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APRIL 28, 1992

Faculty Development Committee

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS IN
MAY TO ADDRESS WAYS TO ENHANCE
STUDENT LEARNING

Look for details in the golden-rod brochure and be sure to
register in time to attend the sessions of your choice.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
SEEKS ACTIVE MEMBERS

The CCFA and DAC’s will soon be electing representatives
to the 1992-93 Faculty Development Committee. This
committee works on behalf of your professional development
interests and is only as effective as its members. If you would
like to contribute to the well-being of faculty development at
the College, please consider putting your name forward to
either the CCFA or your DAC for nomination to this
committee.

The Faculty Development Committee plans and implements
on-campus professional development seminars, dispenses
research and conference grants, adjudicates nominations for
, teaching awards, disseminates information about professional

development and otherwise provides opportunities for faculty.
The committee meets regularly in the second Thursday
Meeting Block of each month from August to May. If you
have questions about the committee, please contact current
members:

Robert Camfield (Pure and Applied Sciences)

Peter Kellington (Media Resources)

Cam McKie (Business Management)

George Modenesi (Library)

Cam Sylvester (Social Sciences)

Marie Toompuu (Counselling)

Ruth D’Hollander, (Achievement Resource Centre).

LOOKING FOR SUMMER READING?

The Teaching Professor is a concise, practical resource which
provides sensible teaching tips that can be put into practice
immediately. To compile each newsletter, Editor Maryellen
Weimer reviews more than 40 journals and 15 subscription
newsletters, and reads every book she can uncover on college
teaching. Look for this newsletter in the pamphlet files in the
Library. Maryellen Weimer (who is leading the May 20
workshop entitled "Overcoming Student Passivity: The Active
Learning Antidote") is the author of Improving College
Teaching, also available in the Library.

SUMMER GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINE
APRIL 30, 1992

Research grants provide funding for special research and
professional development projects. Grants up to $1000 each will
be made to assist field studies, pure research in issues applicable
to teaching at this college, applied research, statistical studies,
marketing studies, studies of new techniques and technologies, and
studies in assessment. These grants are not intended primarily to
produce classroom materials or to develop new teaching modules,
although some products of the work may be used within existing
or new courses or services.

Conference grants assist faculty with their travel and related
expenses to attend conferences related to their instructional
assignment or discipline. Making presentations and/or
participating in a panel or planning committee is deemed more
valuable than simply attending a conference.

The purpose of these grants is to fund individual professional
development activities which fall outside the regular articulation
process, normal client surveys, ongoing departmental activities,
annual meetings, student gatherings with faculty sponsors, or
student field trips. In some cases, individual department budgets
and/or Divisional budgets contain monies for activities excluded
from the Faculty Development grants.

Grants are awarded through an adjudication process of the Faculty
Development Committee three times a year: fall, spring, and early
summer. As the available funds are spread among as many people
as possible, the Committee can rarely allocate more that partial
funds to any distant travel. To help ensure equitable allocation of
funds, the Committee evaluates each eligible request against four
criteria. In order of priority, these are: ;

-degree of personal professional growth to the individual;

-contribution to the discipline/career/vocational area;

-contribution to the College’s image;

-contribution to classroom effectiveness.

Grants are available to full-time and part-time faculty who:
-have a minimum of two years service;
-are working at least four sections in the year of the request;
-have not received a grant from the Committee within the last
twelve months.

Applications for this adjudication round should be sent to the
Faculty Development Committee, c/o Ruth D’Hollander.

The next grant deadline will be in the Fall Term, 1992. At that
time, a few retroactive awards will be made for the summer period.