Caffeine Break – 2012-03-02 – Professional Development
Kostas Yfantis
approximate attendance: 17
Funds
*Academic Professional Development Fund
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- 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.