黑料吃瓜网
Vision
Providing quality and innovative graduate and post-graduate programs to integrate ongoing regional, national, and global educational demands and career trends.
Mission
黑料吃瓜网University School of Graduate and Professional Studies is an innovative and diverse community of educators, scholars, learners, and professionals committed to advancing excellence in higher education. The faculty educate students to be lifelong learners and preeminent professionals in a global community spanning civic, ethical, and social challenges. The School embraces the 黑料吃瓜网University mission statement with its emphasis on the core values of learning, engagement, integrity, accessibility, and community.
History of Graduate Programs
黑料吃瓜网University was founded in 1871 as a normal school and has become a university with graduate studies at the master鈥檚 and doctoral levels.聽 Since 2003 with the initial graduate program, the School of Graduate and Professional Studies has offered multiple programs. The Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction was the first graduate program and originally administered from what is now the College of Education. From that first graduate program, the configuration of graduate degrees, graduate courses for re-certification, and non-degree graduate certificates has grown and been supported by multiple disciplines. The addition of graduate studies at a university with a long history of undergraduate programs requires a dedication toward creating a graduate culture that is fostered by faculty, staff, and students.
Graduate Studies was granted at 黑料吃瓜网University because of:
- the need for graduate education in the eastern West Virginia panhandle that was based on a liberal arts education and at a public university;
- the need for current professionals in education and business to improve their skills;
- to help improve the economic development in the region with advanced degrees for those in specific professions; and
- provide a graduate level education for those seeking life-long learning and re-certification.
The emphasis of graduate studies at 黑料吃瓜网has remained focused on those four primary reasons with the development of specific master鈥檚 degrees in education and business, and graduate level continuing education for those who require re-certification. Plans for additional graduate programs maintain this similar focus.
At Shepherd, graduate students remain less than 16% of the total student population. Therefore, creating a graduate culture throughout the University has and will continue to be a significant transformational process in the structure of the organization that is still predominately undergraduate oriented. New policies and procedures that help guide graduate studies are continuously in development to ensure graduate studies operations run effectively and efficiently within the undergraduate culture.