November 15/96

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

David Jones, Committee Chair

FALL GRANT AWARDS

The Faculty Development Committee met recently
to adjudicate the Fall 1996 applications for
conference and research grants. Ten of the twelve
applications received were ruled eligible, with
one application still pending. Allocations were
made based on the criteria in the Faculty
Development Handboook, with the usual bugetary
maximum of $1000 per individual. A total of

$7014 was awarded. The following were awarded

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grants:

Terry Brynes (Adult Special Education), $270
to attend a Stephen Covey seminar in Vancouver.

Anne Carr (Early Childhood Education), $704
to attend an ECE conference on Children with
Special Needs in Phoenix, Arizona, where she
will showcase a video which she produced in the
"Making Friends" series. The series documents
and demonstrates how to design Supported Child
Care programs.

Casey Dorin (Adult Special Education), $270
to attend a Stephen Covey seminar in Vancouver.

Mary Giovanetti-Seward (Applied Business
Technology), $1000 to attend the TESOL '97
conference in Orlando, Florida, where she will
present a paper on "Content-based ESL programs
for Office Workers."

Rob McKenzie (Jazz Studies), $900 to attend
the International Association of Jazz Educators
Conference in Chicago, Ill.

Lois Rennie (Early Childhood Education), $900
to attend the conference of the National
Association for the Education of Young Children
in Dallas TX.

Mike Reveley (Jazz Studies), $900 to attend
the International Association of Jazz Educators
Conference in Chicago, III.

Bernd Simpson (Physics), $900 towards the
establishment of a Physics Holography Research

Laboratory to do ongoing and leading edge
research into display holograms.

Priscilla Stanbury (Adult Special
Education), $270 to attend a Stephen Covey
seminar in Vancouver.

Duff Sutherland (History), $900 to conduct
research for the preparation of an academic
paper entitled "We Are Only Loggers: Loggers

~and the’struggie for deveiopment in

Newfoundland, 1929-1959."
OTHER ITEMS

THANKS to all of you who took the time to
respond to the recent Faculty Development
survey - we received lots of good ideas. If you
were one of those whose survey form got buried
under the piles of paper on your desk, we'd still
like to hear from you. Suggestions in/on any
form are accepted, so send to, or call, David
Jones (local 2534).

FUTURE EVENTS
Watch, and plan for, the following events:

- Computer training workshops for all levels
(Word, Excel, Powerpoint). Week of Jan. 6-10,
1997. Schedules will be out soon.

- A joint offering by the Administration, and the ~
Staff Career Development, and Faculty _
Development Committees. Jan. 30, 1997

- INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS WORKSHOP:

WEEK OF JAN. 6-9. This workshop will be
co-facilitated by Jean Clifford and Frank Harris.
Watch for the flyer giving details, and a
conversation with Jean and Frank about their
own experiences as participants in an ISW. Sign
up by Dec.3.

Faculty Development Committee: Leslie
Baker, Janet Black, Rick Brewster, Chris
Gratham, Jan Shiell, Anne Watson.

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