Welcome to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis!

Dr. Margaret Grogan On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA), I want to welcome you to our web site. We are very pleased to have you search our web site and very proud to share with you information about our outstanding faculty, staff, and students. 

ELPA prepares expert educational leaders, policy analysts, researchers and scholars. You will find MU's programs both convenient and competitive. Situated in the research-oriented, world-class University of Missouri, the ELPA Department focuses on knowledge generation in a collaborative learning environment. In 2008, U.S.News & World Report ranked one of ELPA’s programs among the best in the nation: Administration and Supervision, ranked 19th.

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Our programs are tailored to that of a busy professional and are offered through on-line, web-assisted, weekend, evening and off-site courses. Whether you complete your degree in educational leadership, higher and continuing education, or educational policy studies, a graduate degree from ELPA will open up many professional doors for you. Our graduates enter many positions such as professors at research universities, superintendents and school principals, policy analysts, researchers at government agencies, student affairs administrators, and university presidents.

The ELPA Department is known for its supportive student environment. Students find many opportunities to become engaged in exciting on-going faculty research projects. In our Department, faculty create diverse environments for student learning. Please contact us for further information.

Consider ELPA if you:

  • Want to improve your organizational leadership skills and knowledge in elementary, secondary or postsecondary settings,
  • Are interested in superintendent or principal certification,
  • Want to become a scholar and researcher in higher education, or
  • Desire to shape policy through legislative or research activity.

Employers of graduates include Pre-K through twelfth grade public, private and alternative school systems, institutions of higher education, state and national government agencies, educational research laboratories and non-profit organizations. 

ELPA is the host institution for the following centers and projects: the Hook Center; the Middle Level Leadership Center (MLLC); the Center for Community College Research, the St Louis New Leaders Project and several outreach partnerships with schools and districts across the state.

ELPA, in collaboration with several Missouri institutions of higher education, launched a highly innovative, Statewide Cooperative Ed.D. program in Educational Leadership, a program that has been showcased at numerous national research and professional meetings. During the past five years the Department's faculty have also been engaged in redesign of its Master's, Educational Specialist, and Ph.D. programs, making them more relevant to the complex scholarly and leadership settings in which our students work and aspire to work.

We sincerely hope our web page is clear and helpful for you. We welcome your feedback and suggestions for improving our communication efforts.

Cordially,

Margaret Grogan
Chair