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How to get started with the Application process?
New Applicants: Apply to Graduate Studies using Form A, along with a copy of your current Teaching Certificate, official transcripts and GRE scores. Your GAP (GRE score times undergraduate GPA) should be 2200 and 3.5 or better on your writing score. If you did the old three part GRE you should have a GAP score of 3500. Complete the departmental application, along with three letters of recommendations, your personal statement, a recent snapshot, and a statement from your central office with your number of years of teaching experience. Return all materials to Educational Administration, Leadership & Research, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #41031, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101-1031.
Returning Graduate Students: Fill out the Form A with no additional fee. Mail it along with a copy of current Teaching Certificate to Graduate Studies, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #11010, Bowling Green, KY 42101-11010, Phone: 1-270-745-2446.
How long does it take to get admitted?
Once you have gotten everything in, it generally takes no more than two weeks for you to be admitted.
Whom to contact for different programs:
Advisors
William Kelley DPP/Elizabethtown
Jeanne Fiene Principal/MAE/Alt.Route
Chris Wagner Principal/MAE/Alt.Route
Gayle Ecton Superintendent
Vickie Basham Superintendent
William Schlinker Supervisor of Instruction & KPIP
Jim Stone Supervisor of Instruction
Nedra Atwell Director of Special Education
Dept. Info
Kay Gordon Certification Officer
Carolyn Hunt Paperwork
When do I get an advisor?
Once you are admitted to the department you are assigned an advisor. Your advisor will mail you a program to sign along with a letter of congratulations. You will need to sign the program and return it to the department. After your advisor signs your program, the department sends the program to the Certification Office where it is signed off. A copy of the program is mailed to you and the department retains one.
How do I find out about the GRE?
Go to website ETS.
What if I don't do well on my GRE?
If you don't make the minimum on your GRE, you have to have at least taken the GRE twice before you can be admitted via the alternate route. To get the guidelines for Alternate Admission go to College of Education and Behavioral Sciences.
Alternate Admissions:
Have you been fully accepted to WKU's administration programs?
Can you complete all education administration program requirements including the tests within two years?
Do you have a job offer that requires principal licensure?
If yes to all of these, contact Chris Wagner. (You can reach him at christopher.wagner@wku.edu or 270-745-4890).
Is there a code of conduct for students?
Please see the Code of Conduct for Professional Education Candidates.