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College of Education & Human Development Educational Policy and Administration

College of Education & Human Development - Educational Policy and AdministrationPhoto from an EdPA "Brown Bag" discussion

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.

Preparing administrators, scholars, and analysts for leadership roles in education.

Providing mission-related service through disciplined study of the needs of educational organizations.

Providing leadership in the solution of current problems in educational governance and management.

 

Masters and Doctorate Level Degree Tracks

Educational administration
Higher education
Comparative and international development education
Evaluation studies

Administrative Licensure

K-12 principal
Superintendent
Director of special education
Director of community education

M.Ed. Degrees

Leadership in education
Youth development leadership

Professional Development Programs

Urban Leadership Academy (ULA)
Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute
International Connections

Certificates

Disability policy and services
PK-12 administration
Professional development
Program evaluation

Minors

in collaboration with other departments

International education (graduate minor only)
Program evaluation (graduate minor only)
Leadership (undergraduate minor only)

Department Information

Chair: Darwin Hendel

Coordinator of Graduate Studies: Richard Nunneley

 

Wulling Hall

Wulling Hall

 

Recent News

Team of Ph.D. Students Receive Grant

A team of Ph.D. students in Comparative and International Development Education, together with two other students from the Humphrey Institute (Juliet Lyon) and the College of Continuing Education (Hindolo Pokawa), received a grant of $46,811 from the Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives in the Graduate School. All of the students in EdPA are members of the entering group of Ph.D. students for fall 2008. Members of the team are as follows: Christina Kwauk, Soo Kyoung Lee, Ya Liu, Brent Ruter, Amanda Sanchez, Casey Stafford, Somongkol Teng, Tryggvi Thayer, Li Yang, and Maiyia Yang.

The Evaluation Fellows Program (EFP)

A year-long, experiential, cohort-based professional development program for approximately 20 educational leaders, evaluators, funders, and policy makers/implementers. Read More.

2009 CEHD Awards

Congratulations to the EdPA recipients!

New Career Excellence Award
Joan DeJaeghere

P&A Outstanding Achievement Award
Deanne Magnusson

Outstanding Student Leadership Award
Kristi Kremers
, Ph.D. in higher education

2009 President’s Student Leadership and Service Award

Kristi Kremers, Ph.D. student in the higher education track, has been selected to receive this award from a pool of over 120 nominees. Currently, Kristi serves as President of GAPSA and is also a graduate research assistant in the Postsecondary Education Research Institute in higher education in EdPA.

U of M Receives 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Exemplary Internationalization Efforts

Full press release.

Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education Award

Professors Jean A. King and Jennifer York-Barr have each received the this award which will be presented at the award ceremony on April 27 at the McNamara Alumni Center, UMTC. For more information, see distinguished teaching.

10th Conference of the Israeli Association for Program Evaluation (IAPE)

Jean A. King gave the keynote address at the IAPE conference in Tel Aviv on February 18. Her speech was titled Perpetual Motion: Making Evaluation Matter. She also gave a day-long workshop on evaluation capacity building for Shatil, the Empowerment and Training Center for Social Change Organizations in Israel.

Emerging Leader Award

Dr. Audrey Moore, who received her Ph.D. in Comparative and International Development Education, will be this year's recipient of the Emerging Leader Award from the CEHD Alumni Association.

Awards

Our graduate students have racked up some impressive awards this year.

 

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