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The Office of Policy Planning serves as a resource for short- and long-term strategic priorities of Purdue University. Its key initiatives include: Purdue@DC, Freedom of Inquiry/Freedom of Speech, Civics Literacy, and a longitudinal study of Critical Thinking skills. The office is led by Senior Vice President for Policy Planning David A. Reingold.
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Senior Vice President
David A. Reingold is the Senior Vice President for Policy Planning at Purdue University and the Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University on the West Lafayette Campus where he is a Professor in the Department of Sociology.
As Senior Vice President, he is responsible for coordinating Purdue’s footprint in the nation’s capital through the Purdue@DC initiative, leading Purdue’s freedom of expression and freedom of inquiry efforts, implementing Purdue’s system wide civics literacy graduation requirement, and advancing critical thinking across the curriculum, among other university-wide initiatives.