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Overview of the Institution Eastern
Michigan University (EMU) is a public, comprehensive,
metropolitan university whose roots date to 1849, when
it was established as Michigan State Normal School.
What is now EMU was, at the time of its founding, the
sixth normal school in
the United States and the first one west of the
Allegheny Mountains. Ypsilanti is in
culturally and environmentally diverse southeast
Michigan, about 40
miles west of Detroit and 10 miles east of Ann
Arbor. The area is
characterized by metropolitan growth and economic
transformation and is
rich in cultural, academic, research, technological,
and recreational resources. Numerous
educational "firsts" are associated with EMU. These "firsts" include
being the first teacher's college in the nation
(1) to offer teacher training courses in physical
education, (2) to prepare teachers
of disabled children, and (3) to provide a program
for the preparation
of community educators. We were the first college
in Michigan (1) to establish a program in manual
training (industrial arts),
(2) to establish a program for the preparation
of teachers of the mentally retarded, (3) to
establish a department of special
education, and so
on. What is now the Michigan Education Association
was organized on our campus 150
years ago. The
institution became Michigan State Normal College
in 1899, Eastern Michigan College in 1956, and Eastern
Michigan University in
1959. Within the new university, several colleges
emerged: the College of Education (1959), the College
of Arts and Sciences
and the Graduate School (1960), the College of
Business (1964),
the College of
Health and Human Services (1973), and the College
of Technology (1977). The
University owns 803 acres and 129 buildings, including
the main campus in a residential section of Ypsilanti,
the West campus (primarily athletics and recreation),
the Owen Building (College of Business) in downtown
Ypsilanti, and other specialized properties. Eagle Crest--EMU's
conference center, golf course,
and resort--is located on the banks of nearby
Ford Lake. The campus residence halls and apartment complexes
house more
than
5,000 students. Numerous courses and programs
are offered at locations other than on
the Ypsilanti campus, including in Detroit, Flint,
Jackson, Livonia, Monroe, Traverse City and Brighton;
via compressed video; over the Internet;
and through other modes of instruction. The
24,532 students enrolled in fall 2002 included 18,851
undergraduates and 5,681 graduate students. Undergraduate
students are
60 percent female; graduate students are 65 percent
female. EMU students represent 45 U.S. states and 93
foreign countries, although most are from Southeastern
Michigan. The average age for undergraduates is 23.5;
for graduate students, (from an earlier report),
34. EMU's student population is 75 percent white and
18 percent African American. Programming
extends from the baccalaureate degree (400 majors, minors,
and concentrations) through extensive offerings (85 degree/certificate
programs) at the master's degree level. The Sp.A.
degree is offered in a few areas and the Ed.D. is offered
in educational leadership
and the Ph.D. is offered in clinical psychology,
with an additional Ph.D. in
technology in the preparation process. EMU
employs 676 tenure-track faculty members (Fall 2002)
and about 1,300 staff members. The student-to-faculty
ratio is about 19:1. The FY01 operating budget
was $241.5 million, including $86.3 million in
state funds. Grant and contracts amounted to
$16.4 million. EMU's endowment at a recent time stood
at $33.7 million. For additional detail on university-wide
matters, see the reports for the EMU Office of Institutional
Research and Information Management. Personnel
from the university were instrumental in founding the
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
and the university has been continuously accredited by
that body (the Higher Learning Commission in particular)
since its inception. A large number of discipline-based
accreditations and recognitions
are held as well.
A list of these may be found in the Undergraduate
Catalog Supplement. EMU
is a charter and continuous member of the American Association
of Colleges for Teacher Education. The dean of the College
of Education is serving his third term on AACTE's
Board of Directors. EMU's professional education programs have
been continuously
accredited
by the National Council for the Accreditation
of Teacher Education (NCATE) since the founding of that
organization. EMU is a member
of the Teacher Education Council of State Colleges
and Universities (TECSCU) and the dean of the College
of Education is a recent
president and current Board member of that organization.
EMU is a member of the
Michigan Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education and the dean of
the College of Education is in his third term
as the president of that
group. The
university is an active member of The Renaissance
Group. The former Provost served on
the board of that organization and the
dean of
the College of Education has recently completed
a term as the vice
chair of the group. Two faculty members have
served as Renaissance Group Fellows. The "consociate school" model
of the Renaissance Group
was first implemented at EMU. Through The Renaissance
Group, EMU is
involved in several consortia dealing with Teacher
Quality and technology in education. The
EMU College of Education (COE) is a member of
several other organizations, including
the Sino-American Education Consortium,
the
Colleges of Education of the Council of the Great
City Schools, and the
Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching
with Technology (COATT). COE Personnel are
active in and provide leadership to the Michigan [Education]
Deans' Council and
the Directors and Representatives of Teacher
Education Programs (DARTEP). Faculty
and staff members are active in the Association
of Teacher Educators (ATE) and the EMU Director of Student
Teaching is the immediate past
president of the Michigan Association of Teacher
Educators. EMU has just completed a decade as the "university partner" (with
the Detroit Public Schools and the financial
support of the Skillman Foundation) for the Comer
Schools and Families Initiative (Comer Project) in Detroit. About
3,500 undergraduate students and about 2,000 graduate
and special students are involved in professional
education programs during
each academic year. There are about 2,000 program
completers each year,
which makes EMU, according to most issues of
the AACTE Directory, the
nation's largest producer of educational personnel,
certainly when
aggregated over periods of time. Earlier statistics
from AACTE showed that EMU
was, at least at the time, the nation's largest
producer of special education personnel, the
nation's largest producer of teachers of mathematics,
and the nation's
largest producer of teachers of science. The
professional education programs have received ten national
awards from six major professional organizations in the
past two decades. (For details, click
here.) EMU alums have received numerous major
recognitions, including national Teacher of the
Year, national Superintendent of the Year, national
Special Education Teacher of the Year, and the like. Still others have been presidents of major
national professional organizations. Several
have been the executives of major national professional organizations (e.g.,
NEA, NASSP).
At least 24 have received the $25,000 Milken
Family Foundation National Educator Award. Numerous others have achieved
major
recognition at the
state level. See Outstanding
COE Alumni and Education
Alumni Hall of
Fame for additional information. Recognized
in many ways for not only the size and diversity of its
professional education programs, EMU is committed to
continue the
quality of its programming for educational personnel
for which it has
also been recognized extensively for more than 150
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For
additional
information
on the
accreditation/approval
process,
please
contact
Jerry H. Robbins,
Dean, at
734.487.1414
or by e-mail
at jerry.robbins@emich.edu.
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