https://www.uvm.edu/cess/doe
Overview
The University of Vermont's Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration (HESA) graduate program is counted among the top programs in the country preparing professional educators to collaboratively transform higher education. The program welcomes full-time and part-time students with various levels of experience and backgrounds. The student cohort model promotes strong and enduring relationships with fellow colleagues, award-winning faculty, and campus partners. The theory-to-practice curriculum prepares students for a variety of career pathways through engaging and immersive learning experiences.
More information about the UVM HESA program is available on the HESA website. Inquiries should be sent via email to HESA@uvm.edu.
Mission Statement
To develop practitioner scholars through academic and professional preparation whose commitment to reflection and social justice will transform higher education and student affairs in the spirit of The Vermont Connection.
Core Values
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
The program promotes excellence through academic and professional rigor in partnership with colleagues in our professional communities. The program cultivates the knowledge and skills necessary for success as an educator in higher education contexts through classroom and experiential learning as conceptualized by philosopher and UVM alumnus John Dewey.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
The program is committed to pursuing social justice as both a process and goal to dismantle individual, institutional, and societal oppression. In collaboration with our professional and educational communities, the program strives to transform our field for more equitable and inclusive opportunities in higher education.
REFLECTION
The program fosters and supports reflection on self, communities, and contexts as critical for growth in professional practice. The program strives to improve higher education and student affairs by developing critical consciousness in ourselves and others, ultimately promoting individual, institutional, and societal change.
THE VERMONT CONNECTION
The program values and centers connection, co-creation, and community in learning and practice. The Vermont Connection is a collegial network of former and current students, faculty, and higher education professionals with the shared vision of uplifting community through relationships. The Vermont Connection weaves together the past, present, and future of UVM HESA.
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