Our size—large enough to offer a breadth of ideas, resources, and opportunities, yet intimate enough to enable close faculty-student mentorship across all levels of study—allows us to pursue these interconnected issues through cross-disciplinary research and collaboration.
At the core of our work is a commitment to provide an unparalleled educational experience for our students and ensure their success. As one of the nation’s first land grant universities, UVM advances Vermont and the broader society through the discovery and application of new knowledge.
Welcome to the College of Education and Social Services at UVM
We strive to create a more humane and just society that maximizes human potential and the quality of life for all individuals, families, and communities. I am honored to serve as the dean of our extraordinary community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Dean's Welcome MessageOur Mission and Values
Mission
The mission of College of Education and Social Services (CESS) is to educate and prepare outstanding professionals in education, social work, and human services; to engage in policy relevant scholarship of highest quality; and to provide exemplary professional service within the state of Vermont, nationally, and globally.
Values: Our Common Ground at UVM
The University of Vermont is an educationally purposeful community seeking to prepare students to live in a diverse and changing world. We aspire to be a community that values: Respect, Integrity, Innovation, Openness, Justice, and Responsibility.
Our People, Programs, Research and Service
We strive to improve lives, strengthen communities, and create a more humane and just society.
Faculty and Staff Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs Research Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Experiential Learning and Internships Graduate Student Community and Experiences Student and Alumni Success Center on Disability and Community Inclusion (CDCI) Child Welfare Training PartnershipAligning Our Mission and Values with Student Success
We cultivate interdisciplinary connections in education, human development, counseling and social work to improve lives and strengthen communities.
Our student-centered approach is research-informed, community-engaged, culturally responsive, and collaboratively designed. CESS graduates make an profound impact on society through rewarding careers in Vermont and throughout the United States and abroad, such as:
- Teachers, principals, superintendents, counselors, and educational leaders in school districts throughout Vermont and the nation;
- Mental health counselors, social workers and human service professionals in education, family services, foundations, healthcare, hospice centers, immigration services, social and rehabilitation services, government agencies, and the private sector;
- Deans, faculty, researchers, student affairs professionals and administrators at colleges and universities;
- Innovative leaders in alternative educational settings, technology companies, art programs, museums, galleries, science centers, healthcare, social service agencies, youth programs, and the Peace Corps;
- Graduate students in master's and doctoral programs in education, social work, counseling, the arts, music, public health, health care, family therapy, family law, and other disciplines.