Regents schedule special meeting on teacher education

November 18, 2016

Carla Browning

=The University of Alaska Board of Regents has scheduled a special meeting to discuss teacher education on Wednesday, Dec. 14, from 9-11 a.m. The meeting will be held via videoconference.

The board has endorsed UA President Jim Johnsen’s plan to consolidate the administration of UA’s three teacher education colleges. It has not decided where the administrative base for teacher education should be.

Johnsen recommended in November that UA establish a single College of Education under UA Fairbanks and build on the existing programs currently being delivered by UAF, UA Anchorage and UA Southeast in Juneau. Under the proposal, classes and programs would continue to be offered on all three campuses by faculty at those locations. Consolidation would reduce administration, but degree programs, faculty and students would remain across the three campuses.

The administrative change also depends on approval from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, which accredits the UA system's three main universities.