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Former names | Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (1994–2020)[1] Department of Education: California State Normal School in Los Angeles (1881–1914), Los Angeles State Normal School (1914–1919), Teachers College (1919–1939), School of Education (1939–1994) |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1881 as the California State Normal School in Los Angeles 1919 incorporated into theUniversity of California |
Parent institution | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Endowment | US$4.7 million[2] (parent endowment = US$2.81 billion)[3] |
| Dean | Christina A. Christie |
Academic staff | ~100 |
| Students | ~1,000[4] |
| Location | ,, United States 34°04′21″N118°26′21″W / 34.07259°N 118.43928°W /34.07259; -118.43928 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | UCLA Ed & IS |
| Website | www |
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TheUCLA School of Education and Information Studies (UCLA Ed & IS)[5] is one of the academic and professional schools at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Located inLos Angeles,California, the school combines two departments.[6] Established in 1881, the school is the oldest unit atUCLA, having been founded as anormal school prior to the establishment of the university. It was incorporated into theUniversity of California in 1919.
The school offers doctoral and master's degrees, including theMA,MEd,MLIS,EdD, andPhD, as well as professional certificates and credentials in education and information studies. It also hosts visiting scholars and a number of research centers, institutes, and programs. Ed&IS recently initiated an undergraduate major in Education & Social Transformation in addition to the minor that it has offered in Education Studies.[7]
Both of its departments have consistently ranked highly among graduate schools of education and Master's of Library and Information Science byU.S. News & World Report in every year in which the magazine has published such rankings.U.S. News & World Report does not rank doctoral programs in information studies, but the information studies faculty consistently ranks among the most productive and highly cited faculty in its field, according to a standard quadrennial peer-reviewed study by professors within that field.[8] Ed&IS faculty are members of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences,[9]Institute of Medicine,[9]American Association for the Advancement of Science,[9] and the National Academy of Education.[9]
Admission to Ed&IS is selective, particularly admission to the departments' doctoral programs; between 60 and 70% of those admitted enroll.[10][11] Roughly 150 doctoral students in education and 8 doctoral students in information studies are admitted to the school each year.[12][13] Each class in the two-year MLIS and MA programs in information studies has approximately 80 students,[14] while each class in the one-year MEd and MA programs in education has approximately 250 students.[13]
Since 1994, the name of the school has been the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS). In 2020, it was changed to UCLA School of Education and Information Studies (Ed & IS) to reflect its provision of undergraduate courses as well as post-graduate.
Ed & IS is located in three buildings on the UCLA campus inWestwood, Los Angeles. Moore Hall primarily houses the school's administration and education faculty. Built in 1930 and designed byGeorge W. Kelham, Moore Hall is among the most architecturally significant buildings at UCLA, an example of the school's originalRomanesque Revival style. During the campus' expansion during the 1950s, themodernist architectKemper Nomland refurbished Moore Hall. The building was again refurbished by the Los Angeles-based architectural firm Robert Englekirk & Associates in 1993. Moore Hall is located directly south ofPowell Library, adjacent toBruin Walk, Kerkhoff Hall and Ackerman Union, in the middle of campus.[15]
The Mathematical Sciences Building houses some of the school's research centers, programs, and institutes, in addition to the administrative and faculty offices of the Mathematical Sciences. The building was built in 1957 and designed by Stanton & Stockwell in the mid-centurymodernist style. The Mathematical Sciences Building is located in the middle of campus, directly south of Moore Hall, at the north-west corner of the Court of Sciences.[15] The GSEIS Building primarily houses the information studies faculty and computer and research labs. Built in 1991, the building is located in the northern part of the UCLA campus, offSunset Boulevard, directly adjacent to theCharles E. Young Research Library, UCLA's main research library.[16]
The UCLA School of Education and Information Studies can trace its history back to a state legislative act in 1881 that established a "southern branch" of theCalifornia State Normal School inLos Angeles. When it opened in 1882 (on what is now the site of the Central Library of theLos Angeles Public Library system), its primary responsibility was teacher training. The Department of Education was established in 1894. The school was renamed the Los Angeles State Normal School in 1914, and in 1917 the school was moved to a larger site onVermont Avenue (on what is now the site ofLos Angeles City College). The new facility included anelementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on children. That same year Ernest Carroll Moore (for whom Moore Hall is named) was appointed its director. TheUniversity of California opened itssouthern branch in 1919 by replacing the Los Angeles State Normal School with the University's Teachers College. A southern branch of the College of Letters and Science, which enrolled considerably fewer students than the Teachers College, was also established as part of the campus. Moore became director of the southern campus (laterprovost) anddean of the Teachers College, a position he held until 1939. The campus moved to its current location inWestwood, Los Angeles in 1929.[17]
In 1930 Los Angeles City Librarian Everett R. Perry proposed to the president of theUniversity of California the establishment of a library school on the Los Angeles campus of the University. By 1935 the School of Librarianship was opened at the University's campus at Berkeley (now theUC Berkeley School of Information), which was later suspended throughWorld War II. UCLA University LibrarianLawrence Clark Powell, among other Los Angeles leaders, resumed the prewar interest in a library school at UCLA. TheRegents of the University of California approved the establishment of the school in 1958. Powell (for whomPowell Library is named) resigned his position as University Librarian to becomedean of the new school. The school was established with collaboration from the School of Librarianship at Berkeley. The two schools initially created a single alumni association and doctoral students took courses, when appropriate, at either campus.[17] From its inception the school hired faculty from other disciplines, namely mathematicianRobert M. Hayes. With innovation ininformation technology afterWorld War II, library programs became increasingly multidisciplinary, effectively providing a disciplinary home for the interdisciplinary study ofinformation science. Many library schools have since been repositioned asinformation schools, schools of information science, or schools of library and information science.See thehistory of information science.
