Higher Education Consortium For Special Education

Organization/members develop and distribute position papers and other educational policy analyses and statments which focus on the enhancement of member institutions programs to improve the quality of special edcuation doctoral leadership preparation as well as implementation of effective special edcuation and related research.

Organization provides training to members to improve: 1) administration and doctoral leadership skills, 2) quality of doctoral level leadership curriculum and courses of study, 3) quality and currency of research, and 4) ability to properly fund programs.

Organization promotes a vehicle for exchanging information and ideas related to unique concerns of special education faculty at universities, including collection and dissemination of data specific to special education doctoral education.