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Exhibit 5.6
Collaboration with the Professional Community
The
campus professional community is involved in collaboration through
participation in the Basic Programs Committee
and the Advanced Programs Committee. Click here to see extant minutes of the Basic Programs Committee and click here to
see extant minutes of the Advanced Programs Committee. Minutes of various
program advisory committees are available in departmental
offices. The College's Resource Development Board includes
representatives from practitioners and the business community.
The
COE Office of Collaborative
Education (OCE) was created
to serve as a contact
point for P-12
practitioners who wanted to link to professional
education faculty members and to assist professional education
faculty members in making links to P-12 constituencies. In addition, the
OCE coordinates matters across collaborations and maintains
records of activities undertaken.
Several
major collaborative activities are operated directly
by the OCE. These include the award-winning, long-standing Collaborative
School Improvement Program (C-SIP). Over the past several decades,
the dozens of C-SIP projects have involved numerous faculty members
from three EMU colleges, along with hundreds of P-12 personnel. The OCE
also coordinates the work of three "consociate
school" partnerships. Farmington
High School (Farmington), Estabrook
Elementary School (Ypsilanti), and East Middle School (Ypsilanti)
provide numerous opportunities for professional education faculty
members from multiple colleges to work with P-12 colleagues in
mutually beneficial ways.
The Systemic Change Initiative,
the Supporting Beginning Mathematics and Science
Teachers project, the Transition to Teaching project
in the Flint area, and international education activities
are other projects operated directly through the OCE. Each of these brings
EMU professional education faculty members and P-12 personnel
together in creative ways.
The recently concluded, decade-long experience
of being the "university partner" for the Comer
Project (Comer Schools and Family Initiative) in Detroit, with financial
sponsorship from The Skillman Foundation, brought together
a large number of faculty members from all four departments
in the College of Education,
the Department of Nursing, and the Department of Social
Work. In addition,
faculty members from other universities were invited
to participate. Hundreds of EMU students and many dozens
of Detroit teachers, professional support
personnel, and administrators were involved as well.
The Teacher Quality project, part
of a Renaissance Group eleven-institution consortium,
has brought together local-area P-12 partners, the business community,
students, and numerous
faculty members from both Education and Arts and Sciences.
