965 Doctoral Dissertation Overview

Everything you need to know to successfully complete your dissertation!

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Welcome to your Gateway University Dissertation Overview!

Doctoral programs consist of two primary components:

  • The Coursework
  • The Dissertation

The coursework you complete is specifically chosen to guide you through the transformational experience of developing and honing critical thinking skills, writing skills, and knowledge.

The purpose of the coursework is to prepare you to become a doctoral candidate! The dissertation is the final academic requirement for your doctoral program and is designed to elevate your capabilities as a scholar.

The purpose of THIS course is to provide information about the dissertation process and related policies. The handbook you receive and the class sessions are a guide for your dissertation including the research, writing, the proposal defense, and the final publication.

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Your Instructor


Rev. Dr. Kimberly Marooney
Rev. Dr. Kimberly Marooney

"When Kimberly speaks, lives change." That is what clients and students say of Rev. Kimberly Marooney, Ph.D. She has been a pioneer in the field of consciousness, spiritual psychology, and mysticism for longer than she cares to admit. The author of 12 published books, host of hundreds of interviews, therapist, and creator of TheAngelMinistry.com and countless programs, Dr. Kimberly has personally touched the lives of hundred of thousands of people. Mentoring Graduate Students through advanced degrees is what makes her soul dance and heart sing. Watching candidates blossom into the potential they had only dreamed about is the most fulfilling experience of all. Dr. Kimberly has a brilliance for catalyzing talent, genius, and heart focus into high impact projects that are saving our world.


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It is my personal pleasure to walk you through your doctoral degree program. The pleasure part for me is witnessing you blossom into your "muchness" that is needed in the world today.

Your doctoral program will help you to see your Self, your Work, and the world in a new light. A bigger picture will emerge of how you are being guided by Spirit to serve humanity.

The world is on fire! You are responding by elevating your Self and what you have to offer in a big way. Just imagine the kind of world you want to live in. Your dissertation is a quantum leap into that world.

With much love,

Rev. Dr. Kimberly Marooney, your mentor

President, Gateway.University