Faculty Faculty are SOE Dean; None Ongoing Development It is unclear how faculty extensively ECS involved in ECS Santa select their professional professional Barbara Advisor; development experiences. If development ECS tenure track PDPs are being used, they activities, both on faculty. should be better campus and in the documented. If not, criteria community. for selection of professional Faculty do no appear to have development may help the PDPs (YES, WE RTP process. Assigned time DO HAVE PDPs) or other compensation should be given for involvement in intensive professional development experiences. Fiscal and Physical Resources Use of existing faculty The extent of the SOE Dean Realignment of Ongoing department funding. funds should be evaluated budget is unclear. Full time support to see if some funds The practice of position hire. currently used for part time uncompensated faculty can be applied to overload tenure track positions, assignments must increasing program be discontinued. efficiency and coherence. ECS has Additional faculty and staff developed an funding will clearly be innovative necessary, as the program is program to meet growing rapidly. As CSU community needs Channel Islands continues by offering the to develop its campus, it full ECS degree (for transfer should explore possible students) at a
Faculty Development It is unclear how faculty select their professional development experiences. If PDPs are being used, they should be better documented. If not, criteria for selection of professional development may help the RTP process. Assigned time or other compensation should be given for involvement in intensive professional development experiences. Faculty are extensively involved in professional development activities, both on campus and in the community. Faculty do no appear to have PDPs (YES, WE DO HAVE PDPs) SOE Dean; ECS ECS Santa Barbara Advisor; ECS tenure track faculty. None Ongoing Fiscal and Physical Resources Use of existing faculty funds should be evaluated to see if some funds currently used for part time faculty can be applied to tenure track positions, increasing program efficiency and coherence. Additional faculty and staff funding will clearly be necessary, as the program is growing rapidly. As CSU Channel Islands continues to develop its campus, it should explore possible The extent of the department budget is unclear. The practice of uncompensated overload assignments must be discontinued. ECS has developed an innovative program to meet community needs by offering the full ECS degree (for transfer students) at a SOE Dean Realignment of funding. Full time support position hire. Ongoing
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