Who is COEHD?
We are a diverse community of scholars, engaging and preparing educators, community leaders, scholars, practitioners, researchers, clinicians, and community activists, from dual credit high school students to undergraduate and graduate, and through lifelong, continuous professional development.
We transform lives and address grand challenges of the future related to education and human development, through our unique interdisciplinary approach, including through our research, teaching, and service.
We embrace and foster social justice through the COEHD Conceptual Framework, in diverse local, national, and global communities. Pursuant to our role as a Hispanic Serving Institution, we engage, advocate, and lead with the diverse communities we serve.
We are committed to the UTSA destinations of becoming a Model for Student Success, a Great Public Research University, and an Innovative Place to Work, Learn and Discover.
COEHD Destination 1: Model for Student Success
Vision
All COEHD students feel a sense of belonging in the college, in their professional communities, and in their program or department. To advance student success, we robustly engage a diverse and vibrant community of students in research, teaching, and community and global impact through education and human development.
Goals
- Foster a sense of belonging for students, through continuously seeking student feedback, providing wraparound student support, and community building.
- Leverage technology and transform pedagogical techniques to meet the needs of all learners, across in-person, hybrid, and online modules.
- Build impactful experiential learning opportunities across the degree to augment career readiness.
COEHD Destination 2: Great Public Research University
Vision
COEHD is a dynamic hub of bold, impactful, collaborative research with local, national, and global significance. COEHD is committed to maximizing its resources to support faculty and students in achieving scholarly excellence in their research, and proactively showcasing their work.
Goals
- Elevate the research profile of COEHD, including the visibility of COEHD research.
- Promote and enable multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and/or interdisciplinary research collaboration at local, national, and global levels.
COEHD Destination 3: Innovative Place to Work, Learn and Discover
Vision
COEHD is intentional about creating a community in which students, faculty and staff thrive. To become an innovative place to work, learn and discover, COEHD maximizes student access intentionally through academic programming, increased student recruitment and retention efforts, and meeting infrastructure needs.
Goals
- Foster a sense of community in COEHD.
- Increase educational access in San Antonio and South Texas.
- Create infrastructures that support a growing and thriving academic community.
