Welcome!

Greetings Internet travelers! You have found your way to Texas Tech University’s College of Education (COE) website. If this is your first visit to our College, on behalf of the faculty, staff, and students, we heartily welcome you and invite you to get to know about us and what we have to offer you as a prospective student, staff or faculty member. If you are a returning or current student, I am glad you have chosen to update your knowledge about the College.

Texas Tech is a dynamic and growing public university, serving not only Texas, but the nation and the world. Texas Tech and the College of Education work in tandem to provide access for all. Access TECH, a disability support program, ensures accessibility to students with disabilities on an individual basis. The College of Education is housed in our beautiful 85,000 square foot building; indeed, an institutional showcase! Having been a teacher, a university professor and a higher education administrator for many years at other institutions around the country, I am particularly energized by the vibrancy of this College of Education on the move!

The College continues to provide outstanding leadership by :

Building upon our established tradition of excellence;
Increasing our commitment to cultural and linguistic diversity;
Expanding international educational experiences and service learning opportunities;
Increasing access through distance education and collaborative partnerships with schools and other institutions of higher learning; and;
Seeking more funding mechanisms for student scholarships, fellowships, and campus employment.

Texas Tech’s College of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the State Board for Educator Certification, and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Our faculty and administrators enjoy membership and leadership roles in a wide variety of state and national professional associations such as the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, American Council on Education, the Council for Exceptional Children, the International Reading Association, the Holmes Partnership, the National Council of Instructional Administrators, the National Association for Bilingual Education, the National Association for Multicultural Education, and the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), among others.

Examples of several student organizations in which our students enjoy leadership roles include: Bilingual Education Student Organization (BESO); Student Council for Exceptional Children (SCEC); National Science Teachers Association (NSTA); Chi Sigma Iota (Theta Theta Epsilon Chapter); Kappa Delta PI; Texas State Teachers Association-Student Program (TSTA-SP), which was awarded best state chapter since 1999; and the Education Graduate Student Organization (EGSO).

The COE offers a full range of programs, including eight doctoral degrees, twelve master's degrees, and two bachelor's degrees with numerous specializations leading to careers in public or private education as teachers, professors, administrators, counselors, and diagnosticians. The Master of Education degree is offered via distance delivery in Instructional Technology, five specialties in Special Education, and to the Texas Hill Country in Educational Leadership. In the Texas Hill Country the college has also added an undergraduate BA degree in Multidisciplinary Studies in partnership with Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) programs at Central Texas College and Austin Community College. We are also excited about the multidisciplinary science master of science degree, Middle School Math and Science (MS)² concentration, funded by the Greater Texas Foundation. (http://www.ttumssquare.org)

Our college houses the nationally recognized Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Visual Impairment, the Center of the Integration of Science Education and Research (CISER Center) in cooperation with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education Fellowship Program and the T-STEM Center, the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research, the Center for Research in Leadership and Education, the Sitton-Burkhart Literature Collection, and the K-12 International Outreach Program housed at the International Cultural Center, among other wonderful grants and contracts, journal editorships, partnership programs, and community projects.

We invite you to browse our website to get to know more about our outstanding faculty and programs. Please let me know if I can be of assistance. Happy surfing!

Dr. Charles Ruch,
Interim Dean, College of Education