Presentation for the Position of Chair, Dept. of Secondary and Middle Grades Education

1. Presentation for the Position of Chair, Dept. of Secondary and Middle Grades Education Jim Cope ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~jcope/MGE Interview/Presentation.ppt

2. Ability to build and maintain a collaborative relationship with all populations. English Department: • 2004 – Faculty Leadership Team • Minutes

3. Ability to build and maintain a collaborative relationship with all populations. College of Humanities and Social Sciences: • Chair, HSS Teaching Effectiveness Taskforce: • Process: • Extensive review of the literature, two faculty surveys (1 and 2), and numerous meetings including work over the summer. • Results

4. Ability to build and maintain a collaborative relationship with all populations. Bagwell College of Education: • Chair, BCOE Space Taskforce: • Surveyed departments and auxiliary units to devise a space plan • Developed guidelines for space allocation • Worked with Dr. E. and others to stop BCOE’s move to TownPoint

5. Ability to build and maintain a collaborative relationship with all populations. Bagwell College of Education: • BCOE Interactive Board Committee • Purpose • Process • Results

6. Ability to build and maintain effective communities of practice. Elementary & Early Childhood Education: Birth – Five Program: • Cobb County Community Development Block Grant • Early Learning Center Advisory Committee • Early Learning Center Construction Committee

7. Ability to work with diverse faculty, students, and administration. Director of Secondary English Education: • Four chairs in last four years • Three deans in last four years • Five new English Education Faculty in last three years • Over 200% growth in majors in last five years

8. Ability to work with diverse faculty, students, and administration. Bagwell College of Education: • One full-time and three interim chairs • One assistant dean • Two interim associate deans • One interim dean

9. Ability to work with diverse faculty, students, and administration. Elementary & Early Childhood Education: • Currently working with twenty-three full-time faculty, approximately fifty part-time faculty, 1400+ undergraduate, and 80+ graduate students in one of the most diverse departments in the university.

10. Efforts to Expand Diversity: English Education Special Program to Attract Minority Faculty EECE Search for Early Childhood Faculty Georgia Council of Teachers of English: • Affiliates Sponsor Award-Winning Multicultural Programs • Teacher for the Dream Award

11. Expertise in curriculum development, program assessment, and accreditation. EECE: • Birth through Five Major Secondary English Education: • NCATE/PSC Review

12. Expertise in managing budgets, supervision of personnel and course scheduling. Elementary & Early Childhood Education: • Managed budget for largest department in the college • Conducting faculty reviews for twenty-two full-time faculty members. • Restructured departmental course scheduling so that schedules are completed on time with full faculty input.

13. Questions and Answers