Our Values
We are committed to creating a community that values and nurtures diversity, equity and inclusion. We work to make our college an equitable and welcoming environment for all and we prepare our students to do the same in their lives and workplaces.
“Education professionals go forth and teach hundreds of thousands of children. This multiplier effect gives you a special responsibility, but also a special opportunity, because the process that ultimately results in the educated person does not begin with the university. It may be reinforced here, but it has to begin with the first contact that the youngster has with a teacher. . . . The teacher who awakens and nourishes in a child the love of learning serves as role model whose ideas fire the imagination.” Steven Beering, Purdue President 1983-2000
We are thought-leaders with a commitment to rigorous academic programs and ground-breaking research. No one - student or faculty - comes to Purdue's College of Education because it will be easy, but because they will have opportunities to learn from and collaborate with top scholars and researchers.
We are a nationally top-ranked college with an excellent global reputation while making our expertise widely available at a local level. Our graduates are known as educational leaders in the P-12 system, higher education and business. Our faculty pioneer research and challenge conventional wisdom about how learning occurs. On campus, across the state, nation and world, Purdue's College of Education is a leader.
