About the College of Education and Human Services

College

The College offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education, Middle Grades Education and Physical Education (including a recreation and fitness track); a non-degree fifth-year program; the Master of Arts in Education; the Master of Arts in Teaching; and a post Master’s level Rank I program. The College offers certification areas in interdisciplinary early childhood education (Birth-5), elementary education (P-5), middle grades education (5-9), and secondary education (8-12) as well as 5-12 certification in business education and P-12 certification in physical education, health education, music, art, foreign languages, and special education. The College has 40 full-time faculty members, 12 full-time support staff, an annual budget of $3.5 M, approximately 1316 undergraduate majors and 513 graduate students, and produces approximately 9785 Student Credit Hours (SCH) per semester. The College provides a variety of innovative outreach programs to the community and has been the recipient of several significant grants, the most recent a $1.1M U S DOE PT3 grant for technology. The College recently received a $1.5 M gift for an endowed chair in educational leadership.

The College of Education and Human Services is organized into five components:  (1) the Dean’s office including the Associate Dean who also coordinates graduate studies in education, advisement and record keeping for graduate students; (2) the Advising Center that oversees undergraduate admissions, testing, advising, admission to professional education, practicum experiences in undergraduate programs, student teaching, state certification, the Kentucky new teacher and principal intern programs (KTIP and KPIP), local school services, and advisement and record keeping for the undergraduate program, including data entry for the Kentucky data base; (3) the Department of Teacher Education and School Leadership; (4) the Department of Kinesiology, Health, & Educational Foundations that includes interdisciplinary early childhood education, special education, health and physical education, educational leadership, the Master of Arts in Teaching program, minority recruitment and retention, and technology; and (5) the Department of Counseling, Human Services, and Social Work.

Accreditations, Affiliations, & Memberships

The College of Education and Human Services at Northern Kentucky University is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036; phone (202) 466-7496. This accreditation covers initial teacher preparation programs and advanced educator preparation programs.

We are a member of the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), and the Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities (TECSCU).

The College of Education and Human Services is affiliated with the Kentucky Association of School Administrators and sponsors the Student Council for Exceptional Children, the Northern Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Physical Education/Recreation Fitness Club, the Student Education Association, the Preservice Technology Leadership Program (PTLP) and a number of alliances with P - 12 and preservice teachers, Arts and Science faculty, and Education faculty in each of the disciplines.

Diversity

In the College of Education and Human Services, diversity is an inclusive concept that refers to administrators, university and school faculty, support staff, P-12 schools, curricula, and candidate experiences. Diversity encompasses membership in under-represented groups based on ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation, cultural, diverse perspectives on issues, geographical area and the unique qualities that separate Kentucky from the southeast other states. The unit has designed and implemented curricula and experiences for candidates to gain and demonstrate dispositions, knowledge, and skills to facilitate learning for all students. The unit maintains and supports a diverse faculty, recruits and retains diverse candidates, and seeks to provide experiences for candidates to interact with diverse students in P-12 schools.

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