PART I: QUALITATIVE INFORMATION

1. Assessment
   • Departmental Assessment Plans
   • IBHE Program Review outcome: Next review scheduled for 2003-04.
   • IBHE Alumni Survey results
   • Undergraduate Student Survey Results: NA
   • Accreditation reports/results:
     • Early Childhood Special Education approved program, Illinois State Board of Education, July 1, 2002.
     • Standard Special LBS I approved program, Illinois State Board of Education, July 1, 2002.
     • Early Childhood Special Education, Council for Exceptional Children/National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, July 30, 2000.
     • Mild Disabilities, Special Education, Council for Exceptional Children/National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, July 30, 2000.
2. Active student learning opportunities
3. Strategies to improve P-16 teaching and learning
4. Collaborative activities with business/industry
5. Pass rates on any professional/ occupational licensure exams: NA
6. Faculty Achievements
7. Student Achievements
8. Other: The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)/National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)program review for the Eastern Illinois University Special Education programs is available at http://www.eiu.edu/~eiucec.

PART II: QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION
SPE Data Spreadsheet (Excel)

1. Enrollment: Undergraduate: 377; Graduate: 15
2. Degrees: Undergraduate: 57; Graduate: 5
3. Student Major Statistics
   • Full-time students: 330
   • Part-time students: 47
   • Diversity: 19
   • ACT: 21.33
   • GPA: 3.0
4. Faculty Statistics
   • Total faculty headcount: 12
   • Total FTE faculty: 9.61
   • Full-time faculty: 9
   • Part-time faculty: 3
   • # faculty on leave: 0
   • Total tenured/tenure track faculty: 6
   • Faculty break down by rank:
     1. Professor: 1
     2. Associate: 1
     3. Assistant: 4
   • # w/Terminal degrees: 4
   • Total annually-contracted faculty: 3
     • # w/Terminal degrees: 0
   • Non-negotiated part-time faculty: 3
   • Gender: 3 males, 9 females
   • Diversity: 2
5. Credit Hour Production Total: 5176
6. Discipline cost per credit hour by level:$258.31
7. Direct Cost Per Credit Hour Total: $116.75
8. Freshman-Sophomore Retention Rate: 80%
9. Average Actual Hours to Degree: 154
10. Required Hours to Degree:
    • Standard Special Option = 132 s.h.
    • Early Childhood Handicapped Option = 139 s.h.
    • Early Childhood Handicapped Option with Dual Endorsements in Early Childhood 0-8 = 153 s.h.
    • Standard Special Option with Dual Certification, Elementary Education = 167 s.h.
    • Standard Special Option with Dual Certification, Secondary Education = 167 s.h.