Advantages. As a St. Ambrose graduate student, you’ll experience the highly-personalized academic environment that has put the university on the leading edge of learning. Here, you’ll get the knowledge and credentials for career change or advancement you’re seeking. And you’ll be part of a graduate community that values our Catholic heritage. It’s an exceptional combination that will prepare you to be a professional who makes a real difference in today’s complex, global society.

The MEA is equally well suited for diocesan teachers or educators from the public schools, whether they are preparing for a principalship position or seeking additional studies to augment their classroom experience.

Goals and Objectives
The MEA program’s vision, mission, purpose, and conceptual framework are geared toward developing highly qualified educational administrators:

• Vision: Developing leaders to ensure that all students learn
  at high levels.
• Purpose: To provide aspiring school leaders with strengthened core knowledge, skills, and abilities, resulting in improved student achievement, and to prepare highly qualified administrative candidates with the capacity to lead elementary and secondary schools through the 21st century.
• Mission: To develop competent, caring, and reflective professional administrators who are grounded in the beliefs supporting the Catholic tradition, who are knowledgeable of the human condition, who demonstrate leadership and management skills necessary to be an effective administrator, and the capacity to effect change that results in enhanced student achievement.
• Alignment: Course activities and assessments are aligned with the Iowa Standards for School Leaders.

Program Contacts
Phone: 563-388-7652
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