Caffeine Break 2012-03-02 Professional Development

Caffeine Break – 2012-03-02 – Professional Development

Kostas Yfantis

approximate attendance: 17

Funds
*Academic Professional Development Fund

    • Easy to apply, 1 page form.
    • Kostas will send out a copy of the form to the list that attended.
    • Believed to be only for individuals for Urbana campus.
    • 1 grant per person up to $500 for every 2 years

Recognition opportunities

  • Council Academic Professional Excellence Awards (CAPE)
    • Nominations in the Fall
    • Not an easy process
    • 6 people each year
    • Must be based in Urbana
  • Delta Awards
    • For UA and Urbana for APs
  • Chancellors Staff Award for Civil Service
    • Similar to CAPE
    • Nominations in January

Committees

  • Council of Academic Professionals (CAP)
    • 2 Representatives from 11 districts
    • Elections coming up
    • Reps are elected for 3 years.
    • Self Nomination
    • Talk with your supervisor before volunteering.
    • Can be a lot of time.
    • Does Grievance reviews.
  • State University Civil Service Advisory Committee
    • similar to CAP; but for Civil Service
  • Academic Senate Committee
    • 20+ senate committees
    • AP’s can serve on 11 committee
      • Committee on Committee
      • University Student Life
      • University Statutes and Procedures
      • IT Senate
      • Equal Opportunity
      • Budget
      • OTHERS
    • Elections
      • Last election first time that AP’s can serve
      • Dean’s determine who is eligible
      • Self nominations will occur from that list
      • 4 positions will be availablel this year

Benefits

  • Meet more people / faculty
  • Connections with other IT Professionals
  • Interesting topics / discussion

Discussion

  • Some colleges have College/Department Awards
    • Vet Med has been doing this for long time (2 deans)
  • Too many hoops with CAPE / DELTA awards
    • Often requirements feel like Managers should be nominating not lower level staff.
    • Perhaps colleges could create small committee to ask for nominations
      • The small committee would be responsible for gathering all the info
      • Small committee would do the actual nomination
    • Perhaps successful nominators could help others / create template / etc.
  • Kostas feel that AP’s are generally under represented.
  • Kostas will send out some resources to the sign up sheet.