城市教育计划的任务是培养敬业，批判和反思的领导者，以寻求通过研究和实践来改善城市教育。在关注城市学校问题的同时，城市教育认识到州，国家，地区和全球范围内此类问题的相互联系。城市教育为代表各种背景的教育领导者做好了准备，他们支持各种形式的平等和多样性，努力为公共利益和更加社会公正的世界做出贡献。通过他们的博士历程和最终的论文，教育领导者调查他们选择的与他们致力于教育变革的领导者的职业生涯有关的问题。
The mission of the Urban Education Program is to develop dedicated, critical, and reflective leaders seeking to improve urban education through research and practice. While focusing on urban school issues, Urban Education recognizes the interconnectedness of such issues on a state, national, regional and global scale. Urban Education prepares educational leaders who represent a variety of backgrounds, and support equity and diversity in all its forms, striving to contribute to the public good and a more socially just world. Through the course of their doctoral trajectory and culminating in a dissertation, educational leaders investigate issues of their choice that are relevant to their professional lives as leaders committed to educational change.