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Introduction 2
Current Year Activities:
Professional Staff Workshop Opportunities
DCC Professional Staff Development Workshops 3
DCC In-service Computer Training Courses 4
Academic Affairs Programs 5
Human Resources Management Programs 5
Tuition Support
DCC Tuition Reimbursement 6
SUNY Tuition Waiver 7
DCC Tuition Waiver 7
DCC Credit Courses Audited 7
DCC Credit-free Course Attendance 7
Grant Support
Improvement of Instruction Grants 8
Publishing/Royalties 9
C. B. Schmidt Award 9
DCC Foundation Mini-grant Awards ('94-'95) 10
Individual Professional Fund Allowance 13
Encouraging External Grants 13
External Grants 14
Professional Leave Support
Conference Attendance 15
Sabbatical Leaves
Faculty ('94-'95) 16
Administrators ('94-'95) 17
Professional Staff Recognition
Length of Service 18
Faculty Promotions and Tenure 19
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service 20
Administrative Three Year Term Appointments 20
NTE Promotions 20
Next Year Preview:
Grant Support
DCC Foundation Mini-grant Awards ('95-'96) 21
Professional Leave Support
Sabbatical Leaves and Leaves of Absence
Faculty ('95-'96) 24
Administrators ('95-'96) 25
INTRODUCTION
Dutchess Community College had 136 full-time faculty, 275 adjunct faculty and 66 full-time professional administrators during the fall semester of the past academic year, 1994 - '95. Commitment to the development of all the professional staff at Dutchess Community College is a continuing goal of the institution. This Professional Development Report shows not only the diversity and quality of activities undertaken by the professional staff, but also the willingness of the College to commit time, personnel and financial resources to support these activities.
m The Office of Academic Affairs administers Tuition Reimbursement, SUNY Tuition Waivers, DCC Credit-free course attendance, conference attendance, Improvement of Instruction Grants, contact hour release time, faculty sabbaticals and leaves, faculty promotion & tenure, the C. B. Schmidt and DCC Foundation Mini-grant Awards, and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service.
m The Office of Human Resources Management administers the DCC Tuition Waiver, the Length of Service Awards, and administrative staff sabbaticals, promotions and term appointments.
m The Office of the Registrar administers audits of DCC credit courses.
m The Business Office coordinates with the principal authors of external grants.
m The Computer Center conducts regular in-service computer training.
m The Professional Staff Development Committee, in conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs, coordinates a program of staff development workshops.
m The Office of Human Resources Management also coordinates a program of staff development workshops.
Many people provided information used in this report. Special thanks go to Cathy McCue, Nancy Clark, Delores Blauvelt, Paul Higgins, Kelly Smith, Alice Kelleher, Barbara Pesano, Johnni Freer, and Chris Turner.
This is the third year DCC has published a Professional Development Report. The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to present this summary of professional development at Dutchess Community College for 1994 - '95. We hope you share in the continuing pride we feel for the fine accomplishments of our colleagues and ourselves.
Additional copies of this report may be obtained from the Office of Academic Affairs.
Madison K. Finley, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
PROFESSIONAL STAFF WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES
DCC Professional Staff Development Workshops
The Professional Staff Development Committee, in conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs, sponsored the following professional development programs this year:
Fall Semester
Introduction to Multicultural Issues (Steve Golin)
Multicultural Issues in the Classroom (panel)
Professional Development Week, January 1995
Infusing Multiculturalism into the Curriculum (Patricia Francis)
Critical Thinking and Multiculturalism in the Community College
(Frederick Torzs)
People, Land and Water (Cub Kahn)
S.E.E.D. Seminar Workshop (Patria Perez)
A Guided Tour of the Brain (Joan Mazza)
Library Open House (Evelyn Rosenthal & Library staff)
Introduction to the Internet (Scott Derby)
Native Americans (James Merrell)
Professional Development Week, May 1995
Classroom Demonstration of the Distance Learning Lab
(Jay Simpson & Art Pritchard)
The Human Voice (Nancy Greska)
Introduction to the Internet - 4 sessions: (Scott Derby)
m Overview/E-mail/Telnet
m Usenet News
m Gopher and the World-Wide Web
m File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Decameron IV on Esopus Island (Art Pritchard & Phil Arnold)
Among the Bari Indians (Tanya Romm Marcuse)
Geographical Information System (Bob Wills and panel)
Norrie Point Naturalist Field Activities (Art Pritchard and Norrie staff)
Encouraging Women to Succeed: How You Can Make a Difference
(Craig Flood)
PROFESSIONAL STAFF WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES
DCC In-service Computer Training Courses (offered each semester)
The Computer Center sponsored the following professional development programs this year:
Introduction to Personal Computers & DOS 3 hours
Introduction to Networking 3 hours
WordPerfect Office 3 hours
Introduction to WordPerfect 5.1 9 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 Intermediate Course 9 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 Advanced Course 9 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 Specifics (COLUMNS) 3 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 Specifics (GRAPHICS) 3 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 Specifics (MERGE) 3 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 Specifics (TABLES) 3 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 Problems / Tricks 2 hours
WordPerfect Macros 2 hours
WordPerfect 6.0 Update 6 hours
WordPerfect 6.0 New Users Basic Course 9 hours
WordPerfect 6.0 New Users Intermediate Course 9 hours
Introduction to Lotus 1-2-3 9 hours
Lotus 1-2-3 (Intermediate) 9 hours
IMPRESS & UMI Periodical Abstracts 3 hours
Scanner operation 1 hour
The Internet 1 hour
m Advanced WordPerfect classes will be changed from version 5.1 to version 6.0 during the coming year.
