CCTC Accreditation 2022
Standard 2
Candidate Recruitment and Support
Candidates are recruited and supported in all educator preparation programs to ensure their success.
The education unit accepts applicants for its educator preparation programs based on clear criteria that include multiple measures of candidate qualifications.
Basic Credentials:
- Education Specialist
- Multiple Subject
- Bilingual Authorization (applicants apply to the Multiple Subject program)
- Single Subject
Advanced Credentials:
- Agricultural Specialist
- Deaf Education
- Early Childhood Education
- Education Administration
- Reading/Language Arts Specialist and Reading/Language Arts Added Authorization
- School Counseling
- School Nurse Services
- School Psychologist
- School Social Work and Child Welfare & Attendance
- Speech-Language Pathology
The education unit purposefully recruits and admits candidates to diversify the educator pool in California and provides the support, advice, and assistance to promote their successful entry and retention in the profession.
Across all programs, efforts are made to recruit individuals who represent the diverse student populations served in our region. Worth noting is that Fresno State serves a population of students that largely comes from the region which we serve and thereby reflects the region’s diversity: Over 60% of our students are first-generation college students and over 53% identify as Latinx. Within our Preliminary Credential Programs, over two-thirds of our candidates identify as a race/ethnicity other than white.
For our Multiple Subject program, recruitment efforts begin even before students enter the university. The Kremen School of Education and Human Development holds the Title V Enseñamos grant, which partners with local community colleges to provide pathways for high school students into the Liberal Arts major and then into the Multiple Subject credential program.
In recent years, our Liberal Studies program has developed a number of initiatives to support the pathway from undergraduate into and through the credential program. At Fresno State, the program has worked to develop cohorts of students who take all of their upper-division courses together and complete the program requirements--including MS program prerequisites--within two years. From there, they are equipped with both the academic knowledge and the support network to enter the MS credential program. Additionally, the Liberal Studies program has developed the Integrated Teacher Education Program, in partnership with College of the Sequoias, to create a two-year integrated Bachelor’s and Multiple Subject credential program available to students transferring into the university.
For the Single Subject credential, discipline-specific coordinators housed in academic-area departments across the university work with undergraduates to ensure they have met the necessary prerequisites to enter the credential program. These coordinators advise and teach undergraduate students as they consider the teaching profession, take pre-requisites, move through subject matter preparation programs and apply for the credential program. Additionally, once students enter the Single Subject Program, these coordinators teach methods courses and place credential candidates with mentor teachers for the final part of their field-based preparation.
Once students are admitted to one of the teaching credential programs, they have access to various advisors, both within our Center for Advising and Student Services, in their subject areas (for Single Subject and Advanced Credentials), and within the Office of Clinical Practice. Moreover, clinical coaches play an important role in supporting the growth and development of our candidates.
This same type of support and recruitment occurs with each of the advanced credentials offered at Fresno State. Each program has a coordinator who oversees the recruitment and advising of applicants. When appropriate, recruitment begins at the undergraduate level, as exemplified by the School Nursing, School Social Work, and Deaf Education program. For other advanced credentials, such as the Preliminary Administrative Services Credential, the program coordinator visits local school districts to actively recruit individuals to the program. Consequently, over 60% of regional school administrators received their credential from Fresno State.
Once individuals are admitted to a program, the program coordinators continue to provide support and guidance, in tandem with field-based coaches and supervisors. These individuals serve as critical supports and liaisons between the university and the candidates during the candidates' time in their program.
List of Personnel Positions Assigned to Supporting,
Advising, and Placing Candidates:
- Office of Clinical Practice Program Coordinator: Dr. Felipe Mercado
- Office of Clinical Practice Program Assistant: Brenna Barks
- Internship Program Assistant, Maria Vargas
- FAST II Coordinator, Professor Ricci Ulrich
Center for Advising and Student Services
- Ana Espinosa
- Ivy Fitzpatrick
- Jessica McVay
- Semester Interns
State Credential Application Support:
Processing of all State Credentials (Initial and Advanced):
- Sherri Nakashima, Credential Analyst
Program Admissions:
Applicants to all programs must complete the Cal State Apply
- Renee Flores, MS, SS, Ed Specialist, Dual, & BAP Credential Program Admissions Analyst
- Renee Petch, Graduate and Advanced Credential Program Admissions Analyst
Program Coordinators and Subject Area Advisors:
- Agriculture Specialist: Dr. Rosco Vaughn, Dr. Art Parham, and Dr. Steve Rocca
- Bilingual Authorization: Dr. Ana Soltero-Lopez
- Deaf Education: Dr. Janice Smith-Warshaw
- Early Childhood Education: Dr. Imelda Basurto
- Education Administration: Dr. Jennifer Moradian Watson
- Education Specialist: Cheryl McDonald
- Multiple Subject: Dr. Heather Horsley
- Reading/Language Arts: Dr. Maria Goff
- School Counseling: Dr. Dominiqua Griffin
- School Nurse Services: Patricia Gomes, M.Ed, PHN, RN and Barbara Miller, MSN, PNP, RN
- School Psychologist: Dr. Marilyn Wilson
- School Social Work: Dr. Andrea Carlin
- Single Subject: Dr. Imelda Basurto
- Agriculture Education: Dr. Rosco Vaughn, Dr. Art Parham, and Dr. Steve Rocca
- Art Education: Dr. Ah Ran Koo
- English Education: Dr. Alison Mandaville
- Industrial Technology: Professor Darnell Austin
- Mathematics: Dr. Rajee Amarasinghe, Dr. Agnes Tuska, and Dr. Lance Burger
- Music Education: Dr. Tony Mowrer and Dr. Emily Mason
- Physical Education: Dr. Dawn Lewis
- Sciences: Dr. David Andrews, Dr. Jaime Arvizu, Dr. Ali Hansen
- Social Sciences: Dr. Neil Conner and Professor Robin Sischo
- World Languages (French): Dr. Natalie Munoz
- World Languages (Spanish): Dr. Maria Dolores Morillo
- Speech Language Pathology: Dr. Sabrina Nii and Dr. Fran Pomaville
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Appropriate information and personnel are clearly identified and accessible to guide each candidate’s attainment of program requirements.
Information is available through Program Review submission at http://fresnostate.edu/kremen/about/cctc/index.html
Evidence regarding progress in meeting competency and performance expectations is consistently used to guide advisement and candidate support efforts. A clearly defined process is in place to identify and support candidates who need additional assistance to meet competencies.
Information is available through Program Review submission at http://fresnostate.edu/kremen/about/cctc/index.html