SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITYS COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

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SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITYSCOLLEGE OF EDUCATION

• Faculty Meeting
• Spring, 2003

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Agenda Items

• Strategic Planning Document (SPD)
• Why an SPD?
• New Mission Statement
• Process to arrive at SPD
• Executive Committee brainstormed
• Analysis of results led to four distinct
  categories
• Prioritized the brainstorming into the four
  categories
• Determined how to implement the
  components/captions
• This document becomes our blueprint for the future

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• Discussion of and suggestions for the document
  (vote for approval)
• Changes in certification effective fall semester
• No longer the PLT to be recommended
• To ADD a certificatetake and pass the content
  test
• 2.8 to admit (8/15/03) 3.0 to certify
• Post-baccs remain at 2.8 for admission AR is
  looking at thiswill keep you posted

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• 2003/2004 Budget Issues
• Governors budget proposes a 5 cut from last
  years budget
• SSHE asked for an increase of 4.75 over last
  year
• Combined cut plus loss of requested increase
• 9.75 less than last year
• 3.5 million dollars less for SRU in 03/04

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• The realities of SRU/SSHE
• Departmental Productivity the way we are
  measured against other colleges/departments
• Definitions
• Credit hours number of students X number of
  credits for the
  course
• Departmental productivity credit hours/FTE
  faculty
• Examined in categories
• Lower division courses
• Upper division courses
• Graduate courses

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• College of Education Departments
• (University Base s 546.73)
• SEFE 01-02 00-01
• Lower Division 716.79 738.9
• Upper Division 430.73 328.32
• Graduate 377.78 362.83
• Total 516.51 460.68
• ELEC
• Lower Division 744.48 646.22
• Upper Division 426.57 423.81
• Graduate 327.85 271.86
• Total 447.3 409.46

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• SPED 01-02 00-01
• Lower Division 901.5 826.17
• Upper Division 512.35 415.33
• Graduate 337.07 387.98
• Total 599.2 564.32
• CEDP 01-02 00-01
• Lower Division 1406.05 1159.72
• Upper Division 856.84 1020
• Graduate 330.43 324.21
• Total 565.65 553.5

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• PESM
• Lower Division 413.66 N/A
• Upper Division 448.51 N/A
• Graduate 292.62 N/A
• Total 415.34 N/A

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• New Academic Policy on Withdrawals
• Courses dropped in 1st week of semester are not
  recorded on permanent record unless drop all
  courses, then a W.
• Courses dropped weeks 2-10 are recorded as a W.
  After 10th week, students may not withdraw and
  must receive a grade for the course.

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• Courses with fewer than 15 weeks, the deadline is
  2/3 through the course
• Students may not drop basic comp. Courses except
  PE/dance activity courses in the liberal studies
  program

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2001 2002 Praxis ResultsA Job Well Done

• Subject
• PLT (K-6)
• PLT (7-12)
• Elem. Ed. Curr.
• ECE
• English Lang/Lit
• Social Studies Content
• Health/PE
• SPED Application of Core
• SPED Knowledge of Core

• SRU PA
• 94 92
• 90 93
• 94 89
• 100 98
• 88 95
• 86 90
• 98 95
• 96 95
• 96 94

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• Graduate Education The Need is There
• Current State of COEs Graduate Education at SRU
• Total Graduate Credit Hours/FTE Students by
  Department
• Dept. 00 - 01 01 - 02
• CEDP 2844/118.5 2844/118.5
• ELEC 1110/46.25 1256/52.33
• PESM 669/27.88 333/13.88
• SEFE 1062/44.25 1221/50.88
• SPED 1065/44.38 1203/50.13
• TOTAL 6750/281.26 6857/285.72

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• Competitions approach
• Has done away with traditional approach
• Courses meet on Saturdays
• Compressed format classes
• On-line courses
• Ability to complete a masters degree in 18-22
  months
• Leads to smaller colleges having higher number of
  graduate students

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• To compete, we need to
• Recruit top flight students
• Need to encourage graduating seniors to begin
  masters at SRU
• Redesign masters level delivery of courses
• Offer increasing of variety at the North Hills
  (cohort approach)

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• Develop unique approaches to masters programs
• Meet the competition head-on
• Three key elements we have that they dont
• Outstanding faculty who teach the courses (not
  temps)
• NCATE accredited programs
• State System tuition structure

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• Final topic Involvement
• Attendance and presentations
• We do GREAT things share them
• The way we keep up on what is taking place in our
  fields
• State level involvement
• PAC-TE
• State level professional associations
• Regional and National Level
• All are important