Category: Centers

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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...
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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...
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Hogue accepted to IYI Emerging Leaders of Color Fellowship cohort

The Indiana Youth Institute (IYI) named Breanya Hogue to its Emerging Leaders of Color Fellowship (ELoC) Cohort 3. Hogue, assistant professor of language and literacy in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, also directs the Purdue CDF Freedom School Program-FUMC,...
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Paul Asunda

Purdue CATALYST names Asunda as new executive director

The Center for Advancing the Teaching and Learning of STEM (CATALYST) named Paul Asunda as its new Executive Director. He succeeds Lynn Bryan, emerita professor of science and STEM education and emerita director of CATALYST, who retired in 2024. The...
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ELRC’s Somalia education evaluation report recognized as a Purdue Fall 2025 Featured Dataset

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) recognized the College of Education’s Evaluation and Learning Research Center’s "Somalia Education Evaluation Reports" as a PURR Fall 2025 Featured Dataset. This selective distinction acknowledges exemplary publications that align with PURR’s mission for open,...
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