a promise for the future

A renewed vision and commitment to education for the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education is envisioned in four thematic areas:

• Fostering Quality Teaching and Learning inspires students to become life-long learners, engaged citizens, and successful professionals. We honor the scholarship of teaching as an important area of inquiry that values the formal and informal ways of knowing that come from education practice and the study of teaching.
• Scholarship and Research provides answers to questions that serve to improve and transform the role and effectiveness of P-20 education. Our work is marked by diverse forms of exploration, analysis and knowledge representation, and respect for mutually beneficial relationships among diverse communities.
• Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders and Scholars offers opportunities for students to actively participate in the research endeavors in which our faculty are engaged, and make significant contributions to new knowledge within the field of education.<>/li
• Engagement and Outreach creates opportunities to be a major catalyst for social change. Here, work at the local level generates real-world solutions to global problems. Advocacy and service inspire new and innovative solutions to today’s pressing educational problems.