Professional Development and Recognition Committee Minutes 9-10-13
PDRC Meeting Minutes
Sept 10, 2013
10:00-11:00 am Memorial Union
Attendance: Colleen Barrett, Amy Hawley, Elisabeth Foster, Bob Agasie, Curtis Ryals, John Klatt, Ralph Grunewald, Scott Mellor, Jay Ford, Jeff Armstrong
1. Announcements – Welcomed new members, Jay Ford and Jeff Armstrong
2. Automatic Consent Business – Minutes for August 2013 - approved
3. New Member Orientation
o PDRC – Curtis
Cutis gave an overview of the committee’s duties
o PD Grants – Danielle
2 rounds, Fall and Spring
Number of grants submitted and awarded changes
Want to increase the amount of award money
o Executive Ed Grants – Colleen and Ralph
For Academic Staff Professional Development
20-30 grant submissions are usually received in the spring
Colleen has a written SOP for chairs to follow
o Awards – Elisabeth and John
Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence
Usually receive 8-10 apps per award
Recognizes excellence in Teaching and Research
Chairs and Chair elect appointed for each grant type
4. Standing Sub-committees report
o PD grants- Danielle and Amy
Danielle is working on the call. It will go to Mary by the end of the week
Two brown bags will be scheduled in early October
On-line system – Discussed issues with Heather Daniels. She will try to find funding to fix the system. The smaller issues may be resolved by submission time this fall and work towards the entire system being fixed by spring session. Danielle to make a “How To” document to put on the website as guidelines. The call for submissions will go out next week.
o Executive Education Grants – Colleen
Ralph is new chair, Jay Ford is co-chair
No update until next January
o Awards – Elisabeth
Changing the date for award apps to be submitted was discussed with Heather. She was open to the change. We suggested that the new date by 1/6/2014 (2 weeks earlier than last year). This gives us a little more time to review apps. UW System deadlines are not out yet. Website will need to be updated. We need to review and update criteria for each award, if needed. John to send out current award criteria to the chairs of each award for review. Jeff Armstrong will serve as co-chair
Humanities Award – New last year (funding for only one year). There is support to do it again this year, but need to find funding. Danielle to approach Martha Casey for suggestions on how we might be able to fund this important award. We don’t want to circumvent ASEC.
Program Grants – A daycare group has inquired as to whether we will fund a program grant. These are submitted along with the PD grants and reviewed in the same manner with the rest of the PD grants.
5. Committee business
o Elect PDRC co-chair, Awards sub-committee co-chair, Exec. Ed sub-committee co-chair
Scott Mellor is resigning from PDRC – he has been assigned to a task force which will not allow him time to be on PDRC
Recommending Allison Rice to come back to the committee if nominating committee agrees
Leah took another position outside of the UW
PDRC Chair Elect – Bob Agasie, nominated and seconded
Awards Chair Elect – Jeff Armstrong, nominated and seconded
Exec. Ed Chair Elect – Jay Ford, nominated and seconded
o Finalization of SOP’s
Scott edited the SOP’s and posted them on the my ebspace
Everyone should read these over and provide feedback
o Funding request update
Curtis is getting historical data of awards
Need to approach Provost for additional funding
6. ASEC updates
o Prioritization meeting
One priority is to lobby for morale increase recognition for Ac. Staff.
Should we recognize “runner-ups” for awards? This seems to be problematic. What are other recognitions options that do not need funding?
Our committees priorities:
1. Humanities Award Continuation
2. More grant money to award
3. Fixing the electronic system
o Membership increase
We need to update ASPP to allow an increase of committee members – Curtis is working on this.
We are looking at bringing in older committee member or past awardees to help review grant applications to help alleviate some burden
o Liaison – Kevin Niemi is liaison to ASEC – Can still go through Heather Daniels for “big ticket’ items
o Website updates
7. Other business
Data – Discussed doing in depth analysis of grant and award data
Sept 10, 2013
10:00-11:00 am Memorial Union
Attendance: Colleen Barrett, Amy Hawley, Elisabeth Foster, Bob Agasie, Curtis Ryals, John Klatt, Ralph Grunewald, Scott Mellor, Jay Ford, Jeff Armstrong
1. Announcements – Welcomed new members, Jay Ford and Jeff Armstrong
2. Automatic Consent Business – Minutes for August 2013 - approved
3. New Member Orientation
o PDRC – Curtis
Cutis gave an overview of the committee’s duties
o PD Grants – Danielle
2 rounds, Fall and Spring
Number of grants submitted and awarded changes
Want to increase the amount of award money
o Executive Ed Grants – Colleen and Ralph
For Academic Staff Professional Development
20-30 grant submissions are usually received in the spring
Colleen has a written SOP for chairs to follow
o Awards – Elisabeth and John
Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence
Usually receive 8-10 apps per award
Recognizes excellence in Teaching and Research
Chairs and Chair elect appointed for each grant type
4. Standing Sub-committees report
o PD grants- Danielle and Amy
Danielle is working on the call. It will go to Mary by the end of the week
Two brown bags will be scheduled in early October
On-line system – Discussed issues with Heather Daniels. She will try to find funding to fix the system. The smaller issues may be resolved by submission time this fall and work towards the entire system being fixed by spring session. Danielle to make a “How To” document to put on the website as guidelines. The call for submissions will go out next week.
o Executive Education Grants – Colleen
Ralph is new chair, Jay Ford is co-chair
No update until next January
o Awards – Elisabeth
Changing the date for award apps to be submitted was discussed with Heather. She was open to the change. We suggested that the new date by 1/6/2014 (2 weeks earlier than last year). This gives us a little more time to review apps. UW System deadlines are not out yet. Website will need to be updated. We need to review and update criteria for each award, if needed. John to send out current award criteria to the chairs of each award for review. Jeff Armstrong will serve as co-chair
Humanities Award – New last year (funding for only one year). There is support to do it again this year, but need to find funding. Danielle to approach Martha Casey for suggestions on how we might be able to fund this important award. We don’t want to circumvent ASEC.
Program Grants – A daycare group has inquired as to whether we will fund a program grant. These are submitted along with the PD grants and reviewed in the same manner with the rest of the PD grants.
5. Committee business
o Elect PDRC co-chair, Awards sub-committee co-chair, Exec. Ed sub-committee co-chair
Scott Mellor is resigning from PDRC – he has been assigned to a task force which will not allow him time to be on PDRC
Recommending Allison Rice to come back to the committee if nominating committee agrees
Leah took another position outside of the UW
PDRC Chair Elect – Bob Agasie, nominated and seconded
Awards Chair Elect – Jeff Armstrong, nominated and seconded
Exec. Ed Chair Elect – Jay Ford, nominated and seconded
o Finalization of SOP’s
Scott edited the SOP’s and posted them on the my ebspace
Everyone should read these over and provide feedback
o Funding request update
Curtis is getting historical data of awards
Need to approach Provost for additional funding
6. ASEC updates
o Prioritization meeting
One priority is to lobby for morale increase recognition for Ac. Staff.
Should we recognize “runner-ups” for awards? This seems to be problematic. What are other recognitions options that do not need funding?
Our committees priorities:
1. Humanities Award Continuation
2. More grant money to award
3. Fixing the electronic system
o Membership increase
We need to update ASPP to allow an increase of committee members – Curtis is working on this.
We are looking at bringing in older committee member or past awardees to help review grant applications to help alleviate some burden
o Liaison – Kevin Niemi is liaison to ASEC – Can still go through Heather Daniels for “big ticket’ items
o Website updates
7. Other business
Data – Discussed doing in depth analysis of grant and award data