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Ed.D. Programs
Our 36-month Ed.D. program serves as a national model. Designed to meet the needs of mid-career professionals who are focused on organizational operations, it has been cited as a leading program in its class.
This weekend-based curriculum is offered through the college’s Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations (LPO) and the Department of Teaching and Learning. Candidates may pursue one of three specialties:
- Educational leadership and policy—prepares students to lead educational organizations, administer central offices, and serve as association executives, government officials and private sector consultants. Explore the program curriculum on the LPO department site.
- Higher education leadership and policy—equips practitioners to operate colleges and universities, government agencies, professional associations and consulting companies. Explore the program curriculum on the LPO department site.
During the third year of course work, doctoral candidates complete a capstone experience. This independent research and analytic activity focuses on a problem of practice, drawn from suggestions by a national advisory panel.
Ed.D.’s award-winning faculty includes:
- Mark Berends, director of the first federally funded National Center on School Choice
- Janet Eyler, professor of the practice of education whose research focuses on program evaluation in human resource development
- James W. Guthrie, chair of LPO and director of the Peabody Center for Education Policy
- Steve Heyneman, a former World Bank researcher, trainer, and education policy and lending strategist and frequent international speaker
- Michael McLendon, the faculty advisor of the Washington Fellowship in Education Policy
- Thomas Smith, a principal investigator for a $2.5-million National Science Foundation grant, “Designing Learning Environments for Instructional Improvement in Mathematics”
