Category: Centers

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Interactive 21st annual Constitution Day slated for Sept. 17

Celebrate U.S. Constitution Day on September 17! Purdue University will officially celebrate U.S. Constitution Day in the Purdue Memorial Union to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Hosted by the College of Education’s James F. Ackerman Center...

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‘Students we serve are capable of great things’: Jack Kent Cooke Foundation provides funding for summer program

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation awarded a $200,000 grant to the College of Education’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute (GER²I) to support the general operations of the GER²I Summer Residential Program. The two-year grant (2026–2028) will help sustain and...

ELRC welcomes 2 new research associates

The College of Education’s Evaluation Learning and Research Center recently welcomed two new evaluation and research associates to its team. Marlo Reeves is an applied sociologist of education specializing in program evaluation across formal and out-of-school educational settings. Her research explores...

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100+ rural educators attend 5th Annual Rural Education Summit

More than 124 educators, administrators, and policy leaders convened on April 17 at Made@Plainfield for the fifth annual Rural Education Summit, a daylong convening co-sponsored by the Purdue Center for Rural Research, Education, and Outreach and the Indiana Small and...

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ELRC partner school receives Office of Engagement’s Exemplary Community Partner Award

The Purdue University Office of Engagement selected Thomas Miller Elementary School as a 2026 JoAnn Miller Exemplary Community Partner of the College of Education’s Evaluation Learning and Research Center (ELRC). The ELRC’s collaboration with Thomas Miller Elementary School is led...

Purdue ELRC takes #NextGiantLeap, names new director

The College of Education named Loran C. Parker as the new director of the Evaluation and Learning Research Center (ELRC). She will succeed Wilella (Willie) Burgess, who has directed the Center for the past 23 years. Parker will officially begin...