Contact Us
Kate Green, Professor of Physical Sciences and IPD Chair
Email: kgreen@gwc.cccd.edu
IPD Office
Email: GWCIPD@gwc.cccd.edu
Telephone: (714) 895-8175
The Institute for Professional Development (IPD) is a standing committee of the Academic Senate that helps faculty members to design, plan, and achieve their own professional growth objectives. IPD performs its functions on the basis of policies provided by the District Sabbatical Leave Committee, the Academic Senate, the college President, and the AFT/CCCD Agreement. The Academic Senate delegates to the IPD the following responsibilities:
IPD provides professional development opportunities for faculty members represented by the Coast Federation of Educators (CFE). Services include:
District policy prohibits receiving IPD and any other District funds for the same professional development activity including Flex credit, IPD salary advancement credit or IPD Alternative Methods funding.
CRITERIA: (per Article XXI. Professional Development Institute, Section 21.1. of the CFE contract). Attendance of a conference or other professional development activity must be related to a faculty member's discipline or teaching in the classroom. It must enhance the professional growth of faculty and their knowledge and skills, ultimately improving teaching, student learning, and college functioning.
Due to rising travel costs and constraints in the projected IPD budget, the committee has revised its funding model for Conferences, Professional Development Classes, and Alternative Methods projects. These changes are designed to maximize the number of faculty the IPD can support during the academic year while maintaining equitable access to professional growth opportunities.
FUNDING AMOUNT:FUNDING OPTIONS: Faculty may now use their $3,000 in only one of the following ways per academic year. You may not combine both options. (Exceptions - refer below to special funding).
Choose ONE option only:
OPTION 1 - CONFERENCE, WORKSHOP, OR CLASS
Submit a CAR (conference application) for up to $3,000 toward a single conference, workshop, or professional class. An additional $500 for faculty presenting at a conference.
If your initial conference or class does not use the full $3,000, you may apply for additional conference/class funding throughout the academic year, not to exceed the $3,000 annual funding limit and is subject to available IPD funds.
List of recommended discipline and general teaching conferences
OPTION 2 - ALTERNATIVE METHODS PROJECT OR CLASS
Submit an Alternative Methods application to complete a professional improvement project or class that earns an annual maximum of up to (1.5) LHE for (27) hours of work.
The Alternative Methods funding is designed to provide a benefit equivalent to the $3,500 available to faculty who select the conference funding option. Because Alternative Methods compensation is processed through payroll, the total amount charged to the IPD budget includes both the faculty overload pay (1.5 LHE = approximately $2,916) and the associated payroll-related costs (approximately $500 in medical, work comp, STR, etc.), resulting in a total expenditure comparable to the conference funding allocation.
Alternative Methods Handbook: Includes a list of recommended projects/classes to help get you started.
A separate $3,000 in funding to attend Academic Senate for California Community Colleges conferences linked here with priority given to Academic Senate, CCI and IPD committee members. All faculty are encouraged to attend ASCCC conferences! Apply at least six weeks in advance and the Senate Office will assist with prepayment of the registration fee. Based on available funds. (Examples: Fall and Spring Plenary, Faculty Leadership Conference, Non-Credit Institute, Curriculum Institute)
A separate $3,000 fund for Greater Import Conferences.
Criteria and application form: [Greater Import Conference Application]
Eligibility includes faculty attending a conference on behalf of their leadership role or committee membership or attending a conference where the topic is of greater interest to ALL faculty. May not be a discipline conference. (Examples: DEAC member attending an AI conference and reporting to DEAC; Articulation Officer attending an articulation conference; Department Chair attending a Dual Enrollment conference; AI conference and the faculty member will report their conference experience at the CIL Knowledge Exchange or Flex Day)
Click on the items below for important information and applications:
Conferences - Full-time and Part-time Faculty (7.5+ LHE)
Conferences - Part-time faculty teaching less than 7.49 LHE district wide
Conferences – List of conferences by discipline
Salary Advancement Credit - For Full-time faculty on Column I-IV
Department/Discipline Symposiums/In-Service Training Meetings
Alternative Methods Projects = Overload Pay or Release Time - For Full-time faculty on Column V
Sabbatical Leave - apply for a 2027-28 Sabbatical Leave
Academic Rank - faculty titles (Professor, Associate, Professor, Assistant Professor, Instructor)
Professor Emeritus Status - conferring the emeritus title effective upon retirement
