About IELE

Educational leaders at all levels - elementary and secondary schools, community colleges, colleges, and universities - face numerous challenges in guiding their organizations to higher levels of performance. Some of these issues include addressing accountability pressures emanating from state and federal policy mandates, responding to the public's perception of ineffective public sector leadership, and managing the fiscal realities of maintaining organizational efficiency in times of decreasing state and federal support for education. The need for innovative and creative practices is critical, so that educational leaders can create and sustain quality learning organizations.

The Institute for Executive Leadership in Education (IELE) provides a center for professional development that delivers timely, cutting-edge knowledge that enables educational leaders to:

• design educational institutions that maximize the educational attainment of students;
• balance the organization's operational demands with learning and innovation;
• enhance faculty and staff effectiveness;
• optimize organizational development;
• ensure that organizational change is equitable and socially just;
• incorporate community stakeholders effectively in educational missions; and
• address the political, social, economic, and ethical challenges faced by educational leaders and the institutions they serve.

Effective leaders understand that educational preparation, access, and equity are being redefined by constant evolution in knowledge and information, changing expectations of work and career, increasingly internationalized and globalized economies, and shifting demographics. The IELE creates a forum for leaders across the P-20 educational spectrum to collaboratively explore issues of shared interest. In the process, they enhance their capacity to be innovative, creative, and courageous agents of organizational reform.