m Special training for individual departments also can be arranged. Contact the Computer Center.
PROFESSIONAL STAFF WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES
Academic Affairs Programs
The Office of Academic Affairs conducted the following professional development programs this year:
Academic Affairs Division Retreat
Adjunct Faculty Orientation
Full-time Faculty Academic Orientation
First-year Faculty Roundtable Discussions
Orientation for New Full-time Members of the Professional Staff
Promotion and Tenure Workshop
Human Resources Management Programs
The Office of Human Resources Management offered the following staff development workshops this year:
Dealing with Difficult People
Effective Listening
Effective Management
Effective Team Building
Quality Student/Customer Contact for College Employees
Stress Reduction in the Workplace
Team Leadership Development
TUITION SUPPORT
DCC Tuition Reimbursement
Thirty-seven faculty and administrators received support totalling $15,820.00.
Seemin Ahmad
Tom Andrew
Jackie Appeldorn
Domenica Bellacicco
Julett Butler
Lowell Butler
Laura Caputo
Bruce Cassel
Lauren Cherney
Patricia DeLessio
John DeMadaler
Jackie Goffe-McNish
Roy Gross
Johanna Halsey
Karen Ingham
Barbara Kaelber
Sue Kennen
Kathleen King
Anne Landry
Deborah Langenau
Linda LaRou
Maryann Longhi
Elisabeth Maset
Patria MesteyPerez
Holly Molella
Deborah Most
Victoria Passikoff
June Pierson
Richard Reitano
Nestor St. Charles
Laurie Scott
Carol Stevens
George Stevens
Joanne Tucker
Mareve Van Voorhis
Wendy Walker
Francis Whittle
All applicants are encouraged to file in the fall for available funds. Second and third opportunities to apply for remaining funds occur prior to the spring and summer semesters.
TUITION SUPPORT
SUNY Tuition Waiver
Five members of the professional staff used SUNY Tuition Waivers totalling $2,600.00:
Toni Doherty
Pamela Duda
Jackie Goffe-McNish
James Miller
Laurie Scott
The SUNY allocation for DCC will be raised to $3,000 total in 1995 - '96.
DCC Tuition Waiver
Twenty-five members of the professional staff used the DCC Tuition Waiver for themselves and/or their immediate family members to take DCC credit courses at no charge. The total amount of the College contribution to this benefit for the 1994 - '95 was $13,109.80.
DCC Credit Courses Audited
Three members of the professional staff audited DCC credit courses.
Seemin Ahmad
Gail Brittain
Lynette McKinney
DCC Credit-free Course Attendance
Sixty-five approvals were issued for DCC professional staff to take job-related credit-free courses, with a total tuition amount of $5,789.00.
GRANT SUPPORT
Improvement of Instruction Grants
Twenty-six faculty and administrators received support totalling $9,173.16.
Seemin Ahmad
Phil Arnold
Mickey Bashoff
Jim Brazee
Loretto Canfield
Joel Diemond
Toni Doherty
Matt Finley
Sondra Giordano
Nancy Greska
Roy Gross
Johanna Halsey
Gerald Hamel
Tad Herman
Martin Hochhauser
Marilyn Holsipple
Henry Horwitz
Barbara Kaelber
Debbie Langenau
Patria Mestey-Perez
Joe Norton
Aaron Rand
Richard Reitano
Camilo Rojas
Diana Staats
George Stevens
Kim Touchette
Marty Triola
Leigh Williams
Bob Wills
GRANT SUPPORT
Publishing / Royalties
Under a program administered by the Office of Academic Affairs, three members of the DCC professional staff donated to the DCC Foundation royalties from the sale in the DCC Bookstore of manuals they had written. The manuals were developed using Improvement of Instruction funds and were published by an outside publishing house.
Madison Finley - Academic Computing Guide
Jessica Gerson - Avoiding Plagiarism
Jody Sterling - Avoiding Plagiarism
C. B. Schmidt Award
Until his death in 1968, C. B. Schmidt served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dutchess Community College. His ten years of service to the college guided it during a period of rapid growth. He was actively concerned with the expansion of Dutchess' curriculums as well as its physical facilities. Mr. Schmidt's contributions as Chairman of the Board were recognized by the professional staff with the establishment of a development fund in his name.
The criteria for awards has been the "anticipated contribution to the development of the DCC professional staff."
