Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership - Comprehensive Exams

Procedural Information

Research Question

The research question is a take-home exam. You receive the question at the end of the exam day. You have five days to answer this question and submit it to the Ph.D. program director, Dr. Bruce Winston (bwinston@regent.edu), as an e-mail attachment. He must receive your research answer by midnight Wednesday following the exam day.

During the Exam

During the exam, you may have blank paper, which will be provided by GLE (no books or other notes are allowed). At the end of the exam, any notes that you wrote will remain with the exam proctor.  During the exam, you may listen to a CD/Tape player as long as you have a headset. You will need to show the proctor that you have a commercially-produced CD.

Students may answer the comprehensive exam questions using pen and paper and should notify us before the exams so we can provide you with ruled paper.

At the time of the exam, you will be given a USB drive containing your response files. You will use the response file that corresponds to the specific question you are answering in each session. At the end of each exam period, the USB drives will be collected and secured. The assigned USB Drive will returned to each student at the time of the subsequent question response periods.

Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation must contact the Office of Student Services and make a formal request. Staff from the Office of Student Services will evaluate the request and make a formal recommendation to the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship.

Exam Results

The review committee will evaluate your responses and notify you of the results within 30 days of the exam. Students passing all questions/topics (this includes the research question for those in the LPHD curriculum) may begin formal work on the dissertation. Students not passing all questions/topics may retake the missed questions/topics at a subsequent regularly scheduled comprehensive exam session. Students have two opportunities to pass the comprehensive exams. Students who do not pass the exams in one or two attempts must end their studies in the Ph.D. program at this point.