By ABIGAIL SHEARER
Tiger Media Network
At Thursday’s Student Government Association meeting, Paul Adams, dean of the College of Education, updated the Senate on new advancements in the departments.
“The College of Education has 850 undergraduate students, both online and in-person, along with 1,500 graduate students, everything being online except counseling,” Adams said.
The College of Education prepares students for many of the largest groups of teaching shortages, such as special education, elementary education, and English teachers. This allows many students to graduate with a job waiting for them, as well as find sponsored student teacher positions.
“What’s happening is a lot of people are going out and becoming sponsored student teachers,” Adams said. “They are taking over classrooms, getting paid, getting insurance, and gaining experience.”
The College helps recruit students to the program at a future education day in the fall, which consists of 100 high school students. They also provide counseling through Fort Hays graduates. The College was granted $250,000 per year for five years to develop a tele-mental health program.
In New Business, there were two bills up for first reading
In Old Business, six bills were up for second reading.
Bill No. 25-S-132 for Wyatt Trombley to be appointed as Student Justice to the Student-Faculty Court was passed unanimously.
Bill No. 25-S-133 for Alisha Brantley to be appointed as Student Justice to the Student-Faculty Court. After a discussion of why she was not present at the meeting, it was tabled for next week.
Bill No. 24-S-135 for a line item change for the Muslim Student Association passed unanimously.
Bill No. 24-S-136 was for a line item change that involved moving funds from a non-food line item to a food line item. After a discussion of whether this was appropriate within the guidelines, the bill failed.
“This is not a new line item; this already existed, however, part of the bylaws that I intend on doing is removing food entirely because it is starting to become a point of no return,” SGA Treasurer and President-elect Jackson Sinsel said.
Bill No. 24-S-137 for funding of an L3 Learning Community passed unanimously.
Bill No. 24-S-138 for a line item change for HALO passed unanimously.
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