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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED348095 AUTHOR: Curtis, Stephen M.; And Others
TITLE: Faculty and Staff Development: Two Models of
Administrative-Faculty Linkages.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 18 p.; Paper presented at "Leadership 2000," the
Annual International Conference of the League for
Innovation in the Community College and the Community
College Leadership Program (3rd, Chicago, IL, July 7-10,
1991).
ABSTRACT: At Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC)
in New York, over 90% of the students are ethnic
minorities, and two-thirds are women. Among BMCC freshmen,
70% require some form of remediation. Faculty development
efforts at the college emphasize the issues of serving an
ethnically diverse student population and of reinforcing
the basic skills of students. Faculty development efforts
at the college have included: (1) faculty exchanges
permitting BMCC faculty to teach at other institutions
within the City University of New York (CUNY) system; (2)
dissertation counseling seminars for tenured faculty who
have completed doctoral course work; and (3) release time
for faculty to attend special seminars examining issues
such as gender, race, and ethnicity as they relate to the
curriculum. Three faculty development projects have been
initiated by the Office of Academic Affairs: (1) the Urban
Academy Project (UAP), which provides faculty with
in-service training on new methods to improve teaching; (2)
the Freshman Year Project, which involves faculty in
freshman orientation activities, and provides special
seminars for faculty teaching paired or blocked freshman
courses; and (3) the Committee on Pluralism and Diversity
in the Curriculum, which presents forums and workshops to
promote greater awareness of pluralism in the classroom.
Activities initiated by faculty committees have included
Faculty Development Day, the Faculty Mentoring Program,
interdepartmental grants, and the Colloquium on College
Teaching. Brief descriptions of each university and campus
faculty development activity are included. (PAA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Community-Colleges;
Curriculum-Development; Educational-Quality;
Faculty-Fellowships; Inservice Education;
Instructional-Improvement; Sabbatical-Leaves;
Staff-Development; Two-Year-Colleges; Workshops-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Faculty-College-Relationship; *Faculty
Development; *Seminars-; *Teacher-Effectiveness; *Teaching
Skills
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