教育领导力部的任务是准备和支持各级公立和私立教育机构以及其他组织的教育部门的领导者。学校领导者博士计划旨在提供广泛的经验，使领导者可以针对实践中面临的组织问题和机会，运用多种不同的观点。将信息和概念应用于实践，从整体上看待组织，并了解组织的各个部分如何相互联系和相互影响，辨别含义，并在事件和信息中似乎是离散且不相关的部分之间建立关系，学习通过从业者社区模型，参与者可以通过大学学习团队的方法参与实际的问题和机会。
The Department of Educational Leadership's mission is to prepare and support leaders in public and private educational institutions at all levels and in the educational units of other organizations. The School Leaders Doctoral program seeks to provide broad experiences that allow leaders to bring many different perspectives to bear on the organizational problems and opportunities which confront them in practice. The program assumes that educational leaders will be more effective when they are able to (1) apply information and concepts to practice, (2) see the organization as a whole and understand how various parts of the organization relate to and effect each other, (3) discern meaning in, and establish relationships between events and bits of information that appear to be discrete and unrelated, and, (4) learn through a community of practitioners model where participants engage real problems and opportunities in a collegial learning team approach.<br><br>Doctoral students must meet the leadership core pre-requisites and engage in courses specifically designed for the doctoral level. The doctorate is not a certification program.