coe-staff: CAEP and Educator Licensure Coordination

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Colleagues,

COE Institutional assessment, UO regional accreditation, decennial review of a COE department for the third year in a row, US News, AACTE, and federal data reporting requirements, and new state regulations and requirements related to educator preparation are among factors placing heavy reporting and accountability demands on our faculty, staff, and students. Last year, in anticipation of this increased effort, I hired a Director of Institutional Assessment, Julie Wren, to coordinate this work across academic programs and departments, ensure quality control, liaise with UO Institutional Research and other data repositories and reporting units, monitor FERPA compliance in collaboration with the Office of the Registrar, provide coaching to academic programs regarding enrollment management practices, monitor academic program data related to equity and inclusion, create reporting methods for academic programs that are less demanding of faculty time, and other data usage, reporting and direction duties. Julie, Richelle Krotts, Keith Hollenbeck, Julie Heffernan, and all of our academic program coordinators have done a great job of moving these various initiatives forward in preparation for our accreditation review by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP; www.caepnet.org<http://www.caepnet.org/>). In order to ensure a successful accreditation effort over the next two years I have asked Julie to take on even more responsibilities.

Julie has graciously agreed to oversee all TSPC licensure activities for all of our educator preparation programs for this crucial two year period, which includes all academic departments except CPHS. Over the past year, Julie has participated in both state and national CAEP training and served on TSPC committees to help guide the state’s transition to CAEP. In other words, she has quickly emerged as a leader and trusted voice on educator accreditation issues at both the state and national levels. This experience coupled with her knowledge of our academic programs, university institutional research data and our own assessment systems will assist our college as we advance toward national accreditation.

Julie will be working closely with Richelle Krotts and all of our educator preparation academic program directors; Julie Heffernan, Wendy Machalicek, Keith Hollenbeck, Gina Biancarosa, Angie Whalen and Jason Silveira (music) to coordinate the expanded use of Tk20<x-apple-data-detectors://4> in support of collecting fuller assessment and continuous improvement data required by CAEP. In addition, Julie will be supporting the efforts of two internal CAEP committees, ‘Content Knowledge and Candidate Quality and Selectivity’ and ‘Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Clinical Practice and the use of Technology’ (faculty membership on these committees will be finalized in the coming month).

Having prepared accreditation self-studies, served on external review teams, and coordinated both academic program and college-wide efforts, I know well how challenging national accreditation can be in both education and psychology. Thus I have a full appreciation of the work our faculty and staff have done to date, and the need for further support as CAEP accreditation draws near. I am confident that Julie can provide us with that support.

Regards,
Randy

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