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Overview

The University

National-Louis University has been a leader in education since its beginning in 1886 as National College of Education. Innovation has been a part of its over 125-year history--first with programs for children like PTA and Head Start, then more recently with programs for adults. For more than a decade, these programs have been meeting the emerging educational needs of the adult learner.

Today, National-Louis University is a diverse institution with undergraduate and graduate programs in areas including adult education, business, education human services, allied health, and computer information systems. With a commitment to making degree completion accessible to the working adult, National-Louis University maintains multiple campuses/centers located in the United States and Poland. In addition to Chicago-area locations (downtown Chicago, Elgin, Lisle, Skokie, Wheeling), campuses are located in McLean, Virginia; Tampa, Florida; Washington, D.C.; and Milwaukee and Beloit, Wisconsin.

Accreditation

National-Louis University is accredited by the North Central Association of College and Schools.

The Community College Leadership (CCL) Doctoral Program

The community college has long been seen as a center of educational opportunity. They are an American invention and have over a 100 year rich history. Community colleges welcome all who want to learn and are know for their accessibility and affordability. Now numbering over 2,000, they continue to evolve in response to the needs of their communities. This new doctorate in Community College Leadership (CCL) enables the university to provide a “distinctive” program that will meet the unique needs of leaders in urban, suburban and rural community colleges.

This program was developed in partnership with community college faculty and administrators. The CCL program responds to the institutional priority to “increase interdisciplinary and cross-college initiatives” by building on the strengths of doctoral programs in College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the National College of Education (NCE). In strategic plans, developed in 2002, both the College of Arts and Sciences and the National College of Education called for an increase in interdisciplinary initiatives. Finally, this program responds to the institutional priority — to “increase interdisciplinary and cross-college initiatives” by building on the strengths of doctoral programs in CAS and NCE.