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Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College 
Established 2010 Type Public Dean Dr. Mari Koerner Location Multiple Locations, Arizona, USA Website http://education.asu.edu The Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College administers Arizona State University's undergraduate and graduate programs in education. The college is headquartered on ASU's West campus, but offers programs at all four campus locations, online and in school districts throughout the state of Arizona. The College was named for ASU education alumna and successful business woman Mary Lou Fulton after she and her husband Ira A. Fulton set up an endowment for the college in 2006.[1] The original school of education was the very foundation of ASU when the university began as Arizona Territorial Normal School in 1885.
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History
Arizona State University was founded as an institution to train teachers as a territorial normal school in 1885 by an act of the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature.[2]
The school evolved throughout the years from the Territorial Normal School at Tempe (1885-1889) to Arizona Territorial Normal School (1889-1896) then Normal School of Arizona (1896-1903) and Tempe Normal School (1903-1925). The school became the Tempe State Teachers College in 1925-1928 establishing higher admission standards and a four-year college curriculum. The college became the Arizona State Teachers College (1928-1945) and was authorized to confer a Bachelor of Arts in Education for the first time in 1929. The College became accredited by the North Central Association in 1933, and in 1937, Arizona State offered its first graduate degree, the Master’s in Education. Although Arizona State offered other degrees, it remained a teachers college until 1945 when it became Arizona State College. The last name change came in 1958 when Arizona citizens voted to approve Proposition 200 to name the institution Arizona State University.
Until 2009, ASU maintained three schools/colleges of education. A College of Education (later named the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education) operated at the Tempe campus. Another campus—ASU’s West campus was established in 1986 with education as one of its programs. The West campus education programs eventually evolved into the College of Teacher Education and Leadership (CTEL). ASU East campus (now ASU Polytechnic campus) was established in 1996 and later the School of Educational Innovation and Teacher Preparation was established at the Polytechnic campus. ASU established the Downtown Phoenix campus in 2008 with CTEL offering education programs at that location.
In May 2009, Arizona State University's education programs underwent a renaming and reorganization: the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education became the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education.[3] This new school focused solely on graduate-level research-based programs. The School of Educational Innovation and Teacher Preparation was disestablished and all teacher preparation degree programs (including all undergraduate education programs) were consolidated into the College of Teacher Education and Leadership (CTEL), which was administered from ASU's West campus.
In May 2010, in response to an order from the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) to cut 2.75% from the salary budget of the university [4] the Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education was disestablished by ABOR upon the recommendation of the university Provost, and much of the resources of the Institute and School conveyed to the newly renamed Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (formerly CTEL), while many faculty opted to move to other units within the university, primarily within the ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Ranking
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is ranked 35th in the nation according the 2012 US News rankings of education schools.[5]
Programs
The Fulton Teachers College has two divisions: Teacher Preparation, and Educational Leadership and Innovation. The College emphasizes teacher education, community service, and academic research. A full spectrum of degree programs include B.A.E., M.Ed., M.A., M.P.E., Ed.D. and Ph.D. in fields such as early childhood education, elementary education, secondary education, special education, physical education and educational administration/supervision. The College also offers advanced study and research in school leadership, curriculum and instruction, school and educational psychology, education policy, education technology, higher and post-secondary education.
In 2009, the College of Teacher Education and Leadership was expanded to administer all teacher education programs across the four campuses of Arizona State University (i.e., West, Tempe, Downtown, and Polytechnic)making it among the largest higher education teacher preparation programs in the United States. The 2009-2010 college annual report indicated that the college had more than 5,400 students. [6]
Initiatives
The College hosts several initiatives, such as iTeachAZ[7] which follows a professional development school model of teacher preparation in which students take classes and complete field work within a partner school district. In addition, the College is home to the Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy,[8] a school for gifted teens. Inside the Academy[9] is an online biographic project featuring archived video interviews of esteemed educational researchers produced by Teachers College in partnership with the ASU Applied Learning Technologies Institute. Another initiative called the Teacher Preparation Research and Evaluation Project (T-PREP)[10] gathers data from a variety of sources to assess the impact of the Teachers College teacher preparation program.
Awards
The Fulton Teachers College earned the Best Practice Award for Effective Partnerships from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in 2007.[11] The College received the Rich Media Impact Scholastic Achievement Award and the Best of the West Award from the Western Maricopa Coalition (WESTMARC) in 2007.[12] Additionally, the College was awarded the Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology from AACTE in 2009.[13]
References
- ^ http://asunews.asu.edu/stories/200612/20061222_review_colleges.htm
- ^ http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/asustory/intro.htm
- ^ College Merging ASU News
- ^ http://provost.asu.edu/files/shared/capc/April%202010/UAC%20and%20CAPC%20Acad%20Re-org.pdf
- ^ US News Education School Rankings
- ^ ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Annual Report 2009-2010
- ^ http://education.asu.edu/content/iteachaz
- ^ http://herbergeracademy.asu.edu
- ^ http://insidetheacademy.asu.edu
- ^ http://education.asu.edu/projects/t-prep
- ^ http://asunews.asu.edu/node/1542
- ^ http://www.westmarc.org
- ^ http://asunews.asu.edu/20090130_aacteaward
Categories:- Universities and colleges in Arizona
- Educational institutions established in 2009
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