Educational Leadership, Ed.D.

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The Ed.D. in educational leadership targets the professional needs of educational leaders whose long-term career goals include leading schools, school districts and other education agencies in a complex, highly competitive global environment.

The purpose of the program is to advance the development and practice of effective educational leadership by providing senior-level administrators with the following:

• the knowledge and skills necessary to deal effectively with the complex issues facing education today
• the methods of inquiry necessary to analyze current educational problems
• the leadership skills necessary to direct the development and implementation of programs to address those problems and to disseminate the results in various professional and public forums
• the knowledge and applied skills rarely provided in traditional advanced degree programs in educational leadership in an alternative format that meets the needs of senior-level administrators.