Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership (Tacoma)

The South Puget Sound region continues to be shaped and impacted by ongoing and historic oppressions, including Indigenous displacement and resource extraction, anti-Black violences, and anti-community of color policies and practices. While seemingly every institution has diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, the continuation of settler-colonialism reinforces, structures, and attempts to justify stark inequities. Community leaders, educators, and advocates have always tasked ourselves with disrupting and dismantling these systems of oppression.

In the 21st century, such efforts to disrupt and dismantle require investments in self- and community-healing, community grounded approaches, centering ancestral knowledges, Black and Indigenous-centric theories, and a commitment to praxis (or a linking of critical reflection and action). Towards the goal of preparing leaders to sustain healing approaches to familial, local, regional, and global traumas, UWT's Ed.D. aims to cultivate leaders who incorporate de-colonial, social justice, and antiracist approaches to imagine and build 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.

Hold a master's degree from a regionally-accredited college or university in the U.S. or its equivalent from a foreign institution. Have earned at least a 3.0 or B grade-point average in the most recent 45 credits of study. TOEFL iBT: 80, IELTS: 6.5