NCATE Standard VI
Unit Governance and
Resources
Element 1. Unit Leadership and
Authority
• Dean
• Four departments
• Teacher Education Center, which provides
advising and counseling for pre-College
admissions;
• Central Alabama Regional Inservice Center
• Zelia Stephens Early Childhood Center
• Off-campus program office, which facilitates
programs in Birmingham, Brewton, and Mobile,
Alabama
Special Programs of the College of
Education
• Principal’s Center for School Reform
• Evening Child Care Program
• Food Safety Professional Development for Early Childhood
Educators
• Abstinence Education Program
• Achievement Gap Initiative
• Special Education Program Grant
• Four-Year Degrees for Head Start Teachers Program
• Reading First Teacher Education Network
• Reading Early Competencies in Teaching Excellence
Program
• Southern Normal 21st Century Community Learning for
Student Success
Admissions, Publications and Student
Services
•
•
•
•
Undergraduate Catalog
Graduate Catalog
The Pilot
ASU Web Site
Collaborative Practitioners
• Teacher Education and Intervention Committee
(TEAIC) is a campus-wide committee bringing
together the College of Education, the College of
Arts and Sciences, and University College.
• The Challenge Advisory Committee (CAC), serves
as an external advisory board and is comprised of
master teachers, administrators, superintendents,
and community members.
• Program Advisory Boards in the various content
and certification areas.
College Leadership Recognized
• Centennial Hill Project, sponsored by the
Montgomery Improvement Association.
• The College has taken an active leadership role in
the Achievement Gap Initiative, aimed at assisting
public schools to improve the educational success
of minority students.
• Individual faculty members also assume leadership
in a wide variety of community organizations.
Professional Development Outreach
• College services extend beyond the College. Professional
development services are provided to the University
community as a means of promoting effective teaching.
These have included technology workshops and training in
the State Department of Education’s evaluation system for
p-12 educators (PEPE) for our Arts and Sciences faculty
and technology workshops for scholars and p-12 students.
• Cross-college programs such as Writing Across the
Curriculum and the Alabama Reading Initiative have also
been implemented. College faculty have conducted
workshops for faculty outside the College on the use of the
internet as an instructional support tool and have provided
a variety of requested services to State personnel.
Professional Development Outreach
• The College received a $100,000 grant from the Alabama
State Department of Education to establish and implement
the Principal’s Center for School Reform, in Brewton,
Alabama, which serves 25 principals and 25 aspiring
principals.
• Another project funded by the Alabama State Department
of Education is the AS3 Initiative: Analysis and Alignment
of Standards for Student Success in Reading and
Mathematics, which services four school districts in the
Central Alabama Black Belt Region: Dallas County,
Lowndes County, Montgomery County, and Selma City.
Professional Development Outreach
• The Central Alabama Regional Education Inservice Center,
housed in Alabama State University’s College of
Education, provides ongoing staff development for over
4,000 teachers, and 150 educational administrators of the
region. The College of Education web page highlights
many of these activities.
Element 2. Unit Budget
2003
2007
$4,359.205
$6,696,971
% of ASU Budget
% of ASU Budget
6.52%
7.94%
ASU College Budgets, per FTE
Faculty/Staff
Total College Budgets, per FTE Faculty and Staff
$90,000
$80,000
$70,000
$60,000
X
$50,000
Dollars
$40,000
$30,000
$20,000
$10,000
$0
Music
Business
Education
Arts & Sciences
College
University College
Health Sciences
Travel and Supplies Budgets, by
College, per FTE Faculty/Staff
Total Supplies and Travel Budget per FTE Faculty and Staff, by College
$35,000
$30,000
$25,000
Dollars
$20,000
Supplies
Travel
$15,000
$10,000
X
$5,000
$0
Music
Business
Education
Arts & Sciences
College
University College
Health Sciences
Number of CoE Full-Time Faculty,
by Year
Number of Full Time College of Education Faculty
48
47
46
Number 45
44
43
42
Fall 2003
Fall 2004
Fall 2005
Semester
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
CoE Student Credit Hours, by
Semester and Year
Student Credit Hours, by Semester
16,000
14,000
12,000
10,000
Credit Hours
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
Fall 2003
Spr 2004
Sum 2004
Fall 2004
Spr 2005
Sum 2005
Semester
Fall 2005
Spring
2006
Summer
2006
Fall 2006
Undergraduate and Graduate Credit Hour
Enrollment in the CoE, by Semester and Year
Undergraduate and Graduate Credit Hour Enrolment in the College of Education, 2003 to
Present
10000
9000
8000
7000
6000
Credit Hours
5000
Total UG Credit Hours
Total Grad Credit Hours
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
Fall
2003
Spr
2004
Sum
2004
Fall
2004
Spr
Sum
2005
2005
Semester
Fall
2005
Spring Summer
2006
2006
Fall
2006
Element 3. Unit Personnel
Faculty Scholarly and Service Activity per FTE, 2003 to Present
5
4.5
4
3.5
3
Number of Activities 2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Refereed
Publications
Other Publications
Presentations
Activity Category
Service Activities
Organizational
Memberships
Number of Full and Part-time
Faculty, by Semester and Year
Number of Full-time and Adjunct Faculty, by Semester
100
90
80
70
60
Number of Faculty
50
Number Adjunct
Number Full Time
40
30
20
10
0
Fall
2003
Spr 2004
Sum
2004
Fall
2004
Spr 2005
Sum
2005
Semester
Fall
2005
Spring Summer
2006
2006
Fall
2006
Credit Hours Taught by Full and
Part-time Faculty, by Semester and
Year
Credit Hours Taught by Full-time and Adjunct Faculty, 2003 to Present
8000
7000
6000
5000
Credit Hours 4000
Adjunct Credit Hrs Generated
Full time Credit Hrs Generated
3000
2000
1000
0
Fall
2003
Sum
2004
Spr
2005
Senester
Fall
2005
Summer
2006
Average Class Sizes in the CoE, by
Semester and Year
Average Class Sizes, 2003 to Present
20
18
16
14
12
Candidates 10
UG Class Size
GR Class Size
8
6
4
2
0
Fall 2003
Spr 2004
Sum 2004
Fall 2004
Spr 2005
Semester
Sum 2005
Fall 2005
Spring
2006
Fall 2006
Support for Professional
Development in the CoE
• During the 2006-2007 academic year, the Dean’s
Office of the College of Education has budgeted
$15,439.85 for travel.
