The graduate program in education seeks to integrate general education, cultural improvement, and professional excellence. The specific aims of these programs are:
to extend and deepen knowledge by scholarly research;
to assist those who wish to secure specialized training in order to improve their occupational competency;
to supply the need of advanced training for special purposes, especially in the fields of teaching and other human services;
to offer the graduate student body the opportunity to join with the
faculty of the University in the common pursuit of learning, wherein the
students are encouraged to develop according to their individual capacities
and to learn to live and work together as a community of scholars;