An experimental program in leadership preparation

This article describes an experimental program in educational administration offered at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. The program constitutes about 20% of the units in a Master of Arts program in the university's School of Education, and the rest of the curriculum divides about equally between Judaica courses and other education courses. The experiment took place during the 1994-1995 academic year and was the result of a certain degree of dissatisfaction experienced by students and by education committees of synagogues and temples who hire the graduates for educational director positions. The bulk of this article is made up of the description of the implementation of the experimental program, followed by a description of the evaluation of the experiment. In a way, this article offers a set of changes in a small leadership training program. The program and the changes serve as models for adjustment in small leadership preparation programs, particularly those that reside in small private universities. Selections of the pilot study are presented for the first time in this article

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