This program is intended to serve those students who hold or aspire to hold leadership positions in K-12 educational settings. The program's graduates will assume middle and senior level administrative positions in K-12 educational settings in general and in public school settings in particular.
Schools are dynamic and fluid institutions which serve a critical role in society.
Powerful and influential interests seek to shape and direct school policy and practice. As a result, the economic, political, social and technological environment of schools is always changing. The program is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and beliefs which will enable them to function effectively in leadership roles in this varied and shifting environment. The school reform initiatives that began in the 1980's will have a lasting influence on schools and on the expectations and behaviors of educational leaders, at both the building and district levels. Individual school buildings will increasingly be the locus of educational change and improvement.