Core Themes and Goals
The College of Education and Professional Studies promotes a supportive, equitable, collaborative, and engaged learning environment that initiates opportunities for individuals to make intellectual and civic contributions through reflective practice, creative innovation, and practical application. Our core themes, and goals are:
- Teaching and Learning
- Maintain required and initiate new accreditation, national, state, and/or professional standards that relate to teaching and learning in all CEPS programs.
- Provide advising that results in increased efficiency and rate of graduation.
- Inclusiveness and Diversity
- Recognize exemplary teaching, scholarship and service.
- Recruit and retain diverse faculty.
- Recruit and retain diverse students.
- Facilitate inclusiveness throughout CEPS programs.
- Facilitate globalism throughout CEPS programs.
- Scholarship and Creative Expression
- Students and faculty participation in scholarship and/or creative expression activities (e.g., SOURCE).
- Obtain grant and private donation funding.
- Provide and/or maintain hardware and software technologies.
- Public Services and Community Engagement
- Facilitate relationships between CEPS and PK-20 educational institutions and/or business and industry professionals.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary relationships with other universities, colleges and departments.
- Increase participation in university sponsored life-long learning opportunities.
- Resource Development and Stewardship
- Restore departmental office goods and services budget to 2009 levels.
- Expand sources of revenue to support CEPS initiatives.
- Programs will maintain or increase FTES.
- Deliver programs at the centers that have the human resources needed to accomplish programmatic goals.
- Students will be taught primarily by tenure and tenure track positions.
- Facilitate and monitor mentorship program for new faculty, including TT, FTNTT, and lecturers.
- Upgrade and/or add onto buildings and facilities.