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Overview, Successes, and Challenges. November 16, 2006 Jonathan Plucker, Director. Outline. Part I: Overview of CEEP Part II: What’s Working at CEEP Part III: Challenges and Strategies. Part I: Overview of CEEP. Part II: What’s Working at CEEP. Impact Strong and Rising.
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Overview, Successes, and Challenges November 16, 2006 Jonathan Plucker, Director
Outline • Part I: Overview of CEEP • Part II: What’s Working at CEEP • Part III: Challenges and Strategies
Impact Strong and Rising • Initiated stark majority of SOE’s press coverage in-state, beginning to garner national press and educational organization attention • Fully indexed in ERIC, LEXIS-NEXUS is also interested • Numerous national conference presentations • Increasing number of journal publications and book chapters • People know what CEEP is!
Expanding Our National Influence • Primary evaluation consultants to several US ED programs • Teaching American History • School Leadership • Transition-to-Teaching • Parent Information and Resource Centers • NCES • Recent inroads with IN and GA Depts of Health
Expanding our Global Influence • Exploring collaboration possibilities in China and Africa • Assistance to IU’s area studies centers • Assistance to IU’s accreditation preparation, which focuses on international connections • Visiting Korean scholar and new Chinese graduate assistant next year
Students Employed as Research Associates or Graduate Assistants *Does not include TERC or NAEP
Community Participation • Talks to IU Mini-university,Leagues of Women’s Voters, Marion County COY, IACTE, Indiana Leadership Forum, among other groups • Continued participation in state policy development • Assistance to state-level professional groups • IU faculty and administrators increasingly calling on CEEP for assistance • Area studies centers, biology, chemistry, IU accreditation, major SOE and campus proposals
Cost-saving Measures • Renegotiated building lease (good) • Renegotiated copier leases (good) • Renegotiated cleaning contract (good) • Consolidated receptionist and travel/purchasing positions (good) • Renegotiated facilities cost-recovery formula (good) • Improved technology purchasing (good) • Escaped from “balance scorecard” system (good) • Received $156,000 from SOE to help with overhead (good) • Fewer research associates and project associates, leading to higher workloads (bad)
CEEP Contact Information: Jonathan Plucker Director 509 East Third Street Bloomington, IN 47401-3654 812-855-4438 800-511-6575 Fax: 812-856-5890 http://ceep.indiana.edu