Directions for Filling Out Flex Plan for Full-Time Faculty

Institutional Flex

For these 20 Flex hours, use only those presentations listed in the flex book under "calendar of events." Please provide the following information on your Flex Plan:

1. Title of Presentation
2. Date
3. Hours counted toward Flex obligation

Individual Flex

For these 40 Flex hours, you may use the presentations listed in the Flex book and/or a variety of projects and activities of your own choosing--providing they are clearly part of your professional development. Please provide the following information on your flex plan:

• Conferences:
  1. Full name of conference (no acronyms, please)
  2. Dates of attendance
  3. Objectives
  4. Hours counted toward Flex obligation
• Research/Publication:
  1. Topics to be covered
  2. Timeline
  3. Objectives-How is project related to professional growth but goes beyond normal expectations
  4. Hours counted toward Flex obligation
• Coursework taken:
  1. Name(s) of class(es) and institution
  2. Objectives
  3. Dates of attendance
  4. Hours counted toward Flex obligation
• AVC committees, mentorship programs, club advisement:
  1. Name(s) of committee, program, club
  2. Timelines and/or dates of meetings
  3. Objectives and/or duties
  4. Hours counted toward Flex obligation (cannot exceed 20 per year.)

Some suggestions and ideas for individual activities/projects are as follows:

• attend conferences, workshops, seminars
• substitute for another instructor^*
• prepare and present papers or lectures at conferences
• visit other campuses and share information
• do professional research and publish
• set up grants or grant-writing workshops
• visit and share information with feeder high schools
• develop a special program for students
• adjunct faculty can attend division meetings
• be a mentor to students or probationary/adjunct faculty
• evaluate an adjunct instructor
• offer a Flex presentation
• complete coursework in your discipline or related fields
• spend a day observing a colleague in your discipline or related fields at work in the classroom, in the library, or in the counseling center
• develop a major revision of an existing course

^* If the instruction time covered by the substitute instructor is less than one consecutive week, individual flex credit can be applied. If instruction time covered by the substitute instructor is greater than one consecutive week, the substitute instructor has a choice of payment or individual flex credit. Substitute payment requires prior approval in writing by Dr. Jackie Fisher, Sr. There is a maximum of 20 hours that can be applied toward flex credit annually.

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