The vision of the College of Education and Human Sciences (COEHS) is to be consistently recognized as a leading community that
- develops collaborative, interdisciplinary, innovative leaders;
- engages in scholarly inquiry that transforms our practice;
- enhances the human condition by working effectively with students, clients, and families across disciplines and agencies; and
- promotes social justice and equity in an atmosphere where diversity is valued.
To accomplish this vision, the mission of the COEHS is to prepare professionals who value the interdependent and dynamic nature of the human condition and who perform effectively to strengthen collaborations with community partners. The College’s learning community is based on core values of liberal education, collaboration, social justice, diversity, and reflective practice.
- Liberal Education: Professionals develop dispositions, knowledge, and skills based on a sound liberal education.
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- Liberal education inform and enriches learning experiences embedded in professional education and practice.
- The relationship between liberal education, personal fulfillment, and professional competence is the foundation of professional performance, citizenship, and individual actualization.
- Lifelong learning and professional competence are pursuits that span each graduate’s entire career.
- Collaboration: Professionals collaborate to achieve a shared vision that reflects scientifically-based interdisciplinary practice and public policy.
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- Professional competence is achieved when students are active partners in the professional education programs that cross disciplines in cooperative and shared study, service, and research to the maximum extent possible.
- Social Justice: Professionals work to transform unjust and oppressive educational, social, economic policies/systems into just and non-oppressive alternatives.
- Diversity: Professionals value the unique cultural styles, interaction patterns, and beliefs of every individual and empower people to be socially responsible.
- Reflective Practice: Professionals cultivate a presence of mind that emphasizes continuous conscious analysis of values, assumptions, and strategies underlying their practice and the consequences of that practice on other human beings.
