Professional Development Funds

Part-time employees/adjuncts eligibility for use of professional development funds is limited to:

• Part-time lecturers who have taught at least eighteen credit hours in the community-technical college system
• Part-time non-teaching employees who have worked at least nine hours per week for at least three semesters

Funding limit: The committee establishes a per person limit on funding for activities each year. If the money we receive is not allocated by the end of April, we will consider giving additional funding to individuals whose expenses exceeded that amount, or who have participated in more than one activity. (Keep all receipts and program information!)

Center for Teaching

The Center for Teaching, which is funded by the Board of Trustees, is a statewide organization dedicated to promoting excellence in teaching at Connecticut 's community and technical colleges. QVCC receives an annual allocation of Center for Teaching monies to fund proposals to enhance teaching excellence.

Any person on the staff (teaching or non-teaching) can apply for funding. The QVCC Center for Teaching Committee makes recommendations to the President on which proposals to fund; final approval rests with the President.

Recently funded activities have included a cross-cultural training workshop for faculty and staff and a faculty retreat to evaluate the Teacher as Researcher project.

Probably the most popular event sponsored by the Center for Teaching is the Annual Spring Seminar, held at the Mercy Center in Madison . Modeled after the National Seminar for Master Teachers, the Spring Seminar brings together faculty members (usually two or three) from each college in the system for three days in May to exchange ideas on teaching in a relaxed setting. Past participants have returned from the experience refreshed and invigorated, eager to discuss new ideas and the insights they have gained into the teaching process.

Anyone interested in applying for any of the above activities should contact the QVCC Center for Teaching representative, Cindi Brassington, for more information.