New
Department:
Organizational
Leadership, Policy,
and Development
Effective July 1, 2009, a
new department has been created
that integrates the business and
marketing education, human
resource development and adult
education, and comprehensive
WHRE programs from the
Department of
Work and Human Resource
Education (WHRE) into the
department formerly known as
Educational Policy and
Administration (EdPA). The
name of this new department is
Organizational Leadership,
Policy, and Development (OLPD).
It will offer exciting
opportunities for collaboration
and interdisciplinary education
and research. Click
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Department overview
Mission. The mission of the Department of Educational
Policy and Administration (EdPA) is guided by the missions of both the University
and the College of Education and Human Development, and is directed by an awareness
of being part of a University that is responsive to its national and international
opportunities in scholarship. The department is in a land-grant and urban university
where scholarly and artistic activities, teaching and mission-related services are
qualified by a realization that its programs should both contribute to, and be unique
within, the State of Minnesota.
Purpose. Three related purposes give direction to departmental
activities. A priority of the department is to initiate, sponsor, and support research
and development activities that will enhance the body of knowledge and techniques
that constitute the four program tracks: educational
administration, evaluation studies,
higher education, and
comparative and international development education.
Central to the purpose of the department is the development and
provision of professional preparation programs for persons seeking positions in
the four areas. The Department of Educational Policy and Administration is committed
to the study of educational policy and to the preparation of leaders who can act
effectively and ethically within the structures, processes, and cultural contexts
of organized education. The department prepares administrators, scholars, and analysts
for leadership roles in education through the four complementary but distinct program
tracks.
The department also seeks to provide mission-related service
through disciplined study of the needs of educational organizations and to provide
leadership in the solution of current problems in educational governance and management.
All of the above illustrate the commitment of the Department to bridging the fields
of practice and theory.
Details about the functioning of the department can be found
in the constitution and bylaws.
Degrees and tracks. Four graduate degrees are currently
offered through this department: master of arts, master of education, doctor of
education, and doctor of philosophy. The M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are available in
all four tracks: educational administration, evaluation studies, higher education,
and comparative and international development education.
Academic work in EdPA is discipline-based, carefully designed,
and yet flexible in the options for degrees and specializations. The graduate programs
in the department incorporate relevant knowledge from the behavioral and social
sciences and the humanities, with primary reliance placed on anthropology, economics,
management science, political science, public affairs, sociology, philosophy, law,
and history. While these disciplines undergird graduate studies in the department,
each program draws upon them in particular ways.
Graduate School data for EdPA
Admissions
Fall term enrollment
Graduate student
progress
Degrees conferred
Graduate School
faculty
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