Collaborative Education and Professional Studies College (CEPS)
Collaborative Education and Professional Studies College (CEPS)
- Location Building 3
- Information 831-582-3724
- Fax 831-582-4568
- Email gayle_roper@csumb.edu
The College for Collaborative Education and Professional Studies provides access to excellence in academic programs that are learning-centered, interdisciplinary, collaborative, and diversity-oriented. In keeping with CSUMB's Vision Statement, the programs equip students with knowledge, skills, and values that are indispensable to professional competence and quality of personal life in an ever-changing, pluralistic, and technological society. To ensure the attainment of this goal, students engage in active learning experiences in an array of school, community, and business contexts.
The College’s commitment to internal and external collaboration is intended to ensure both quality and excellence in the Academic Programs. The collaboration among CSUMB faculty and professionals from K-12 schools, community organizations and agencies, and businesses throughout our Tri-County service area brings together the knowledge and experience necessary to offer high quality, state-of-the-art programs that meet the educational needs of the region, the state, and the nation.
The Collaborative Education and Professional Studies College reflects the university vision and supports the commitment to Service Learning, diversity, and technology. Undergraduate preservice and graduate education programs and projects are housed in seven academic Institutes which, in turn, offer four undergraduate degree programs, a Master of Arts degree, and the Multiple Subject CLAD/BCLAD Teaching Credential. The CEPS Institutes are:
- Institute for Advanced Studies in Education
- Institute for Community Collaborative Studies
- Institute for Field-Based Teacher Education
- Institute for Global Learning
- Health and Wellness Institute
- Institute for Liberal Studies
- Institute for Management and International Entrepreneurship (Business)
- Institute for Professional Development
Institute for Advanced Studies in Education
Making Contact
Institute for Advanced Studies in Education
- Degree offered: Master of Arts
- Location: Building 3
- Information: 831-582-3641
- Email: christine_sleeter@csumb.edu
- Website: http://www.csumb.edu/academic/graduate/education/
Program Overview
Mission
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Education sponsors the Master of Arts in Education program, which is designed to help credentialed educators become effective teachers and leaders for the culturally and linguistically diverse students in the region.
Within the Institute of Advanced Studies, additional workshops and professional development opportunities are offered throughout winter session and summer. The workshops are centered around improving and demonstrating "best practices" in teaching in a variety of curricular areas and interests, and focus specifically on teaching diverse populations.
Academic Philosophy
The MAE program targets the goal of helping teachers achieve excellence in classroom instruction. With that in mind, the program carefully weaves several strands into the fabric of graduate work. At the core, students gain a conceptual and theoretical perspective for instruction. Insights on research in teaching are intertwined. Students are also wired into all the new technological twists. Advanced pedagogical skills and new curriculum materials are tied in, and learning is liberally laced with insights on connecting with culturally and linguistically diverse students, communities, and intellectual works. The MAE curriculum is then sewn together with a plan for lifelong learning using applied action research.
Institute Contributions
Master of Arts Curriculum
The Institute offers a Master of Arts in Education.
Institute for Community Collaborative Studies (ICCS)
Institute for Community Collaborative Studies (ICCS)
- Degree offered: Bachelor of Arts in Collaborative Health and Human Services
- Location: Building 86D
- Information: 831-582-3565
- Fax: 831-582-3899
- Email: iccs@csumb.edu
- Website: http://iccs.csumb.edu
Program Overview
Mission
ICCS focuses on the study of integrated health and human services delivery systems and the collaborative processes essential to individuals, families, and communities empowering themselves to make positive change. ICCS introduces students to the foundations of the management sciences and the major health and human services professions of social work, community health, and public administration.
Academic Philosophy
As we enter the 21st century, our social, political, and economic environments are experiencing increasing uncertainty and rapid change. In response, to more ably pursue common service goals, public and private nonprofit agencies have begun transforming themselves into more flexible, collaborative, innovative, and outcome-based organizations. To be successful in this new environment, professionals must be competent in the methodologies and fluent in the language of innovation and collaborative health and human service delivery.
To meet these challenges, ICCS provides students with multiple learning opportunities both in the classroom and in the field that allow them to:
- Develop sound critical thinking and communication skills.
- Master the theory and practice of collaboration in the health and human service fields.
- Integrate the values and ethics of health and human service practice.
- Become proficient in the use of electronic technologies.
- Become adept at serving populations whose backgrounds are different from their own.
Institute Contributions
Bachelor of Arts Curriculum
ICCS’s interprofessional educational program offers a Bachelor of Arts in Collaborative Health and Human Services.
University Learning Requirements (ULRs)
The Institute offers several courses that satisfy various ULRs including Culture and Equity and Democratic Participation.
