ITEC and DAIS Departments to form new unit: ELSIT

The Instructional Technologies Department is undergoing a major administrative change beginning this Fall (2012).

We are undergoing a bit of reorganization, which will change the administrative alignment of ITEC. The ITEC (Instructional Technologies) and DAIS (Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies) departments of the Graduate College of Education have decided to join together to form a new unit called "Equity, Leadership Studies, and Instructional Technologies (ELSIT)."

This decision is the culmination of more than a semester of careful discussion and planning of the faculties of both departments over the past academic year.  It is our belief that there are important strategic reasons to come together to shape a new unit. We have shared synergies that we can build upon together in our two units to shape an important future for the Graduate College and the University. Furthermore, we believe that we are stronger if we come together than if we remain separate in the current climate of budgetary cutbacks and reorganization.

You may notice that the ITEC website now refers to the ITEC Program rather that the Department of Instructional Technologies. Students will find that this change may require a few different names on forms, but the change does not lead directly to changes in the ITEC faculty and curriculum. Dr. David Hemphill, the current chair of DAIS, will be the first chair of the new unit.