PhD in Organizational and Community Leadership

05/06/2025

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02/25/2025

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Organizational and Community Leadership Ph. D program at OU-Tulsa

02/25/2025

Congratulations, Dr. Karen Tilkin, on a successful dissertation defense!

11/22/2024

Congratulations, Liz Kollaja, on a successful dissertation defense!

07/12/2024

Congratulations, Felipe Oyarzo, on a successful dissertation defense!

05/17/2024

Welcome Josh Talbert to the OCL doctoral program!

Josh Talbert is a Human Resources Consultant and a Maxwell Leadership Certified Trainer, Coach, and Speaker. He is also a certified DISC Consultant, helping people better understand themselves and others to improve the quality of both their personal and professional relationships. The Founder and President of Legacy Leadership Consulting, Josh leverages his extensive experience to provide leadership, communication, and personal and professional development training, coaching, and consulting services to both organizations and individuals. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Human Resources at Tulsa-local nonprofit organization, leading a team and advising on HR matters. Josh also served in the US Air Force and Air Force Reserve where he designed and implemented a leadership development program for junior- and mid-level enlisted members to hone their leadership skills. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington and a BBA in Human Resources Management from Texas Woman’s University. Josh joined OU-Tulsa's OCL program with research interests in formal leadership development programs and their effect on employee retention, interpersonal dynamics, and employee professional development.

05/13/2024

Update.
In February we announced that Felipe Oyarzo and Erica Dubose had presented their co-authored paper, “OECD countries' main contributors to families emerging above the poverty line,” at the 9th International Conference on Business, Finance and Administrative Sciences (ICOBAS – 2024).

Their paper has now been published.

Oyarzo, F., Asher , T. ., DuBose, E. ., Smith , S. ., & Harrison , C. . (2023). OECD countries’ main contributors to families emerging above the poverty line. International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences, 7(2), 29–37. https://doi.org/10.18844/ijss.v7i2.9350

Notice that this publication is indexed under DOI, so it is also available on Semantic Scholar.

Congratulations, Felipe and Erica.

OECD countries' main contributors to families emerging above the poverty line Article Sidebar PDF Published: Dec 25, 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/ijss.v7i2.9350 Main Article Content Felipe Oyarzo Rogers State University, Claremore, United States Trixi Asher Rogers State University - University...

05/10/2024

Congratulations, Amy Hendrix-Dicken on another publication!

Amy and her colleagues recently had another article published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine:

Associations of social determinants of health and childhood obesity: a cross-sectional analysis of the 2021 National Survey of Children’s Health.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jom-2023-0239/html

05/08/2024

Congratulations! Dr. Chris Freeze and Dr. Lauren King, 2024 graduates of the Organizational and Community Leadership program. The first of their kind.

04/16/2024

Dissertation Defense

Doctoral Candidate: Lauren King

Title: Community Driven Decision-Making in Collective Impact Groups: A Phenomenological Study

Friday, April 26, 2024

8:00 – 9:30; OU Schusterman Campus, Tulsa, OK

Room 3106

Committee Members:
Curt M. Adams, Chair
Meg Meyers Morgan
Hazem Refai
Shawn Schaefer
Jody Worley

02/27/2024

Congratulations, Amy Hendrix-Dicken, on the publication of another co-authored paper.

Comparing Self-Reported and Aggregated Racial Classification for American Indian/Alaska Native Youths in YRBSS: 2021

Published on February 22, 2024, in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), with her co-authors Ashton Gatewood and Micah Hartwell, this work highlights how common methodological practices related to the reporting of race/ethnicity are erasing Indigenous experiences. These approaches have serious ramifications in public health and healthcare where many initiatives and funding are data driven. While we commend the CDC for providing self-report identity data in YRBSS, far too many large data sets do not provide this level of identity data. It is imperative that disaggregated data be available and that researchers truly consider the ramifications of using catchall categories such as “multiracial” in their analyses.

Well done, Amy!