Masters of Education in Educational Organization and Leadership

Online Master of Education Program
with an emphasis in Educational Leadership and Policy

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Cohort 2 will begin January 2010

The application deadline has been extended.

» Applications will be accepted until Dec. 1, 2009 «

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We encourage our Military Veterans to apply. U.S. Veterans' Financial Aid is applicable for this program.

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Program Summary

This Master of Education degree in Educational Organization and Leadership (EOL) represents an opportunity to build upon the shared expertise of EOL faculty across our two program areas of Higher Education (HE) and Educational Administration and Leadership (EAL). This program strives to develop primary, secondary, and post secondary educational leaders, administrators, and policy analysts who seek to understand and address critical P-12 and higher education issues. Students will study different educational leadership and policy practices and theories with particular focus paid to educational access, equity, and excellence. Students in this program will have the opportunity to specialize in P-12 leadership and policy or in higher education and policy. This program targets a national and international audience interested in P-12 teacher and educational leadership, higher education, and P-20 educational policy. This program does not provide administrative licensure, neither General Administrative (Type 75) nor Superintedency.

This program strives for the following student objectives:

1. Enhance ability to understand critical issues in P-12 learning environments.
2. Enhance ability to understand critical issues in higher education.
3. Examine and critique public policy analytic frameworks and consider their application to educational learning environment spanning diverse P-12 to higher education contexts.
4. Participate in an environment in which theories are explored within authentic, timely contexts through the integration of exemplary practice case studies.
5. Examine and critique leadership frameworks and theories of educational leadership.
6. Understand policy issues influencing P-12 and higher education.
7. Identify how dynamic leadership is crucial to successful learning environments.
8. Expand knowledge base on learning theories and their instructional implications and convert proven learning theories into practical solutions to develop policy for P-20 contexts.
9. Explore the relationships and interconnections of educational leadership and policy issues and implementation

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Tuition/Financial Aid

Tuition – The current tuition and fee rate is $503/credit hour (USD) or $2012 for each 4-hour course and $908 for 2-hour courses. Again, this does include both tuition and fees. Reading or other course materials are not included in this amount. The tuition and fee rate is the same for in-state, out-of-state, and international students. The cost for future courses is subject to moderate changes in accordance with the actions of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

Illinois E-Billing –The University of Illinois is implementing an electronic billing (E-Bill) program for students. Each month, all UI students will receive an e-mail notification to their official University e-mail account, stating that their E-Bill is available. You may read more information about e-billing at http://www.usfsco.uillinois.edu/Billing.html or at http://www.obfs.uillinois.edu/osac/students/index.html

Tuition and Fee Payments Questions – For information or questions about all types of accepted payment methods, please contact the Office of Student Accounts at 217.333.2180.

Financial Aid and Scholarships

Financial Aid is available in the form of:

• Veteran/Military Grants
• Student Aid Loans

Students who are on the standard two-year program are eligible for financial aid each semester. All students are eligible for financial aid in the Summer.

• Summer: Must be enrolled in a minimum 3 credit hours of courses.
• Spring or Fall:  Must be enrolled in a minimum 6 credit hours of courses.
  To qualify, a student must be accepted into a degree-seeking program.

For more information on obtaining Financial Aid please go the University of Illinois Financial Aid Web site or call them at 1-800-252-1360 ext. 30100. To start a Financial Aid application, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

For more information about Veteran's Grants, visit the Federal GI Bill Web site, the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, or the University of Illinois Illinois Veterans Programs Web site (contact them at veterans@illinois.edu or 1-800-252-1360 ext. 39283).

This is a self-supporting program and DOES NOT accept the following tuition and fee waivers (TFWs): Cooperating Teacher waivers, Non-Academic waivers (including University of Illinois employees and employees of other state institutions), Academic waivers from the University of Illinois, U of I-Chicago and U of I-Springfield employees, Related Agency waivers, Field Supervisor waivers or Retiree waivers. 

This program DOES accept statutory waivers (veterans grants, etc) and waivers granted through fellowships/assistantships as governed by the Graduate College at Illinois.  The waiver policy above is subject to moderate changes in accordance with the actions of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

On-campus master's degree programs in the College of Education do accept tuition waivers.

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Schedule/Courses

The detailed Cohort 1 Course Schedule displays the course sequence with dates for the following required courses:

Course Sequence - All courses are 4 credit hour courses except where noted

• EOL 540: Introduction to Educational Administration
• EOL 570: Organization of Higher Education
• EPSY 407: Adult Learning and Development (Foundations course)
• EPS 405: Historical and Social Barriers
• EOL 588: Capstone Experience I (2 hours)
• EOL 549: Administration Theory
  Elective choice:
    --Either--
• EOL 577: Public Policy in Higher Education (Higher Education Specialization elective)
     --Or--
• EOL 550: Leadership and Professional Development (Educational Administration & Leadership (PK-12) Specialization elective)
• EOL 548:  Political & Cultural Context of Education
• EOL 576: Higher Education Finance
• EOL 588: Capstone Experience II (2 hours)

»All courses will hold a weekly online synchronous session. Synchronous sessions for most courses will be held on Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00pm, CST. Attendance for all synchronolus sessions is required. When two courses are held during the same term, then the alternate time for the synchronous sessions will be announced at that time.« 

»Course offerings and times may be subject to change at the discretion of the program coordinators.«

Click here for the Cohort 2 Course Schedule.

This link opens the combined course sequence/schedule for Cohorts 1, 2 & 3.

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