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74 | COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY 2018-2019│COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
FROM THE DESK OF THE DEAN…
The College of Education (CoE) equips educators to think, teach, and lead biblically in
educational settings throughout the world. This mission encompasses the preparation of
teachers to enter early childhood and elementary classrooms with a five-year, two-degree
program including: an undergraduate core in Bible and a major in Teacher Education and
a graduate master’s degree (B.A./B.S. and M.A.T.) or a stand-alone M.A. in Teaching
(M.A.T.) for those already having earned a bachelor’s degree.
Additionally, at the master’s level, the CoE equips
practicing teachers and administrators for school
leadership positions through a Master of
Education (M.Ed.) with concentrations in
Educational Administration and Instruction and
Learning. An Education Specialist (Ed.S.) degree
is offered at the postgraduate level. Both degrees
are available 100% online.
At the doctoral level, the CoE offers a Doctor of
Philosophy (Ph.D.) program with a concentration
in Educational Leadership entirely online.
To fulfill the mission of the College of Education,
the courses of study are based upon a
philosophy of education that approaches both the
means and the ends of education by thinking
biblically about the nature of students,
instructional strategies, and curricular content
(knowledge, skills, and dispositions). Preparation
includes training that equips students to think in
culturally responsive ways within classrooms that are
increasingly diverse.
Currently students continue to work during fall, spring, and summers to become or to
enhance their positions as Pre-K-12
th
grade teachers, school principals and headmasters,
instructional supervisors, and administrators in higher education. These students, drawn
to Columbia International University through the reputation of our faculty and graduates,
currently come to study not only from schools across the United States, but also from
Australia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Indonesia, Korea, Bolivia, China, Taiwan, Mexico, the
Dominican Republic, and the Philippines. There is no question that the CoE reflects CIU’s
middle name – International.
Regardless of where our students are – beginning as college freshmen or completing their
doctoral degrees – CoE students believe they can and will impact the world through
education. The CoE strives to equip students to be discerning and wise educators whose
lives exemplify the thinking and dispositions of Christian educators as they create effective
learning communities.
Blessings,
Connie Mitchell, Ed.D.
Dean of the College of Education