Faculty Development Programs for System Integration

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Faculty Development Programs for System
Integration
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Presenters

• Larry Litecky
• President
• Century College
• White Bear Lake, MN

• Lynda Milne
• System Director,Faculty Development
• Office of the Chancellor
• Center for Teaching Learning

• Lori Schroeder
• Faculty Development Coordinator
• Office of the Chancellor
• Center for Teaching Learning

• Carol Steimer Bailey
• Faculty Development Coordinator
• Office of the Chancellor
• Center for Teaching Learning

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Minnesota State Colleges Universities

• Merger formed in 1995 by 1991 legislative mandate
• 32 Institutions
• 12 combined community technical colleges
• 5 community colleges
• 8 technical colleges
• 7 comprehensive universities
• 53 campuses in 46 communities

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Challenges to System Integration

• Centralization vs. campus autonomy
• Cultural differences
• Presidential perspectives

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Faculty Development Challenges

• Different institutional histories, needs
• Differences in institutional support
• Widely varying teaching experience
• Budget pressures
• Unclear role for system office CTL
• 1996 Move all faculty dev to campuses
• 1998 Resume centralized faculty dev
• 2002 Question size and functions

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Your own challenges?
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Faculty Development Survey

• Opinions of all stakeholders
• Faculty
• Chief academic officers and deans
• Presidents

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Survey Areas

• Faculty development experience
• Program preferences
• Formats
• Timing
• Topics
• Incentives, motivation
• Opinions on campus CTL programs

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Survey Methods

• Focus groups with administrators
• CTL Steering Committee
• Single instrument for all faculty
• Single instrument for all administrators
• Web-administered

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Findings

• College/university faculty differences
• Engagement in professional development
• Interest in systemwide interaction
• Significant needs re online support
• Online faculty development programs
• Support for teaching online

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Findings

• Administrative support for faculty development on
  campus
• Dedicated staff (lt .5 FTE most campuses)
• Space allocation
• Few rewards (faculty perception)
• Few institutional faculty development plans
• Not included in faculty evaluation practices

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Findings

• Participants have high opinion of CTL
• Positive influence of grants
• Interest in more discipline-based activity
• Significant non-participant rate
• 43 university faculty
• 19 college faculty

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CTL Programs

• Strengthen campus faculty development (CTL
  Leaders)
• Support teaching innovations (grants)
• Faculty networking through events
• Discipline workshops
• Statewide conferences
• Weekend seminars

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CTL Support On Campuses

• Faculty development leadership program
• 1-2 faculty on each campus
• CTLs liaisons to campus faculty
• Organize campus programs
• Support for faculty development leaders
• 1,500 stipend
• 675 programming support
• Resources and leadership development
• Campus visits / workshops

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CTL Grants Programs

• External funds Bush Grants
• 1.6M Learning By Doing 1999-2002
• 1.6M Learning That Lasts 2003-2005
• Instructional Development Grants
• 100K - 500K per year
• 2,500 - 15,000 to faculty teams
• 20 60 per year
• Teaching innovation in all disciplines

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Grant Examples

• Building a Trail of Knowledge
• Itasca Community College, 5,000
• Active learning through civic engagement
• Community-campus engagement
• Technology to Analyze Timepiece Escapements
  through Visual Graphics
• Saint Paul College, 5,000
• Seed for 1M Rolex Corporation grant

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CTL Events

• Events
• Weekend and Summer Seminars
• Saturdays, all-day
• Single learning-focused topic
• Facilitated by recognized experts
• 50 faculty attend on average
• Conferences
• ITeach Best Practices in Teaching with
  Technology (300)
• Realizing Student Potential (1000)

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CTL Events

• Discipline Workshops
• 10-15 per year
• Grants awarded to faculty organizers
• Planning teams of faculty from each institution
  type (CC, TC, university)
• Agendas focused on teaching within discipline
• Foster discussion on student transfer and
  curriculum continuity

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Integrated Programs for System Integration
Examples

• Computer Science
• Discipline workshop Spring 2003
• General conversation transfer
• Discipline workshop Fall 2003
• Curriculum reviews, discussion
• Discipline meeting at RSP, February 2004
• Plans for action
• Electrical Programs
• Grant to 3-4 instructors, Spring 2003
• Discipline workshop, Spring 2004
• Teaching methods developed from grant

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Online Resources

• ITeach Web site
• Resources and tools for teaching
• Tutorials and courses
• Interactive commons

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Faculty Development and College Integration

• Fosters institutional identity
• Builds learner-centered culture
• Must be an institutional priority
• Requires strategic resource allocation
• Space and time
• Faculty-led programs
• Focus on innovation and change

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Faculty Development and System Integration

• Common focus on statewide higher education
  outcomes
• Cross-institutional cooperation
• Leverage external resources
• Work toward seamless transfer
• Define and assess excellence
• Across institutional, geographic, disciplinary
  boundaries

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Thank you!

• Presentation resources available
• http//www.ctl.mnscu.edu/events/aacc.html
• Share ideas and comments with us
• ctl_at_so.mnscu.edu