NCATE Standard VI

1. NCATE Standard VI Unit Governance and Resources

2. 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

3. 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

4. Admissions, Publications and Student Services • Undergraduate Catalog • Graduate Catalog • The Pilot • ASU Web Site

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 2003 $4,359.205 % of ASU Budget 6.52% 2007 $6,696,971 % of ASU Budget 7.94% Element 2. Unit Budget

11. ASU College Budgets, per FTE Faculty/Staff X

12. Travel and Supplies Budgets, by College, per FTE Faculty/Staff X

13. Number of CoE Full-Time Faculty, by Year

14. CoE Student Credit Hours, by Semester and Year

15. Undergraduate and Graduate Credit Hour Enrollment in the CoE, by Semester and Year

16. Element 3. Unit Personnel

17. Number of Full and Part-time Faculty, by Semester and Year

18. Credit Hours Taught by Full and Part-time Faculty, by Semester and Year

19. Average Class Sizes in the CoE, by Semester and Year

20. 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.

21. 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).

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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).

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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 non-print 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.

29. 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.

30. 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.