Our Mission

The mission of the COEHS is to prepare exemplary educators and human services professionals. This mission is accomplished through developing a culture that embraces change, new ideas, and values innovation with continuous assessment that leads to informed growth and development.

Our CORE Values

1. Foster a culture of operational excellence.
2. Encourage diversity, community, educational equity, and social justice.
3. Provide all learners with competent, caring, and qualified teachers and other professionals.
4. Foster access to high quality lifelong learning opportunities .
5. Embody in educators, practitioners, and students high academic standards and professional ethics.

Our Vision

The College of Education and Human Services (COEHS) provides education and services for a society that is open, complex, demanding, and evolving. This is accomplished in an environment of understanding, change, relationship building, knowledge creation through research, scholarship, and the preparation of professionals who serve others to improve the lives of all individuals across their lifespan in a changing and complex global society.

Our Goals

Goal 1: Offer quality programs that respond to the present and emerging lifelong educational needs of our constituencies.

Goal 2: Demonstrate leadership and become community partners in innovation.

Goal 3: Produce and disseminate high quality research at a level that is commensurate with peer institutions.

Goal 4: Ensure a positive organizational culture that values collegiality and multiple perspectives.

Goal 5: Build collaborative partnerships that respond to the educational needs of diverse stakeholders.

Contact Information

Office of the Executive Dean
Marshall University College of Education and Human Services
Jenkins Hall 220, 17th Street @ 5th Avenue, Huntington, WV 25755
Voice: 304/696-3131
Fax: 304/696-6221