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The institution
has qualified administrative officers with experience, competence, and
capacity to lead the institution.
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Compliance ___Partial
Compliance ___Non-Compliance
Narrative
St. Petersburg College is in compliance with this comprehensive standard
because its administrative offices have the experience, competence, and
capacity to lead the institution.
Qualifications of
Academic and Administrative Staff
A roster of St.
Petersburg College senior Administrators and Professional (A&P)
personnel shows that all administrative and academic officers of the
College either meet or exceed the educational and experience
qualifications for the position they hold or have comparable
qualifications for the position.
Selection process for
new Administrators and Professionals
St. Petersburg College maintains
comprehensive Position Descriptions on the Human Resources
Web site,
as described in Board Rule 6Hx23-2.20 Employment – Administrative/
Professional Personnel. Position Classification Descriptions identify
the duties and responsibilities of the position along with the minimum
qualifications that are required by the position. The College
continually reviews and updates position descriptions as needed. When a
vacant position is advertised, the minimum qualifications for the
position are posted on the advertisement and linked to the job
description. Applicants are screened based upon their meeting or
exceeding the minimum qualifications.
According to Board
Rule 6Hx23-2.02, General Employment Rules, educational and experience
qualifications listed in a position description are used as a guideline
to hiring. Other comparable qualifications of a candidate may be
considered by the president in lieu of those suggested in a position
description.
This procedure
states that the College is responsible for determining that individuals
employed by the College have achieved a level of professional growth
that justifies their appointment to positions of academic and
professional trust. This responsibility emanates from several sources,
including both State rules and SACS criteria. As a condition of
continued employment, the College will require individuals to continue
their professional development through a variety of professional
opportunities that support the goals and needs of the College, the
department, and the individual.
Evaluation of
Administrators and Professional Personnel
Administrative
personnel receive a written performance evaluation in each year pursuant
to Board Rule 6Hx23-2.10-Evaluation of College Personnel. The purpose
of the annual evaluation procedure is to provide the administrative and
academic officers with information on the strong and weak points of
their performance, as well as the improvements expected to encourage and
support their professional growth and development. The following areas
are evaluated on the A&P evaluation form:
Excerpt from the Annual Evaluation
Form for Designated College Staff (Professional, Administrative)
1.
List, according to priority, job-related goals and objectives you
have set for the coming year.
2.
List, according to priority, job-related goals and objectives you
have set for the evaluatee for the coming year.
3.
List, according to priority, job-related goals and
objectives the supervisor and the evaluatee have mutually agreed
upon for the coming year. (These goals and objectives will form
the basis for next year's evaluation.)
4.
Discuss your success or progress toward meeting the established
job-related goals for the current year.
5.
Discuss your job-related success or progress toward developing new
programs/projects/goals, which were not included as established
goals for the current year, but which have been worked on.
6.
Professional Development Goals
Choose to complete
either one activity from Category 1 or two activities from Category
2 … Describe your activities for the applicable category and
include the category reference, e.g., 2c. Appropriate supporting
materials/ documentation may be particularly important for this
area; be sure to discuss documentation and clarify. Also, please
reference or describe the job-related goal that the professional
development activity addresses.
7.
Describe your efforts and successes in implementing the annual and
long-term goals and objectives of the College's equity plan.
8.
Evaluatee's areas of strength (Including progress made toward
professional development goals).
9.
Evaluatee's areas of needed improvement (Including professional
development programs/activities completed).
10.
Overall comments.
The Board of
Trustees has provided an extensive list of professional development
activities that Faculty, Professional, and Administrative Staff can use
to satisfy the College’s requirement for continuing professional
development.
Continuing
Professional Development Requirements
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Category I
(one activity required per two year period)
a)
Appropriate comprehensive educational experiences related
to the Administrative/Professional responsibilities of the
evaluatee subject to mutual agreement.
b)
Demonstrated completion of graduate or upper division
undergraduate coursework, earning one or more official college
credits in areas relevant to education, technology, or
discipline-specific topics. Non-related coursework must be
pre-approved by the program director or supervisor.
c)
Demonstrated completion of coursework to meet licensure and/or
certification requirements related to College employment.
d)
Taught graduate or upper-division undergraduate courses at a
regionally accredited college or university, courses that are
not part of the St. Petersburg College curriculum.
e)
Completed development of an existing course for online delivery,
including completion of the online training course.
f)
Completed development of a new course.
g)
Completed or co-authored or fully revised discipline-related
publications, including a text, workbook, article in a refereed
journal, or materials related to instructional strategies.
h)
Completed one-year of service in an official capacity for a
state or national professional organization, such as service as
president, or chair of an on-going committee, i.e.,
participation that requires a significant amount of time.
i)
Participated actively in the College’s C & I Committee.
