George MacLean Nova Scotia Community College
Imagine a compulsory faculty and staff training program that is sponsored by the College, supported by the teachers' union and enjoys a 97% participant satisfaction rate across all users. Such is our reality at Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) through our Community College Education Diploma Program (CCEDP). This program, which is designed, developed and delivered totally 'in-house', supports and promotes the requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes deemed necessary for success in a dynamic, collaborative, learning-centered post secondary environment. Come share our experience and learn how we transformed our vision into reality.
Fay Rouseff-Baker, Parkland College
Kim Mills, Parkland College
Parkland's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is a responsive, ongoing professional learning system for faculty and staff. With over 14 years of support and buy-in, the Center has become deeply woven into the fabric of the college. This interactive session introduces successful programming and strategies that have been effective in keeping the focus on student success while enriching the quality of the workplace.
Molly Baker, Black Hawk College
Are budget and staffing shortages preventing you from meeting all of your faculty and staff development goals? Why not team up with other area colleges to fill the gaps? Four colleges in the Quad Cities (Illinois) will share how they forged a partnership to share resources, funding, and expertise to expand professional development services in their region. We will share how we organized and funded ourselves, how our plans have evolved, and what we are doing in our second year of operation. Join us!
Ms. Diane Fiero, College of the Canyons
Dr. Dianne Van Hook, College of the Canyons
The College of the Canyons Leadership Education in Action Program (LEAP) has been created to foster the development of visionary, pace-setting administrative leaders. LEAP is designed to promote the development of “agents of institutional change” while providing “big picture” skills and the knowledge required to lead and shape our district and the community college system. LEAP is designed to provide individuals who want to be leaders, at COC or elsewhere, the opportunities to identify and develop the knowledge, skill sets and confidence to be successful. LEAP is an opportunity presented to all classified staff, full-time faculty, deans, assistant and associate deans, unit supervisors or directors who are contemplating moving up in administration.
Jean Grove, Lone Star College System
Laurie Passmore, Lone Star College System
Hilton LaSalle, Lone Star College System
Experience two class samples from Lone Star College System’s hybrid-delivered Adjunct Certification Program. This dynamic program equips part-time instructors with the tools and techniques to create successful learning opportunities for their students. Best practices in community college instruction emphasize diversity in delivery to serve a diverse learner population. The certification program increases adjunct faculty instructional quality to promote student success.
Kay Weiss, NCSPOD Certificate Program Coordinator, San Bernardino Valley College
Panel of Certificate Program Participants
One of the goals of NCSPOD’s Certificate of Achievement program is to recognize the accomplishments, skills and knowledge of Staff, Program and Organizational Development (SPOD) practitioners. During this workshop you will learn about the programming successes and accomplishments of Certificate program participants. If you’re new to the field of professional development and are interested in gaining support from a mentor and a cohort of colleagues, plan to attend to learn more about the year-long program.
Terry Mouchayleh, Austin Community College
Participants in this session will learn about a Texas-based statewide professional development network for Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) faculty, administrators and counselors. This newly-funded Perkins project, The Network, is the result of a unique partnership between community colleges, statewide professional development consortia, and faculty organizations. The Network provides online modules, webinars, a portfolio system, a variety of resources, and a robust search function, all at no cost to the user. The session provides a demonstration of site content and capabilities.
Allatia Harris, Dallas County Community College District
Getting Results is an online professional development course developed by WGBH and the League for Innovation in the Community College and designed to give technical faculty practical research-based strategies to effectively teach in the community college. In this session those charged with delivering professional development, will get a brief overview of the course, "walk-through" several activities, and learn how it worked at Nashville State. Participants will receive a DVD of the course.
Mary Anne Dean, Middlesex Community College
Frequently, middle managers in campus departments have completed some form of project management training. Yet, they often lack the confidence, cross-campus connections, planning, communication and budget skills to take a leading role in developing a project proposal, presenting it to senior management for approval, and then being responsible for its implementation. This interactive presentation will highlight an intensive, year-long training approach involving two cross-campus teams charged with developing projects that were key priorities for the institution. During this session, you'll explore and discuss a sample of the activities and learn how the training was structured, what worked, what we would do differently, and its impact on the participants.