ICCS Community Program
Consistent with the Institute’s mission statement, ICCS faculty and students play an active and integrative role in the surrounding communities. ICCS assists in the development and facilitation of collaborative problem solving and capacity building in local communities and integrated health and human service delivery systems throughout the Monterey Bay region. An Advisory Board comprised of leaders of public and nonprofit health and human service agencies from the tri-counties guides the Institute’s Community and Academic Programs. Through grant-funded and contractual projects, ICCS faculty and staff provide students with multiple learning opportunities to become involved in important community leadership, community development, and evaluation projects.
Institute for Field-Based Teacher Education
Institute for Field-Based Teacher Education
- Credential offered: Multiple Subject and Single Subject Teaching Credentials
- Location: Building 3
- Information: 831-582-3639
- CTIP: 831-582-4479
- Fax: 831-582-3539
- Email: minerva_estassi@csumb.edu
Program Overview
The Institute for Field-Based Teacher Education offers a curriculum that reflects a high degree of integration between theory and practice. Collaborative program development among public schools, the community, and CSUMB has created a hands-on learning environment that prepares students to teach linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. That, in turn, enhances the ability to teach all students successfully.
Institute Contributions
CLAD/BCLAD Multiple Subject Credential Curriculum
The Institute offers two alternatives for earning a multiple subject credential.
Seminars and Presentations
Students are invited to attend occasional special seminars and presentations offered by the Institute. These events may include symposia by visiting scholars and regional education leaders.
Institute for Global Learning
- Degree offered: Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies
- Location: Building 82D
- Information: 831-582-3728
- Fax: 831-582-3737
- Email: robina_bhatti@csumb.edu
- Website: http://global.csumb.edu
Program Overview
Mission
The Institute for Global Learning’s program is interdisciplinary and learner-centered. It integrates the study of earth systems with the study of social systems, thereby crossing the traditional boundaries between the social sciences and natural sciences. The Institute also offers opportunities for applied learning, field studies, and work-study experiences that link academic learning to concrete and daily practices.
Due to CSUMB's geographic location and the nature of current and future global employment opportunities, the Institute for Global Learning provides a specific emphasis on the peoples, relations, issues, and problems of the Pacific Rim region. This does not mean that the program fails to focus on other regions of the world. In fact, it would be impossible to understand the current phase of globalization without understanding the political, economic, technological, and cultural activities of the other regions of the world that have shaped global life in the last 500 years, especially Europe and North America.
Academic Philosophy
There is hardly any aspect of contemporary human existence that is not, in some way, affected by the increasing global interdependency of humanity, so the Institute for Global Learning program focuses on a broad range of global economic, political, technological, social, and environmental issues, as well as basic global concerns about physical survival, health, justice, peace, and security. The program seeks to equip graduates with a comprehensive awareness of the multidimensional nature of the process of globalization and with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue successful careers and perform effective roles in intercultural relations and global affairs.
The Institute relies upon a variety of teaching and learning strategies that involve, empower, and challenge underrepresented students.
Institute Contributions
Bachelor of Arts Curriculum
The Institute for Global Learning offers a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies.
University Learning Requirements (ULRs)
The Institute offers several courses that satisfy various ULRs including Community Participation, Culture and Equity, Democratic Participation, Ethics, Science, Technology and Information, and U.S. Histories.
Model United Nations
The Institute of Global Learning offers the Model United Nations Program that takes students to a regional conference in California and a national conference at the United Nations in New York every spring semester. The Model United Nations experience gives students an opportunity to learn research skills, to advance and negotiate positions in a public forum, to collaborate effectively with others, and to gain insight into the inner workings of the international political system.
Cross-Cultural Experiences
The Institute for Global Learning is committed to working with students to plan cross-cultural experiences that are appropriate to the student's learning goals and personal circumstances. The program facilitates student participation in the authorized California State University International Overseas Programs (see the CSU IOP section of this catalog for a complete discussion). Recently, CSUMB students have been able to study in Mexico, India, Brazil, Spain, and Israel.
Health and Wellness Institute
- Location: Building 84F
- Information: 831-582-3015
- Fax: 831-582-4023
- Email: amy_tomasi@csumb.edu
Program Overview
Mission
Health and wellbeing do not occur in a vacuum, nor are they necessarily determined by genes, age, gender, or ability. Rather, and to a large degree, they are influenced by the decisions we make about how to live our lives and interrelate with others. Optimizing our health can occur by increasing our knowledge and improving our practices in six interrelated dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and environmental.
