8700.7600 BOT Subpart 5. H: Institutional Governance/NCATE 6: Unit Governance and Resources

BOT Standard	NCATE 2002 Target Standard	Current Practice Described	Best Evidence/ Existing Data	Assessment of Current Practices	Data/Evidence Needed	Targeted Standard Recommendations
H(1) The professional education unit is clearly identified and has primary responsibility for all programs offered at the institution for the licensure of teachers and other professional school personnel.	S6 Unit Leadership and Authority The unit provides the leadership for effectively coordinating all programs at the institution designed to prepare education professionals to work in P-12 schools. The unit’s recruiting and admission practices are described clearly and consistently in publications and catalogs. Academic calendars, catalogs, publications, grading policies, and advertising are accurate and current. The unit ensures that candidates have access to student services such as advising and counseling. The unit and other faculty collaborate with P-12 practitioners in program design, delivery, and evaluation of the unit and its programs. Colleagues in other units at the institution involved in the preparation of professional educators, school personnel, and other organizations recognize the unit as a leader. The unit provides professional development on effective teaching for faculty in other units of the institution.
H(2) Responsibility and authority for teacher preparation programs are exercised by a defined administrative and instructional unit, for example a department, division, school, or college education.
H(3) The unit is directly involved in the areas of faculty selection, tenure, promotion, and retention decisions; recruitment of candidates; and curriculum decisions, evaluation, revision, and the allocation of resources for institution activities.
H(4) The administrator of the defined unit is authorized to submit licensure program proposals for Board of Teaching approval and is responsible for administering licensure programs.
H(5) The administrator of the defined unit is authorized to recommend for teacher licensure candidates who have completed the institution’s teacher preparation programs.	Specific to Minnesota
H(6) School faculty, candidates, and other members of the professional community are actively involved in the unit’s policy making and advisory bodies.	S6 Unit Leadership and Authority [See H(1)]
H(7) The unit has a long-range planning process that is regularly monitored to ensure the ongoing vitality of the unit and its programs, and the future capacity of its physical facilities.
H(8)The unit has sufficient financial resources and institution support to sustain teacher preparation programs.	S6 Unit Budget The unit receives sufficient budgetary allocations at least proportional to other units on campus or similar units at other campuses to provide programs that prepare candidates to meet standards. The budget adequately supports on-campus and clinical work essential for preparation of professional educators.
H(9) Facilities, equipment, and budgets are adequate to support the units missions and goals.	S6 Personnel Workload policies and practices permit and encourage faculty not only to be engaged in a wide range of professional activates, including teaching, scholarship assessment, advisement, work in schools, and service, but also to professionally contribute on a community, state, regional, or national basis. Formal policies and procedures have been established to include on-line course delivery in determining faculty load. The unit’s use of part-time faculty and of graduate teaching assistants is purposeful and employed to strengthen programs, including the preparation of teachings assistants. Clinical faculty are included in the unit as valued colleagues in preparing educators. Unit provision of support personnel significantly enhances the effectiveness of faculty in their teaching and mentoring of candidates. The unit supports professional development activities that engage faculty in dialogue and skill development related to emerging theories and practices. S6 Unit Facilities The unit has outstanding facilities on campus and with partner schools to support candidates in meeting standards. Facilities support the most recent developments in technology that allow faculty to model the use of technology and candidates to practice its use for instructional purposes.
H(10) Candidates and faculty have access to books, journals, and electronic information that support teaching and scholarship.	S6 Unit Resources Including Technology The unit aggressively and successfully secures resources to support high-quality and exemplary programs and projects to ensure that candidates meet standards. The development and implementation of the unit’s assessment system is well funded. The unit serves as an information technology resource in education beyond the education programs—to the institution, community, and other institutions. Faculty and candidates have access to exemplary library, curricular, and electronic information resources that not only serve the unit, but also a broader constituency.
H(11) Candidates and faculty have training in the access to current education-related technology.	S6 Unit Facilities [See H(9)]
H(12)The unit has sufficient faculty and administrative, clerical, and technical staff to ensure the consistent delivery and quality of programs.	S6 Personnel [See H(9)]