The College of Education and Health Professions celebrated the launch of its WE CARE strategic plan at an all-college college and workers occasion on Aug. 18.

The strategic plan’s central imaginative and prescient is daring: We lead with care. “The College of Education and Health Professions is uniquely poised to find synergies across its diverse programs and advance growth and innovation in education and healthcare,” stated Dean Kate Mamiseishvili. “The WE CARE strategic plan will propel our college to increased national prominence and greater impact in Arkansas.”

WE CARE is an acronym for Wellness and Education Commitment to Arkansas Excellence. Three WE CARE priorities — Caring Culture, Impactful Research and Service to Arkansas — will information the five-year strategic plan.

The management crew unveiled the strategic plan website that gives details about 9 targets and 27 methods that the faculty will give attention to to advance the priorities. The web site additionally contains key motion objects that will likely be activated within the first yr. Among them are:

• Healthy Schools Cluster Hire: To promote collaboration throughout its schooling and well being applications and maximize studying and well being in colleges, the faculty is searching for excellent candidates for 5 tenure-track college positions who’re dedicated to advancing analysis within the signature analysis space of “healthy schools” and representing the next fields: counseling, instructional management, nursing, train science and particular schooling.
• WE CARE Speaker Series: To promote a tradition of analysis excellence, the faculty will host lectures from distinguished students with broad enchantment throughout schooling and well being. The WE CARE speaker sequence will launch on Oct. 5 with a chat from Dr. Cheryl Matius from the University of San Diego about “Birthing the Motherscholar: Research, Theory, and Practice.”
• WE CARE-A-VAN Tours: To strengthen connections with companions in Arkansas, the WE CARE-A-VAN excursions will embrace varied visits to varsities, clinics, stakeholders and alumni throughout the state. The first WE CARE-A-VAN tour is deliberate for Sept. 28-29.

The faculty may also proceed to maintain motion objects that had been launched final yr and have already gained help amongst college and workers. Among them are summer time analysis fellowships, annual writing retreats, Team Up for Education and Health Funds, and Student Field Experience Fields Funds. The faculty will proceed to refine the motion objects, consider the metrics and determine new actions to advance the priorities, targets and methods.

“The success of our actions is vitally important to improve Arkansas’ education and health outcomes and care for our students, faculty, staff and communities,” Mamiseishvili stated. “These are exciting times for the College of Education and Health Professions. We are committed to advancing impactful research, fostering a caring culture, providing transformative educational opportunities for our students and expanding service to Arkansas.”