{"id":1248,"date":"2026-10-05T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/?page_id=1248"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:45:26","slug":"secretary-katie-jenner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/secretary-katie-jenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Jenner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Dr-Jenner-Headshot-highres-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1249\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.667006229675195;width:378px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Dr-Jenner-Headshot-highres-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Dr-Jenner-Headshot-highres-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Dr-Jenner-Headshot-highres-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Dr-Jenner-Headshot-highres-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Dr-Jenner-Headshot-highres-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Dr-Jenner-Headshot-highres-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katie Jenner<br>Secretary of Education, Indiana Government<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Katie Jenner serves as Indiana\u2019s first Secretary of Education, leading a unified, student-centered vision from K\u201312 through higher education. As a member of the Governor\u2019s cabinet, she oversees eight agencies and boards that represent approximately 60% of the state budget. This includes leading the Indiana Department of Education and the Commission for Higher Education and chairing the State Board of Education.<br><br>Under her leadership, Indiana has seen rising literacy rates, improved chronic absenteeism, record high graduation rates, new future-focused diploma requirements, a redesigned through-year assessment model, a student-centered accountability system, and expanded transparency through the Indiana GPS Dashboard. Higher education wins include holding tuition flat, aligning degree programs with workforce needs, unlocking new federal aid for short-term training, and connecting institutional funding to student outcomes.<br><br>Dr. Jenner is a former teacher with leadership experience in K-12 and higher education. She lives in Madison with her husband and twin daughters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie JennerSecretary of Education, Indiana Government Dr. Katie Jenner serves as Indiana\u2019s first Secretary of Education, leading a unified, student-centered vision from K\u201312 through higher education. As a member of the Governor\u2019s cabinet, she oversees eight agencies and boards that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/events\/ai-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}