Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership (Tacoma)

Educational learning systems continue to be shaped and impacted by historic and ongoing contexts, including shifting governmental priorities, local pressures, technological innovations, globalism, and often rigid structures not designed for the complicated, tense, violent times we live within. While the federal government removes institutional commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, the continuation of drastic inequities remains the norm, and students reflect these disparities in every imaginable way. Community and educational leaders have long tasked ourselves with disrupting and dismantling these disparities while also nurturing spaces for timely, relevant, and contextualized learning. Efforts to cultivate learning systems (schools, colleges, communities, professional development) that help youth, families, adults, and the communities around us requires systems-level approaches. Towards the goal of preparing leaders to transform educational approaches and systems, UW Tacoma's Doctoral Program (EdD) in Educational Leadership aims to cultivate leaders who incorporate transformative approaches to imagine and build sustainable, adaptive, and responsive educational structures and systems. The Doctoral Program (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership welcomes educators, leaders, community members, advocates and those committed to systemic and societal transformation to strengthen commitment, approaches, and communities through theory, praxis, and reflection with the Ed.D. practice doctorate degree.

Applicants at the graduate level must apply to both a UW Tacoma degree program as well as the UW Graduate School. Requirements vary by program. Prospective graduate students must: Hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university in the U.S. or its equivalent from an institution outside the U.S.; Have earned at least a 3.0 grade-point-average (on a 4-point scale) for the last 90 graded quarter credits or 60 graded semester credits.