Members of the 1995 C. B. Schmidt Awards Committee were David Schmidt (family member), Lynette Mckinney, Sandra Giordano, Leigh Williams and Madison Finley (Chairperson). After careful consideration, the Committee recommended the following award:
Gail Hermosilla, Director of Planning and Institutional Research, will receive an award of $1000 to learn the Geographic Information System (GIS) computer system. The professional staff will benefit by having a resource to analyze and compare data from unrelated databases that was previously not feasible without the use of this sophisticated computer system. One objective of this project is to enhance the ability of the College to identify target markets for recruiting efforts.
GRANT SUPPORT
DCC Foundation Mini-Grant Awards, 1994 - '95
The purpose of the DCC Foundation Mini-Grant Program is to encourage innovative activities or projects by individuals or groups of the professional staff that will have a significant impact on students and college life. The maximum award for any application or single project is $3,000.00. All applications were considered. Priority was given to projects that address one of the two college objectives for next year:
Improving Relationships with Area High Schools, or
Promoting Cultural Diversity
Members of the 1994 DCC Foundation Mini-Grant Awards Committee were Constance Eames, Gil Nyhof, Art Pritchard, Madison Finley, and Toni Doherty (Chairperson). After careful review of the thirty applications, the Committee recommended the following distribution of awards, totalling $20,014:
NAME: AMOUNT: PROJECT SUMMARY:
Malboeuf/English $1,570 High school outreach - English.
Halsey/Reda $1,800 High school outreach - Math.
Cutonilli/Himelstein $2,940 Continue ASSET in high schools.
Biasotti $1,449 Continue ModuMath remedial math.
Zito/Amman $2,000 High school outreach - Physics.
Reitano $2,025 Model U.N. high school program.
Williams/Writing Ctr. $ 939 Workshop: Critical Thinking/Multicultural.
Rand $1,175 High school outreach - architecture.
LaFosse/Rojas $1,971 Produce Math minorities videotape.
Gardenier/Nursing $1,044 High school outreach - Nursing.
Rojas $2,000 Community outreach - Channel 42 show.
Marcuse $1,100 Community outreach - art & photography.
Some projects received partial funding. A more detailed description of each funded project follows:
Richard Malboeuf / DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND HUMANITIES
$1,570.00 This project allowed for meetings between members of the DCC Department of English and Humanities and members of the departments of English in district high schools in Dutchess and Putnam Counties. This grant continues funding for last year's successful project.
Johanna Halsey / Ellena Reda
$1,800.00 (partial funding) This project allowed for outreach to area high school mathematics teachers. Workshops presented the uses of technology in math education, including computer software and graphing calculators, to result in the collaborative creation of applications involving technology.
DCC FOUNDATION MINI-GRANT AWARDS 1994 - '95 continued
Alexander Cutonilli / Howard Himelstein
$2,940.00 This project continued and expanded the successful project of last year to test high school juniors using the Asset tests and provide feedback to area high school students and guidance staff. The new schools were Arlington, John Jay and Beacon.
Mary Biasotti
$1,449.00 This project purchased three additional ModuMath Algebra laserdisks. This remedial software benefits students entering MAT 091 and MAT 100. This grant continues funding for last year's successful project.
Anthony Zito / George Amann (adjunct)
$2,000.00 (partial funding) This project offered an outreach to high school teachers of Physics. Local physics teachers became familiar with modern technology in laboratory situations, using materials in "real time physics" developed by Priscilla Laws of Dickinson University and adapted for use by Physics Teacher Resource Agents.
Richard Reitano
$2,025.00 This project funded a second Norrie Point Model United Nations for Dutchess County High School Students. This project is a follow-up to the highly successful one-day Model UN sponsored by Dutchess B.O.C.E.S.
Leigh Williams / WRITING CENTER
$939.00 This project funded a fifth annual Norrie Point workshop open to members of the professional staff. The theme for January 1995 was "Critical Thinking and Multi-Culturalism in the Community Colleges" presented by Frederic Torzs of the Critical Thinking Program at Massachusetts Bay Community College. This project is a continuation of a series of workshops previously funded directly by the DCC Foundation.
Aaron Rand
$1,175.00 This project improved relationships with area high schools through a series of open house presentations and discussions with area high school teachers of art and architectural drafting. The project also funded a competition for high school art and drafting students interested in architecture.
Susan LaFosse / Camilo Rojas
$1,971.60 This project produced a video tape that will familiarize minorities with the innovation DCC faculty are using in the teaching of mathematics. Typical instruction now includes collaborative learning, study groups, portfolios, and the use of writing to understand mathematical concepts. The tape will be used to recruit minority students, especially women, from area high schools.
DCC FOUNDATION MINI-GRANT AWARDS 1994 - '95 continued
Edna Gardenier / DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
$1,044.80 This project allowed DCC Nursing faculty to meet with area high school and junior high school counselors to share information about current nursing practice and how students can prepare for success in the field.