Two prominent Boise State University programs will merge — at least in name — on July 1, but students and faculty won’t notice much difference.
Merging the College of Education and School of Public Service will take two years to unfold, says Andrew Finstuen, the interim dean of Boise State’s newly minted College of Education and Public Service. Since Boise State announced the change in March, when plans for the 2026-27 academic year were in place at both programs, things won’t change much this fall.
“It’s very important that … this is not going to disrupt student progress (and) workloads,” Finstuen said in an EdNews interview.
Finstuen — who was the education college’s interim dean pre-merger — says the programs are coming in on equal footing. The education program gets top billing simply because it comes first in the alphabet…