The Executive Leadership Institute offers an Executive Degree Program for experienced practitioners who undertake their degree completion using an intensive weekend format. Several cohorts are available to choose from at sites throughout the state of Oregon, including Salem, Bend, Washington County, Portland, Pendleton and La Grande.
Participants can complete their degrees in approximately three years of part-time study.
However, ELI has recently added an additional course which utilizes the Web and the ED-NET broadcasting capabilities to reach all cohorts at once. Therefore, participants can complete their degrees quicker. The decades ahead provide unparalleled opportunities for creative leadership at state and local administrative levels in both public and nonprofit sectors. Shrinking resources, disenchantment with past approaches to social problems, and the forces of decentralization have combined to place a new level of responsibility upon state, local, and nonprofit organizations. As traditional legislative and executive bodies have lost their capacity to mobilize consensus and fashion policies that are well informed by long-term social and economic considerations, the burden of governing has increasingly fallen upon career administrators.