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Volume 17                   For Publication Date: December 17, 2004             No. 24

 

By the Way . . .

New Graduate Program Offered to Train Administrators. Three Northern California universities are starting a new graduate program meant to train teachers, professors, and other professionals for top management and administrative jobs in K-12 schools and community colleges. California State University , Sacramento (CSUS), and the University of California , Davis (UCD), have teamed up with Sonoma State University to create a doctoral program in educational leadership. The three-year program, scheduled to start August 2005, will lead to a Doctor of Educational Leadership (Ed.D.) degree awarded jointly by the UC and CSU systems. The program will target would-be leaders working in Northern California .  

Local educators who must recruit and hire leaders say the program will take the edge off the often difficult search for talent. Typically, they look within the teacher, professor, and dean ranks for candidates, but without many local options for getting an advanced degree in educational leadership, many lack the necessary training.  

The application deadline for the new program is February 1, 2005. Information is posted online at http://education.ucdavis.edu/academic/edd/delcra.html.