The SOEH will have a completed copy of the Inquiry Brief approved by the faculty for submission to CAEP by the end of spring semester 2018. This involves the Departments of Education, Kinesiology, Graduate Special Education, SBL and School Counseling.

CAEP, the accrediting agency responsible for accreditation of programs preparing individuals to work in schools is requiring that advanced programs be included in the next cycle accreditation. School Counseling will need to achieve accreditation as part of the Inquiry Brief being prepared for other programs responsible for preparing personnel for schools. They can do this by receiving accreditation through CACREP or MPCAC and submitting this with the CAEP Reports. The same organization also accredits Mental Health Counseling.

Radiation Therapy Technology will submit their self-study for accreditation to JRCERT by the beginning of spring semester 2018. This is not a mandatory accreditation but faculty and students are very supportive of working to achieve this accreditation. This allows students to sit for an exam that they would not otherwise be eligible for and provides a level of inter-state recognition.

Faculty will develop and implement a plan for strategic recruitment, along with enrollment management, to increase enrollment for fall 2018 by 10% in identified majors. The identified areas include adolescent education, physical education teaching and RTX at the undergraduate level. Those identified at the graduate level include MFT, IDD, and SBL.

Each undergraduate and graduate program will review their curriculum, align to accreditation and/or professional standards and map the courses to their program goals using Taskstream. A draft is to be presented to the dean and reviewed for program faculty by February 2018. A final copy of all program maps are to shared via a presentation to the entire SOEH faculty at a School-wide meeting in May 2018.

Each program will identify existing relationships with clinical sites (schools, hospitals, clinics, community groups) sites and prepare a brief description, based on guidelines developed by the faculty, of the relationship and how it functions. The faculty will also identify other sites that would be productive to pursue a relationship with, including a brief statement on why this site would be valuable and the recommended nature of the relationship. Each would include a plan of action for approaching new sites that we want to initiate partnerships with.

      The NCATE Blue Ribbon Panel Report on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships, CAEP, CACREP, MPCAC, COAMFTE, and JRCERT all strongly recommended that programs be fully grounded in clinical practice and interwoven with academic content and professional courses.

Each undergraduate department and graduate program will identify potential new collaborations with another department/program within the SOEH that they do not currently have an existing partnership with. They will write up a brief description of the idea, at a school-wide faculty meeting programs/departments will meet in teams to discuss the viability of the idea. It can relate to teaching methodologies, clinical experiences, research ideas, or other shared possibilities. The two teams will share the original proposal and other ideas that developed as a result of the discussion. The faculty will offer suggestions or questions, look for other connections. The goal will be to identify two to three projects that the SOEH faculty will develop more fully to present as goals for 2018/19.

The goal is for all faculty in the SOEH to attain the 21st century technological skill set to support their students. SOEH full- and part-time faculty will identify needed skills then receive workshops and one-on-one support in order to execute a technology rich curriculum in their respective courses. The ultimate goal is for students to develop a technology rich set of skills that they will be able to take into their professional lives.