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Promote a campus ambiance of collegiality, scholarly interchange, and principled inquiry that is disciplined-based as well as cross-disciplinary; |
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Host faculty development events throughout each academic year which invite scholarly exchange |
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Host faculty development events throughout each academic year which promote skills in such areas of academic career development as professional writing, grant proposal authorship and mentoring |
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Model collegial exchange by committee decision making processes which reflect both discipline-based representation and interdisciplinary interchange |
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Support opportunities for professional development that correspond to the needs of the faculty; |
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Assess faculty professional development needs periodically through means of survey, focus groups, or other means |
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Encourage FPDCC members to regularly poll constituent faculty and administrators to seek their input on and support for programs and initiatives |
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Allocate faculty development funds in such a way as to maintain the highest degree of fairness and concern for merit; encourage maximum faculty participation in faculty development programs; |
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Allocate state funds for professional development to various funding categories (Minigrant, Summer Fellowship, and Paid-Term Leave) in a manner that maximizes the opportunity for individual faculty to be funded in a category for which they submit |
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Allocate other professional development funds in ways that fulfill the mission of the committee |
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Encourage school-based Professional Awards Committees and other awarding committees to utilize objective means for determining proposal merit and for offering feedback to faculty members who submit proposals |
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Promote recognition for outstanding achievement in faculty development |
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Allocate professional development funds in a manner that uses these funds to match or leverage other such funding |
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Participate in activities and events that help CSUSB faculty to gain recognition in a larger arena such as the CSU system |
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Coordinate with other committees, administrators, and campus agencies in the disbursement of funds for faculty development; |
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Coordinate with Academic Personnel to ensure that FPDCC initiatives are consistent with the Procedures and Criteria for Performance Review and Periodic Evaluation |
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Coordinate with Graduate Studies, Research, and Faculty Development as the office that administers faculty development funds |
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Coordinate with Sponsored Programs to maximize the opportunities for faculty to apply for and receive external funding as a result of faculty development-related activities |
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Coordinate with the Instructional Quality Committee and the Teaching Resource Center to integrate faculty professional development activities and initiatives with those that promote teaching excellence |
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Circulate and foster discussion of various meanings of faculty development and make decisions in the light of contemporary research on human growth and development through the span of a professional career. |
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Invite collegial input from experts in faculty development, life span psychology or human development/career development in order to promote discussion of current research in professional development |
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Invite input from campus leaders on issues of professional growth and development |
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Explore and recommend additional sources of funding, both on and off campus, for faculty professional development; |
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Coordinate with Sponsored Programs to identify off-campus sources of funding for FPDCC initiatives and other faculty development programs |
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Coordinate with the Office of Development to explore off-campus sources of faculty development funds |
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Coordinate with academic deans and other administrators to explore and recommend on-campus and off-campus sources of funds |
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Monitor expenditures for faculty professional development purposes. |
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Request budget accounting periodically from the Office of Graduate Studies, Research, and Faculty Development |
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Appoint a FPDCC member as treasurer yearly to monitor budget |
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Maintain a record of FPDCC activities in order to provide a history of the committee and an ongoing orientation for new members |
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Maintain an archive of FPDCC documents |
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Orient new members yearly to FPDCC history and responsibilities |
