Ph.D. program in the fall of 2006. By 2008- 09, ODU expects to have a full- time enrollment of 36 in the education doctoral program and 30 on the English Ph.D. track, according to information submitted to the state council.

Cambridge College, a private college with a site in Chesapeake, said last week that the school will begin its Doctor in Education program in the spring of 2006.

The college, which has 400 full-time students in Chesapeake, has been offering a certificate of advanced graduate study in education, according to Jim Waldman, director of the Cambridge College Chesapeake Center.