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First Executive Program For School Administrators Begins This Weekend

5/31/07

By Jenna Kujawski

Faculty in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development will be kicking off a new doctoral cohort program in public school administration this Friday (June 1).

Students in the first cohort of the Executive Leadership Program will be on campus this weekend for a kickoff orientation and for the start of classes.

"The program was developed by our faculty for school directors, assistant superintendents, associate superintendents and program directors who may one day want a career in higher education but for now want to stay in K-12 administration," Virginia Collier, cohort coordinator and clinical associate professor in the department, said. "They want to focus their career on being an outstanding executive leader."

The Executive Leadership Program offers a doctor of education degree in public school administration with a focus on executive leadership. It is a three-year program that provides students with culturally responsible leadership understandings and skills to develop and administer districts that are socially just and equitably serve all students. Cohorts begin each summer, with cohorts in odd years being off-campus and cohorts in even years being on-campus.

"What our faculty expects is for this new initiative to result in a large Ed.D. program and a fairly small Ph.D. program," Collier said. "Most of our students want field and leadership experience and training."

Dean Douglas J. Palmer of the College of Education and Human Development will be on hand to welcome students to Texas A&M and Texas Commissioner of Education Shirley Neeley will provide students with a video greeting.

For more information on the Executive Leadership Program, contact Joyce Nelson at 847-9098 or jnelson@tamu.edu.

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