Faculty and staff from the Ball State University Teachers College gathered Friday to evaluate the second candidate for dean.
John Jacobson, dean of the college of education at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, held an open forum in L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
Jacobson addressed in his presentation several challenges education will have to confront in the next 10 to 20 years and proposed solutions to some of these challenges.
Jacobson earned degrees in elementary education, curriculum instruction and educational administration and a doctorate in reading at Brigham Young University.
He discussed how he has solved some problems facing the college of education in his position at Stephen F. Austin.
Jacobson said immigration is one of the main issues that affects education because very few teachers are well prepared to educatestudents whose native language is not English.
He said some of the reasons why a large number of students are dropping out of college is because they are undocumented or because they are not motivated.
He said service learning and civic engagement, freshmen year experiences, charter school movements and linking teacher preparation with student achievement were solutions to some of the challenges of education.
Marilynn Quick, assistant professor of educational leadership at Ball State and member of the search committee, said the committee began the search last August, collecting views from Teachers College personnel to determine what characteristics they would want in a new dean.
"It has very helpful because we used those to start our search," she said. "We said we were looking for a person with vision, a person that has experience with accreditation with technology with grants."
Quick said the committee will gather and resolve what candidate will be the next dean, based on evaluations filled out by the audience at the forums. She said Michael Maggiotto, dean of the College of Science and Humanities was the coordinator in the selection committee.
"He feels very honored," Quick said, "and has kept the process very thorough, and we all applaud that."
Results of who will be named the new dean of the Teachers College will be decided by the first days of June, Quick said.
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