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Build expertise for creating positive systemic change in PK—12 and higher education.

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Why Choose NEC for Your EdD
in Educational Leadership?

Flexible, Accessible Doctoral Education:

Designed to accommodate the busy schedule of working educators like you, our EdD program blends synchronous (live) and asynchronous online learning experiences.

A Cohort Model:

Develop meaningful relationships with a small, carefully selected group of peers and benefit from the opportunity for close mentorship from our faculty.

Structured Dissertation Completion:

You’ll start work on your dissertation during the very first course, ensuring timely completion and the opportunity to apply your research in practice right away.

Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills:

Develop competencies and confidence to drive systemic changes that improve educational equity in primary, secondary, and higher education.

Accelerated Completion Timeline:

Enhance your leadership skills and career opportunities with a program structure that takes you from defining your research interests to finished dissertation in as few as three years.

Three Program Tracks:

Choose from Educational Leadership, Pre-K–12 Leadership, or Higher Education Administration. The Educational Leadership track is fully online, while the other two tracks feature a low-residency format that combines online classes with in-person sessions at our Henniker campus.

Program Overview

Prepare to make a systemic impact on student performance, educational equity, and program effectiveness with advanced skills for strategic leadership. Advance to the highest level of leadership in PK—12 schools, colleges and universities, or other educational organizations.

What You Will Learn

As a graduate of our online EdD program, you will be able to:
  • Articulate a personal philosophy of professional practice and a vision for educational organizations, that is responsive to societal challenges of complexity, diversity, and social justice;
  • Identify and address critical and contemporary issues in educational policy and practice;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of administrative, leadership, and management practices and structures found in diverse institutions of education;
  • Assess teaching and learning and create strategies to improve professional practice and student learning;
  • Use data to inform evidence-based decision-making regarding educational issues, enhance professional practice, and promote organizational change and reform;
  • Demonstrate skills to work effectively with others, be an advocate for members of the learning community, and lead organizational change and reform;
  • Demonstrate information and research literacy incorporating a broad range of education resources and scholarship;
  • Design and conduct independent and collaborative research;
  • Demonstrate effective and inclusive written and oral communication skills.

Courses and Curriculum

To complete your Doctor of Education with us, you will complete 60 credits of coursework, including the completion of your dissertation. Choose from one of three tracks:

Educational Leadership Track:
ED 8010 (HEA 8010) - Seminar in Educational Research I
ED 8035 - Sociology of Education
ED 8040 (HEA 8040) - Seminar in Educational Research II
ED 8060 (HEA 8060) - Dissertation Seminar I
ED 8065 (HEA 8065) - Literature Review Seminar
ED 8075 - Systemic Educational Reform
ED 8095 - Pedagogy, Politics, and Policy for Teaching and Learning
ED 8110 (HEA 8110) - Dissertation Seminar II
ED 8125 - Leadership for Equitable Educational Organizations
ED 8144 - Dissertation III - Part 1
ED 8145 - Dissertation III - Part 2
ED 8150 (HEA 8150) - Comprehensive Project
ED 8155 (HEA 8155) - Methods and Analysis Seminar
ED 8160 - Professional Learning Network
ED 8170 - Using Data for Action
ED 8180 - Strategic Planning and Financial and Resource Management
ED 8190 - Leveraging Human and Intellectual Capital
Pre-K—12 Leadership Track:
ED 8010 - Seminar in Educational Research I
ED 8020 - Seminar in Critical Issues in the Future of Education
ED 8030 - Seminar in Futuristic Organizational Theory
ED 8040 - Seminar in Educational Research II
ED 8050 - Seminar in the Creation and Implementation of Best Educational Practices
ED 8060 - Dissertation Seminar I
ED 8065 - Literature Review Seminar
ED 8070 - Seminar in Reforming Educational Practices
ED 8080 - Seminar in Visionary Educational Leadership
ED 8090 - Seminar in Recreating Educational Policy
ED 8100 - Seminar in Brain Research and Learning
ED 8110 - Dissertation Seminar II
ED 8120 - Promoting Access, Retention and Achievement
ED 8130 - Seminar in Curriculum Development for the Information Age
ED 8140 - Dissertation III: Completion and Approval
ED 8150 - Comprehensive Project
ED 8155 - Methods and Analysis Seminar
Students in this track can also pursue optional coursework to prepare for superintendent or school principal licensure. Contact us to learn more.
Higher Education Admin Track:
HEA 8010 - Seminar in Educational Research I
HEA 8020 - Contemporary Issues in Higher Education
HEA 8030 - Organizational Leadership and Change
HEA 8040 - Seminar in Educational Research II
HEA 8050 - Advanced Student Development
HEA 8060 - Dissertation Seminar I
HEA 8070 - Budgeting and Finance
HEA 8080 - Strategic Management in Higher Education
HEA 8090 - Public Policy in Higher Education
HEA 8100 - Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - Innovative Pedagogies
HEA 8110 - Dissertation Seminar II
HEA 8120 - Promoting Access, Retention and Achievement
HEA 8130 - Preventative Law
HEA 8140 - Dissertation III: Completion and Approval
HEA 8150 - Comprehensive Project
HEA 8155 - Methods and Analysis Seminar
HEA 8065 - Literature Review Seminar

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