Professional Development Scholarship Sample Clauses
Professional Development Scholarship. A professional growth program shall be established and maintained for the purpose of encouraging the educational growth of employees. The program shall be designed to enable employees to update their job skills and improve their services to the District through attendance at a college/university and accredited trade school classes with the acquisition of college degrees.
Professional Development Scholarship. The professional development/scholarship evaluation and self-reflection will summarize the faculty’s activities related to Professional Development/Scholarship. Activities may include, but are not limited to: the writing of grant proposals; the conduct of currently active grants; peer-reviewed publications; public exhibitions/performances/presentations; patents applications; patents executed; conferences attended; formal review of scholarly papers or academic books; public contributions to the field, including open-source contributions; and citations in papers not authored/co-authored by the faculty member. As part of this summary, the faculty member will provide a description of the activities that were successful, the areas for improvement, and the goals for the next year. The evaluation will also include, where appropriate, specific actions taken related to prior year’s goals and to the areas for improvement identified in prior evaluations.