EDLPPHD - Educational Leadership and Policy

Doctor of Philosophy

College of Education

Graduate

The Educational Leadership & Policy Ph.D. program is designed to expand the boundaries of the educational leadership and policy field with an explicit focus on equity, inclusivity, and social justice. The program prepares education scholars and leaders to translate theory into practice creating real, transformative change in communities everywhere. Coursework emphasizes leadership and policy issues and features reflection, group discussion, simulations, problem-solving, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and interdisciplinary research approaches. Graduates of our program go on to shape policy at every level, lead schools and districts, and teach the next generation of educators and leaders as faculty.