Professional Development
Members: Sarah Stackhouse, Sue Beahm, Robert Carlson, Jennifer Graham, Taylor LeBlanc, Ann Spinney
Charge:
The charge of this committee is to develop and implement a comprehensive professional development plan to sustain the career growth of all employees. The committee will examine existing professional development practices and strategies and will explore, propose, support implementation, and evaluate new approaches. A primary function of this committee is to communicate professional development activities and opportunities to the campus community.
Past Members:
Elizabeth Crawford, Mary Cornelio, Tammy Putnam, Johna Lovely, Jennifer Graham, Paul LaJoie, Beth Hummel, Tom Richard
The meeting opened with a brief history of the Professional Development Committee and a discussion about how the charge of the committee has shifted in focus. The committee does not serve as a decision-making body in terms of who and what gets approved for professional development funding. Rather, the committee will seek out opportunities and funding (grants) for professional development, and provide the campus community with the tools they need to track professional development activities. There needs to be a change in the mind-set of “professional development means travelling away someplace for training”. There is also a belief that a reduction in Perkins funding equals “no professional development”. This is not accurate.
Shelli Cronkhite agreed to serve as secretary/recorder. Jen Graham indicated a willingness to serve as co-chair with Elizabeth Crawford. Elizabeth was not present to indicate her willingness/availability.
Discussion followed about last year’s project of developing a generic “NMCC Professional Development Plan”; a document that the campus community can use to track individual professional development activities. Jen indicated that while the tool was comprehensive and contained all the necessary information and prompts, it became unwieldy as she tried to manipulate the data within the table. We need to get some technical advice as to how to make it more user-friendly. The committee made a few revisions to the headings in the document. Ideally, the committee will present the document to faculty and staff at the administrative day in January.
Dottie Martin made a suggestion that ½ of the administrative day in early January include several break-out sessions. This would allow faculty and staff to share with the campus at large any ideas/materials they have picked up at trainings they have attended, best practices, etc. The feeling of the group was that the break-out sessions should include staff as well as faculty. Note: Dottie received support from the President’s Cabinet for this idea.
Dottie agreed to seek out someone from the business/technology department to serve on the professional development committee, as this is an area that is not well represented on the committee at present.
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 10th at 2:30 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Conference Room.
Last changed: Dec 21 2011 at 12:23 PM
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