At a special meeting yesterday, the IUP Council of Trustees approved the creation of a new post-baccalaureate certification.
As part of a list of recommendations from the Academic Affairs Committee, the Career and Technical Teacher Education certification program will begin this fall. The program will incoporate coursework that qualified students have and build a quicker pathway to full certification. This will be a collaboration between the College of Education and Human Services and the Department of Career and Wellness education.
The trustees also moved forward with a proposed major in forensic sciences program. If approved by the Chancellor of the State System of Higher Education, the program will include applied crime scene investigation, lab forensics and digital forensics as specializations. It will be housed at the Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and use existing courses and faculty.
IUP’s fall semester begins August 25th.
