Margaret (Peg) Potter

Open Forum: Director of Graduate Studies/Chair, IRB

School PsychologistsSupport staff who help educators make school work

better for students (individually and collectively)

Through— Ability to effectively consult and collaborate with others Skills in assessment and data interpretation Knowledge of best practices in education Knowledge of individual differences & diversity Understanding of how educational systems operate Ability to work with resources inside and outside of the school Knowledge of relevant legal & ethical policies/procedures

• One Vision of Graduate Education at MSU Moorhead…

Evolution: Long-term & Short-term

Goal

• Graduate Studies viewed as an Integral part of the university--

Not as an Addendum to the Undergraduate mission.

Audiences

Internal• Visibility• Awareness• Inclusion• Valued

External• Visibility• Respected• Valued• Transformative

The Internal audience….

Who is missing on “You can pay it forward….”?

Who’s missing on the list of Academic Majors?MSUM Viewbook 2015

• Before we can truly be visible to our external audiences, we need to be visible within the university.

• Why should the rest of the university care about Graduate programs?

Evolution of the University• Moorhead Normal School: 1 year rural

teaching certificates (some H.S. prep)• Moorhead State Teachers College: addition

of 4 year degrees along with 2 year certificates• Moorhead State College: Non-education

majors; first graduate degrees (1955)• Moorhead State University: a few additional

graduate programs• Minnesota State University Moorhead……

What is next….?

• Proposals to provide free/low cost tuition at the community college level

• How will the identity of the state university evolve?

A shift in focus?

Current

• Freshman• Sophomore• Junior• Senior• Graduate

Future?

• Freshman• Sophomore• Junior• Senior• Graduate

The External Audience

Continuing needs in • Education and the related fields of

Counseling, SLP, School Psychology• Health Care• BusinessOther human services?

My assumption is….

People who want to take graduate courses want to: • prepare for a new/different profession• improve their skills for their present

profession

Employers & the Community

• Respond to their needs• Provide leadership in promoting cutting

edge best practices

The need/demand is there—we need to respond in an intentional and sustainable manner.

• Our ultimate audiences are the students, patients or clients that our graduates will serve.

• We owe it to them to prepare our graduates to serve them as effectively as possible. Thus, quality is imperative.

Transforming our students so they may transform the world

(or at least their corner of the world)