Introduction to EDL Principles

In 1989 the Department of Educational Leadership began to reconsider its Ph.D. program in Educational Administration. Little did we realize that the results of that process would so dramatically alter our whole department from who our faculty might be to who the students have become to what the curriculum continually strives to become.

It took us three full years and the help of the Danforth Foundation to bring to fruition a new doctoral program which attempted to drag the field of educational administration shaking and rattling into the twenty-first century.

When we completed our transformation of the Ph.D. program, we began to redesign all of our other programs too. Today every degree program as well as our service courses have gone through the same intense intellectual self-reflection.

We are very pleased with what those efforts have accomplished from the Ohio Board of Regents rating of both our Ph.D. and Ed.D. programs as "exemplary" (the only programs in the state to get that top rating) to our outstanding students who are completing our program at a phenomenal rate in the 90th percentile (the national average is 50%) to the recruitment of a top notch community of scholars who are not only committed to producing good scholarship and becoming outstanding teachers, but are committed to making the Department of Educational Leadership a community where diverse educators can come together to learn from each other.

During that very first renewal effort, the faculty developed a set of working principles to help guide us through our process. While these principles have never been set in stone, they have helped us keep our values out front. While we expect these principles to be regularly challenged, re-thought, and re-narrated, they do still help us maintain a sense of who we hope we are as a department.

If you click on the button below, you can read the 16 principles originally developed a decade ago. After reading them, you are invited to make comments which will be posted in our comment book.

16 EDL principles

	*Read an article published in The* Urban Review about our Ph.D program**
	Read the "Core Values of the College Student Personnel Community"

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