School of Education

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Right. We'll go ahead and start. My name is Lee Brannon and I'm part of the admissions team here at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Before we get started today, I have a couple of housekeeping item items to go over. Just so that you're aware of this, webinar is being recorded and will be made available at a later date. Within your share screen, you'll see that there is a closed captioning option. It's the bar at the top right hand corner. It's the little CC button. Right next to that is the option to make the video.

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All right.

So I'm excited to have everyone who's joined us this afternoon. My name is Ryan Williams. I serve as the assistant director for the School of Ed here at UIS. Welcome and thank you. So I'm just going to go through and.

And talk to you a little bit about what we offer within the School of Education as far as our graduate programs.

And I'll make sure to share this first screen again, just in case you have questions and you want to e-mail me or you want to contact our office.

So we offer both online and blended programs and so our programs are two masters degrees and we'll kind of get into that in a little bit. We also offer endorsements and we offer graduate certificates as well as.

Licensure options for people who are teachers and or want to be administrators. Our courses are 8 or 16 weeks, four and two credit hours, and in order to receive a state level endorsement, which is with the Illinois State Board of Education, you are required to have your teaching license.

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So here's a list of the programs that we offer. The Master of Arts and Education is completely online. Most of our students enrolled in that program are licensed teachers within the state of Illinois, we do have teachers. Outside of Illinois, we have some international students. The curriculum is mostly like instruction and curriculum and assessment focused with a bend toward pre-K through 12 public as well as private.

Application that degree. Under that degree, you can also pursue endorsements or graduate certificates in English as a second language, the technology specialist learning behavior specialist one which deals with special education.

As well as higher rate online pedagogy which actually equips you with skills to teach online. Within two and four year institutions of higher education, we have a leadership and learning graduate certificate that has a assessment.

Berkelium and and instruction banned as well as legal aspects of education which deals with school law issues. So you're dealing with teacher, parent and student rights. Within public school setting. We have the chief school business official, which is for people who already have a teaching license as well as a principal endorsement. However, you can also receive a graduate certificate in that if you have a Masters in public administration.

For a masters in business administration, so it'll be a shorter program. And just so you know, all of these options are completely online. Excuse me.

So you can personalize your degree, the Master of Arts and Education by just pursuing the general coursework or adding one of the graduate certificates or Illinois State Board of Education endorsements. You don't have to do that, but it is an option and you can also pursue coursework within other areas of our college. So we are part of the College of Public Affairs and Education.

And our public affairs side offers programs in public administration, policy, program evaluation, human resource development, community planning. And so if there are courses that are in our curriculum or outside of our curriculum that you want to pursue, that's an option for you as well. So you can really personalize your degree where you're receiving the masters in education, but you want to pursue like a certificate in human resources or programming.

Evaluation or take a few policy courses. So we do have unique situations like that for our students to incorporate into their studies.

Um, so again, the Master of Arts is fully online. Um, it's a total of 36 credit hours. And then the.

Endorsements and our certificates can be completed within a year to to two years depending on which one you decide to pursue. A few of them are financial aid eligible and we do have some that again require your teaching license in order to pursue it.

One of the things that I forgot to include in here and I'm sorry is our Master of Arts and Educational leadership and our principal endorsement. Those are blended programs and they are for people who want to be building level principals or people like me where you don't want to work in pre-K through 12 as far as the classroom or administration, but you want to work in higher education. So I am an alumni of that program and it's allowed me to work in positions such as a program coordinator.

And now being an assistant director for the School of Ed, I've been able to teach here at US. And of course teaching at the adjunct level is a little different depending on the institution. And then, you know, serving in like an advisor capacity, doing like marketing and recruitment. So it does open doors for you beyond, beyond pre-K through 12.

And you don't necessarily have to pursue a principal endorsement with that. However, it is not completely online, so you'd be required to attend, you know, evening courses.

Um, throughout your matriculation in the program?

So we do have a couple scholarships that are related specifically to students enrolled in our educational leadership master programs. They are the two listed here, the John E Erickson and Gordon and Ina Robertson scholarships. They are specific to, one is specific to.

