Job Description
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- Screen, evaluate, provide information, and advise alumni, students, faculty, administrators, state officials, and others regarding Indiana and Ball State University post-baccalaureate programs, licensing policies and procedures, educational program requirements, student teaching, student observations, and participation for students.
- Actively pursue, recruit, and inform potential post-bac students about Ball State post-bac programs, licensing policies and procedures, and educational program requirements.
- Verify, complete, and code all license applications for transition to teaching (T2T) candidates.
- Maintain evaluation request system; process requests for evaluation of license requirements; evaluate the transcript of current and previous Ball State students; collect evaluation fees; send evaluations to students and Ball State advisors; update evaluations to reflect courses taken and substitutions made by advisors; maintain a record of evaluations; provide statistics for annual report based on evaluation records.
- Routinely meet with Executive Director, and other appropriate department/office personnel, to set goals for contact, follow up and review of prospective, previous, and current post-bac students. This includes working with appropriate staff to develop digital and paper methods to market and recruit students into post-bac programs.
- Maintain and digitize file system for evaluations, licensure and tests, including post-bac students and programs.
- Serve as a backup to the licensing advisor, capable of completing all license processing and elements as needed.
- Serve as advisor to faculty regarding post-bac licensing programs and test requirements, maintaining program sheets against academic postings, Indiana Department of Education changes, and testing updates.
- Verify and code student files for graduate licensure for use by Registrar, Admissions, and Graduate School.
- Co-facilitate, engage, and create licensing presentations for all candidates such as student teachers and transition to teaching candidates.
- Maintain evaluation fee budget; process reimbursements; make deposits.
- Actively hold designated office appointment hours and online office appointment hours to advise post-bac students and maintain weekly digital record and log all information pertaining to communication, correspondence, and appointments with prospective candidates.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
At Ball State University, we recognize inclusive excellence as an integral endeavor to fulfill our University’s mission and our strategic plan. We recruit, support, and retain a diverse population of students, faculty, and staff. We encourage and reward diversity of thought. We promote a work environment that encourages and rewards innovation and creativity. We pledge to keep Inclusive Excellence at the highest level of institutional importance and as a foundation in all that we strive to do. Our over-arching goal for Inclusive Excellence is to adopt a university-wide Inclusive Excellence approach to academic, administrative support, and service functions of the university. We believe Inclusive Excellence must be infused in every step we take.