Professional Development Committee
Meeting Notes April 11, 2013
Present: Connie Carlson, Teresa Daigneault, Ahn Fielding, Renel Nordeman, Trish Blair, Dan
Fiore, Julia Peterson, Kerry Mayer (Anita Janis by CCC Confer)
 Notes from March 21, 2013 meeting reviewed and accepted.
 Bullet points from the response letter for Recommendation #7 were reviewed
point by point.
 Kerry was concerned that the Manager Committee was left out of the groups
involved in PDC and wanted to make sure it would be in the information in the
October accreditation letter.
 Distance Ed had drafted an Operating Statement that ties to Professional
Development and the Strategic Plan. Dan will communicate with Ahn to finalize
that statement.
 Calendar events should have strategic goals noted in the information.
 Anita asked if the evaluation summaries, from the workshops, could be archived
on the PDC website.
 Julia Peterson can be our Management Committee representative now that
Michelle is no longer on the PDC Committee.
 The summarized workshop evaluations were reviewed and there was some
discussion on possibly changing some of the questions. Such as - Do you
anticipate this program being useful in regards to your job? Would you attend a
Part II? Did you attend in person or on the phone? Any changes would have to
be next year to keep consistency.
 Overall the workshops were rated very well but some were not well attended.
 Kerry suggested that the committee receive more information on the workshops
including the number of people that attended and the day & time of the event to
access the possible reasons for low attendance.
 A common meeting time was discussed with possibly bringing back College Hour.
Anita suggested a Brown Bag hour every 2 weeks like they do at Del Norte. It is
well attended and she has used the PDC evaluations that she will send on to
Renel.
 Reviewing the survey results from the previous meeting shows a need for more
technology training, assessment, classroom management and pedagogy for
Faculty & Associate Faculty.
 Administrator’s training needs also included technology as well as planning,
supervising & motivating employees and developing leadership skills.
 The Classified group overwhelmingly chose technology, second was health, safety
& emergency preparedness and then retirement planning.
 Trish Blair reported that DSPS is putting out another survey to see what DSPS
topics that staff would be interested in having a speaker or workshop.
 Dan Fiore commented, as a presenter it was difficult to have Meet & Confer in his
Excel workshops because he wasn’t able to assist those on the phones especially
without any help.
 The next Classified series workshop will be Monday, April 15th, “Customer
Service” presented by Connie Carlson with guest speakers, Kathy Smith and Trish
Blair.
 The next Faculty workshop is Friday, April 12th on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The next topic will be Veteran Success on May 3rd.
 We are planning on having Technology Tuesday during Convocation.
 Connie reported she will again have her Associate Faculty Days both here and at
KT. She also mentioned that the AOA staff were interested in having
workshops more related to their position with Datatel, mail merge, etc.
 Trish Blair reported that they are planning on some workshops related to Mental
Health issues and were looking into partnering with the County Mental Health
department.
 Renel brought up that a topic of interest that was brought up in one of the
Classified workshops was “How to handle change”.
 The PDC May meeting will be the self-evaluation which will be sent out previous
to the meeting as well as reviewing the additional information on the workshop
evaluations.
 Kerry discussed that the Faculty PDC is in their last round of proposal for
expenditure of their budgeted funds.
 Ahn mentioned that there is a plan to bring a guest lecturer to discuss diversity.
More to follow.