Our American Education Week celebration addresses the theme of minority achievement. She will focus on why students in the poorest schools need the best teachers. Human Development Professor, John Guithre, will address minority achievement in literacy at our Alumni Awards celebration on November 14. As noted in the committee structure document shared with the Senate earlier this semester, we have initiated a number of committees to help move the college forward towards the goals of the strategic plan. Faculty, staff, and students are actively contributing to helping the college and departments achieve their goals.
External funding continues to grow at an unprecedented pace.
Special congratulations go to the Mathematics Education Group in Curriculum and Instruction and Human Development faculty, John Guthrie and Allan Wigfield, for their particularly sizable awards from the National Science Foundation. The college Assessment and Strategic Plan Update Process is underway. College staff members prepared data reports, and departments completed data-based, written assessments of progress on the goals of the departmental and college strategic plans. In the Spring, the departments and the college will update and focus their strategic plans to improve effectiveness and respond to changing opportunities and threats. Graduate enrollment has increased as have the GRE scores of entering PhD students.