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The College of Education received a performance level of "excellent" (a Quality Performance Index of 3.7 on a scale of 4.0) on the Kentucky Quality Performance Index Report Card issued by the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board. In 2005-06, 323 students completed programs preparing them to be teachers. The college is addressing shortage areas in mathematics and science education, foreign language education, and special education.
Total primary and collaborative grants/contracts have grown. Both are important because the college has a long history of participating in collaborative research projects with other units on campus. Primary contracts and grants are expected to exceed $6 million in the current year, while collaborative grants exceed $19 million. Selected research projects for the college currently include:
Collaborative Center on Literacy Development
State grants of $2.4 million for Reading Recovery, Kentucky Adult
Literacy Institute, Reading First, and the federally funded Striving Readers
Program ($2.8 million over 5 years) Appalachian Math and Science Partnership Appalachian Regional Education Laboratory (U.S. Department of Education
grant in collaboration with CAN Corporation and the University of
Virginia), and Great Schools Initiative (Knight Foundation grant to address closing the
achievement gap in Fayette County Public Schools)
Dean Cibulka shared the following challenges for the College of Education:
Balancing the research and land-grant missions of the College Managing the regulatory and political environment in the Commonwealth Resources to retain and recruit outstanding faculty, and Outdated and overcrowded facilities
Dean Cibulka thanked the Board of Trustees for the opportunity to present information about the College of Education's goals, accomplishments, and priorities. He indicated that this is an exciting time to be at UK, and that he looks forward to working with President Todd and new Provost Kumble Subbaswamy on the new strategic plan, and in particular, on addressing the goals of the Top 20 Business Plan.
Mr. Hardymon thanked Dean Cibulka and his faculty for getting engaged in some of the issues that make UK's presence at the state and local levels much more effective than previously. He expressed pleasure with Dean Cibulka's enthusiasm for his work.
F.        Proposed Revision to the Governing Regulations (Reviews of Educational Units and Their Chief Administrative Officers) (PR 3)
President Todd said that PR 3 is a proposed revision to the Governing Regulations, and this is the first preliminary consideration for approval. It is a result of a