Bill Searle, Asnuntuck Community College
Ben Hayes, Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kay Weiss, San Bernardino Valley College
Warning! A huge flood of Baby Boom faculty are about to pour out of our colleges. They will take the greatest repository of teaching/learning knowledge we have ever had out the door with them. Let’s tap that resource before they retire! This workshop will present four program models designed to tap different levels of knowledge and resources. Participants will engage in each, followed by an open discussion of strengths and weaknesses. At the end of the workshop we will discuss implementation issues and ways of sharing the information throughout NCSPOD.
Amy Baldwin, Pulaski Technical College
Rhonda Carroll, Pulaski Technical College
Carol Langston, Pulaski Technical College
Going from a zero to a hero means finding out what others do well and adapting it to fit your needs--without paying lots of money to get it done! This presentation will focus on what a new professional development office has done for its own faculty and staff by learning from others and from great conferences such as NCPOD and making it their own.
Allison Sloan, Valencia Community College
Destination is a professional development opportunity that brings educators together to define outcomes, design lessons, and practice techniques that will lead to improved student learning. By reflecting upon actual student work and considering learning efforts during the summer and fall, this program provides a unique and focused opportunity to consider and improve student learning in a group setting.
Richard Lyons , Adjunct Success
Helen Burnstad, Adjunct Success
Over 600,000 part-time instructors are now employed at North American colleges and universities. In too many cases, these potentially valuable professionals are assigned courses on short notice, are often poorly prepared to enter their classrooms, and are left to fend for themselves in overcoming the challenges in what for many is an unknown culture. While starting to realize the ramifications of this situation, typically overextended instructional leaders are challenged to give it the attention that it deserves. This session highlights a resource for preparing and supporting part-time instructors that provides the institution an ample degree of involvement and oversight.
Pat Pattison, British Columbia Institute of Technology
This workshop will explore the instructor journey from an “Expert Professional” through the stage of “figuring out how to teach” to becoming an “Educator” at the point where expertise in their field and teaching skills become integrated, as they assume the identity of a Professional Educator. Participants will have the opportunity to relate their personal experience and explore their own path as they identify what supports them on their personal path of development. The intent of the workshop is to uncover how we as faculty development professionals can support instructors on their own unique version of this journey.
Nicholas Holton, Kirtland Community College
Many universities and colleges have discovered the power of service learning to create an engaged campus. The benefits for the students, the college and the community are clear and persuasive. This presentation will introduce Service Learning to the participants and show how any post secondary institution can implement a service learning program.
Debra Rowe, Oakland Community College
Join Dr. Debra Rowe to continue the discussion about sustainability trends, resources, and strategies available for you and your institution. Learn more about how you can impact your organization's sustainability planning, professional development, curricular changes and campus policies and practices and contribute to making a sustainable future.
William Flynn, National Council for Continuing Education and Training
Jeff Vredevoogd, Herman Miller
Planning new facilities can be a rewarding - and frustrating - experience. Changing the nature of learning spaces can be intimidating and threatening to some college constituencies. It's also a great opportunity to bring people together to vision and plan an exciting future. This session lays out a roadmap to help colleges successfully plan the future of learning spaces. Examples of successful institutional cooperation will be shared.
Charles Miller, Company of Experts
This workshop will provide participants an opportunity to explore a powerful and relatively new approach to Organizational Development called Appreciative Inquiry (AI). AI has helped dozens of colleges and universities shift their organizational culture away from “old paradigm” problem-solving and toward “new paradigm” possibilities. Participants will experience a mini-Inquiry into exemplary leadership.
Bob Cox, George Brown College
Rosalind Gilbert, George Brown College
Susan Heximer, George Brown College
Employee engagement and satisfaction are determined by four major factors: employees’ organizational pride; sense of belonging to a community; having the right skills for the right job; and a sense of alignment with the organization’s purpose and mission. The Organization and Staff Development Department at George Brown College focuses on employee engagement and satisfaction by bringing all of these factors together even though they are often “housed” in different departments and divisions throughout the College. By coordinating the efforts of disparate groups within the College we create a seamless tapestry of opportunities and activities that encourage and support institutional engagement.
Cathy Misenhelter, Johnson County Community College
The reality is community college employees are walking out the door due to retirements or other opportunities. The second reality is that there are not enough currently qualified employees to fill those positions. The Johnson County Community College (JCCC) Leadership Institute and the JCCC Leadership Development Program are two tracks of programming offered to meet the challenge.
