Welcome to the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies. This Handbook has been prepared by the faculty as an aid from your initial registration in one of the graduate programs of the Department to your graduation. It includes policies, procedures, and other information which graduate students and faculty members identified as important to have in a single publication. Much of the information is quoted directly from other sources; other information is paraphrased or adapted from relevant documents. You are advised to consult the following for more complete coverage of the policies and procedures for graduate students:

The University of Iowa General Catalog, published biannually. See the sections for the College of Education and the Graduate College.  The University of Iowa General Catalog is on the World Wide Web at: http://www.uiowa.edu/registrar/catalog.

The Manual of Rules and Regulations of the Graduate College.

The Schedule of Courses, published each semester and summer or available on the World Wide Web at http://isis.uiowa.edu. See sections for the College of Education and the Graduate College.

The Policies and Regulations Affecting Students, published each fall semester.