Administrators Column

Next fall, some aspiring school superintendents in Indiana will be able to earn doctoral degrees closer to home.

In order to offer the three-year doctoral program at its Calumet campus, Purdue University will use distance-education technology to hook up professors and students of educational administration there with their counterparts at the public university's main campus in West Lafayette.

It will be the state's first full doctoral program offered through computer conferences, interactive videoconferences, and electronic mail and other exchanges, university officials said in...