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College of Education
University of South Florida
The College of Education (COE) at the University of South Florida is a comprehensive metropolitan COE and one of the largest units of its type in the United States. We opened our doors in August 1960, with a charter faculty of ten. Since that time, we have grown to a faculty of 173 tenured and tenure-earning faculties across four campus sites with a total FTE (including part time and visiting instructional faculty) of 147.
Today we have a rich diversity of academic and research programs, faculty and students. We enroll approximately 4,800 students in our undergraduate and graduate programs and contribute 28% of the total university student credit hours.
During the past year, we have received over $16 million in external grants and contracts in support of our research and professional service efforts. In addition, we are attempting to raise $12 million in private support for scholarships, endowments and special projects in the COE. To date, we have achieved nearly $9 million of that amount.
The COE is organized for administrative purposes into seven academic departments:
We also encompass an array of distinguished Centers that both private and public funds support. These include:
Over the past two years, we have opened our doors to a new $22 million state-of-the-art education facility. The Education Complex consists of facilities with technology support to enable both contemporary and future technological innovation to enhance teaching and learning. Embedded in the new and renovated structures are computer labs, technology support systems and multimedia production facilities equal to no other in the country.
Consistent with our emphasis on clinical education and research, we have opened two new public schools, Pizzo Elementary School and the USF Charter School , while continuing to support the Center for Creative Learning, our early childhood facility. In addition to supporting the operations of these three campus based schools, we have invested in partnerships with four school districts for the specific purpose of establishing Professional Development Schools. Currently eight such schools in four counties provide extensive and continuous professional opportunities for research and practice for our students, teachers and university personnel.
Established as one of our missions in 1993, we embrace the dual statements of “Improving the Schools of Today” and “Inventing the Schools of Tomorrow”. The COE views is one such "school" recognizing that this College must continuously improve our educational programs and practices through self-examination, reform and renewal.
To this end, we have embarked upon a planning process to create and sustain a new educational culture. The planning endeavor with defined accountability parameters has occurred primarily through the Council of Chairs and has incorporated both departmental and college based values. Beginning in January 1998, departments were asked to present goals and objectives for each department for a five-year period, 1998-2003. Each of these plans was presented during a Chairs' retreat. From these reports, six general themes were developed:
These themes represent our core values and provide a basis from which college goals could be derived. These themes were presented to the full faculty in fall, 1998, and Chairs were asked to discuss them and apply them to the work of the departments. In addition, particular goals related to undergraduate and graduate education were also developed. What follows is a description and delineation of College Goals based upon these themes.
Techniques used:
• Conversational tone (using we, instead of College of Education ) (Titta web page, page 2)
• More Paragraphs (Neilsen, 101)
• Bullets (Nielsen, p.105)
• Headers for scannability (Fleming web page, page 4)
• Correct Page Title (Nielsen, 123)