Campuses:
Twin Cities campus
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Twin Cities Campus
Specialist in Education and Special Education Administration CertificateOrganizational Leadership, Policy and Development
College of Education and Human Development
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, 330 Wulling Hall, 86 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-1006; fax: 612-624-3377)
Email:
olpd@umn.edu
Website: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/olpd
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the
General Information section of
this
website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
This program is not accepting new students.
The Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development prepares administrators, scholars, and analysts for leadership roles in education. The department is committed to the preparation of leaders who can act effectively and ethically within the structures, processes, and cultural contexts of organized education.
The department also offers various certificate programs (including program evaluation, staff development, disability policy and services, and preK-12 administration), an individualized concentration in youth leadership development, and minors in international education, social and philosophic studies of education, and program evaluation. See the department website for details on minors and certificate programs.
These graduate programs incorporate relevant knowledge from the behavioral and social sciences and the humanities, with primary reliance on sociology, management science, political science, psychology, public affairs, economics, philosophy, history, and anthropology.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program
is 3.00.
Special Application Requirements:
This program is not accepting new students
Applicants must submit their test score(s) from the following:
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
Key to test
abbreviations
(GRE, TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
A minimum GPA of 3.00
is required for students to remain in good standing.
This certificate is not accepting new students.
The specialist certificate required a minimum of 60 credits of which at least 30 credits had to be in educational administration, 3 credits in leadership, 3 credits in policy; at least 6 credits in curriculum and instruction; at least 9 credits taken outside of educational administration (collateral field) and/or in additional certificate or licensure areas in educational policy and leadership; and a course in human relations.
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