In an effort to mitigate the escalating teacher shortage in California and expand the number of teacher candidates earning STEM and bilingual credentials, Stanislaus State is positioned to develop an integrated four-year teaching credential program beginning in Fall of 2018 thanks to a grant from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. “The region, indeed the entire state, is facing a shortage of teachers,” said Oddmund Myhre, dean of College of Education, Kinesiology and Social Work. “This program, by expediting the degree and credential processes, will not only streamline the pathway to a credential, thus resulting in an increase of available teachers after the fourth year, but I would think that the program, by removing both the time and cost of a separate credential program following the earning of a bachelor’s degree, would make the process of becoming a teacher more attractive to prospective students, another way that the pool of available teachers would be enhanced.”