Category: Centers

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...