Teresa Ward, Butte College
Les Jauron, Butte College
Appreciative Inquiry, a strategic planning tool, builds on a college’s success and allows problems to be solved from a success perspective. At Butte College, individual stories provided the foundation for a college-wide story of the institution’s best work and created a vision and will for action that has been inclusive and creative.
Martha Robertson, San Jacinto College
The call went out to faculty: “We are looking for twenty dedicated, experienced faculty to participate in the Innovative Teaching Exchange pilot. This seminar will challenge instructors to try innovative teaching ideas, will encourage instructors to self-evaluate, will create a cohort of engaged faculty across the district, and will offer ideas for continued professional development.” The group met for two hours every-other-week during the semester with only one ground rule: this time is dedicated exclusively to exploring ideas that will foster better teaching and learning. What happened was magic!
Louise Kowalski, Erie Community College
Maryann Justinger, Erie Community College
Learn how Erie Community College in Buffalo, NY developed and implemented a sustainable assessment process that incorporates assessment, planning and budget operations.
Patrick Nellis, Valencia Community College
Daryl Peterson, Valencia Community College
In the past three years, Valencia Community College has seen the number of online sections and students more than triple, along with the addition of significant numbers of “virtual” adjunct instructors. Supporting those online (and blended) course instructors goes beyond course design. We must also promote effective online learning. To that end, a partnership with the Office of Instructional Technology created an online scenarios-based course, Facilitating Online Learning, which was launched in Spring 2008. This session will provide a course overview and engage participants in an activity and discussion on strategies for building community in online courses.
Gail Liberman, Clark College
This session examines the World Cafe method for creating a living network of collaborative dialogue around questions that matter at your college. People coming together in circles are how we have always shared our knowledge, imagined the future, and created communities of commitment. Presenter will provide successful models for Conversation Cafes and Listening Salons utilized at Clark College to intentionally foster college-wide learning conversations, knowledge sharing, and new possibilities for action.
Gillian McKnight-Tutein, Cuyahoga Community College
The journey to student success begins long before the student ever sits in a class or logs into their virtual classroom. Staff and administrators play an integral role in student success. This session will discuss Student/Customer care and its role in preparation for class, increasing student retention rates, strengthening the Community College’s service culture, and increasing customer/student satisfaction.
Macaela Cashman, Cochise College
Institutions across the country are, or soon, will be seeking dynamic leaders in a competitive labor market, so the question becomes, “How are we going to do it?” During this session, we will discuss the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a leadership program, the Cochise College Leadership Academy. The Leadership Academy involves change strategies through a learning communities approach. Bring your questions for discussion!
Lauri Hughes, Kirkwood Community College
Hope Burwel, Kirkwood Community College
Bonnie Cackoski, Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood’s Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, KCELT, was a grassroots initiative four years ago. The Center has evolved from an idea to reality, from a faculty learning center to an all-employee learning center. This session will include an overview of how KCELT came to be. The needs assessments, course offerings, evaluations, and end-of-semester reports continue to show increased interest, increased participation and exceptional satisfaction. We’ve been tracking employee needs, reviewing the data and identifying the areas for growth. We’re eager to share what we’ve learned!
Steve Mark, Housatonic Community College
Kim O'Donnell, Naugatuck Valley Community College
Patricia Pallis, Naugatuck Valley Community College
Establishing an atmosphere of trust and a connection between participants is often integral to a successful professional development activity. Yet often we have a very limited time to set this tone. Learn some basic principles and tested and specific techniques for team building from Connecticut's long-running Great Teachers Seminar. Join us for an interactive, hands-on session with plenty of opportunities for play.
Henry Hartman, STARLINK - Texas Association of Community Colleges
Want to provide your faculty with more successful teaching strategies? This session will give you lots of ideas. Session attendees will select topics to be pulled from STARLINK's large library of video modules. After viewing the short video module featuring renowned faculty, we will discuss the strategy and share ideas among the group. Handouts dealing with researched successful teaching strategies will be provided.
Michelle Creelman, Nova Scotia Community College
The Nova Scotia Community College’s vision – “Education without boundaries” - has come to life through the Leadership Exploration and Awareness Program (LEAP) for support staff, launched in 2006. Participants from this self-directed, portfolio-based program of study will share their stories and the impact that their learning is having on their lives and their roles in helping NSCC achieve its mission. This interactive workshop will be supported by stories of transformational learning, video clips, program materials and samples.
