ELRT

Fast Facts

The Department of Educational Leadership was originally formed in 1969. 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.
Most Master of Arts students are teachers who are interested in becoming school principals.
The Educational Technology unit offers online Master of Arts and Certificate programs designed to prepare students to be K-12 technology coordinators.
There are 18 faculty members in the department.
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.
Evaluations completed by students within the programs typically range from 4.2 to 5.0 on a 5.0 scale.
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.