Participants complete a credit awarding activity as part of the Summer Institute experience. This requirement takes various forms, but is intended to help participants translate their Institute experiences to the challenges they face in their individual school systems. As with all other Program experiences, participants are expected to improve their own settings as a result of their involvement in the Institute. Each participant must attend two Summer Institutes during the Program. Attendance at all sessions and residence at the Summer Institute hotel are required.
Participants are responsible for travel and living expenses.
Summer Institute will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona in July 2001 and tentatively in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in July 2002. The Donald P. Mitchell Lecture honors the lifelong mission and accomplishments of the founding director of the National EdD Program for Educational Leaders. Each year, focusing on the notion of school administrators as gatekeepers of educational change in a global society, a distinguished leader will be invited to speak about critical societal issues and their relevance to the quality and character of life nationally and worldwide. In 1997, the Mitchell Lecture was delivered by Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York, and in 1998 by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Copyright 1997-2001 Nova Southeastern University .