DCC Professional Development Report 1993 - 1994
Table of ContentsPage
Introduction...... 2
Current Year Activities:
Professional Staff Workshop Opportunities
DCC Professional Staff Development Workshops...... 3
Professional Staff Retreats3
DCC In-service Computer Training Courses...... 4
Tuition Reimbursement Support
DCC Tuition Reimbursement5
SUNY Tuition Waiver6
DCC Tuition Waiver6
DCC Credit Courses Audited6
DCC Credit-free Course Attendance6
Grant Support
Improvement of Instruction Grants7
Publishing/Royalties...... 8
C. B. Schmidt Award8
DCC Foundation Mini-Grant Awards ('93-'94)...... 9
Individual Professional Fund Allowance11
Encouraging Funding from External Grants...... 11
External Grants12
Professional Leave Support
Conference Attendance15
Contact Hour Release Time16
Sabbatical Leaves
Faculty ('93-'94)...... 17
Administrators ('93-'94)...... 18
Professional Staff Recognition
Length of Service19
Faculty Promotions and Tenure20
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service...... 21
Administrative Three Year Term Appointments...... 21
NTE Promotions...... 21
Next Year Preview:
Grant Support
DCC Foundation Mini-Grant Awards ('94-'95)...... 22
Professional Leave Support
Sabbatical Leaves
Faculty ('94-'95)...... 25
Administrators ('94-'95)...... 26
INTRODUCTION
Dutchess Community College had 147 full-time faculty, 286 adjunct faculty and 69 administrators during the fall semester of the past academic year, 1993 - '94. 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.
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, faculty promotion & tenure, the C. B. Schmidt and DCC Foundation Mini-Grant Awards, and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service.
The Office of Human Resources Management administers the DCC Tuition Waiver, the Length of Service Awards, and sabbaticals and term appointments for administrative staff.
The Office of the Registrar administers audits of DCC credit courses.
The Business Office manages external grants, coordinating with the principal authors.
In-service computer training is conducted by the Computer Center.
The Professional Staff Development Committee, in conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs, coordinates a full program of staff development workshops.
Many people helped to provide information used in this report. Special thanks go to Cathy McCue for the material on external grants, Nancy Clark for the figures from the Business Office, Irene Miller and Paul Higgins, Alice Kelleher, Johnni Freer, and Chris Turner. The cover was designed by Camilo Rojas.
This is the second 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 1993 - '94. We hope you share in the continuing pride we feel for the fine accomplishments of our colleagues and ourselves.
Madison K. Finley, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
PROFESSIONAL STAFF WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES
DCC Professional Staff Development Workshops
Identifying At-risk Students
Assessing Educational Resources at DCC
Services Available for At-risk Students
Portfolio Assessment
Academically Under-prepared Students
Dealing with Difficult Students
Classroom Management Techniques
Multi-media Software
Word Perfect Office and E-Mail on the Internet
Daedalus Conferencing
MathCad
AIDS
Year of the Woman
Environmental Studies
Generation X Confronts the Bemires
Stalking the Fossil Mollusks
Decameron III
Health Care Programs
Professional Staff Retreats
Academic Team Workshop: Departmental Affairs CouncilPlanning Retreat
Quality Council: Quality Training Retreat
Many academic departments also conduct retreats on a regular basis.
PROFESSIONAL STAFF WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES
DCC In-Service Computer Training Courses (offered each semester)
Introduction to Personal Computers & DOS3 hours
Introduction to Networking3 hours
WordPerfect Office3 hours
Introduction to WordPerfect 5.19 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 (Intermediate)9 hours
WordPerfect 5.1 (Advanced)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 Seminar3 hours
Introduction to Lotus 1-2-39 hours
Lotus 1-2-3 (Intermediate)9 hours
WSLAN to Access APPAC & HIRIS2 hours
DASH (Degree Audit Student History)2 hours
Introduction to APPAC & Reports2 hours
IMPRESS & UMI Periodical Abstracts3 hours
How to Recognize & Handle Confidential Data1 hour
Scanner operation1 hour
The Internet1 hour
Special training for individual departments also can be arranged. Contact the Computer Center.
