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SEPTEMBER 6, 1989

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

B Y REID

The Faculty Development Committee is in
operation once again, and plans are afoot fora
number of projects this year. The budget of the
Committee has been increased from last year’s
original funding level to the amount actually spent
last year (including the special overrun allowed for
additional conference grants); this is very good news,
indeed. The release time for the Chairperson has also
been increased to two sections in the fall term. We
are pleased that the President and Administration
have stood by their commitment to fund professional
development as a college priority.

The Committee is in the process of defining its
membership for 1989/90. The CCFA will appoint two
members to the Committee and each Division of the
College will appoint two members. (At the Annual
General Meeting of the CCFA, the existing Committee
members were ratified as CCFA members for this
year.) The makeup of this year’s Committee will be
announced in the next Informer, by which time the
Committee will have met.

The Faculty Yellow Pages are now published
and each faculty member should receive one by the
first day of classes. If you don’t, please check with
your Divisional Assistant.

The Grant Programme will continue this year
and information will be circulated soon in a brochure
for the Programme. Some monies have been
allocated by the Committee to fund retroactively
conferences attended this summer; if you went to
such a conference please save your receipts and plan
to submit an application to this programme. Funds
toward conference expenses and PD grants for the
upcoming year will also be granted in the fall and
spring terms: watch for the Faculty Development
brochure.

The Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Project
continues from its encouraging start last spring. An
information memo has been sent to everyone by
Rosemary Coupe, outlining the activities planned for
this fall. The Writing Centre has been somewhat
expanded and is now in an area of Humanities as you
enter the door of H404. Please drop by and see what
the Centre can offer you and your students.

The two major new thrusts for 1989/90 are
Faculty Exchange and the Definition of
Professional Development.

GILBERT

An introductory meeting to present the
Committee’s Working Paper on a definition of
Professional Development will be held Thursday,
September 14 from 12:30-2:30 in Al17. We very
much hope a large number of faculty will attend so
that we can begin to air this important discussion
among all areas of the college. Coordinators are
asked to hold discussions in each area after this
meeting and to report comments to Reid Gilbert. The
definition of PD is a central concern of all of us, so
please give some thought to this working paper.

An information meeting on Faculty Exchange
will be held in early October. The college has joined a
consortium for exchange which will act as a
brokerage centre, allowing an exciting variety of
exchanges to take place: traditional one-to-one
exchanges, three-way exchanges, visiting positions
where “1\2” an exchange takes place without the
other colleague moving, and so on. The BC system
has joined this group, so local and inter-BC
exchanges can take place, as well as exchanges to the
USA. And, of considerable interest, this consortium
sponsors exchanges of Administration and Staff as
well as faculty—this is a chance for all of us. If you
are immediately interested, call Reid at 2414. If you
might be interested, come to the information meeting.
Exchange offers a marvelous chance to renew oneself
and gather new perspectives; I know, because I’ve
been on one!

There are a number of conferences announced;
information can be obtained from the Faculty:
Development File in the library; see the circulation
desk staff.

See you at the Definition meeting on September
14.