The work of the Faculty Development Committee
is on hiatus.
Committee Charge The Faculty
Development Committee develops papers and processes
to promote good
practices in faculty development. The Committee
provides guidance in all aspects of faculty development,
including the development of innovations in teaching/learning
strategies and in the promotion of academically
sound teaching/learning practices.
Committee
Membership
The committee
is not currently meeting.
Goals and Strategic Plan for 2005-2006
Goal 1: The
Academic Senate will increase and make more
visible our service to local senates
Outcomes: Increased visibility
of the Academic Senate and local academic
senate to all faculty on the 109 California
Community Colleges
Objectives:
1.1
Examine and improve services to member
senates
Status of
Work
1.2
Increase personal contacts with each
campus
1.3
Reach out to new faculty and new faculty
leaders
1.4
Affirm the
importance of strong local senates
Goal
2: Strengthen our Leadership in Academic
and Professional Matters on behalf of the
Faculty of California's Community Colleges
Outcomes: Increased external
recognition
Objectives:
2.1
Serve faculty
who serve students
Status of
Work
2.2
Generate
resources for local faculty
Encourage development
education professionals to engage regularly
in professional development activities that
will enhance their knowledge base and as
a result contribute to effective practice (S03
12.01)
Ongoing.
Working on the first half of this resolution.
Will work with Basic Skills on this (it
is one of their goals also) Discuss with
Senate Leaders at Leadership InstituteCompiling
a annotated bibliography is being passed
to the Basic Skills Committee for completion.
The committee wants to add a brief resource
list in the paper planned for Fall 06Continue
to work with Basic Skills on this goal
Breakouts, Leadership Institute and Teaching
Institute. Add a resource list to the
Faculty Development paper Fall 06
Consider an electronic
survey of colleges and their faculty development
programs and flex day activities held in
2003-2004 to seek information on how these
programs were funded, the composition of
the faculty development committee and amount
of reassigned time the committee chair
receives, and other data to collect based
on recommendations of the Faculty Development
Committee. (Exec Comm Action Fall 2005)
Completed
and Parts Ongoing.
Conducted
a survey Spring 2006 and will utilize data
to better meet needs of local senates at
plenary session, leadership, Voc Ed leadership
and a Teaching institute. This data will
also be used in the paper Fall 06 and to
share with Legislature.
2.3
Confirm
our focus on students in our decision-making
2.4
Build
relationships with other groups
Strengthen
ties with other faculty and staff development
organizations such as 4 Faculty.org and 4CSD
FACCC and @ONE. (S00 12.02)
Ongoing.
Plan to contact these groups for joint presentations at plenary breakouts
and /or Teaching institute. Needs a resolution Fall 06.
Goal
3: The Academic Senate will provide
leadership and professional development
opportunities to faculty and other constituent
groups
Outcomes: Increased number
of informed faculty
Objectives:
3.1
Enhance
professional development opportunities
Status of
Work
Explore
the development of a Teaching Institute,
with the focused goal of providing faculty
development and resources to support and
strengthen faculty in working effectively
with students toward achieving their educational
goals. (S01 12.02)
Ongoing.
The Faculty Development Committee recommends
a target date of February 2007. Detailed
plans for Teaching Institute are done.
Encourage local
senates to take a more proactive role in
identifying faculty professional needs and
a more proactive role in the design and preparation
of local districts professional development
plans. (S95 12.05)
Renewal
of old resolution-On-going.
Utilize survey information to help address
local senates needs through breakouts, leadership,
Voc Ed Leadership, and Teaching Institute.
Survey was completed March 06. Will utilize
data in paper planned for 2006-2007and breakouts
after analysis is done.
Urge local
senates to maintain their statutory role
in overseeing faculty professional development
(including faculty training in the use of
technology), regard technology committees
as advisory (not policy makers) to the local
senate's professional development committee,
and to protect the local senate's right to
recommend policy for faculty professional
development. (S00 11.04)
Renewal of
old resolution-On-going.
Utilize survey to help meet needs of local
senates through breakouts, leadership, and
Teaching Institute. Survey was completed
March 06. Will utilize data after analysis
is done in Fall 06 and possibly utilize data
in paper planned for 06-07.
Encourage and support local
senates in exercising their responsibility
to oversee the allocation of faculty and
staff development funds. (F04 12.01)
Ongoing.
New resolution
written along these lines. Item to be reinforced
at Leadership Institute, breakouts, future
paper 06-07 and was reinforced at breakouts
Fall 05
Work with local senates
to facilitate understanding of the importance
of their role regarding faculty development;
and urge local governing boards and administrators
to budget appropriately and to honor local
senate requests for professional development
and training. (F05 12.01)
New. Reinforced this information at breakouts
Fall 05. BOG requested unused growth funds
for possible use in faculty development.
Final June budget June 06 included funding
on one-time basis for faculty development.
3.2
Increase
professional development funding
Continue to
advocate the restoration of funding BCP (budget
change proposal) for faculty development
programs as stated in past resolutions (S01
12.01; F02 12.01; F01 12.02; S02 12.01)
Ongoing.
The governor did not include the BCP in the January, 2006 budget; the May
Revise (2006) also did not include Faculty Development funding. Final
budget June 06 did include funding on a one time basis. This is an ongoing
task for permanent line in budget. BOG did ask for unused growth funds
to possibly be used for faculty development.
Encourage local senates
to use their local shared governance processes
to develop plans for supporting faculty and
staff development if the funds are not reinstated
in the budget and encourage the Chancellor's
office not to lower staff development reporting
requirements even if funding is not reinstated.
(S02 12.02)
Renewal of old
resolution On-going.
Will utilize survey information (March 06) to help address local senates
needs through breakouts, leadership, Voc Ed Leadership, and Teaching Institute.
Need to ask Chancellor’s Office what is their current practice with
staff development report and data collection in Fall 06.
Strongly encourage the
BOG and Legislature to redirect a portion
of unused growth funds to fund faculty and
staff development (S05 5.01)
New.
Was placed in BOG recommendations
for unused growth funds and is being promoted
to the Legislature. Ended up in final June
06 budget with funding on one-time basis
but the Governor vetoed it.
