Proposal #69
Proposal Title: RESHAPING THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
INTO A GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Anticipated Savings/Revenue: $200,000 - $300,000
Units affected: College of Education, and five departments within the College
Impacted Degrees/Courses: None
Brief Description of Proposal:
This proposal suggests that one way to reduce
the number of Colleges at San Francisco State University -- and to generate savings
through reduction in the number of administrative positions -- would be to reshape
the College of Education into a Graduate School of Education. It is not suggested,
however, that the new unit be placed within another College; rather, following
the model that is employed on many University of California campuses for professional
schools (including UC Berkeley, UCLA, and many others), the new Graduate School
of Education should remain a freestanding unit in the university, accountable
directly to the Provost, and not subordinate to any other College.
The new Graduate School of Education would retain a Dean and some of its existing
levels of support structures (such as a Credentials/Student Services Office).
However, the number of Associate Deans would be reduced from two to one, and
the number of Departments would be reduced from five to three -- thus yielding savings
by eliminating an Associate Dean position and two Chair positions.
It is important that the new Graduate School of Education retain its free-standing
structure because of the numerous state- and nationally-mandated credentialing
and assessment requirements that are unique to the discipline of Education. In
addition, credibility for SF State vis-à-vis other Education programs within
the CSU system will be enhanced by retaining a free-standing Graduate School
of Education. As noted earlier, this model in which individual professional schools
are accepted as free-standing, independent entities in a university is well-established
in the University of California system.
It is also important that the new Graduate School of Education be truly supported
as a graduate professional school with a faculty that is active in adding to
the knowledge base through research and development activities and securing external
funding. Accordingly, the faculty of the college should be supported to have
a nine-unit (three course) teaching load each semester, as is now the case with
the vast majority of the rest of the faculty at SF State.
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