Jacquleine Greenlee, Guilford Technical Community College
Never before has the identification and development of the next generation of community college leaders been so critical for our community colleges. Impending retirements among community college leaders will no doubt significantly impact talent development and succession planning efforts. Given the need for culturally competent leaders who represent culturally diverse student populations, this session will examine the significant ways community college administrators learn to manage and lead others. Participants will learn creative ways to develop a model for succession planning and to enhance educational leadership.
Patricia Antoine, Chemeketa Community College
Louanne Whitton, Chemeketa Community College
Our institutions, staff, faculty and students are interacting in an increasingly diverse world. How do we as professional developers design and support effective learning experiences to promote cultural competency? During this session you will explore and experience approaches that emphasize the critical interaction between the personal and professional threads of effective diversity training.
Page Wolf, College of Lake County
Our college has 600 adjunct faculty members and 225 full-time faculty members. As such, we try to encourage professional development of adjunct faculty to the greatest extent possible. This presentation will cover ways that we offer faculty development to adjunct faculty, with a specific focus on our new part-time faculty orientation. We’ll also discuss specialized workshops and resources for adjuncts, and how we encourage adjuncts to have input in their own development.
Inajane Nicklas, Moorpark College
The Institute for Educators is an on-line, high quality, short-term credit program for educators who want to further their professional development. Offerings include a series on course design, instructional practices, and leadership, conflict resolution, and team building. Program participants include college instructors who want to move up on the salary scale, secondary instructors interested in continuing education, and industry trainers who want to develop their course design skills. The courses are taught by a cross-functional team of people passionate about the scholarship of teaching and learning, student success and retention. Learn how we developed this program from inception, to information gathering, to implementation.
Anneli Adams, College of Southern Nevada
Linda Chapman, College of Southern Nevada
Outsourcing technology services can have unintended consequences for faculty development. During this session, you will hear how the new Center for Academic and Professional Excellence (CAPE) of the College of Southern Nevada found itself in a position of ambiguity when the College’s technology services were outsourced. This session highlights the areas of confusion, things to be mindful of, and what you can learn from our headaches. You will also learn how the CAPE staff and faculty worked together to overcome the problems.
Debbie Bouton, Central Piedmont Community College
Cheryl Richards, Central Piedmont Community College
With 70% of organizations today experiencing moderate to major leadership shortages, institutions of higher education must prepare to meet this looming leadership gap. Integrating succession management initiatives and competency-based leadership programs is an intentional approach to developing "bench strength". This process includes: organizational alignment, strategic competencies, talent identification, customized learning plans, and evaluation. This interactive session shares "lessons learned" from one institution's difficult journey in reconciling the best practices in succession management with a culture that values inclusivity and eschews elitism. The session will also identify key principles in succession management that can be useful for any organization.
Nathan Schwagler, International Center for Studies in Creativity, SUNY Buffalo State
Diego Uribe, International Center for Studies in Creativity, SUNY Buffalo State
An effective leader is one that serves as a catalyst for change and growth. In turn, change implies a departure from what is known, to a state of ambiguity, and then back to a condition of temporary resolution. Therefore, skillful leaders must provide the means for individuals to successfully navigate change along with the uncertainty that accompanies it. For this purpose, effective leaders make use of creative problem solving to embrace change, growth, and ultimately, to fuel innovation.
Mel Hall, Carroll Community College
The experience of the Maryland Consortium for Adjunct Faculty Professional Development demonstrates how collaboration between diverse institutions of higher education can result in productive programs for maintaining high levels of teaching and learning for both credit and non-credit instruction. Participants will learn about a state-wide effort to provide professional development to adjunct faculty involving two-year and four-year public and private, colleges and universities, and the resultant MCAPD projects (Adjunct Survey, Journal Article, and Annual Conferences). Participants will be asked to evaluate the role of adjunct faculty in higher education, critique the MCAPD model, and discuss how it could be applied to other partnerships.
