Professional Development Criteria. 1. All Professional Development must be preapproved through an application process. The application is available on the district website.
2. Individual Professional Development requests shall not exceed $450. If an employee has utilized all of the $450 allocated funds for professional development, the employee will not be able to access the pool or additional professional development until March 31st of that school year in order to ensure ample time for other teachers to have an opportunity to apply for funds as professional development opportunities are made available. If they have not, they can be eligible to access the remainder of the $450. Costs for substitutes are the responsibility of each building unless stated otherwise by the Director of Teaching and Learning.
Professional Development Criteria. It is recognized that professional development funds are to provide for professional leaves, short-term professional development programs, research, and other activities, which are deemed to be of a professional development nature for the faculty member and of value to the discipline, division, and College. Receipts verifying the expenditures associated with these activities are required for auditing purposes. Movement on the grade, as a result of the professional development activities, must be approved in writing and in advance of the activity by the Vice President Academic. Unless such written approval is obtained, movement on the grade will not occur. Full-time temporary faculty hired on a twelve (12) month contract are eligible for the individual professional development allotment during the academic year of the employment contract.
Professional Development Criteria. It is recognized that professional development funds are to provide for professional leaves, short-term professional development programs, research, and other activities, which are deemed to be of a professional development nature for the instructor and of value to the discipline, Division, and College. Receipts, verifying the expenditures associated with these activities, are required for auditing purposes. Movement on the grade, as a result of the professional development activities, must be approved, in writing and in advance of the activity, by the Vice President Academic. Unless such written approval is obtained, movement on the grade will not occur. Full-time instructors hired on a twelve month contract are eligible for the individual allotment during the academic year of the contract. Hat College Contract Board of Governors Faculty Association, July I, to Article continued Individual Allotment Individualallotment funds will be allocated for professional development, based on an amount of per year for each full-time regular and full-time temporary instructor hired on a month contract. It is recognized that these funds are to provide assistance for activities that are deemed to be of a professional development nature for the instructor and of value to the discipline, Division and the College. Examples are, but not limited to, short-term professional development activities, research, membership dues for professional associations, tuition and books for further education, for educational purposes, and travel to professional meetings. The purchase of personal computers and associated hardware will not be allowed. In addition, each full-time faculty member may accumulate unused individual allotment funds for a period not to exceed two years. Funds from the personal allotment that have been carried over and are not spent in the second year will be rolled into the following academic year's Faculty Professional Development Fund.
