College of Education Fiscal Year 2011 Accomplishments

The 2011 accomplishments were in the following areas:

Goal 1: Regenerate the professions of teaching, administration, and scholarship

College of Education priority to balance enrollment targets has resulted in a 16% decrease in Elementary Education enrollment, and an increase in programs with a higher need for teachers: Learning Behavior Specialist (+24%), Bilingual/Bicultural Education (+113%), Early Childhood Education (+16%), and Middle Level Education (+28%). College of Education undergraduate enrollment has increased 7% overall.
13 College of Education programs continue to prepare program review reports for ISBE and Specialty Professional Associations (SPA) in advance of the 2012 NCATE accreditation evaluation.
25% of the faculty associates teaching at University High School have National Board Certification, which places it among the top 30 schools in Illinois.

College of Education support of 84 different scholarship funds. $161,000 in scholarships was awarded to 113 deserving and outstanding students, in response to over 3,000 applications for awards.
College of Education was the lead IHE for Illinois’ efforts related to the Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium (TPAC), a national partnership among 20 states and 70 teacher preparation institutions to develop a reliable and valid measure of the core of effective beginning teaching.
College of Education hosted T21con, Teaching in the 21st Century: A Conference on Using Technology to Enhance Classroom Instruction. More than 200 teacher education majors attended, and donors who supported the event have extended their commitment for five years.

College of Education Center for the Study of Education Policy housed the Illinois State Action for Education Leadership Project, which staffed state task forces to provide research and funding to support the statewide principal preparation redesign work. This project resulted in the creation of a more rigorous P-12 principal endorsement.

Thomas Metcalf School students scored an average 16 points higher than the statewide average on the 2010 Illinois Standards Achievement Test; 54.2% exceeded learning standards in mathematics, compared to 28.4% statewide. Approximately 98% of students tested met or exceeded the learning standards in mathematics, and 96% met or exceeded the learning standards in both reading and science.
College of Education has provided professional education via graduate programs by serving students who are geographically distant in cohorts in Chicago (2), Pekin, Springfield, Joliet, and Lake County, as well as a new statewide weekend/blended cohort.
College of Education formalized its second Chicago-based partnership with the Auburn Gresham community to begin collaborative planning for additional Professional Development School (PDS) programming in fall 2011 and updated and renewed its PDS agreements with other school partners.
College of Education Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline hosted the inaugural Summer Teacher Education Partnership for Urban Preparation (STEP-UP) cohort in Little Village. Twenty teacher candidates majoring in high-need disciplines (Math, Science, Special Education, Bilingual Education, and Elementary Education with 3+ endorsements) were selected as program fellows.
College of Education maximized opportunities with program partners by creating much-needed additional workspace at the Uptown Crossing facility adjacent to campus.

College of Education scholarly activity has increased an average of 9% per year since 2007. Total increase in scholarly output from 2007 to 2010 is 30%.
College of Education faculty research programs secured almost $8 million in grants and contracts in the first two quarters of FY11. The Department of Educational Administration and Foundations (including the Center for the Study of Education Policy) continues to be the top-ranking unit university-wide in terms of dollar awards for externally funded projects. In fiscal year 10, the college secured $9,542,268, 44% of the University’s external funding.

College of Education leads the University in its proportion of tenure-track faculty from historically under-represented groups. People of color represent 19.5% of college tenure-track faculty.

College of Education increased access to emerging instructional technology through partnerships with vendors that provided new SMART technology for 5 classrooms, as well as in-kind donations worth $258,000 of assistive technology to the SEAT Center.
College of Education and the Department of Special Education celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Special Education Assistive Technology (SEAT) Center. The Center houses an equipment inventory valued at more than $900,000, supports a registered student organization—Students Using and Integrating Technology in Education (SUITE), and has established partnerships with a number of national organizations and technology manufacturers. The SEAT Center also publishes “Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits.”

College of Education continues to increase endowments available to support college initiatives and teacher candidates. The total of the principal and expendable amounts of the College of Education holdings in the Illinois State University Foundation is $15,109,353, an increase of 23% over fiscal year 10. The current sum of giving to the College of Education thus far in fiscal year 2011 is $1,338,590 with an additional deferred gift of $32,500. In addition, the total amount of active deferred expectancies for College of Education is $5,752,066, representing documented planned gifts from 52 donors.
College of Education Laboratory Schools’ alumni and donors have contributed $1,163,573 for the support of students, facility renovations, faculty development and student scholarships at U-High and Thomas Metcalf School. The current total of the principal, savings, and expendable amounts of the Laboratory School’s holdings in the ISU Foundation is $876,225.

College of Education posted a 60% decrease in the deficit historically generated by the costs of supervision and non-tenure track faculty instruction. While still short of the personnel dollars needed, less variance is needed to cover ongoing payroll expenses.