Putting Your Ph.D. to Work
Over the past 50 years, the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas has built an international reputation for excellence in teaching, research, and service. The productivity, creativity, and field leadership characterized by the Department's faculty and graduates is evidenced in the national and international recognition received for their exemplary, teaching, research and service to the field. The department takes great pride in the achievements of its students throughout their careers as educators, researchers, policy makers, and leaders in the profession. Doctoral graduates hold faculty positions in comprehensive and research universities and leadership positions in state and national agencies. The career paths of recent graduates reflect the program's emphasis on reciprocal research to practice, civic professionalism and stewardship of the field and discipline.