Those who identify as a female who want to continue their education as teachers, and then the other one is open to students that are, you know, pursuing a degree with us. It is first come, first serve. So if, for example, we don't have, you know, a candidate that qualifies for the one that's geared toward those who identify as hemale, then it opens up to any of our other students who meet the qualifications and who actually apply.

Again, if you decide to pursue a program with us, your student insurance fee will be waived as long as you submit your proof of insurance. And we also have other scholarship opportunities available on our website. And so if you just go to likeuis.edu and search for the school of education, there's a whole list of scholarships that may interest you. And we also have our institutional scholarship deadline that's actually coming up here.

I believe it's February 15th if I'm not mistaken. Um Lee can confirm that for me, and you can also just browse that list as an exhaustive list of scholarships that you can apply to in order to help you.

And pay for your studies.

So we don't have any deadline for our application. So we're on rolling admissions here at UIS. However, if you're interested in completing one of our online programs, you would go through us.edu and complete the online degree programs application. If you're wanting the graduate on campus when you would just do the on campus graduate application and then if you want a certificate or endorsement, you would complete the non degree graduate application.

For that for those programs, we have a minimum GPA requirement of a 3 point O to be fully admitted into our graduate programs. If you have a 2.5 to a 2.99, you can be considered for conditional admit.

And then just to reiterate, if you want to pursue an endorsement or your principal licensure, you have to have your teaching certification and these are just some of our upcoming semester start dates.

And we accept applications for summer, fall and spring semesters. So that concludes my presentation that was very quick. I will go back to the beginning.

So that you can have the contact information.

And I will take any questions that anyone has.

Thank you, Lee, for confirming the institutional scholarship.

Deadline.

Lee, are there any, are there any things that apply specifically to like international students who are pursuing whether it's our online masters or even like the blended programs?

You mean as far as what they need to submit?

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So international students, international graduate students, when they apply, will also submit a $75 application fee.

In order for your file to be considered complete, we need to have, um, all of your transcripts either go through an Macy's evaluation service or you can choose to do in house evaluation with UIS. And I believe I want to say that's $150.00. So it's a little bit cheaper than going through Macy's.

And then that's pretty much it as far as admissions goes, you'd still have to do any of the additional requirements that the School of Education requires for those individual programs. And then once you're admitted and decide to come to US, that would be whenever you would go through the visa process and get your I-20 and that sort of thing so.

OK, so I have a question. We had a situation recently where an international student.

Wanted to take a course and during COVID, of course it was offered online, but because we're, you know, getting back to normal routines, it was on campus. So can international students take.

Online courses? Like are they limited to how many they can take per semester? Like what does that even look like?

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No. They can take as many online courses as they want, and really if they are applying specifically to one of our online programs, then that's all they can take. It's online courses. But a student that comes to the United States and takes classes on campus can also take classes online as long as there's availability in that class section.

That's 100% fine.

So they're not required to, like, enroll in a certain amount of on campus coursework.

If they're OK.

OK.

As far as I know, I've never heard that before, so I don't think so.

OK. Thank you for confirming that because we we had that situation and now and someone said that they were restricted some time ago and I was like, I don't know if that's right, but I will, yeah.

OK.

Yeah, it might have just been some weird, some weird restriction. Sometimes if we have an on campus student who wants to take an online class, the online students are given preference 1st and then on campus students, if there are any spaces left over, you know, at the end.

And they can register for those online courses, but I don't think that happens very often.

OK. OK.

Thank you.

I feel like I went so fast.

Does anybody have any questions for Ryan and about the School of Education that we can answer for you?

All right. Well, Ryan, I don't. Oh, you do have your e-mail right there. Ryan's e-mail is listed right there and I will put the admissions.

E-mail address in here as well, so if you have any questions specific to the admissions process or anything like that, feel free to e-mail the admissions office. If you have questions more specific to the School of Education, you can e-mail Ryan. Either way will help you out.

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And um, if we have no further questions, then we'll go ahead and sign off today. I want to thank everybody for joining and thank you, Ryan for being our presenter today.

Thank you, Lee. Have a good day.

All right. Bye, bye, everyone.

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