Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives

We Reimagine Learning and Education

GOAL 1

Boost engagement with learning opportunities in the College of Education.

OBJECTIVES

  • Generate and broaden access to new courses and degree programs aligned with societal needs and student interests.
  • Encourage broader participation in the College of Education’s experiential learning opportunities.
  • Create innovative learning opportunities and preparatory pathways that support the educator workforce.

GOAL 2

Sustain equitable learning environments that support diverse learners and advance educational justice.

OBJECTIVES

  • Expand knowledge and use of culturally sustaining teaching approaches, universal design and inclusive pedagogies. 
  • Recognize and reward faculty for exemplary teaching and mentorship that engages equity-based principles and inclusive practices.
  • Implement structures to assess and promote progress toward teaching and learning goals that integrate inclusive curricula, enhance equity in outcomes and serve diverse communities. 

GOAL 3

Advance understanding and application of emerging technologies in teaching and learning.

OBJECTIVES 

  • Expand understanding about the promises and challenges of applying various technologies in educational and developmental contexts.
  • Explore ways to leverage AI and data science to advance equity in education, counseling, human development and quantitative methodology.
  • Ensure EdTerps’ expertise guides partnerships that encourage innovative and ethical applications of AI and emergent technologies in education, counseling, human development and quantitative methodology.

 

We Take on Humanity’s Grand Challenges

GOAL 1

Accelerate scholarship that informs solutions to grand challenges in schools and society.  

OBJECTIVES

  • Strategically recruit and hire faculty that are pursuing new directions in education, counseling, human development and quantitative methodology, including applying and using technology, AI and data science across these fields. 
  • Create spaces that facilitate engagement in rigorous, collaborative research and creative activities.  
  • Increase resources that support EdTerps’ efforts to pursue, secure and sustain external funding opportunities.

GOAL 2

Become the go-to resource for research and programming that inform policy, transform practice and advance equity in education, counseling, human development and quantitative methodology.  

OBJECTIVES

  • Amplify communication and messaging about the real-world impact of the College of Education’s academic programs, scholarship and creative activities. 
  • Build EdTerps’ capacity to disseminate, communicate and translate their work. 
  • Improve organization of and access to College of Education experts and information to create a more seamless experience for external stakeholders and audiences.

GOAL 3

Prepare EdTerps to engage in and lead efforts to transform education for good.

OBJECTIVES

  • Expand opportunities to explore grand challenges in education and human development, as well as their impact on society.
  • Increase EdTerps’ agency and build leadership capacity to effect change and advance the public good. 
  • Promote opportunities to learn about diverse career pathways and opportunities that can impact youth, education and human development.

 

We Invest in People and Communities

GOAL 1

Enhance faculty, staff and student diversity to better support and represent the communities we aim to teach, serve and engage.

OBJECTIVES

  • Ensure all EdTerps, particularly those embracing marginalized and minoritized identities, succeed and thrive.
  • Increase the racial diversity of students recruited to and successfully completing College of Education programs. 
  • Foster a culture that celebrates diversity, practices inclusion and advances equity through scholarship, teaching and practice.

GOAL 2

Foster well-being and a sense of belonging within the College of Education community.

OBJECTIVES 

  • Identify important factors in and opportunities to support well-being and community connections. 
  • Intentionally onboard and introduce new EdTerps to the College of Education and the ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ®. 
  • Produce community activities and interventions that support holistic health and connection.

GOAL 3

Unlock EdTerps’ potential, increasing their ability to achieve their goals and become leaders in their respective fields.

OBJECTIVES

  • Strengthen infrastructure to promote excellence, retention and advancement.
  • Expand access to and engagement in high-quality mentoring interactions and relationships.
  • Increase opportunities for intentional career exploration and professional development. 

GOAL 4

Create a validating and inspiring environment for EdTerps to interact, learn and work.

OBJECTIVES

  • Advance plans to reenvision and renovate the Benjamin Building.
  • Maximize and enhance physical spaces that optimize opportunities for innovation, connection and collaboration. 
  • Collaborate to coconstruct affinity spaces that reflect and support our diverse community and the populations we serve.

 

We Partner to Advance the Public Good

GOAL 1

Activate EdTerps’ engagement in policymaking, programs and advocacy efforts that improve individual and societal outcomes. 

OBJECTIVES

  • Cultivate collaborations with government and community stakeholders that are aligned with the College of Education’s areas of focus.
  • Expand curricular and cocurricular opportunities for high-quality student civic and community engagement experiences.
  • Recognize and reward EdTerps’ involvement in impactful community and civic partnerships to advance individual outcomes and the public good. 

GOAL 2

Establish long-term relationships to support school improvement and develop the educator workforce.  

OBJECTIVES

  • Establish and cultivate both new and existing strategic institutional partnerships with early childhood programs and PK-20 organizations and institutions.
  • Formalize sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships based on shared resources and governance.
  • Incentivize sustainable partnership efforts through policy, rewards and recognition. 

GOAL 3

Become a local and global leader in impactful, sustainable and mutually beneficial Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs). 

OBJECTIVES

  • Build infrastructure that scales capacity to establish and sustain RPPs.
  • Incentivize, recognize and reward faculty actively engaged in equity-centered RPPs.
  • Connect and collaborate with current and prospective partners to codesign and develop RPPs.