COE Reorganization Proposal
from
Department of Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Postsecondary Education

Assumptions Driving Reorganization

• Severe budget cuts forced search for efficiencies
• Proposed restructuring should attempt to enhance effectiveness in serving students through our programs

Consolidate existing departments into three schools
• Create new School of Teacher Education
• Create new School of Advanced Professional Education
• Retain HPELS in its current form

Advantages

• Reduces admin costs (6 heads to 3). Faculty serve as program coordinators with reassigned time.
• Concentrates faculty responsible for teacher ed in single unit, increasing opportunity to develop shared goals and values, collaborate, and conduct research
• Concentrate many faculty responsible for advanced programs (graduate and certificate) in single unit, increasing opportunity to develop shared goals and values, collaborate, and conduct research
• Students will benefit from faculty synergy developed within new focused units

• Some lack of clear faculty affiliation [faculty with undergrad and grad responsibilities may choose primary affiliation]
• May be implications for Master Agreement (e.g. evaluation)
• PAC procedures would require renegotiation
• New structure is only part of the organizational culture issue. While shared values and goals are fundamental to establishing and maintaining culture and may be facilitated by structure, larger issues including reward/incentive system, organizational communication, and physical proximity contribute significantly to organizational culture and must be addressed.