Campus Center For Teaching
The Connecticut Community College System has a system-wide Center For Teaching, made up of representatives from each of the colleges. A steering committee made up of several Community College presidents and deans, along with Center For Teaching faculty representatives from each college, meets monthly throughout the academic year to assess the work of the group and to support it in its ongoing development of professional development activities. Each spring, the individual colleges report to the steering committee a summary of their year's activities.
The system-wide Center For Teaching supports and develops all-college activities such as the annual Barnes Seminar, the Spirit of Teaching Workshop, the New Faculty Workshop, and the Schwab Institute for Academic Leadership.
Annually, each college in turn receives a budget to support and stimulate Center For Teaching activities on its campus. At Quinebaug Valley Community College the current Center For Teaching contacts are Cindi Brassington (also the current Teaching and Learning Consultant at the college) and Brian Donohue-Lynch, CFT Steering Committee Representative and Director of New Faculty Orientation, who work together to develop and provide a range of related resources and activities around professional development for both full and part-time faculty.