The School of Education and the School of Library and Information Science were incorporated into the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies in 1994. UCLA is the only major research university in the country that combines these two areas of study into a single school or college.[18]
On January 29, 2014, Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco became the inaugural Wasserman Dean of Education & Information Studies. Suárez-Orozco left UCLA to become Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and was replaced by Christina A. Christie as the new Wasserman Dean of Education & Information Studies in 2020.[19]
The Department of Education is ranked within the top tengraduateschools of education byU.S. News & World Report,[18][20] and currently ranked 3rd in the nation. The Department of Education is UCLA's oldest unit, since UCLA was founded as anormal school for the training of teachers. Divisions within the Department of Education include Urban Schooling, Student Affairs, Educational Leadership, Higher Education and Organizational Change, Human Development and Psychology (formerly Psychological Studies in Education), Social Research Methodology, Social Sciences and Comparative Education, among others. The program offers an undergraduate major in Education & Social Transformation, an undergraduate minor in Education Studies, aMaster's (awarded after one year of study) andPhD program. The department is known for its research in the study of student testing and assessment, teacher and continuing education and development - particularly in urban, multi-ethnic environments, early childhood development, and issues of access, equity and quality facing higher education.[18][better source needed] The department is home toNational Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), theHigher Education Research Institute (HERI),The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP/PDC), the UC All Campus Consortium On Research and Diversity (UC ACCORD), and the Center for International and Development Education (CIDE), among others.
Accredited by theAmerican Library Association and a founding member of theI-Schools caucus, the Department of Information Studies ranks the 4th most productive and 3rd most highly cited faculty in the latest Budd survey of "Scholarly Productivity of U.S. LIS Faculty" (as measured per capita of faculty).[21]U.S. News & World Report ranks the Master's of Library Science program among the top 13 in the country.[22]
The department offers an undergraduate program inInformation Studies; theMaster's inLibrary and Information Science (awarded after two years of study), which has three focus areas: Library Studies, Archival Studies, andInformatics; thePhD inInformation Studies; and the Moving Image Archive StudiesMA, an inter-departmental program jointly sponsored by theUCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media in theUCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The department is home to the California Center for the Book, a division of theCenter for the Book, the Center for Information as Evidence, and the California Rare Book School, among many other institutes, programs, and research centers.[23]
The UCLALab School, a quasi-private, quasi-public-school,[24] has been on the UCLA campus since 1947 and currently has 450 students ranging in ages 4–12.[18] Ed&IS's Department of Education is the only department in the United States that enjoys direct access to an on-campus elementary school.[25] The Lab School classrooms provide anexperiential education by serving as laboratories for exploring ideas about teaching, learning, and child development. The school is located on the northern part of the UCLA campus, directly north of theUCLA Anderson School of Management, offSunset Boulevard. The school has also opened satellite campuses inSouth Los Angeles, where educators can try to address the educational challenges posed by poverty, lack of English fluency and achievement gaps on the part of racial and ethnic minorities.[24]
UCLA-CS is located at the formerAmbassador Hotel site inMid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles. The school, a part of theRobert F. Kennedy Community Schools, opened its doors in September 2010 to students in grades K-12.
The school's journal isInterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. The journal is "a peer-reviewed on-line journal committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary and critical scholarship. Edited by students in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, the journal brings together senior and emerging scholars, activists, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory and practice."[26] The journal is anopen access journal housed by theBerkeley Electronic Press and theeScholarship initiative of theCalifornia Digital Library.
The school also houses theFreire Online Journal, which publishes "Freirean academic, in the field, experimental, and research-based works."[27]
Center X is a coalition of professional credentialing and continuing education programs housed within the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. In the past ten years, Center X has awarded the preliminary teaching credential andMaster of Education to more than 1700 teachers through its Teacher Education Program (TEP) and the Tier I administrative credential and Master of Education to nearly 400 administrators in training through its Principal Leadership Institute (PLI).[29] Center X was founded in response to a report published by theUniversity of California's Advisory Committee calling for a transformation of the relationship between university teacher training programs and the public schools to employ prospective student teachers. In response to this report andthe social upheaval in Los Angeles of the early 1990s, the newly formed center explicitly focused on some of the most impoverished areas in Los Angeles:East Los Angeles,Pico Union,South Los Angeles, andthe Crenshaw District.[30] Both of Center X's flagship professional programs, TEP and PLI, have a social justice emphasis as core to their work.[31]
Center X works to staff schools that are underserved, in communities of color, low-income, and with students that have academic needs. Schools that employ TEP Candidates have seen success, particularly in the area ofteacher retention. A 2003 study found that "Center X graduates stay in teaching at higher rates than national averages. As expected, retention decreases over time, yet even after 5 years, 70% of Center X graduates remain in the classroom compared to 61% of teachers nationally".[32] For the 2010-2011 academic year, four TEP alumni were selected as United States Department of Education "Teaching Ambassador Fellows".[33]
Center X is committed toVygotskyiansociocultural theory[30] and continues to do work around child development through language.[34]
Center X provides ongoing development for urban educators and schools through eight projects. These include five subject matter Projects (Writing, Reading and Literature, Mathematics, Science, and History-Geography), the UCLA Parent Project, a National Boards Project, and a School Transformation Project.[35]
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