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The College of Education is one of 15 colleges at The Pennsylvania State University, located in University Park, PA. It houses the departments of Curriculum and Instruction, Education Policy Studies, Learning and Performance Systems, and Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education. Almost 2,300 undergraduate students, and nearly 1,000 graduate students〔 are enrolled in its 7 undergraduate and 16 graduate degree programs. The college is housed in four buildings: Chambers, Rackley, Keller, and CEDAR Buildings. The College of Education is home to many academic journals, research centers and institutes, student organizations, and other academic programs. The college has an endowment worth more than $41.2 million.〔 Undergraduate students receive more than $1.89 million in College and University scholarships each year.〔 The college received $8 million in research grants and contracts in 2012-13.〔 The mission of the College of Education is "to deepen and extend knowledge about the formation and utilization of human capabilities." == History == University president John Martin Thomas created the School of Education on June 11, 1923, with Will G. Chambers as its first dean.〔"College of Education: An Illustrated History." Published by the College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998.〕 At that time, it consisted of five departments — Home Economics, Education and Psychology, Agricultural Education, Industrial Education, and Nature Study — and had 359 students enrolled that first year.〔 The first graduate programs began in 1930, and by 1938, the School of Education was the second largest college at the university.〔 The American Indian Leadership Program began in 1971, as one of the first programs in the nation of its kind. David H. Monk was appointed as the dean of the College of Education in 1999. That same year, the College of Education offered its first World Campus master's program. The ''American Journal of Education'' came to the College in 2004.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penn State College of Education」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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