Campus "Teaching and Learning Consultants"
(TLC's)
Each college in the Connecticut Community College System has a local "Teaching and Learning Consultant" (TLC) position that is funded through the Center For Teaching budget. The local TLC is available to provide a range of faculty development resources, activities, and assistance to both full and part-time faculty. Each college has its unique way of implementing this position and defining the specific work of the assigned faculty; at the same time, the aim of the Center For Teaching through its fostering of this position is to help mentor and develop consultants on each campus who can serve as professional resources for their colleagues in their ongoing professional development.
One dimension of this position is to provide a faculty-colleague for those who are preparing their contractually expected self-evaluation as spelled out in the Community College System's "Faculty Development and Review Plan" (FDRP). This FDRP process as it is defined is meant to be a collegial and largely self-directed process of self-assessment and ongoing planning for one's effective professional growth as a college teacher. The TLC's role in this, if at all, is to serve as a collegial "sounding board" for individual faculty as they develop their ongoing plans. TLC's are not in any role of reporting this work--or being responsible for it managerially--to the faculty's managers.
QVCC's TLC: Brian Donohue-Lynch; CFT Representative: Cindi Brassington
TLC's, in addition, may work with the local CFT representative (if, as on some campuses, they are not one and the same person) to develop further resources, workshops, training sessions, lunchtime discussions, and more, for the professional development of full and part-time faculty.
At QVCC, the role of TLC is seen as separate from that of the CFT representative, though the two work together on many activities.