CEHD News

The doctorate has been called a great success story in American education. Yet, educators and others have called for the retooling of the degree to meet the needs of the new century.

Now UofL’s CEHD has been selected to be an important partner in strengthening doctoral education in the nation’s top research universities.

UofL has been chosen by the Carnegie Foundation to participate in the “Carnegie Initiative on the Professional Practice Doctorate.” UofL’s proposal to Carnegie was one of only 20 selected from a large pool of submissions nationwide.

“It is indeed an honor for us to have been selected as one of the few schools to be part of this initiate,” says CEHD’s Dean Robert Felner.

Felner says this special initiative will develop a doctorate in educational leadership that will “break the mold and help create the model for professional preparation of education leaders necessary to be successful in dealing with the challenges of education now and in the future.”

UofL will partner with the University of Kentucky in the effort.

According to the foundation, the initiative’s goal is to achieve “new forms of doctoral education for the preparation or enhancement of professional practitioners, including those clinical professors who do teacher education in PK-12 school and community college.”