TUITION REIMBURSEMENT SUPPORT
DCC TUITION REIMBURSEMENT
Thirty-eight faculty and administrators received support totalling $20,038.10.
Fall 1993*
Gloria AyalaSt Charles
Domenica Bellacicco
Julett Butler
Lowell Butler
Dorothy Decker
Patricia DeLessio
John DeMadaler
Thomas Denton
Roy Gross
Joseph Hanafee
Henry Horwitz
Karen Ingham
Larry Johnson
Kathleen King
Carolyn Lampack
Deborah Langenau
Linda LaRou
Barbara Liesenbein
Erin Mabey
Patria MesteyPerez
Holly Molella
Margaret Moran
Deborah Most
Victoria Passikoff
June Pierson
Geraldine PozziGalluzi
Richard Reitano
George Stevens
Francis Whittle
* Fall listings include those who file for courses in the Fall but who may plan to take those courses in the Spring or Summer. 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 the Summer.
Spring 1994
Thomas Denton
Maryann Longhi
Elisabeth Maset
Carol Stevens
Wendy Walker
Summer 1994
Bruce Cassel
Louise Cooper
Jackie Goffe-McNish
Richard Malboeuf
TUITION REIMBURSEMENT SUPPORT
SUNY Tuition Waiver
Six members of the professional staff used SUNY Tuition Waivers totalling $2,600.00:
Tim Decker
Pamela Duda
Toni Emery
Laurie Scott
Joanne Tucker
Mareve Van Voorhis
DCC Tuition Waiver
Thirty-one 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 Fall '93 and Spring '94 semesterswas $21,482.
DCC Credit Courses Audited
Three members of the professional staff audited DCC credit courses.
DCC Credit-free Course Attendance
Forty-three approvals were issued for DCC professional staff to take job-related credit-free courses, with a total tuition amount of $2,688.00.
GRANT SUPPORT:
IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION GRANTS
Twenty-nine faculty and administrators received support totalling $24,046.52.
Fall 1993
Loretto Canfield
Jacqueline GoffeMcNish
Spring 1994
Gloria AyalaSt. Charles
Philip Arnold
Lauren Cherney
Gerald Hamel
Martin Hochhauser
Karen Ingham
Susan Lafosse
James Miller
Deborah Most
Darleene Peters
George Stevens
Lois Stewart
Mareve Van Voorhis
Anthony Zito
Summer 1994
Jacquelyn Appeldorn
James Brazee
Jacqueline GoffeMcNish
Johanna Halsey
Gerald Hamel
Henry Horwitz
Karen Ingham
Susan LaFosse
Anne Landry
Linda LaRou
Tanya Marcuse
Mark McConnaughhay
Patria MesteyPerez
Geraldine PozziGalluzi
Diana Staats
Judith Tavel
Joanne Tucker
Mareve Van Voorhis
GRANT SUPPORT:
PUBLISHING/ROYALTIES
Under a new program this year administered by the Office of Academic Affairs, three DCC faculty members donated royalties from the sale of manuals they had written to the DCC Foundation. The manuals were developed using Improvement of Instruction funds and were published by an outside publishing house. Royalties will continue to be paid to the DCC Foundation until the original Improvement of Instruction grants are repaid. The three faculty members are:
Madison Finley -Academic Computing Guide
Jessica Gerson -Avoiding Plagiarism
Jody Sterling - Avoiding Plagiarism
GRANT SUPPORT:
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 1994 C. B. Schmidt Awards Committee were David Schmidt (family member), Wesley Ostertag, Johanna Halsey, Joan Mazza, Barbara Liesenbein, and Madison Finley (Chairperson). After careful consideration, the Committee recommended the following award:
Dana VanderHeyden, Assistant Registrar, will receive an award of $700 to identify colleges with effective and innovative advising programs for full-time students, visit several campuses, and present specific recommendations for advising models that would be suitable at DCC. An objective of this project is to retain a greater proportion of our full-time students, especially in Liberal Arts.
