College of Education and Technology

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College of Education and
Technology

• Fall Faculty Meeting
• August 20, 2008

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Mission

• The mission of the education unit at Fort Hays
  State University is
• to prepare professionals for schools,
  business, and industry in a global society.

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Vision Statement

• Professional Educators prepared at Fort Hays
  State University will have the knowledge, skills,
  and commitment to ensure excellence in teaching
  while actively investing in their own
  professional development.
• Professional Educators Prepared for Success

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State of the College

• Program Chart
• Organization Chart
• Refereed Articles
• External Funding
• Service-Learning Projects
• Important Dates
• Directory

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State of the College

• 67 New freshmen
• 95 New transfer students
• 536 Undergraduate majors
• 160 Undergraduate second majors
• 346 Graduate majors
• 19 MLS students
• 93 Undergraduate degrees awarded
• 55 Graduate degrees awarded

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Student Teachers
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Student Teachers
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Foundations of Education
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Exceptional Students
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Transition to Teaching

• Total Alternative Licensure Students Served
  248
• (4, 9, 10, 43, 67, 91)
• Current Enrollment 175
• Beginning in 2008-2009 91
• Beginning in 2007-2008 59/67
• Beginning in 2006-2007 39/43
• 2003-2008 Program Completers
• Licensed and Practicing Teachers 28
• Retention Rate 85.1
• Districts Served 90
• Garden City 14, Liberal 9
• Teaching Subjects 22 Different Teaching Areas
• Agriculture (7), Art (16), Biology (30), Business
  (39), Chemistry (5), English (23),
  Family/Consumer Science (11), French (1), German
  (1), History/Government (3), Journalism (7), Math
  (15), ML-SS, Math, Science (7), Music (6), PE
  (15), Physics (5), Spanish (9), Speech/Theatre
  (2), Technology (7), School Counseling (2)

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Issues in our State

• Community college teacher preparation programs
• For-profit teacher preparation programs
• Endorsement by testing
• Payment of student teachers
• KPA/Internship changes
• Leadership Commission
• Teaching in Kansas Commission

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Scholarship Defined

• "Scholarly activities at Fort Hays State
  University are defined as original, innovative
  intellectual contributions in the form of
  research, practice, creative activity, or
  performance. FHSU recognizes and values the
  diversity of types of scholarship, including
  discovery, pedagogy, integration, engagement, and
  application (Boyer, 1997). Scholarly activities
  must be intended and reasonably expected to lead
  to the production of scholarly works. Scholarly
  works must be communicated with and validated by
  peers beyond the FHSU campus community. The means
  of communication as well as the comparative value
  of types of scholarly activity and work are to be
  determined by each department. These
  determinations will reflect what is commonly
  accepted in the discipline.
• (Boyer, E. L., Scholarship Reconsidered
  Priorities of the Professoriate, Carnegie
  Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1997,
  147 pp.) "

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Provosts Charge

• Departmental level work
• Operationalizing our definition of scholarship
• Review/update faculty evaluation criteria

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Strategic Planning

• Where do we want the college to be in 2020?
• Innovation
• Engagement
• Campus with a Conscience
• Internationalization/Globalization
• Continuous Improvement/Quality Assurance
• Strategic Planning Team

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Continuous Improvement

• Kansas Board of Regents Program Reviews
• January 1, 2009
• Kansas State Department of Education Program
  Approvals
• March 1, 2009
• Preparation for our onsite visit
• March 6 10, 2010

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Accreditation Activities

• Committees
• Meeting Dates
• Minutes
• Program Reviews
• Ongoing data collection and review
• Unit Action Steps
• Unit Data Retreat
• November 4 at Sternberg Museum

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IRC

• Revitalization
• Energizing
• Mission
• Services
• Innovation
• Web Site Development
• Adjourn/Refreshments in the IRC