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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 P-20 settings, as well as other instructional specialists.  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 with five or more years of professional experience.

Candidates bring change to 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 improve their own organization and produce positive change in their work environment.
  

One cohort of approximately 15 students is admitted each academic year. The priority application and admission materials deadline for the fall 2010 semester is February 15, 2010.  The final deadline for applications is April 1, 2010.

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