Adjunct Faculty Professional Growth
The Adjunct Faculty Professional Growth (AFPG) Program provides funding support on a reimbursement basis to part-time faculty employees to attend conferences, seminars, and workshops, and professional meetings that are directly to, and that will enhance and update teaching skills for, the classes they teach for Maricopa Community Colleges.
The Adjunct Faculty Professional Growth Program is administered by the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction in the Academic Affairs Division.
The AFPG Review Committee consists of members of the Adjunct Faculty Association Executive Committee and a representative from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction.
Program Funding
1. Program funding is divided into two sessions – Session One: July 1 through December 31 and Session Two: January 1 through June 30. If funding is not used in full in Session One, it rolls over to Session Two. All funding must be used by June 30 of the fiscal year.
2. Funding will be allocated on a prorated basis - one third (1/3) of the maximum allowable for an applicant teaching a 1 credit course, two thirds (2/3) for an applicant teaching 2 credits, and the maximum for an applicant teaching a 3 credit course currently or within the current session.
3. The amount of maximum funding provided for individual applicants on a fiscal year basis will be determined through the recommendation of the Adjunct Faculty Association and approval of the Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs.
4. Employees receiving funding from any source other than AFPG must
submit written verification of the source and dollar amount. There may not be any duplication of funding for activity expenses.
5. Professional growth funds are available on a reimbursement basis only.
6. All activities must be approved before the start date of the activity, including related travel.
7. Applications are processed on a first-come, first-served bases according to availability of funds.
Eligibility
1. The employee must be employed as an adjunct instructor for a credit course (at least one credit), or as a Librarian or Counselor adjunct faculty employee, by one or more of the Maricopa Community Colleges at the time the entire professional growth activity occurs. The activity, including all related to the activity, must occur totally within the course dates of the applicant’s assigned class.
2. If an application is approved, but the employee does not teach the course as indicated on the application for any reason, including the course being cancelled or the course not making, the activity will not be eligible and will not be funded.
3. The activity must be directly related to the course taught by the employee, and designed to increase knowledge and upgrade professional skills for the purpose of enhancing the employees teaching role of that course at the college. An activity may also be eligible if directly-related to a credit course taught by the applicant within the immediate past fiscal year, and occurs within the teaching dates of the current credit course the applicant is teaching for Maricopa Community Colleges as an adjunct instructor. A clear and complete rationale must be provided on the application to justify the direct relationship of the activity to the course taught, as well as how the attendance at the activity will enhance the teaching role for that course.
4. Funding support for applicants is on a reimbursement basis. If an application is approved, but the employee does not teach the course as indicated on the application for any reason, including the course being cancelled or the course not making, the activity will not be funded and all expenses for attending the activity are the responsibility of the employee.
5. The applicant must not have previously been awarded funds in excess of the maximum individual funding level provided for the fiscal year (July 1-June 30).
6. Program funding support is provided to applicants to attend conferences, seminars, workshops, and professional meetings held within the United States. Activities must provide formally structured learning sessions and planned by activity sponsors, with scheduled learning sessions. Copies of brochure/agenda information must be available from the activity sponsor that provides the activity name, date, location, and description; agenda of activity sessions and session descriptions; entire registration information that indicates registration fees, and what the registration fees cover.
7. If If an application is approved, but the employee does not teach the course as indicated on the application for any reason, including the course being cancelled or the course not making, the activity will not be eligible and will not be funded.
The following items are not eligible for program funding:
· membership fees.
· college tuition (credit or non-credit) and/or course registration fees.
· activities held strictly for certification preparation or fees for exams/tests towards accreditation or
certification. The purpose of the AFPG program is not to provide skills or certification/accreditation
that are required or enable the adjunct instructor to be eligible to teach the assigned course, but to
enhance existing skills.
· continuing education credits.
· sightseeing and entertainment fees.
· meals covered by activity registration fees
· private lessons.
· expenses for rental car.
· mileage for personal automobile that exceeds lowest cost of roundtrip airfare. Employee must submit
with AFPG application back-up documentation for most cost effective, available roundtrip airfare to
activity, if traveling by personal automobile.
· per diem, mileage, travel expenses to attend activities within Maricopa County.
· expenses to attend international activities
· expenses that fall outside of the Maricopa Community Colleges Travel Policies.
Schedule for Application Deadlines and Awarding of Funding
1. It is the responsibility of the employee applicant to ensure that the AFPG application is submitted in a complete manner, with all required information provided and back-up attached, and submitted within program deadlines. Only applications approved by the AFPG Review Committee prior to the activity start date are eligible for program funding.
2. Applications that are not fully completed with all requested information, and that do not include a clear rationale when submitted to the AFPG College Representative, will not be formally date-stamped as received and accepted until the complete application with appropriate information and back-up (reference to web-sites are not accepted) has been provided and delivered to the appropriate AFPG College Representative.
3. AFPG Applications must be received and date-stamped by the AFPG College Representative at least twenty-one days (21) before the scheduled AFPG Review Committee review, and activities should not have a start date, including travel, that begins no less than 5 days following the committee review date. The AFPG Review Committee will meet on the first Thursday and typically the third Saturday of every month, unless it falls on a District recognized holiday and then the meeting will be held on the third Thursday of the month. Also, the calendar will take into account dates that occur over breaks, such as winter break and spring break. Only those applications that are submitted and received by the College AFPG Representative by the deadline will be reviewed at the scheduled monthly meetings.
Application Due Dates and AFPG Review Committee Dates - Session One
AFPG Review Committee Meeting Date: Application Due Date to AFPG College Rep:
Thursday, October 1, 2009 Applications already submitted
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Thursday, October 15, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009 Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009 Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Wednesday, November 25, 2009
4. Application approval decisions will be forwarded to the AFPG College Representatives within five (5) days of application review.
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)