ELRT
Fast Facts
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The Department of Educational Leadership was originally formed in 1969.
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A new Department of Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology (ELRT) was established in August 2007, combining two program units with Educational Leadership; Educational Technology and Evaluation, Measurement and Research.
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Most Master of Arts students are teachers who are interested in becoming school principals.
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The Educational Technology unit offers online Master of Arts and Certificate programs designed to prepare students to be K-12 technology coordinators.
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There are 18 faculty members in the department
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The department offers a Master of Arts K-12 program geared to prepare prospective principals, a K-12 Ph.D., a Higher Educational Leadership Ph.D., an Organizational Analysis Ph.D., a Career and Technical education Ph.D. program in conjunction with the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, and a Master of Arts Higher Education Student Affairs degree.
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Evaluations completed by students within the programs typically range from 4.2 to 5.0 on a 5.0 scale.
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Educational Leadership faculty members serve as principal investigators for major grants. The grants include GEAR-UP ($35,997,000), the Wallace Foundation ($1,275,000), and the School Leadership Grant ($2,145,536), a partnership with Kalamazoo Regional Education Service Area (KRESA) which concluded in 2006.