Unit Budget

The unit’s budgets have increased each year to reflect cost-of-living increases and changes in full-time faculty hires and student enrollment increases, as shown in Table 6.1.  Budgets are broken into four large categories: Salaries and Wages, Supplies and Services, Operation and Plant Maintenance, and Capital Purchases.  Of the four categories, allocations for capital purchases are usually smallest.

Funds are consistently allocated for both graduate- and undergraduate-level teacher preparation programs.  Clinical work is planned for within these budgets.  For all programs, funding is specifically allocated to pay for field experience supervisors’ visits to observe student teachers.  Funds are also allocated to reimburse supervisors for mileage to travel to and from school sites.  In addition, funds are budgeted to pay supervisors to participate in training sessions to ensure uniform preparation in using the graduate programs’ field experience supervision materials.  In addition, the full-time faculty who direct and coordinate field experiences receive release time each semester to fulfill these responsibilities.