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Show Education Department Changes Program issues by mid-year. "Hopefully," Dr. Woodruff stated, "all major changes will be in effect by next year." Teacher education on the University Uni-versity campus is undergoing a change. The new University Council on Teacher Education, created last June by the University's Uni-versity's Faculty Council, begins operation this fall. THE NEW Council has one primary objective: to make teacher education the function and responsibility of the entire University. Education majors will be effected ef-fected by the policy of the new Council in two significant ways. THE COUNCIL will encourage students to complete an academic aca-demic major and then in a fifth year earn their teacher certifications. certifica-tions. Dr. Asahel D. Woodruff, Dean of the College of Education and head of UCTE, reported that "the University Academic Policy Committee wants to abandon completely the four-year pro gram, but that will probably not occur. We will keep the four-year four-year program as long as necessary. neces-sary. However, we hope to begin a five-year program similar to the present four-year one.' ' "WHEN THE College of Education Edu-cation is a graduate school, it will still offer an undergraduate certification program. But we hope to make certificate work a graduate enterprise." The Council hopes to identify teachers with their academic majors. Dr. Woodruff stated, "Previously the College of Education Edu-cation governed teacher. Now the administration is half College of Education and half academic." "ALL SECONDARY teachers will be registered in their subject sub-ject rather than the College of Education, although curricula must still have the approval of the teacher certification program." The Council includes 44 education edu-cation and 48 academic members and is responsible to the Board of Regents, President Fletcher, and the Faculty Council. The Council wil be able to ask an academic department to prepare needed courses or series of courses and will determine the credit hours to be assigned to these courses. THE COUNCIL will also encourage en-courage research, exchange of information on education development devel-opment and foster development of new programs, along with coordination co-ordination in course scheduling to achieve maximum availability of courses required. Dr. Woodruff reported that opposition to the Council has been bitter. "Many educators considered this new program too extreme." Results of the Council's work can be expected on minor ASAHEL D. WOODRUFF . . . Dean, College of Education |