HWI delivers comprehensive programs focused on enabling students, faculty, and staff to achieve lifelong wellness through health education and movement studies. Central to our holistic approach are academic learning experiences and activities which focus on nutrition, stress management, growth, development, physical activity, leadership, and leisure. Promoting a healthy lifestyle and a creative sense of self with confidence are concepts which are integrated into a variety of venues and learning experiences, all of which seek to embrace a global perspective and the diverse and multicultural nature of CSUMB.
Academic Philosophy
The Health and Wellness Institute is committed to developing well rounded individuals and professionals who possess the knowledge and skills to choose to embrace a lifestyle which enhances society as a whole, as well as each individual’s quality of life through physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and environmental dimensions.
Institute Contributions
Nondegree Curriculum
The Health and Wellness Institute offers a nondegree curriculum in support of the Liberal Studies major and the Collaborative Human Services major.
In addition, HWI provides learning experiences in a variety of "leisure activities" for all students including, but not limited to, the martial arts, creative movement, aerobics, sailing, volleyball, basketball, strength training, rockclimbing, soccer, kayaking, disc golf, and swimming.
University Learning Requirements (ULRs)
HWI provides learning experiences designed to allow students to learn and explore new health habits, skills, and leisure opportunities. Foundations for Wellness is the core course for the CSUMB Vibrancy University Learning Requirement (ULR) and is housed in the Health and Wellness Institute.
Additionally, the Health and Wellness Institute offers learning experiences that satisfy requirements for the Community Participation and Ethics ULRs.
Institute for Liberal Studies (LS)
Institute for Liberal Studies (LS)
- Degree offered: Bachelor of Arts
- Location: Building 15
- Information: 831-582-3981
- LS Advising Center: 831-582-4559
- Director: 831-582-3763
- Fax: 831-582-3356
- Email: priscilla_angulo@csumb.edu
- Website: http://ls.csumb.edu
Program Overview
Mission
California has made a renewed commitment to education by increasing budget allocations and mandating smaller classes in elementary schools. Consequently, the demand for teachers is greater than ever. The primary mission of the Institute for Liberal Studies is to provide undergraduate education that will prepare students to fill that need. Consequently, approximately 90 percent of CSUMB’s Liberal Studies majors are future teachers who take advantage of the fact that the curriculum meets the State of California approved subject matter prerequisite for the fifth-year of study in a Multiple Subject Credential Program. The remaining 10 percent of Liberal Studies majors receive equally superb preparation for entry-level positions and graduate programs in other professions such as social work, law, and business that value well-rounded general undergraduate preparation.
Academic Philosophy
The Institute for Liberal Studies is committed to developing well-rounded and broadly prepared professionals who possess bilingual skills, cross-cultural awareness, technological competence, expert work skills, ethical principles, and sensitivity to the lives they touch.
Institute Contributions
Bachelor of Arts Curriculum
The Institute offers a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies.
University Learning Requirements (ULRs)
The Institute offers several courses that satisfy CSUMB’s Culture and Equity ULR as well as the Literature and Popular Culture ULR.
Institute for Management and International Entrepreneurship (MIE)
Making Contact
Institute for Management and International Entrepreneurship (MIE)
- Degree offered: Bachelor of Science
- Location: Building 82A, Room 101
- Information: 831-582-4232
- Fax: 831-582-4251
- Email: business@csumb.edu
- Website: http://business.csumb.edu
Program Overview
The MIE program provides grounding in traditional business disciplines, but it also differs in important respects from most undergraduate schools of business. The MIE program is:
- Outcomes-based: MIE majors must demonstrate competency in key disciplines required for professional and personal success.
- Multidisciplinary: Students draw on many business disciplines as they complete integrated case studies and team projects.
- Entrepreneurial: The Institute stimulates student determination to "make a difference"—to provide added value to those served.
- Field-based: Students apply knowledge gained in the classroom to field-based assignments. Service Learning, internships, field projects, and mentored work experiences are central aspects.
- Personal attention: Small class size, a low student-teacher ratio, and personalized mentoring by faculty and business advisors enable the Institute to respond to each MIE student's unique needs.
Institute Contributions
Bachelor of Science Curriculum
The Institute for Management and International Entrepreneurship offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and International Entrepreneurship.
University Learning Requirements (ULRs)
The Institute offers several courses that satisfy various ULRs including Culture and Equity, English Communication, Ethics, and Technology and Information, as well as the upper-division Service Learning requirement.
Support of Other University Programs
The Institute offers some courses for students in other majors and is seeking university approval to offer an MIE minor.
Institute for Professional Development (IPD)
Institute for Professional Development (IPD)
- Location: Building 3
- Information: 831-582-3517
