Academic Staff Professional Development Component

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Academic Staff Professional Development Component

• Faculty Development Program
• UW Oshkosh

May 23, 2002 Revised September, 2006
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Purpose of Component

• To facilitate professional development by
  supporting participation in activities which
• Improve job performance by providing new or
  essential skills/knowledge required as a result
  of changing needs and roles
• Enhance career goals
• Maintain program quality and vitality
• Assist the University to better fulfill its
  mission and goals

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Who is eligible?

• Instructional and non-instructional academic
  staff with at least a .50 FTE assignment for the
  academic year.
• One semester only academic staff are not
  eligible.
• Activities must occur during the applicants
  contract period to be eligible for support.
• If a person will be under contract for Fall
  semester, they may receive support in the
  preceding summer.

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Supported Activities

• Attendance at conferences or workshops to acquire
  specific skills or knowledge.
• Staff exchange or internship programs that
  require an extended period of involvement.
• Participation in structured settings at other
  institutions or agencies.

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Non-Supportable Activities/Expenses

• Making a presentation at a professional meeting
• A self-directed program of instruction
• Supplies and expenses
• Meal expenses
• Taking a course as part of a degree or enrichment
  program.
• Participation in international study tours or
  cultural exchange programs

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Other Restrictions

• Only up to three academic staff members from any
  department/unit may be funded to attend the same
  conference or workshop.
• Each person must complete a separate proposal
• Each person must describe why it is essential for
  her/him to attend
• Each proposal will be evaluated on its merit
• This component is not intended to supplant the
  primary responsibility that each unit/department
  has in supporting professional development
  activities.

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Submission Process

• Find a GREAT conference/professional development
  experience
• Determine why it is critical you attend this
  experience and what you expect to learn
• Request funding from your department/unit
• If money isnt available, request ASPD funding

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Submission Process

• Write proposal and complete coversheet
• Submit 8 copies of the proposal (two copies with
  the coversheet) to your department/unit head
  and/or Dean for signature. (Supervisors office
  keeps one copy with coversheet, remaining copies
  with one signed cover sheet are forwarded to
  Office of Grants Faculty Development, Faculty
  Development Center, 738 High Avenue.)
• Submit proposal at least 4 weeks before program
• Proposal must include
• Abstract (one page maximum)
• Proposal narrative (2-4 single spaced pages)
• Budget justification
• Descriptive materials describing program
  including agenda

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Review Process

• FD Office logs in proposal
• FD Office distributes proposals to ASPD Component
  Subcommittee
• Subcommittee members review proposal based on
  published criteria
• Proposals and evaluation forms are returned to FD
  Office
• Evaluations are compiled
• When votes are split, committee members meet or
  are contacted via email/phone for additional
  information and clarification of concerns
• Recommendation is made to Provost/VC
• Letters are sent to proposers

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ASPD Component SubcommitteeMembers

• 4 Academic Staff representatives, appointed by
  Academic Staff Senate
• Chair of FDB
• Director,Office of Grants Fac. Dev.

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Review Process

• If you were funded, GREAT!!
• Attend your program
• Complete outcomes/dissemination
• Submit travel expenses (if in budget)
• Complete final report
• If you werent funded, BUMMER!!
• Revise and resubmit if there is time
• Proposals must be submitted before activity occurs

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Evaluation Criteria
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Goals Are project goals adequately described
(from proposers and/or units perspective)? Y/N

• Goals specify what you intend to learn at the
  conference, internship, activity, etc.
• Aquatic-based rehabilitation and training
  information
• Retention of minority students
• French horn techniques
• Solutions to the revolving door phenomena of
  freshmen
• Link your goals to your job/teaching
  responsibilities

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Outcomes Are specific, tangible outcomes
identified? Y/N

• Outcomes tell what you will do with the
  information once you return from the learning
  activity.
• Tangible outcomes are outcomes which others can
  physically observe.
• Tell what you will develop as a result of
  participation in the learning activity. For
  example
• Course materials
• Workshop materials
• Brochures
• An action plan to develop a new registration
  process
• Development of a proposal for a new registration
  process

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Dissemination Does proposer adequately describe
how new knowledge or skill will be disseminated
and implemented? Y/N

• You know what you want/need to learn (goals) and
  how you will demonstrate that learning
  (outcomes), now tell how you will move the
  knowledge beyond you to the remainder of the
  campus (dissemination).
• Include in Non-rational Numbers course
• Present workshop to Advising Staff
• Propose new registration process to supervisor
• Distribute brochures in Health Center on Info
  Board

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Specific Sessions Are specific sessions
identified and does the proposer adequately
explain how selected sessions relate to
proposers and/or units goals? Y/N

• a. Are descriptive materials including agenda
  used to describe the program?
• b. If program information is insufficient to
  clearly delineate the nature of the experience,
  has proposer contacted appropriate program
  persons for additional information? Is this
  information included in proposal?