j)
Completed creative work, such as research or development of
products, appropriate to the academic and scholastic setting
that required a significant commitment of time and effort, as
well as prior approval of the program director or supervisor. |
Category II
(two or more activities must be completed per two year period)
a)
Appropriate professional development activities related
to the Administrative/Professional responsibilities of the
evaluatee subject to mutual agreement.
b)
Demonstrated completion of a continuing education course.
c)
Demonstrated, with documentation, participation in professional
activities, e.g., seminars, workshops, conferences, lectures.
d)
Developed a new presentation and presented it at a regional, state,
or national professional organization’s meeting, with approval
of the program director or supervisor.
e)
Published an article or a book review in a non-refereed
professional journal or a newspaper.
f)
Demonstrated participation in juried art shows, including fine
arts, music, or in community groups related to one’s discipline,
e.g., the Community Band, Mainsail Art Show.
g)
Demonstrated completion of independent study, including
instructional technology skill enhancement courses offered
through Instructional Technology, SPD, or Corporate Training
Services that are at least 8 hours in length.
h)
Demonstrated completion of Information Literacy training
opportunities.
i)
Demonstrated completion of a grant proposal wherein a statement
of need, program components to address the need, and an
evaluation component are all presented.
j)
Served on a Collegewide standing committee or a campus
committee, or special focus group, with prior approval of the
program director or supervisor.
k)
Participated in an Industry Exchange Program.
l)
Engaged in community service activities that reflect goals or
directions of the College, with prior approval of the program
director or supervisor.
m)
Other activities, e.g., serving as an advisor for PTK or the
Student Nurses’ Association, that are approved by the provost
and the program director or supervisor. |
Summary of the Tracking Process for
Annual Evaluations
- A PeopleSoft
Query is used to create the listing of annual evaluations that will
be due for the coming year.
- The query is
broken down by Cabinet Member and saved to the appropriate
Evaluation Tracking Folder located on the server.
- The Cabinet
Member or designee is notified to use the folder in order to track
those annual evaluations that are due for their respective areas.
- As evaluations
are submitted to Human Resources, the assigned HR staff member color
codes those evaluations received from this appropriate Cabinet
Member tracking list.
- Once the
evaluation has been coded as received, the evaluation information is
entered into the employee review section of PeopleSoft, reviewed for
any issues needing to be brought to the attention of the HR Director
and stamped “PS Input.”
- Once all input
has been completed the evaluations are filed into the appropriate
employee evaluation folder.
Continuing
Professional Development Requirements
St. Petersburg
College is committed to the continuous development of its personnel.
Each administrator is required to participate in a formalized
professional development program as part of the annual performance
evaluation process. The professional development requirements are
outlined in Board procedure P6Hx23-2.022- Professional Development.
Administrative personnel have the same professional development
requirements as Faculty and can choose from a wide range of activities
to fulfill that requirement. St. Petersburg College pays for academic
administrative and professional personnel to complete two graduate-level
courses on College Teaching and the Community College. For ongoing
professional development, the College supports travel to professional
conferences. St. Petersburg College provides a minimum of three
in-house professional development meetings each year for Program
Directors covering a wide range of leadership and management topics.
The following are sample professional development activities
accomplished by SPC administrators and professionals:
Professional Development
activities
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President:
Entrepreneurship in the Public Arena, delivered at Harvard
University
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Provost:
Treasurer, Neighborhood Care Network
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Provost and
Director, Web & Instructional Technology Services,
Presentation at 2006 annual conference of the League for Innovation,
Setting Expectations and Monitoring Performance in Online
Learning
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Associate
Vice President, Baccalaureate Programs:
Member, Bachelor of Applied Science Task Force of the State Board of
Education
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Director of
Libraries:
Editor, Community and Junior Colleges Journal
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Coordinator,
Program Development & Marketing, Baccalaureate Programs:
Recreating America’s Community Colleges, Journal of
Research and Practice
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Dean, Nursing:
Member of Board of Directors for Florida Center for Nursing,
appointed by the Governor of the state of Florida
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Program
Director, Humanities and Communications:
New edition of
Focus:
Writing Paragraphs and Essays (2nd Edition)
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Program
Director, Math:
Chairman, Division Chairs Colloquium, American Mathematical
Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC)
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Director of
Institutional Research:
Development of Statistics I Signature course for online
delivery by all adjunct Faculty
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Director of
Staff and Program Development:
Presentation at the 2005 annual meeting of the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools: Alignment – Are you measuring your
mission? The interaction of mission, course objectives, assessments,
reports, and student achievement
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Director,
Collaborative Labs;
Presentation at the 2005 annual meeting of the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools:
SPC’s Accelerated, Collaborative
Approach to Selecting a QEP Focus and Implementation Plan
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Numerous
administrators:
Completion of University of Florida, and Florida State University
graduate coursework towards Ed.D.
References
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