A Supplement to The Informer FACULTY DEVELOPMENT FEBRUARY 27, 1991 COMMUNITY COLLEGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM Shake out the cobwebs, change your routine, put a breath of fresh air into your professional and personal life, broaden your horizons, try something new while keeping your anchor at home. The Community College Exchange Program (CCEP) provides you, whether faculty, staff, or administrator, with countless opportunities for personal growth and revitalization. Exchange offers you an opportunity to teach new courses, work in new administrative settings, learn new skills, and establish new professional contacts. Increased knowledge comes from the interchange of ideas with new colleagues and from using a new set of library and other resources. Many who have made an exchange speak of the personal growth and renewal that comes in planning and making the change as well as from the experience itself. Within the CCEP, you have a great deal of flexibility in placements, exchange periods, and assignments. In addition to college and university placements, there are some opportunities for placement with federal government agencies and education associations. Your exchange could last up to one year in ‘\ length or be as short as several weeks. Through the CCEP, your replacement could well come from a campus other than the one to which you would go. Regular employees, faculty, staff, and administrators, who have been employed with the College for at least four years are eligible to participate in an exchange with another institution. The College continues to pay outgoing participants their regular salary and fringe benefits subject to the normal deductions. Although some of you may dream of exchanges to tropical islands or other remote places, family or other commitments might keep you thinking that an exchange is simply a dream. Consider, then, an exchange within the Lower Mainland which can provide many of the benefits of an exchange without the inconvenience of moving. For further information, plan to attend the Community College Exchange Program Information Meeting on Thursday, March 14, 1991, Room A117. For a list and brief description of participating colleges, universities, agencies and associations, please contact Ruth D’Hollander (local 2919; E-Mail 465). EXPOSE AND ELUCIDATE (SHOW AND TELL) SEMINARS Nancy Ricker and Vicki Troup, Natural Sciences, "Glimpses of Nature: Natural History of Whistler and Its High Country” Thursday, February 28 in H501 at 14:00 - 14:30 Robert Campbell, Social Sciences, "Canada Down Under: Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand” Rescheduled to Tuesday, March 5 in M101 at 13:00 - 14:30 Kerry Burke, Krista Carwana, and Liz Moffitt, , Music Therapy, "New Developments in Music Therapy" Thursday, March 21 in H105 at 12:30 - 13:30 CONGRATULATIONS, REID GILBERT! The Faculty Development Committee has recommended that the President nominate Reid Gilbert for the Master Teacher’s Award to be presented at the NISOD Conference in Austin, Texas in May. This nomination, received by the Committee from Gerry Blitstein and Penny Connell, recognizes Reid’s long history of excellent and innovative teaching as well as his contributions to the professional development of his colleagues. Reid’s presentation proposal is entitled, "Processing the Process: Computer Technology Across the Curriculum." NISOD, the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, is an outreach of the Community College Leadership Program at The University of Texas at Austin. It supports the pursuit of excellence in teaching and leadership at ifs more than 500 member colleges throughout the U.S., Canada, the South Pacific, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, and the United Arab Emirates. Thanks for putting Capilano College once again on NISOD’s world map, Reid! Previous NISOD Master Teacher Award winners are Gerry Blitstein, Applied Information Technology; Bob Verner, Natural Sciences; and Gerrie Waugh, Office Administration. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM If you are new to the College or have missed earlier discussions, you are invited to attend a Noon Seminar to learn more about the concept of Writing Across the Curriculum - the ideas about writing and learning that lie behind it, and the extent to which it can be called a "movement" in education. Plan to attend this informative session on Thursday, March 14, 12:45, in A011. Coffee, tea, and juice will be served. For more information, contact Rosemary Coupe in the Writing Centre.