• In addition, the various departments of the
College of Education spent $30,611 for professional
travel during the 2005-2006 academic year.
• The Vice President for Academic Affairs provides
full funding for all faculty to present papers at
state, regional, national, and international
conferences within their area of expertise.
Element 4. Unit Facilities
• College programs are housed in six buildings:
Curriculum and Instruction (201 Councill Hall),
Foundations and Psychology (208A McGehee
Hall), Instructional Support Systems (204B
Councill Hall), Health and Physical Education
(W244 Acadome), The Early Childhood Center, the
Teacher Education Center (215 Patterson Hall), the
Central Alabama Regional Center (508 Levi
Watkins Learning Center), and the doctoral
program (Suite A, Doctoral Program Annex).
Element 4. Unit Facilities
• Currently, the University is engaged in the
development of a new, dedicated, College of
Education facility. Funding for this facility,
over $30,000,000, has been raised. Estimates
can be made that indicate that 68,000 square
feet of new construction can be dedicated to
our educational programs.
Facilities for Technology
• A distance education facility is available for use in
the Levi Watkins Learning Center. In addition, the
College manages seven fixed location technology
laboratories and one portable wireless lab. The
College also has access to 21 additional technology
laboratories across campus. While these facilities
are all computer laboratories, each has a specific
function such as: a reading lab, math/science
tutorial lab, fine arts lab, portfolio lab, etc.
Element 5. Unit Resources,
including Technology
Support for Assessment
As the unit assessment system has evolved, funding has
been provided from several sources. The unit assessment
system is headed by a full-time Director, supported through
the use of Title III funds, with operational funding
provided through the office of the Dean of the College of
Education. Routine assessments, such as candidate
assessments of instruction, grading, program evaluations,
and comprehensive examinations, are derived from
departmental funding, as in past years. The University
Testing Center conducts the candidates’ assessment of
courses (Student Course Evaluation).
Technology Services
• Technical support is available to the College through the
University’s Management Information
Systems and Academic Computing. These
services include the planning, development, acquisition,
and operation of institutional networking and
telecommunications services, information systems, data
administration, and information technology infrastructure
support. In response to requests made to the University’s
Computer Help Desk, technicians come to the labs and to
faculty and administrative offices to assist with networking
or software problems.
Technology Services
• Through the office of the Academic Computing
Coordinator, workshops are available on an on-going
basis, helping full and part-time faculty acquire the
necessary skills to use such College-prescribed software as
Blackboard and LiveText. Each semester workshops are
also held to update faculty on the latest advances in
instructional technology, such as podcasting, Camtasia,
SPSS, N6, Eluminate, VoxProxy, SmartBoard, etc. Each of
these programs is utilized in one or more programs of the
College of Education, with Blackboard and LiveText
utilized in almost all programs.
Library Services
The ASU Library supports the College of Education’s
mission with several different programs. Descriptions and
actual services, including the Library catalog, can be found
on the Internet. In addition to the availability of traditional
print and microfiche materials, the library maintains a
broad collection of data bases, many which support
education directly, and include ERIC, Academic Search
Elite (containing information on 3200 journals including
1000 with full text), Nexus Lexis, and Academic Search
Premier (which maintains a total of 3500 full text scholarly
publications) as well as many other data bases related to
specific fields.
Library Services
The Educational Media Center provides additional services
directly to education faculty and candidates. Services
include: assisting candidates in identifying materials useful
to them in preparing units, lesson plans, and other
programs; conducting story hours, tours, and lectures as
requested by the University and community, encouraging
in-class and group meetings, and the use of print and nonprint media. The types of material available for use include
curriculum guides, motion pictures, video cassettes, lesson
plans, units, textbooks, school report forms, bulletin board
materials, education games, devices, dictionaries, vertical
file materials, and encyclopedias. The area also houses the
library collection of media software.
Library Services
The Alabama State Library is a member of The
Montgomery Higher Education Consortium, a
partnership formed to promote cooperation in the
service offered by the Montgomery area higher
education community. Consortium members
include Alabama State University, Auburn
University Montgomery, Faulkner University,
Huntingdon College, Troy State University
Montgomery and Alabama Public Library Service.
Library Services
The library collection contains over 286,682
book volumes, 47,326 electronic books, 1,496
serial titles, 2,645,183 microforms, 529
electronic serials, 148 electronic resources,
and 42,798 audio-visuals. In addition,
budgets for 2006-2007 show a total budget of
$1,888,524 for the library’s general fund plus
$459,000 from Title VI program funds.