The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate

UVM’s Educational Leadership and Policy Studies EdD program is guided by the following Principles of Best Practice:

Principle 1: Doctoral education emphasizes an inter-professional cohort
model which recognizes the inherent value of collaboration and of the
diverse knowledge, skills, dispositions, and experience that contribute
to group efficacy and individual learning.

Principle 2: Doctoral education examines critical questions of
diversity, equity, and social justice in order to prepare educational