Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership
The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership Program is designed to enhance leadership skills for instructional and administrative leaders in many settings. It is a practitioner degree designed to meet a set of “best practice” competencies/outcomes integrated with individual career and personal goals for educational leaders.
The program is unique in focus, format and delivery.
Educational leaders of various backgrounds are admitted under our cohort model. Taking courses together throughout the program in the cohort model encourages a support system. This support system becomes a team that selects and implements several public engagement initiatives during different stages of the curriculum.
Candidates for the Ed.D. aren’t students – they are learning associates who are fully employed and have at least five years of experience. They bring extensive educational knowledge and expertise to each cohort.
Learning in the program is approached through a hybrid instructional model. The learning associates experience their courses through a rich blend of face to face and online learning settings.
Doctoral learning associates effect change in the community through two unique components:
- A cohort civic engagement project focusing on a contemporary regional issue in education that impacts the educational attainment, economic viability, and/or livability in the metropolitan area, and;
- An individual action-research dissertation designed to allow candidates to conduct research improve their own organization.
