November 17/95

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Bill Schermbrucker, Committee Chair

Fall Grant Awards

The Faculty Development Committee met recently to
adjudicate the Grant Applications for conferences and
research for Fall 1995. Nine applications were
received, of which one was ruled ineligible. The
total funding requested fell within the Committee’s
usual budget cap of $1000 maximum, so the reduced
cap of $850 did not apply as in the previous round.
The Committee uses a formula to arrive at a
percentage of requested amounts, subject to the cap,
based on several significant criteria. The following
were awarded conference grants:

Dave Bates (Fisheries Science), $870 to attend a
conference on "Sea-run Cutthroat Trout Biology,
Management and Future Conservation" in Reedsport,
OR, where he also had a poster accepted for display
on the Restoration of a Channelized Salmonid
Stream, at Oullette Creek, BC.

Jim Bizzocchi (Media Resources & Education
Technology Liaison Person), $900 to attend "Educom
95," "the premier conference in the educational
applications of technology," being held this year in
our neck of the woods (Portland, OR).

John Field (Adult Basic Education), $265 to attend
the "Joint Conference of the Colonial Waterbird
Society and the Pacific Seabird Group" in Victoria
BC, to complement his research into the behavioural
ecology of marbled murrelets, on which he is
preparing a paper.

George Modenesi (Library), $329 travel and
accommodation expenses to attend free courses in
Biosis Training/Continuing Education Seminars at the
Odergaard Library of Washington State University in
Seattle, to become familiar with the research
techniques necessary to access large scientific and
medical databases.

Elizabeth Moffitt (Music Therapy External
Coordinator), $900 to attend a conference entitled
"The Physiology of Health, Immunity and Disease"
at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, not only to
encounter speakers who are on the leading edge of
health maintenance and the use of the healing arts,
and the connection between mind and body, but also

to network with other health professionals at a time
when changes in the health care system will require
increased recognition of music therapy as a healing
art in order for it to continue to grow.

Jenny Penberthy (English), $1000 to present a paper
on the 1950s period of Lorine Niedecker’s poetry and
poetics, at a conference entitled "American Poetry of
the 1950s," at the University of Maine, Orono, ME.

Alejandro Rojas (Environmental Science and
Sociology), $508 to present a paper on "The Social
Construction of Environmental Sustainability" (with
a focus on a comparative analysis of specific
environmental conflicts, such as Clayoquot Sound,
and the role of science in their mediation), at the
"Fifth Scientific Congress on the Environment" at the
University of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

Jonathan Rouse (Tourism), $178 to attend a one-day
workshop given by Statistics Canada on “Introduction
to Survey Research" at SFU Harbour Centre,
Vancouver to enhance his instruction in Research and
Consultancy, and to help secure research contracts
through the college’s Tourism program.

The deadline for the next round of Conference and
Research Grant applications is Friday, April 19,
1996, 12 noon. Application forms should be
photocopied out of the Faculty Development
Handbook (Fall 1993) available from your
Coordinator. You can also obtain the form from me
(voicemail 2411--please specify Conference or
Research).

THANK YOU to all those who sent back the
turquoise questionnaires about Faculty Development
Days °’96, and to those who sent back their
evaluations of FDDays ’95. The Committee will be
studying your responses carefully as it plans for
1996. So far, the most common phrase is "hands
on." (If you didn’t get your form back to me, better
late than never. Thanks.) More details in the new
year.

Faculty Development Committee: Jolene
Bordewick, Rick Brewster, Louise Cantin Orr-
Ewing, David Jones, Scott MacLeod, Anne
Watson.

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