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2025-2026 Endicott College Academic Catalog

Educational Leadership: Transformational Leading and Learning with a Concentration in Higher Education (Doctor of Education)

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Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership: Transformational Leading and Learning with a concentration in Higher Education Mission
Leadership for institutions of higher education requires creativity, flexibility, strategic thinking, and a respect for student-centered institutions. The mission of the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership: Transformational Leading and Learning is to prepare professionals for leadership roles in the administration of colleges and universities, non-profit agencies and schools and is grounded in transformational leadership.

This doctoral program integrates research and practice so that doctoral students understand the historical, political, social, and philosophical aspects of colleges and universities which have challenges and opportunities. Applied learning, the hallmark of Endicott, is demonstrated through an apprenticeship in which doctoral students explore areas of specializations within senior leadership positions such as academic affairs, student development, institutional advancement, financial affairs, faculty development, and facilities.

The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership is designed for professionals in higher education who wish to attain leadership positions in colleges or universities. In this cohort-based program, a combination of different roles, perspectives, and experiences enriches the program and its participants.

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 57

The Foundation Courses provide the framework for what we mean by scholar practitioner. Each of  the Foundation Courses is grounded in the assumption that research in service of improved practice will facilitate deliberate change.


These courses address such issues as: how bias and our histories  inform how we understand the world; how we can ethically identify and describe practice-embedded  educational research; how conducting a literature review and integrating, from both practice and  research, allows us to be transparent and critical about the ways we pursue and generate knowledge;  how we can align research questions and approaches; and what it looks like to gather and work with  research data to affect change.

Foundation Courses

Method Courses

Higher Education Leadership Electives

Electives - 12 credits

Students must choose from four of the following:

Misc Courses

Experiential Courses

Dissertation Courses

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will:

  • Locate, analyze and synthesize existing research to address problems in the field that address questions of equity, ethics, and social justice to bring about solutions to complex problems of practice.
  • Prepares leaders who can construct and apply knowledge, theories and frameworks from education and related fields of inquiry to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals, families, organizations, and communities
  • Utilize social scientific research processes (Action Research) to develop and evaluate research
  • Emphasizes the generation, transformation, and use of professional knowledge and practice to communicate clearly with scholarly audiences and communities via written research, oral presentations, and in dialog with each other which integrates multiple perspectives.
  • Develops a professional knowledge base that integrates both practical and research knowledge, which links theory with systemic and systematic inquiry to affect change in educational contexts and the greater community.

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