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288 Graduate Education

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 8

Organisation Inasmuch as the teaching of educational curricula at the graduate level constitutes legitimate professional training, in many cases quite distinct from undergraduate curricula, the organizational framework within which these curricula will be accommodated will be that of a graduate school. The Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work provides a precedent. There will therefore be established a Graduate School of Education, which will award its graduate degrees through the Graduate College of the University of Illinois. The chief administrative officer of the Graduate School of Education will have the rank and title of Dean. The faculty of the Graduate School of Education may be recruited either directly, to hold rank in the Graduate School of Education alone — in which case the consent of subject-matter departments must be secured for appointments whose specialization lies within the competence of such departments — or may be recruited by means of joint appointments between subject-matter departments and the Graduate School of Education. Curriculum The Graduate School of Education will have primary responsibility for the development of standard curricula leading to master's and doctor's degrees in such fields as Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, the Philosophy of Education, Teaching Methods, and so on. Programs of special-purpose teaching will also be a part of the graduate program and curricular responsibilities of the Graduate School of Education. In addition to such traditional problem areas as the teaching of handicapped children, primary attention should be directed toward the development of courses and methods in the teaching of culturally disadvantaged children. Avenues of contact and significant influence between these elements of the graduate curricula and the curricula of elementary and secondary education are provided through the media of joint appointments and consultation and supervision of various facets of practice teaching, as discussed above. The work of the Graduate School of Education in this area could derive potentially great profit from cooperation with the resources, programs, and personnel of the Center for Urban Studies; it is hoped that arrangements can be made at an early date to establish formal connections between the Graduate School of Education and the Center for Urban Studies. Research and Development It is intended that the Graduate School of Education also be the chief framework within which research programs of various kinds be accommodated and encouraged. It will be the organizational and administrative body through which grants for research and developmental programs and projects from private and public sources can be obtained, and through which the unique contributory possibilities of a great urban university in original educational research can be realized. Again, it is assumed that the Graduate School of Education will supervise such liaisons as may be established between research and development programs, especially with regard to the problems of education for the culturally disadvantaged, and the curricular and practice-teaching aspects of teacher training at both elementary and secondary levels. Physical Education Some questions may arise concerning the position of Physical Education within the curricular and organizational proposals made here. This report actually implies no changes in the present status of Physical Education. There is no reason why the Division of Physical Education should not continue to exist in its present form; a possible alternative, in undergraduate education, would be its reorganization as a Department of Physical Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, containing several curricula (as at present). At the graduate level, inasmuch as curricula in physical education constitute professional education, they would be located in the proposed Graduate School of Education.

Plan B

It is with pleasure that we have accepted the invitation to attempt to set forth some of the reasons why a College of Education should be established at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.