DCC FOUNDATION MINI-GRANT AWARDS 1993 - '94
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 in this first year of the new program, but priority was given to projects that address one of the two college objectives for this year:
Improving Relationships with Area High Schools, or
Promoting Student Success
Members of the 1993 DCC Foundation Mini-Grant Awards Committee were Martha Afzal, Susan LaFosse, Toni Doherty, Ronald Kupin, Dana VanderHeyden, and Madison Finley (Chairperson). After careful review of the twenty-three applications, the Committee recommended the following distribution of awards, totalling $15,000:
NAME:AMOUNT:PROJECT SUMMARY:
Himelstein/Cutonilli$1,200ASSET Test in high schools
Rosenthal, Evelyn 595Encyclopedia CD-ROM software
Walker / Mabey 1,000Laptop computer for Admissions
Biasotti / Tavel 1,900Algebra CD-ROM software
Wills, Robert 275BRIC awareness poster contest
Norton, Joe 1,830Local history database
English faculty 1,600High school outreach
Math faculty 1,600High school outreach
Biology faculty 1,600High school outreach
Flynn, James 1,500Architecture software
Smith, Tim$1,900High school leadership training
Some projects received partial funding. A more detailed description of each funded project follows:
Howard Himelstein, Associate Dean of Student Personnel Services, and Alexander Cutonilli, Director of Admissions, administered the standardized academic battery "ASSET" test free of charge to all interested high school juniors in two area high schools. The placement report provides course placement recommendations that coincide with entering DCC students, and provides guidance for students preparing to enter DCC. The pilot project provides greater articulation with area high schools and affects between 300 - 400 students. The budget included ASSET scoring for 400 students, two training sessions for high school guidance counsellors, and two workshops to orient DCC faculty.
Evelyn Rosenthal, Assistant Librarian, received funds to purchase for the Library the New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. This multimedia software includes 21 volumes of the Academic American Encyclopedia with graphics, sound, and video sequences to increase retention and learning.
Wendy Walker, Coordinator of Adult Career and Education Counselling, and Erin Mabey, Admissions Counsellor, received partial funding toward the purchase of a laptop computer used in a combined effort between the Offices of Admissions and Counseling & Career Services. The laptop helps to increase DCC's visibility efforts at high school visits and other off-campus locations, and attract more potential students.
Mary Biasotti, Acting Assistant Director of Academic Services, received partial funding to purchase one set of ModuMath interactive laserdisk software in Elementary Algebra. Several hundred developmental math students, especially in MAT 091, are able to do independent study in the Learning Center.
Robert Wills, Instructor, Department of Engineering Science and Industrial Technologies, received full funding for a poster contest to increase awareness of bias issues on campus. The project has the support of the Bias Related Issues Committee (BRIC). The budget is for materials and cash awards.
Joseph Norton, Instructor, Department of History, Government and Economics, received partial funding to complete his project to develop a local history database. The database will reside in the Library and will offer a community service to local high schools, businesses, students, and anyone interested in local history. The database will serve as a bibliographic storehouse of information of the kinds and locations of archival materials held locally. The New York State Education Department now requires state and local history courses to be incorporated into the high school curriculum.
James Flynn, Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Industrial Technologies, purchased a software package that complements three-dimensional AutoCad software used in the Architectural Technology program at DCC. The software is used by approximately 50 architecture students each semester to explore the newest presentation techniques.
Timothy Smith, Director of Student Activities, received full funding to establish a Leadership Training Center on the DCC campus. The program offers state-of-the-art training to 300+ students from area high schools who are involved in student government, clubs, organizations, sports teams, or serve as class officers. Training involves setting goals and objectives, dealing with conflict, and programming.
Three academic departments, English & Humanities (O. Howard Winn), Mathematics, Physical & Computer Sciences (Johanna Halsey and Anne Landry), and Allied Health & Biological Sciences (Sharon Fowler, Arthur Pritchard and Andrew Scala), each received funding to conduct high school outreach projects. Each project involved research of a topic critical to the department, and meetings between high school faculty and DCC faculty.
