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Program Overview
Offers a unique opportunity for current and aspiring leaders in districts, schools, and other educational organizations to study with nationally and internationally known scholars and practitioners. Coursework focuses on knowledge and skills to inspire and lead.
Email:
education@ucdenver.eduPhone:
303-315-6300What you'll learn
Are you a leader in a school, district, nonprofit, or a community organization? The Doctor of Education (EdD) concentration in executive leadership will prepare those interested in innovation to develop the fundamental skills to inspire and lead.
Students in this concentration will:
- Learn to lead personnel, in strategic planning and budgeting processes
- Understand evaluation and accountability systems and oversee professional development
- Develop and implement policy
- Build community relations within and outside organizations
- Engage with faculty and research partner sites to address problems of practice and policy
- Become data savvy for strategic planning and decision-making
- Culminate the program with a doctoral research project dissertation.
There is a licensure option within the executive leadership concentration area. The Leadership for Educational Organizations for administrative licensure or the principal licensure from the Colorado Department of Education. Students do not need to pursue licensure within this EdD concentration; it is an optional feature.
Choose CU Denver's School of Education & Human Development
This program provides an environment that prepares students for a career as an executive leader of educational organizations. The School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) is recognized for preparing leaders of distinction who value educational excellence and social justice. Additionally, SEHD is counted among U.S. News & World Report's “Best Graduate Schools,” making us one of the top education schools in the country.
Courses
The 54-credit program begins each summer.
The curriculum includes a combination of on-campus, hybrid, remote, and online courses.
Every student must be available to attend on-campus courses each semester, each year of the program.
The curriculum includes the following elements:
- 12 hours in EdD core courses within equity, leadership, and learning core areas (four 3-credit courses)
- Nine hours in the research core (three 3-credit courses)
- 12 hours in the concentration areas (four 3-credit courses)
- Six hours of elective courses (two 3-credit courses)
- 15 hours in seminars and the completion of a doctoral research project
All courses and experiences strive to expose students to context-specific best practices, interdisciplinary connections, and applied research in an environment that stresses the application of theory to practice. The EdD program has been designed to enable students to complete program requirements in three or five years.
Program Description
What you'll learn
Are you a leader in a school, district, nonprofit, or a community organization? The Doctor of Education (EdD) concentration in executive leadership will prepare those interested in innovation to develop the fundamental skills to inspire and lead.
Students in this concentration will:
- Learn to lead personnel, in strategic planning and budgeting processes
- Understand evaluation and accountability systems and oversee professional development
- Develop and implement policy
- Build community relations within and outside organizations
- Engage with faculty and research partner sites to address problems of practice and policy
- Become data savvy for strategic planning and decision-making
- Culminate the program with a doctoral research project dissertation.
There is a licensure option within the executive leadership concentration area. The Leadership for Educational Organizations for administrative licensure or the principal licensure from the Colorado Department of Education. Students do not need to pursue licensure within this EdD concentration; it is an optional feature.
Choose CU Denver's School of Education & Human Development
This program provides an environment that prepares students for a career as an executive leader of educational organizations. The School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) is recognized for preparing leaders of distinction who value educational excellence and social justice. Additionally, SEHD is counted among U.S. News & World Report's “Best Graduate Schools,” making us one of the top education schools in the country.
Courses
The 54-credit program begins each summer.
The curriculum includes a combination of on-campus, hybrid, remote, and online courses.
Every student must be available to attend on-campus courses each semester, each year of the program.
The curriculum includes the following elements:
- 12 hours in EdD core courses within equity, leadership, and learning core areas (four 3-credit courses)
- Nine hours in the research core (three 3-credit courses)
- 12 hours in the concentration areas (four 3-credit courses)
- Six hours of elective courses (two 3-credit courses)
- 15 hours in seminars and the completion of a doctoral research project
All courses and experiences strive to expose students to context-specific best practices, interdisciplinary connections, and applied research in an environment that stresses the application of theory to practice. The EdD program has been designed to enable students to complete program requirements in three or five years.
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