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Specific Sessions

• Describe the specific sessions you intend to
  attend.
• Link the sessions to your goals.
• Include program agenda highlighting sessions you
  intend to attend.
• If agenda isnt available, contact program people
  for details (attach email with info)

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Uniqueness of Program Is this program unique
from those previously attended? Y/N

• Proposals for previously-attended programs wont
  be recommended unless proposers can demonstrate
  that the proposed program is different.
• If the proposed program appears similar to
  previously-attended programs, has the proposer
  adequately explained why the proposed program is
  different?

• Tell if you have been to this program/conference
  before.
• Did you use ASPD funds?
• Tell how this program is different than
  previously-attended programs.

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Travel Is distant/international travel
justified? (Travel to distant/international
sites must justify why equivalent experience is
not available at a closer site. Participation in
study tours or cultural experiences is not
supported.) Y/N

• Attend workshop conference in Hawaii --
• This is the annual meeting of the people from
  across the nation involved in the education of
  clinical laboratory professionals. There is one
  annual meeting that is hosted by a state Medical
  Technology/Clinical Laboratory Science Society.
  The Hawaii Society for Clinical Laboratory
  Science is the state society that was selected by
  ASCLS to sponsor this years CLEC. The workshop,
  which is also part of this proposal, is sponsored
  each year by NAACLS (a separate organization) and
  is presented the day prior to the CLEC, wherever
  the conference happens to be located.

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Budget Does proposer provide and adequately
justify the budget? Y/N

• Justifications must list
• budget items
• amounts requested
• basis for request
• coverpage is insufficient
• Proposers must present rationale for using ASPDC
  funding instead of department/units funds.
• Maximum award is 1,500
• Meals are not included

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Exclusions/Unfundable Activities Is there
anything about this project which makes it
unfundable? Y/N

• No more than 3 academic staff per department/
  unit per program
• each proposer completes separate proposal
• Unfundable activities include
• Presentations at professional meetings
• Self-directed programs of instruction
• Supplies and expenses
• Taking a course as part of a degree or enrichment
  program

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Comments

• Committee Member Recommendation _____ Approve
  _____ Deny

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Athletics

• I am an athletic trainer, supervise student
  athletic trainers, and will be teaching a new
  course in the fall entitled Therapeutic Exercise
  and Rehabilitation which is part of the new
  Strength and Conditioning Minor here at UW
  Oshkosh. I need to learn more about strength
  training and rehabilitation techniques to better
  assist coaches and athletes in developing their
  off-season and in-season strength programs. I
  also need to learn about ..

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Athletics

• One of my goals for attending the AT Annual
  Conference is to further develop my knowledge
  base in the area of strength training and
  rehabilitation techniques so I may apply this
  knowledge in the training room and classroom with
  a long-range desire to reduce injuries among
  athletes.
• A second goal is to .

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Athletics

• To attain my goal of further developing my
  knowledge base in the area of strength training
  and rehabilitation techniques, I will be
  attending the following sessions (see program
  agenda, attached)
• Advances in Strength Training, Instructor Dr.
  Whynot Getbetter Someplace University, (update on
  strength training research)
• Medical Issues in the Athletic Training Room,
  Instructor John MacKnight, MD, University of
  Virginia (medical/rehabilitation issues critical
  to the running of an athletic training room will
  be discussed)
• Motivation The Key to Improving Adherence to
  Exercise and Rehabilitation, Instructor Kenneth
  L. Cameron, MA, ATC, CSCS, United States Military
  Academy, West Point, NY (motivation tips to
  encourage people to stay with their
  rehabilitation program)

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Athletics

• Outcomes from attending these sessions will be as
  follows
• Development of a one hour training session for
  all coaches/assistant coaches and
  assistant/student trainers on strength training
  and rehabilitation techniques
• Development of course materials on strength
  training and rehabilitation techniques to be used
  in my fall semester Therapeutic Exercise and
  Rehabilitation course which is part of the new
  Strength and Conditioning Minor here at UW
  Oshkosh.

