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College of Education
Vision
The College of Education will become a regional leader for the professional preparation and continuing development of reflective educators and other stakeholders by creating a transcultural community of public and private partnerships that will facilitate enriched opportunities for student learning.
Mission
To achieve our vision, the College of Education will emphasize five major commitments that, together, define our mission and provide a clear pathway toward greatness.
A Commitment to Academic Distinction in Undergraduate and Graduate Education:
Our first responsibility is to our students. We shall build upon our tradition of preparing exemplary professionals for work in schools. Our pursuit of academic distinction will be deliberate, decisive, and designed to cultivate a cadre of educated and thoughtful learners. We will provide a rigorous academic environment and a student-centered pedagogy that ensure high standards. We are committed to the integration of emerging technologies that enhance instructional delivery, program development, and student learning.
A Commitment to Collaboration:
We shall create, maintain, and refine focused and well-chosen external collaborations. Successful change requires us to engage in sustained long-term relationships that will link the College of Education, schools, and community agencies as sources for ideas, support, and assistance. Alliances with P-12 colleagues through partner school and professional development school initiatives and further linkages with our regional community through campus and community internships and additional collaborations will be key attributes of our learning paradigm. Collaboration among all Georgia Southern University Colleges will be invited, sustained, and nurtured. We will be the initiators who develop a collaborative culture that really works.
A Commitment to Diversity:
It is imperative that we prepare our students for work in diverse settings from classrooms to clinics and from computer labs to community agencies. It is essential for the College of Education to ensure that embracing diversity in its many dimensions becomes an important theme undergirding and informing our programs. All of our graduates must function successfully in communities that are characterized by racial, cultural, class, and ability differences and that are challenged by expanding and emerging technology and large shifts in population. We shall continue to define, devise, and develop ways to achieve greater diversity in undergraduate, graduate and terminal degree programs through recruitment, admission, and retention policies that are sensitive to the differences, needs, and strengths of our students and the communities they represent. We shall, congruent with the vision and mission of the University, continue to engage in affirmative recruitment and retention of women and minorities among our faculty and staff.
A Commitment to Professional Development:
We shall continue to initiate and sustain opportunities for faculty to grow professionally and to become more expert so that their influence in theory and practice is enhanced. Programs that create a context for collaboration and reduce the artificial boundaries of program and department will be maintained, refined, and valued. We are committed to refining our processes and protocols to ensure that service and scholarship are respected and rewarded. We shall continue to promote faculty competence in using and encouraging technology, and we shall continue to refine and develop strategies to encourage and provide incentives for positive change.
A Commitment to Regional Service:
We shall develop practical strategies that meet the challenge of being a truly regional College of Education by carefully selecting programs that promote contemporary practices and emergent technologies for meeting the needs of stakeholders across our entire area of service. We shall also have clearly defined strategies and well articulated priorities for expanding our service and our influence. Instructional opportunities in new sites are important elements of our regional orientation and have clear and significant implications for faculty recruitment, strategic planning and enrollment management. These realities require that we be focused and united in our approaches to managing our resources and serving the needs of our region.