GRANT SUPPORT:
INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL FUND ALLOWANCE
Each member of the professional staff is entitled to be reimbursed up to $350.00 per year toward the purchase of books, journals, subscriptions, computer hardware and computer software. Purchases are approved by the staff member's department head, and must be job-related.
As of July 25, 1994, a total of $43,196.62 had been spent from this fund this year.
The DCC Individual Professional Funds, commonly known as the "Book Allowance" fund, also may be used to defray costs to attend professional conventions, conferences, and seminars.
GRANT SUPPORT:
ENCOURAGING FUNDING FROM EXTERNAL GRANTS
Grants Task Force
A Grants Task Force was formed in Fall 1993 to create procedures to assist grant seekers. Members of the task force are:
Madison Finley
Gail Hermosilla
Susan Hochhauser
Maryanne Kinsella
Cathy McCue
Wesley Ostertag
Arthur Pritchard
SPIN
Donated to the College by the DCC Foundation, SPIN (Sponsored Program Information Network) is a computer program that allows grant seekers to search for potential funding sources. The program was placed on the college local area microcomputer network and is available by contacting the Computer Center for instructions.
The INTERNET
The College now has transparent access to electronic mail, or E-Mail, over the Internet. Available to all users of the campus local area network, our new campus connection through SUNYNET allows professional staff to communicate with colleagues throughout the SUNY system and beyond. Future Internet capabilities such as file transfer protocol will be provided when testing is complete.
GRANT SUPPORT:
EXTERNAL GRANTS
The following grants total $1,283,493 in additional outside funding to DCC. Please note that this figure is not an unduplicated figure, because many of the grants are ongoing over several years, as indicated below. Actual expenditures for each grant are available from the Business Office.
GRANT NAME PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
NSF-Math/Physical Science ExploritoriumAnne Landry
Funds from the National Science Foundation will provide for the purchase of computer equipment to permit the gathering and analysis of data to facilitate continuing work on inter-disciplinary courses throughout the curriculum. ($47,018 over two and one-half years)
C-STEP Mary Mucci
The Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program provides funds for supplemental tutoring for students taking courses that are preparatory in nature to maximize student success in programs that lead to professional licenses and careers in scientific, technical, and health-related fields. The CSTEP coordinator assists in solving problems that may interfere with a student's pursuit of his or her education and career. ($84,900)
VATEA Mary Mucci
Funds are provided to improve or create programs or courses of study. Currently, the funding is providing for lab assistants in the Business Education and Academic Resource Centers, a Development Education monitor, and partial funding for a Disabled Student Services Coordinator. Also provides funds to upgrade equipment for certain programs. ($94,274)
Dutchess Model/CooperativeArthur Pritchard
Demonstration Program
The program goal is to offer a year-long high school science course for historically under-represented and under-served students which provides a proactive nourishing education experience leading to increased interest, involvement and productivity in science learning, high school graduation and their increased access to licensed professions and occupations that can be entered through two-year college program. ($25,000)
Z.B.G.A. (Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Arthur Pritchard
Aquariums) 3-years
Funds are provided by the National Heritage Trust for support of Norrie Point Environmental Site in the Mills/Norrie State Park to make full use of the unique natural systems and cultural richness of the park. DCC conducts a wide variety of education programs, activities, conferences and experiences offered in credit and credit-free opportunities to fulfill these goals. ($23,926/year over three years)
EXTERNAL GRANTS continued
Dutchess/Putnam County D.S.S. TrainingLaura Caputo
Provides funds for Department of Social Services staff members to improve their job-related skills and competencies; to improve opportunity for them to earn college credit toward an associate degree or a certificate which could lead to career advancement; and to enhance their intellectual and personal development which could lead to modification of attitudes and have a positive impact on their job performances. ($206,800 total: $112,000 from Dutchess Co. and $94,800 from Putnam Co.)