Education is fundamentally transformative. It challenges assumptions, empowers individuals, and cultivates the knowledge and skills necessary for meaningful engagement with the world. Through education, we amplify voices, expand opportunities, and nurture the foundations of sustainable communities. We develop policies that improve lives and provide services that enable individuals to realize their full potential. Education is both our vision for the future and the means through which we achieve it.

At the Penn State College of Education, we are committed to building a more equitable and sustainable world through rigorous scholarship, innovative practice, and meaningful collaboration. As a community of educators, researchers, and practitioners, we pursue excellence in teaching and learning while addressing the complex challenges facing contemporary society. We ask critical questions, examine established practices, and explore new possibilities for educational transformation that can benefit learners across diverse contexts.

Our work reflects a commitment to purposeful, critical, and equitable education. We believe that educational excellence requires both intellectual rigor and a dedication to justice, and we approach our mission with the understanding that positive change requires sustained effort and collective action.

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Acknowledgement of Land

In collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples Student Association (IPSA) and the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance (IFSA)

The Pennsylvania State University campuses are located on the original homelands of the Erie, Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora), Lenape (Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe, Stockbridge-Munsee), Shawnee (Absentee, Eastern, and Oklahoma), Susquehannock, and Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nations. As a land grant institution, we acknowledge and honor the traditional caretakers of these lands and strive to understand and model their responsible stewardship. We also acknowledge the long history of these lands and our place in that history.