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Athletics

• Dissemination of my learnings related to strength
  training and rehabilitation techniques will
  involve the following
• Presentation of a one hour training session for
  all coaches/assistant coaches and
  assistant/student trainers on strength training
  and rehabilitation techniques at the beginning of
  fall semester.
• Inclusion of the topic strength training and
  rehabilitation techniques in my Therapeutic
  Exercise and Rehabilitation course which is part
  of the new Strength and Conditioning Minor here
  at UW Oshkosh.

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Athletics

• Copies of materials developed for the above
  training session and course will be included in
  my final report.

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Music/Jazz Education

• The mission of the International Association for
  Jazz Education is to assure the continued
  worldwide growth and development of jazz and jazz
  education. As a part of that mission, the
  Association initiates programs which nurture and
  promote the understanding and appreciation of
  jazz and heritage, provide leadership to
  educators regarding curricula and performance,
  .. The IAJE International Conference is the
  largest jazz conference in the world The
  program for the annual meeting will feature
  performances, seminars, clinics, master classes
  covering such areas as
• Jazz Composition and Arranging
• Latin Jazz Improvisation.

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Music/Jazz Goals for the Project

• To become familiar with new works for jazz
  ensemble for possible future performance by the
  UW Oshkosh Jazz Ensemble
• To learn new rehearsal techniques for jazz
  ensemble so that I can improve my effectiveness
  as the director of the UW Oshkosh Jazz Ensemble
• To gain a greater understanding of the history of
  jazz and as a result improve my understanding of
  jazz style, performance practice, and the
  contributions of musicians from the past. It is
  hoped that knowledge gained in this area will
  improve my teaching of the Evolution of Jazz
  course here at UW Oshkosh.

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Music/Jazz Relationship to my Prof. Duties

• The topics presented at this conference related
  directly to my position as trumpet instructor and
  jazz ensemble director in the following ways
• Jazz Concerts Performances by professional
  soloists and jazz ensembles will provide
  first-hand knowledge of stylistic and technical
  elements of jazz performance necessray tin my
  professional development as an active performer.
  Knowledge gained from concert attendance
  concerning jazz style and literature will be very
  useful in my position as the director of the
  UWOshkosh Jazz Ensemble.
• Performances by Univeristy and High School
  Groups . Hear first-hand new literature for
  possible performance by UWOshkosh Jazz Ensemble.

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Music/Jazz outcomes

• Through attendance at this conference I expect
  the following outcomes
• Improved ability as a jazz performer and educator
  through a greater understanding and knowledge of
  improvisation techniques, performance practice,
  new literature, and jazz history. As tangible
  proof of these outcomes I will provide the
  following with the final report
• Audio recording of jazz performance by myself
  incorporating new improvisation techniques
• Handouts developed based on information acquired
  at the conference that will be used in
  presentations to jazz ensembles, the trumpet
  studio, and jazz history courses.
• Audio recording of jazz ensemble performing new
  works discovered at the conference..

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Music/Jazz Dissemination and Implementation of
New Knowledge

• New knowledge acquired through attendance at this
  conference will be incorporated in jazz ensemble
  rehearsals, jazz history courses, trumpet
  lessons, and trumpet seminars. New approaches to
  jazz pedagogy will be applied to problems in jazz
  ensemble rehearsal and the development of
  improvisation skills by students and myself.
  Knowledge of new literature will be share through
  performances of these works by by students and
  myself

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Music/Jazz Sessions to Attend

• List of sessions
• Program also attached
• If session names dont clearly relate to prior
  narrative, give some description as to why you
  are selecting them.

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Music/Jazz Need for Financial Support

• Department funds allocated for this type of
  professional travel during the 200x-x school year
  have been exhausted.

Not adequate -- Tell if you received any of
these funds and how much. -- If not, why not.
What is the problem? -- If so, where did you go,
how did you use them?
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Music/Jazz Budget

• Registration 280
• Airfare 375
• Hotel 5nights_at_150 750
• Meals 275
• Total 1680

Which expenses arent allowed?

• Budget justification needed
• Must adhere to UW System Travel Regulations
• We will pre-pay registration fees, airline ticket
• Cost for travel is at lowest reasonable rate

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Budget Problems

• FD cant pay for meals
• 1,500 maximum reimbursement

• Registration 280
• Airfare 375
• Hotel 5nights_at_150 750
• Meals 275
• Total 1,680