Measure 4

Ability of Completers to be Hired in Education Positions Initial and Advanced Programs - Completers with Full-Time Employment Academic Year 2024-2025

This CAEP Accreditation Measure is also available online as a Microsoft Word document

BACKGROUND

The data collected from completers hired with full-time employment is collected from ISBE on undergraduate and graduate completers hired as full-time educators. Completers employed in a non-public or out-of-state school are not included in this report. Employment includes all educational roles requiring a state educator license (excluding substitute teachers). Each year, school districts report all licensed personnel to the State in the Employment Information System (EIS).

RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

Advanced Programs. Between 2018 and 2021, the placement rate for SIU advanced program completers has increased from 60.5% to 86.2% with the greatest placements occurring in public settings. In addition, a greater percentage of SIU’s advanced program completers are being placed in high-needs school districts in 2021 than were noted in 2018. No data is available for advanced program completers in 2023-2024.

Initial Programs

The range for placement rates from 2018 to 2022 fluctuated between 79.6% to 89.2%. Almost twice as many SIU initial completers were being placed in public school settings in 2022 (82.3%) than were placed in 2018 (43%). The rate of initial completers being placed in high-needs settings more than doubled in 2022 (74.2%) than were placed in 2018 (34.4%).

Completers from 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 employed within 2 years of program completion were matched to 2023 ISBE public school employment data and to 2022 IDES non-public and early learning setting employment data. Of the aggregate total of *443 completers across these four years 84% began working as full-time teachers in an Illinois public school, and more than 75% began working in a high-needs school which exceeds the state target of 67%. Our programs are producing learner-ready teachers that help address the critical teacher shortage in Illinois.

More schools throughout the southern region are qualifying as high-needs schools, and the demand for licensed initial and advanced educators continues to increase. (See https://www.isbe.net/edsupplydemand)