Enhance Student Access AND Success

The five focus areas guiding the college of education's strategic plan start with an initiative that aims to benefit students as greatly as possible.

Focus Area #1:

Enhance Student Access AND Success

This focus area has four key objectives: 

• Student needs-based programming 

• Clearly defined student pathways  

• School culture that prepares graduates for real world success

• Faculty and staff prepared to facilitate student Access AND Success 

The College of Education not only sets these goals, but it also decides the best strategies for how to meet them. 

Improving the efforts of the recruiting associated with the College of Education is step one. This involves an increase of participation from the faculty within the process of recruiting new students, as well as better coordination between the college and the University's Admissions Office. 

Along with increasing involvement in the recruitment of students, the college will create a theme that embodies each department, and the characteristics that make the Troy University College of Education a prospective student's top pick
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An improvement in the marketing and matching of students that fit the college's offerings create better opportunities for prospective students. 

Along with improving the recruitment of students, the college wants to better collect and analyze data in order to monitor student progress. Through student support systems across campus, the various difficulties that students face can be heard, and action can be taken at both program and student levels. 


The college's connections, and the corporation of those connections, can help to determine what resources are needed. Resources for students in need of support to stay in school and succeed, and resources that help boost students' performance at multiple different levels, including personal, professional, and leadership. 


Founding the Boys II Bow Ties Academy in 2015, Troy’s College of Education alumnus Daryll Blakely is an outstanding example of the change this focus area can bring. 

A mentoring and step-team group for young men in 3rd to 5th grade, Boys II Bow Ties perform acts of kindness for people throughout their school. 

Blakely earned his bachelor’s in elementary education, his master’s in elementary education and his master’s in educational leadership and administration from Troy University, and says, 

“My parents and teachers encouraged me to plan and go for my dreams.”  

Educating, growing and shaping leaders just like Daryll is the college of education's mission.