POLICY STATEMENT CONCERNING
FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

FAM 515

FSD 88-11.R3

February 2004

1. Preamble

The California State University , San Bernardino is firm in its commitment to support a comprehensive program of Faculty Professional Development. The program encourages academic activities related to research, instruction, library projects, development of grant proposals, creative and other appropriately related work which will assist in helping faculty members improve their competence as teachers and scholars. To coordinate this program and assist in its expansion, a Faculty Professional Development Coordinating Committee shall be organized.

2. Faculty Professional Development Coordinating Committee Composition

2.1 Six tenure-track faculty members, one from each College/Library. These shall be appointed by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee in consultation with the appropriate Constituent Unit Election Officers.

2.2 Faculty members shall serve two-year terms. Terms shall be staggered.

2.3 The following persons shall serve as ex-officio members of the committee.

2.3.1 The Associate Vice President for Academic Personnel

2.3.2 The Dean of Graduate Studies

2.3.3 The Director of Sponsored Programs

3. Functions of the Faculty Professional Development Coordinating Committee

The Faculty Professional Development Coordinating Committee shall coordinate all faculty professional development activities, which fall within the following areas: Grants, Teaching Resource Center , and relevant College-Based Support (see Attachment 1). Specifically, the committee shall:

3.1 Recommend the distribution of campus faculty professional development funds for the categories of mini-grants awards, teaching excellence activities and college miscellaneous support.

3.2 Recommend the distribution of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities funds among the categories of Mini-grants, Paid-Term Leaves, and Summer Fellowships.

3.3 Recommend funding needs for faculty professional development.

3.4 Explore and recommend additional sources of funding, both on and off campus, for faculty professional development.

3.5 Request data from appropriate parties on all expenditures for faculty professional development purposes. Such data shall be used to submit required campus reports to the Chancellor's Office.

The recommendations indicated above shall be made to the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

4. Procedures for Review of Professional Awards Programs

4.1 The procedures apply to award applications received after the date of formal approval of this policy by the Faculty Senate.

4.2 Information pertaining to decisions for professional awards under programs administered by the Faculty Professional Development Coordinating Committee (FPDCC) shall be summarized and maintained by the Office of Academic Affairs. For each project, the summary information shall include type of award, college, title of proposal, author(s), funding amount, and recommendation.

4.3 The summary data information listed in 4.2 shall be maintained within the appropriate college Dean’s office in the file along with a final report by the award recipient(s) on the outcome of the project and use of the funds awarded. These reports shall be maintained on file for three years.

4.4 Final reports for funded proposals shall be submitted to the college Dean’s office as specified in the call for proposals. A copy of each final report shall be placed in the appropriate faculty member(s)’ Working Personnel Action File.

4.5 For each funding cycle or award program, summary information shall be provided to the college Professional Awards Committee (PAC) by the college Dean’s office. The information will be used to identify current submissions for professional awards by faculty who have received one or more previous awards and who have failed to submit final reports.

4.6 Those proposals associated with incomplete files from a prior funding cycle or award program (i.e., proposals without final reports) shall be excluded from the proposals submitted to the college PAC for review. The college Dean’s office shall notify authors of proposals without appropriate documentation that their submissions have been disqualified on this basis.

4.7 The call for proposals for each award program shall stipulate that final reports for previous awards are required in order for a proposal to be given consideration by the college PAC.

4.8 On an annual basis, an ad hoc committee consisting of the Director of the Teaching Resource Center , the Director of Sponsored Programs, the Associate Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies, and the Associate Provost for Academic Personnel shall review the completed files. The review will summarize in aggregate form the characteristics of all proposals funded and completed. This information shall be used to determine the effectiveness of the various award programs (i.e., whether each award program is meeting its stated objectives). The information also may have implications for eliminating underused award programs and for generating new categories of funding support for professional growth. Finally, the ad hoc review shall provide information to be used in annual and other reports on University faculty professional development programs.

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FSD 88-11.R3

Approved by the Faculty Senate ,C.E. Tapie Rohm on May 21,2004.

Reviewed by the Council of Academic Deans ,Louis Fernandez, Vice President of Academic Affairs on July 14,2004.

Approved by the President, Albert K. Karnig on October 22,2004.

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