The Informer Page 8

October 26, 1988

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

B y REID

Grants:

The Faculty Development Committee is
coordinating a college-wide response to the Morin
Report on faculty development. All departments
have been asked to consider the recommendations
of this report, as well as the response to these
suggestions by John Waters for CEIA. Reid Gilbert
plans to collate responses from each programme
area into one reaction from the college faculty. If
you haven’t yet discussed this very important report
in your area, please try to do so and get your
opinions to the Committee through your
coordinator.

The Career/Vocational Division has announced
a special fund of $5000 for professional
development. A set of guidelines for allocation is
being considered by each programme area and
grants will be available through a procedure soon to
be announced. The aim of this fund is to provide
money in the April to August period and, as well, to
provide funds during the term. Applications will be
screened by the Associate Deans. The funds are to
be provided to “offer information and/or training
which serves to broaden, enhance or update” faculty
knowledge and skills; to provide “training [which
will] directly support instructional duties”; to
provide a chance for faculty to enrol in graduate
level courses; and to allow faculty to represent the
college in professional associations or committees.
These representative criteria are under review by
Career coordinators and faculty now.

These funds are similar to special funds of
$12,000 put aside by the Academic Division for
professional development among university transfer
instructors. Criteria for the spending of these funds
are also under review by Chairpeople and the
Deans. The bias in awarding these funds is to be in
favour of faculty speaking engagements at
conferences.

More information on both these funds can be
had from coordinators.

Many areas of the college also maintain
professional development budgets within
departments.

These funds, together with the $12,500 college-
wide funding of the Faculty Development
Committee means that significant amounts of
grants money is currently available to faculty.

Faculty should determine which fund has
criteria for grants which best suits the needs of a
particular project. The normal route for funding is:

1. Department/Programme funds (Travel and

Conference)
2. Appropriate Dean’s Fund (or) Faculty
Development Committee

GILBERT

Formal criteria for each fund will be published
as these new funds become established and needs
are determined.

Faculty Development Committee Grants:

The Committee has made its first round of
grants to faculty attending conferences. Nick
Collins of the English As a Second Language
department has been granted $300 to assist his
attendance at the national TESL conference in
Toronto. Paul Mier of the Political Studies
department has been granted $300 to assist his
travel to a conference in London, England to which
he has been invited as a discussant.

Conference:

The University of Guelph offers an interesting
series of courses, each of a few days, from November
1988 to April 1989. These courses consider
Instructional techniques, Needs assessment; the
new “Adult” learner on campus; teaching the
“Learning Disabled Adult” and Marketing Adult
Education. A brochure has been placed at the
Circulation desk in the library for any faculty
member to read.

Canadian Studies:

Dorothy Jantzen of English and John Potts,
Associate Dean are to to be congratulated on a
Canadian Studies Conference held last week and
sponsored by Capilano College. A number of our
faculty attended; their fees were paid by the
Faculty Development Committee funds. The focus
of the conference was on teaching science and.
technology courses with a Canadian focus. Alan
Gilchrist of the Chemistry department was one of
the speakers, and his talk was extremely well
received.