Standard 5.1

Exhibit room documents for Standard 5 provide extensive evidence of faculty qualifications, teaching performance, scholarship productivity, service involvement, and collaboration with professional colleagues in the education community. These documents significantly enhance the information presented in this report. (A summary of the faculty's publications, presentations and service , a summary of Faculty Qualifications )

Professional education faculty in the College of Education have earned doctorates, demonstrate exceptional expertise in their fields, have contemporary professional experiences in school settings at the levels that they supervise, and are meaningfully engaged in related scholarship. Clinical faculty are licensed in the fields that they teach or supervise and are master teachers or well recognized for competence in their fields.

The College of Education is comprised of forty-six (46) full-time faculty members in four (4) departments. The following table is the degree levels by department for the Unit.

All full-time faculty members are teaching in the areas of their expertise. Forty-six percent (46%) of all full-time faculty are certified and/or hold licensure in their areas of expertise. Thirty-seven percent (37%) or 17 COE faculty members are certified to teach and nine percent (9%) or 4 COE faculty members are certified or licensed in the specialty areas. Faculty in Foundations and Psychology and Counseling have areas of expertise in counseling, educational psychology, developmental psychology, testing and psychometry, where they have licensure for their areas of expertise.

Part-time or adjunct faculty members comprise an important aspect of the COE instructional staff because they bring their current in-the-field and hands-on experiences as teachers of students in P-12 schools. These professional education faculty include classroom teachers, librarians, media specialists, counselors, supervisors, and administrators. In Curriculum and Instruction, 19 of the 30 or 63% of the adjunct faculty members are certified; in Foundations and Psychology, 7 of the 17 or 41% are certified; in Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 4 of the 14 or 29% are certified; in Instructional Support Programs, 7 of 14 or 50% are certified, and of the 13 who supervise for professional laboratory experiences, several are recently retired teachers, supervisors, or administrators and have many years of experience and expertise. (Credit Hour Production- Full time and adjunct )

College of Education full-time faculty normally have a course load of 9-12 semester hours per semester and 3-6 semester hours during the summer. Some faculty members also supervise candidates for student teaching/internship and are afforded the opportunity to collaborate with cooperating teachers, who hold master's level certification, have a minimum of three years teaching experience, and are recommended by administrators in their schools.

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