Educational Leadership Program: School Administrative Leadership (SAL)
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Standard XI-Faculty
The Teacher Education Department includes nineteen full-time faculty positions. The dean and associate hold faculty appointments in the department. Fifteen of the nineteen faculty hold terminal degrees and ten faculty are tenured. Faculty members have teaching experience in public schools. All faculty in teacher education have experience working in elementary, middle, or secondary schools. Sixteen faculty members spend time in public and/ or parochial schools in and around Evansville on a regular basis, supervising education students in field experiences, teaching university courses in partnership schools or collaborating with teachers in arranging and managing education students’ work with children in conjunction with required courses.
USI faculty and students are well known to teachers and administrators in schools in Vanderburgh and surrounding countries, especially in schools where partnerships are in place:
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The Teacher Education Department also relies on the services of part-time faculty, who bring to the university classroom the perspective of day-to-day teaching in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Part-time faculty hold graduate degrees and have an average of 18 years experience. Faculties who work with our program are part-time adjuncts, and often are on the “front lines” of leadership positions with area school corporations. Faculties are involved in the Indiana Association of Teacher Education, as well as other state-specific principal and superintendent organizations.
Dr. Michael Slavkin (left), faculty member in the Teacher Education Department, serves as director of graduate programs in education and also serves as the Teacher Education Department‘s representative to the university’s Graduate Council. The Graduate Council is the university committee that oversees graduate programs. Dr. Peggy Harrel, director of graduate studies and sponsored research, chairs the Graduate Council. Dr. Slavkin chaired the committee that planned the program in educational leadership. He and Dr. John Gray administer the program. Dr. Gray assists in program admission, coordinate the internship, and chairs the program evaluation committee.
New graduate programs and courses, as well as changes in graduate programs and courses, are approved at the department level, school level, and then by the Graduate Council. For new programs, the university’s Academic Planning Council must also grant approval. Faculty and administrators have ample opportunity for participation in planning and approving new programs. University funds for academic programs come from student tuition and state allocations. Supplies and expense budgets also include funds for faculty travel to professional meetings and for supervision of candidates in the internship. The university currently expends approximately $1,600 per year for faculty travel in the Teacher Education Department.
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