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Our Mission
Our mission at the Teaching Research Institute (TRI) is to inform and facilitate change in educational and human service systems that improves the quality of life for individuals.
To attain this vision, TRI conducts a comprehensive multi-disciplinary program of research, evaluation, program/model training, development, technical assistance, direct service, and dissemination serving both typical and special populations of all ages at the local, state, regional, and national levels.
TRI is guided by partnerships with consumers, families, and practitioners and measures the effectiveness of its work by the impact on their lives.
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Our History
The Teaching Research Institute (TRI), established in the early 1960s as a research and development arm of the Oregon University System’s (OUS) Chancellor’s Office, has historically followed a course congruent with state and national issues in education and human services. In 1989, TRI was transferred from the OUS to Western Oregon University (WOU) and has since become an integral part of the campus community.
Throughout its history TRI has been a facilitator of educational and human service improvement with a national reputation in the field of education. TRI has fostered close working relationships with many schools, districts and teacher education programs. Although its foundation was in educational research, teacher education and instructional technology, a focus on special education in the mid 1970’s led TRI to its continued national prominence, initially in early childhood special education and services to students with deaf-blindness, and now also to those with traumatic brain injuries.
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TRI Today
In addition to being housed in two locations on the WOU campus, in historic Todd Hall and in the College of Education, TRI has an additional Institute office in Eugene, as well as project offices in New York, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Tennessee. Current work continues to align with local, state and national issues in regular and special education, as well as human services and TRI projects are working in every state within the country, as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin.
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