Professional Development Committee 11/27/12
- Discussion items included:
- Focus on short term goals, i.e. disbursement of this year’s funds
- Focus on long –term goals after this year’s disbursement has been finalized.
- The need for more guidelines this year.
- Reimbursements above the initial $660/$440 levels.
- Division deans volunteered to head up guidelines for this year’s reallocation of funds
- Determining what constitutes professional development led to the following list of activities:
- Conferences
- Classes in discipline
- In-service/brown bag lunches
- Professional organizations
- Peer group meetings
- VCCS opportunities
- Webinars/MOOC
- Research in discipline
- Research and publication
- Training
- Service-related activities
- New course development
- Professional certification
- Also discussed were ways CVCC supports professional development. Thes included:
- Money
- Release time
- Information distribution
- Technical support and facilities
- Encouragement/incentives:
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- The committee approved a proposal to divide into two groups with separate tasks.
- The Deans’ committee will focus on reallocation of unused funds
- A second committee will continue to define professional development and help formulate policies regarding professional development.