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School of Education and Graduate School of Professional Psychology to become part of new college at St. Thomas Effective July 1, the School of Education and the Graduate School of Professional Psychology will become part of a new college at the University of St. Thomas. The new college will be named the College of Applied Professional Studies. The organizational change will bring together more closely two programs that were allied a generation ago at St. Thomas. The change will enable the schools to work collaboratively and to develop interdisciplinary curricula. By adopting a structure that reflects the contemporary challenges of education and human services, the new college will be better able to serve the common good. Their close proximity on the Minneapolis campus – Education is in Opus Hall and Professional Psychology is in Terrence Murphy Hall – also bodes well for working together. For at least the short term, the two schools will remain in their respective spaces.
Dr. Susan Huber will serve a three-year appointment as dean of the new college. She also will continue in her leadership role in the School of Education. Dr. Huber has done an outstanding job in leading the School of Education this year and has the vision to bring the new college to fruition. She also has a special understanding of the school’s mission and history as an alumna with two St. Thomas degrees – a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and a doctorate in Educational Leadership. Dr. Burton ("Skip") Nolan will serve a one-year term as interim associate dean of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology. He will replace Dr. David Welch, who will step down as dean of the school and who will join the faculty. We will conduct a search next school year for a successor to Dr. Nolan. I am grateful to Dr. Nolan, a professor and administrator at St. Thomas since 1971 and founding dean of the school, for agreeing to delay his retirement by one year to oversee the professional psychology program again.
In designing the new college, Drs. Huber and Nolan and their faculty will build on a tradition of excellence that stretches back 90 years. St. Thomas established its first formal education program, to prepare K-12 teachers, in 1917 and began to offer graduate courses in 1950. The first doctoral students enrolled in 1987, and shortly afterwards the university brought together three separate graduate programs to form the Graduate School of Education, Professional Psychology and Social Work. The School of Education was established in 1996, integrating graduate and undergraduate programs in five departments – Curriculum and Instruction; Leadership, Policy and Administration; Organizational Learning and Development; Special Education; and Teacher Education. The school moved from Christ Child Hall on the St. Paul campus to new Opus Hall in Minneapolis in 1999, and this spring enrolls 1,325 students. The school is accredited by three organizations – the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the Minnesota Board of Teaching and the Minnesota Board of School Administration. St. Thomas began to offer professional psychology courses in the late 1950s, and today offers Master of Arts in Psychology and Doctor of Psychology degrees with an emphasis on preparing counselors and psychologists to provide direct service to their clients. The Graduate School of Professional Psychology was established in 2001 and moved from Christ Child Hall to Terrence Murphy Hall in 1997. The school is accredited by the American Psychological Association. Enrollment has ranged between 175 and 200 students over the last decade, and is at 176 this spring. |
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