The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate

1.  Doctoral education produces leaders who make an impact in their local communities. 

2.  Doctoral education provides local leaders with tools and resources to help them (leaders) find solutions to specific problems.

3.  Doctoral education assumes that students are experts in their local communities.

4.  Doctoral education is embedded within the local community.

5.  Doctoral education has a curriculum that is multi-disciplinary and student-driven. 

6.  Doctoral education links research methods, theoretical and conceptual frameworks to their potential use to local contexts.

7.  Doctoral education exposes students to a variety of theoretical and conceptual frameworks.