Ed.D. in Educational Administration and Leadership
Program Director: Dr. Shahnaz Lotfipour

The Ed.D. Program in Educational Administration and Leadership is offered jointly by Cal Poly Pomona and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), along with three other partner CSU campuses: CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, and CSU Los Angeles. The program is a rigorous, research-based advanced professional degree that combines the unique resources of UCI and all four CSU partners. It prepares participants for leadership within K-12, community college, higher education, and other institutional settings. The program develops leaders who can apply the critical skills of analysis, inquiry, research and evaluation to advance educational practice and can contribute to the study of educational reform and innovation. The primary emphasis of the program at Cal Poly Pomona is on Educational Technology Leadership, with the aim of advancing the application of a broad range of technologies to achieving significant educational purposes.
The primary emphases of the program at the four CSU campuses are:
- Cal Poly Pomona, Educational Technology Leadership;
- CSU Long Beach, Higher Education/Community College Leadership;
- CSU Fullerton, K-12 Instructional Leadership;
- CSU Los Angeles, K-12 Urban Educational Leadership.
At the time of preparation of this catalog, the CSU/UCI Ed.D. program was undergoing final approvals in accordance with state-level review procedures and WASC approval was pending. For the status of these approvals and additional details about the program and all emphases areas please go to the Web site at http://www.gse.uci.edu/csu-uci-edd/.