College of Education Strategic Plan 2035

The Auburn University College of Education Strategic Plan 2035 provides a shared framework for aligning our priorities, resources, and efforts. It is intended to guide decision making, support collaboration, and ensure the college’s work remains strategically focused and responsive to the needs of the communities and professions it serves.

In advancing this 10-year plan, the college will prioritize work that demonstrates meaningful impact on student success, discovery, professional practice, and community outcomes, consistent with its mission and land-grant responsibilities. Decisions about investment, priorities, and growth will reflect strategic focus, responsible stewardship, and long term sustainability, recognizing that impact is strengthened through clarity and discipline rather than breadth alone.

The college understands that its mission is carried out through the collective contributions of faculty, staff, and students working across teaching, research, outreach, and engagement. By fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, the college will strengthen effectiveness, trust, and public value. Purposeful partnerships and outreach will extend the reach and relevance of the college’s work, and reputation and confidence will follow from the quality and impact of these efforts.

The framework outlined here provides broad direction and shared priorities while preserving the flexibility needed to support faculty work in research, teaching, and outreach as informed by disciplinary expertise, professional standards, and shared governance processes.

Throughout this plan, health and education are understood as interconnected and mutually reinforcing dimensions of human and community well-being. Together, they encompass the college’s work to advance learning, development, performance, opportunity, and quality of life through teaching, research, clinical practice, and engagement.