Tracy Price, Lansing Community College
Todd Zakrajsek, Central Michigan University
Join two experienced Center Directors, one from a community college and one from a university, to learn how they have created and sustained teaching and learning centers that have become a vital part of their colleges’ infrastructure, even during times of campus budget reductions. Presenters will review strategies for starting a center, share ideas for garnering and maintaining campus support, and describe some of the services and resources that have been well received by their faculty. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn from one another about what has worked at their campuses.
Fred Lokken, Truckee Meadows Community College
Joe Elcano, Washoe County School District
Pat Miller, KNPB Channel 5 Public Television
Community colleges understand the need - and the value - of collaboration with community partners. This session will review the rationale and advantages of collaboration and will offer specific examples - and benefits - of successful partnerships. Examples will include: K-12 partnerships in technology, student development, leadership, and teacher training; 2-year/4-year partnerships in technology, training and professional development; and community partnerships in technology, teacher training and professional development.
Roxane Assaf, Truman College - One of the City Colleges of Chicago
Charles Abrams, Truman College Chicago
Truman College, One of the City Colleges of Chicago, has taken the District by storm with a Studio Classroom Lab model that challenges tradition with its technological enhancements and aesthetic appeal. But no innovative infrastructure stands alone. A pedagogical model rooted in time-honored practices, as well as a host of student services, contribute to an overall recipe for success.
Dr. Russell Richardson, College of the Canyons
College of the Canyons is committed to creating a teaching and learning environment in which both teachers and learners experience intellectual growth. However, most full-time and adjunct faculty entering the teaching profession have not participated in programs that have prepared them to teach at the college level. College teaching is the only major learned profession for which “there does not exist a well-defined program of preparation directed toward developing the skills which are essential for practitioners to possess” (Susskind in Penner, 1984). In response to these concerns, College of the Canyons has established an Institute of Teaching and Learning and a part-time faculty Associate Program to support faculty efforts to improve and expand their teaching skills. In 1999 the Associate Program was granted an “award for excellence” as part of the prestigious Hesburgh Award process. During this session you will learn specifics about both the Institute and the Associate Program and consider how to implement similar programs.
David LeMaster, San Jacinto College Central
Ann Tate, San Jacinto College
This session will highlight the San Jacinto College Faculty Symposium and will include discussion of how the Symposium was organized, publicized, and presented. It will include video footage of the presentations and an examination of Reflections. Presenters will make suggestions about how a campus-wide Faculty Symposium can help unite an entire college in academic excellence as well as break down boundaries between professors and students by providing an opportunity for faculty to explore their outside academic interests.
Teresa Huether, St. Louis Community College
Karen Wade, St. Louis Community College
Are you concerned about the continuity of education from K - 16? Do the faculty members in all your nearby K - 16 institutions have the opportunity to weave together their educational goals for the students they share? If not, and you wish they did, then find out about an event hosted by St. Louis Community College called CONNECT that does just that! CONNECT brings high school or university faculty together with their discipline-specific counterparts on the community college level in order to smooth the transition from institution to institution. Building positive relationships and increasing enrollment are possible results!
Gordon Watts, National Park Community College
This session describes a process (COPS) that involved all college faculty at National Park Community College in identifying the Concerns they had about a new campus change initiative “Achieving the Dream”, the Opportunities it presented, the Problems they saw ahead, and the Strengths they felt the institution brought to the table. The process is one that can be used to determine faculty perceptions about any change initiative, and to remove barriers to its successful implementation, and build greater campus commitment to the initiative.
Michele Neaton, Century College
Tracey Wyman, Century College
University faculty from China recently came to Minnesota to learn about American practices in college teaching. Learn about this innovative collaboration between a global education program and a Center for Teaching and Learning that brought together Chinese professors of English and faculty at a community college to discover new ways to teach and engage their students. The program included peer observations, field trips and teaching workshops that wove a rich tapestry of intercultural exchange and shared teaching practice. Explore ways to adapt this program to your own institution and come away with handouts detailing the program, outcomes, and lessons learned.
Ed Lovitt, Johnson County Community College
During the spring of 2008 Johnson County Community College implemented a Microsoft SharePoint 2007 site to provide a collaborative environment for our employees. Staff and Organizational Development is able to take advantage of many of the tools inside SharePoint to post training calendars, discussion threads, task lists, and document repositories. We will demonstrate how we are able to use SharePoint along with Microsoft Office 2007 to expand our level of communication across the campus for all employees.
The North American Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development is an affiliate council of the American Association of Community.
