The strategic plan is not intended to be all-encompassing. It is designed to provide focus on key initiatives we commit to act on to move toward our vision. We believe the goals, action steps, and metrics of success are within the COE’s influence to change, address, and/or improve upon.
The strategic plan goals are focused on Inclusive Excellence and Sustainability in Education that are supported by Discovery, Learning, and Engagement.
Our goals are aligned with our values, vision, and mission to take decisive steps through a five-year strategic plan period ending in 2026 focused on inclusive excellence and sustainability in education. Strategic plans work when there is a clearly established execution plan that includes focused goals, action steps, and metrics of success.
Goal 1: Implement teacher education innovation as a means of improving sustainable practices in education that impact the world around us.
Goal 2: Increase student enrollment and retention with recruiting emphasis on historically underrepresented groups.
Goal 3: Promote positive climate practices that value and showcase work in support of inclusive excellence.
ALL GOALS INCLUDE AND DEPEND ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE DATA DASHBOARD
This strategic plan is predicated on careful measurement, data collection, and publishing of results. It is critical for the COE to commit to the development of an execution plan process including the development of data dashboards to monitor progress and results.
We recognize inclusive excellence as integral to our vision, mission, and a just world. We believe inclusion is fundamental to excellence and thus integral to rigorous scholarly pursuits, and academic success. We believe in the intentional incorporation of cultures, worldviews, histories, traditions, talents, and perspectives of all people across all places. Inclusive excellence defines diversity broadly and includes race, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, social class, age, (dis)ability, sexual orientation, and gender identity and gender expression, as well as diversity of thought. Inclusive excellence situates that diversity is a powerful, sustaining community strength that must be consistently and actively practiced to achieve outstanding discovery, learning, and engagement outcomes.
The College of Education’s foundation for transformation is based in sustainability in education. Sustainability in education aims to develop knowledge, skills, and the motivation to act in ways that contribute to improving the interdependent connections of environmental, social, cultural, and economic systems to support enduring effectiveness. Communities are sustained when we invest in diversity, equity, and inclusive practices that allow ALL members of a community to engage, sustain, and improve their communities. Sustainability is at the root of educational endeavors in the College of Education, branching through all areas of activity and scholarship, including discovery, learning, and engagement.
The strategic plan goals are focused on Inclusive Excellence and Sustainability in Education built on our columns of Discovery, Learning, and Engagement. Our goals and strategic priorities are aligned with our values, vision, and mission to take decisive steps through this five-year strategic plan, laying a new foundation of inclusive excellence and sustainability in education. We accept the challenge that Purdue’s College of Education can be an incubator of innovation, laying the foundation for a better educational system for all. As such, our priorities ensure we will:
Goal 1: Implement teacher education innovation as a means of improving sustainable practices in education that impact the world around us.
Goal 2: Increase student enrollment and retention with recruiting emphasis on historically underrepresented groups.
Goal 3: Promote positive climate practices that value and showcase work in support of inclusive excellence.
ALL GOALS INCLUDE AND DEPEND ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE DATA DASHBOARD
