UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

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UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Established	1881 as the Los Angeles State Normal School. Became part of UC system in 1919. School of Education and the School of Library Service were encorporated into the Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1994.
Type	Public
Dean	Aimée Dorr
Faculty	approx. 113
Location	Los Angeles, California, USA
Campus	Urban
Nickname	GSEIS
Website	http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/

The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) at UCLA combines two distinguished departments whose research and doctoral training programs are committed to expanding the range of knowledge in education, information science, and associated disciplines.^[1]

Contents 1 Location 2 History 3 Departments 3.1 Department of Education 3.2 Department of Information Studies 4 Centers 5 Institutes 6 Programs 7 Journals 8 Notable faculty 9 External links 10 Notes

[edit] Location

The GSEIS is located in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is housed in two buildings at UCLA: Moore Hall on South Campus and the GSE&IS Building on North Campus.^[2]

[edit] History

The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies can trace its history back to a state legislative act in 1881 that established a "southern branch" of the California State Normal School in Los Angeles. When it opened in 1882 (on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los 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 on Vermont Avenue. The new facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on real children. That same year Ernest Carroll Moore (for whom Moore Hall is named) was appointed its director. The University of California opened its southern 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 establshed as part of the campus. Moore became director of the southern campus (later provost) and dean of the Teachers College, a position he held until 1939. The campus moved to its current location in Westwood, Los Angeles in 1929.^[3]

In 1930 Los Angeles City Librarian Everett R. Perry proposed to the president of the University 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 the UC Berkeley School of Information), which was later suspended through World War II. UCLA University Librarian Lawrence Clark Powell, among other Los Angeles leaders, resumed the prewar interest in a library school at UCLA. The Regents of the University of California approved the establishment of the school in 1958. Powell (for whom Powell Library is named) resigned his position as University Librarian to become dean 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.^[4] From its inception the school hired faculty from other disciplines, namely mathematician Robert M. Hayes. With innovation in information technology after World War II, library programs became increasingly multidisciplinary, effectively providing a disciplinary home for the interdisciplinary study of information science. Many library schools have since been renamed information schools, schools of information science, or schools of library and information science. See the history of information science.

The School of Education and the School of Library Service were encorporated into the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies in 1994.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Department of Education

Ranked second among graduate schools of education by U.S. News and World Report,^[5] the Department of Education is committed to understanding and improving education practice in a diverse society. Divisions within the Department of Education include Urban Schooling, Counseling and Student Affairs, Educational Leadership, Higher Education and Organizational Change, Psychological Studies in Education, Social Research Methodology, Social Sciences and Comparative Education, among others. The program offers both a Masters (awarded after one year of study) and Ph.D. program.

The Department of Education is UCLA's oldest unit, since UCLA was originally founded as a normal school for the training of teachers. From the very beginning, UCLA has always had an elementary school attached to it. Today, GSEIS's Department of Education is the only such department in the United States that enjoys direct access to an on-campus elementary school—the Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School (UES).^[6]

[edit] Department of Information Studies

Considered one of the most distinguished graduate schools of library and information science, accredited by the American Library Association, 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).^[7] The Department of Information Studies examines the application, communication, processing, representation and social consequences of technology. It also studies the structure, behavior, and interactions of natural and engineered computational systems. Traditionally, it is concerned with the gathering, manipulation, classification, storage, and retrieval of recorded knowledge in interrelated fields, e.g. the sciences, humanities, medicine, law or business. The central notion is the transformation and dissemination of information - whether by computation or communication, whether by organisms or artifacts. In this sense, it is more or less a merge of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computing science, and related fields.

The department offers an undergraduate program in Information Studies; the Masters in Library and Information Science (awarded after two years of study), which has three focus areas: Library Studies, Archival Studies, and Informatics; the PhD in Information Studies; and the Moving Image Archive Studies M.A., an inter-departmental program jointly sponsored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media in the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. Doctoral students can choose to specialize in various research areas, including information policy, information institutions, information as evidence, information seekers, information structures, and information systems.^[8] The department is home to the California Center for the Book, a division of the Center for the Book, the Center for Information as Evidence, and the California Rare Book School, among many other institues, programs, and research centers.^[9]

The program is known for having a diverse teaching faculty who come from many countries around the world. There are also many adjunct faculty members who teach at the school which adds some practical knowledge to the highly theoretical program.

[edit] Centers

• The Civil Rights Project/Progecto de Derechos Civiles^[10]
• California Center for the Book [1]
• Center for International And Development Education (CIDE) [2]
• Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE)/ National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) [3]
• Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education (CELCEE) [4]
• Center X - Research and Practice for Urban School Professionals [5]
• Service Learning Clearinghouse (SLC) [6]
• CONNECT: A Center for Research & Innovation in Elementary Education [7]
• University Elementary School (UES) [8]
• UC All Campus Consortium On Research for Diversity (ACCORD) [9]
• Center for the Study of Urban Literacies [10]
• Center for Information as Evidence [11]
• UCLA Community College Studies [12]

[edit] Institutes

• Advanced Methods Institute [13]
• Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy [14]
• Sudikoff Family Institute [15]
• Institute for Democracy, Education, & Access (IDEA) [16]
• Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) [17]
• Paulo Freire Institute [18]
• Institute for the Study of Educational Enterpreneurship (ISEE) [19]
• UCLA Statewide Migrant Student Leadership Institute (MSLI) [20]
• UCLA Institute on Primary Resources [21]
• Early Literacy Institute [22]

[edit] Programs

• California Rare Book School [23]
• Teaching to Change LA [24]
• Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st Century Literacies [25]
• International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) [26]
• REFORMA Los Angeles Chapter (The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking) [27]
• Senior Fellows [28]

[edit] Journals

• InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies

[edit] Notable faculty

Alexander Astin Marcia J. Bates Christine L. Borgman Sandra Harding Robert M. Hayes Douglas Kellner

Seymour Lubetzky Peter McLaren Gary Orfield[11] Mike Rose Carlos Torres

[edit] External links

• UCLA Department of Education
• UCLA Department of Information Studies

[edit] Notes