{"id":259,"date":"2018-03-26T17:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/pep\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:08:12","slug":"governance-of-pep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/governance-of-pep\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance of PEP"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although programs in NAU PEP are dispersed university-wide, they are connected by a common vision. The vision is to develop educational leaders who create tomorrow\u2019s opportunities for young people through programs and work with PK-12 schools. NAU PEP faculty and leadership are committed to offering learner-centered programs that foster candidate success and integrate early authentic field experiences.<\/p>\n
The NAU PEP Initial Teacher Preparation Coordinating Council serves as an advisory committee to the Associate Dean of the College of Education & Professional Education Programs regarding concerns and needs of the programs.<\/p>\n
Approved 10\/2\/2019 by NAU PEP Coordinating Council<\/p>\n
The Coordinating Council representatives are comprised of administrative representatives, program leadership\/faculty representatives, and ex officio members as defined below.<\/p>\n
The NAU PEP Initial Teacher Preparation Coordinating Council has initial teacher preparation program leadership and faculty representatives based on the chart below related to program completer count for the past three academic years. There are a total of six program leader\/faculty representatives.\u00a0 The term for each program leadership\/faculty representative is for three years.\u00a0 Each college will determine their own process for selecting these representatives. A rotation will be established to ensure continuity among the membership. The individuals selected must have teaching or program coordination responsibilities for an initial teacher preparation program.<\/p>\n
# of Program Leader\/Faculty Representatives based on the following chart:
\n0-50 = 0
\n51-400=1
\n401-800 = 2
\n801-1200 = 3
\n1201-1600 = 4<\/p>\n
In addition to these 11 members, the Associate Dean of the College of Education & Professional Education Programs serves as the chair of the council. Decisions regarding policies or issues presented to the Council will be determined by consensus by the Administrative and Program Leadership\/Faculty Representatives.<\/p>\n
The NAU PEP Initial Teacher Preparation Coordinating Council will also include ex officio members.\u00a0 The ex officio members (or their designee) are encouraged to be active participants in the Council by providing insight and perspective related to proposed or existing policies and issues that arise.\u00a0 Ex officio members include:<\/p>\n
The NAU PEP Initial Teacher Preparation Coordinating Council will be chaired by the Associate Dean of the College of Education & Professional Education Programs. The NAU PEP Administrative Associate will provide support for the Council in terms of scheduling meetings, facilitating the development of the agenda, taking and distributing minutes, and developing the minutes into a newsletter for faculty and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n
The charge of the NAU PEP Initial Teacher Preparation Coordinating Council is to:<\/p>\n
Administrative Representatives<\/strong> Program Leadership\/Faculty Representatives<\/strong> Ex-Officio<\/strong> NAU Yuma<\/strong> Advising<\/strong> PEP<\/strong> Governance of the Professional Education Programs Although programs in NAU PEP are dispersed university-wide, they are connected by a common vision. The vision is to develop educational leaders who create tomorrow\u2019s opportunities for young people through programs and work with PK-12 schools. NAU PEP faculty and leadership are committed to offering learner-centered programs that foster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":73,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/professional-education-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRick Stamer (CAL)\/Noah Karvelis (CAL)
\nAndrew Tegarden (CAL)
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\nAnthony Osborn (COE)
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\nChristopher G Griffin (CAL)
\nShadow Armfield (COE)<\/p>\n
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\nColleen Rice<\/p>\n
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