The ASCCC Professional Development College: A New Path for Faculty
In the past few years, many faculty members in the California community colleges have seen their professional development programs cannibalized. While administrators and boards recognize that professional development is an essential part of faculty responsibilities, it is often one of the first things that is cut or eliminated whenever budget concerns arise. For evidence of this unfortunate tendency, one only needs to consider the lack of funding that accompanied the most recent attempt to bring Professional Development to the fore, AB 2558 (Williams, 2014), which was signed into law in S