Mission Statement

The Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling seeks to provide for the education of students by supporting the professional development of faculty members whose expertise is in the fields of educational counseling, rehabilitation counseling and educational psychology (foundations, child and adolescent development, early intervention, or school psychology).  The purpose of the Department is to foster faculty who mentor the development of undergraduate and graduate students: students who care for others, seek growth in knowledge and wisdom, and are able to work as collaborators within multidisciplinary, multicultural, diverse educational settings and helping systems.

Goals and Objectives AY 2004-2005

Goal 1 To promote the professional development of department faculty members across 
             diverse disciplines.

• Objective 1. Each member will write a two-year Professional Development Plan which would facilitate faculty workload decisions, scheduling, and application for sabbatical leaves.
  
  
• Objective 2. To promote collaboration and teamwork by providing a forum for sharing teaching and research efforts.

Goal 2 To foster students' development of learning and life skills across diverse disciplines.

• Objective 1. Faculty will provide a classroom learning environment that promotes a high level of scholastic achievement in the context of preparation for life skills.
  
  
• Objective 2. Faculty will mentor and advise in career preparation with attention to equity in mentoring relationships for diverse students.

Goal 3 To document and support faculty partnerships at all levels of community (among
             departments, programs, disciplines, and with the community)

• Objective 1. Faculty will both initiate and be responsive to requests for community partnerships within the limits of the University/School/ Department strategic plans.  This may include projects such as grant proposals, service delivery models such as clinics and site-based programs, partnership institutes, experiential education, those that address enhancement of diversity, and cooperative professional education with other CSUSB faculties.
  
  
• Objective 2. All faculty partnerships will benefit the community/school/department and the faculty involved; the department will support an equitable reward structure to sustain these partnerships.

Goal 4 To increase awareness, support diversity, and implement activities that promote equity
             among faculty, staff, and students  

• Objective 1. Faculty members will assist their programs in recruiting, mentoring, and evaluating tenure-track, lecturer, and part-time faculty in order to retain and promote faculty who reflect the demographic diversity of the population in our service area.
• Objective 2. Faculty will include content in course syllabi that specifically addresses issues of diversity and inclusion.
• Objective 3. The department will continue use of SELEs in course evaluation to help measure the degree of infusion of multicultural education in course content.