These are full-time teaching and professional faculty with 9-month and 12-month appointments. The 9-month faculty include assistant division chairs and program heads. Their duties include presenting education courses approved by the College in an appropriate discipline. The 12-month professional faculty have continuing responsibilities and include counselors, librarians, and instructional technologists.

All coordinators, deans, directors, division chairs, and provosts are administrative faculty and are employed on a 12-month basis. They are assigned the faculty rank for which they qualify.

Adjunct faculty are part-time teaching faculty who are assigned partial teaching loads and must be appointed each semester they teach. They are assigned the faculty rank for which they qualify. They teach approximately 30 to 50 percent of the college teaching load.

Classified professional employees are employed on a 12-month basis. This group includes exempt employees, such as administrators, and technicians, accountants, buyers, information officers, personnel analysts, system analysts, and A/V technicians. Classified non-exempt employees include skilled craft workers such as plumbers and electricians, office and clerical workers, office service assistants, executive secretaries, service and maintenance workers, carpenters, computer operators, housekeeping workers, and physical plant workers.

Wage employees are hired to supplement the work force during seasonal or temporary workloads, or provide interim replacement. They are employed on an hourly basis, limited to working 1,500 hours per agency per 365 consecutive-day period, starting on the first day of employment.

There are approximately nine classified employees assigned to Instructional Centers. They are required to be trained in audiovisual and microcomputer operations and should have considerable knowledge of center/laboratory equipment, operations, multi-media and computer-assisted instructions. There are approximately 51 other Instructional Assistants and they are required to have considerable knowledge in the teaching field as well a working knowledge of individual and group teaching techniques. It is assumed that they will be involved with multimedia and web methods.

Under the Dean for Information Technology and the Dean of Academic and Student Services, faculty instructional technologists assist faculty and staff in selecting, developing, and producing applications that take advantage of modern PC-based technology including the use of the internet, multi-media presentations, and other instructional technologies.

Under the Dean of Information Technology there will be ten classified staff positions to support the NVCC network. They will be network system administrators, engineers, microcomputer repair specialists, computer operators, and help desk assistants. It is assumed that this group will require an extensive individualized training program in order to keep the CSICE operational.

The ITM positions located at the LRC of each campus will supervise the procurement, installation, maintenance and operations of the campus local area network. They will train users and troubleshoot computer problems and/or supervise computer repairs. They will assist users with planning, implementing and supporting computer-related projects and will serve as a liaison between the user and CIS technicians.

The ITS positions are assigned to the LRC at each campus. They will install computer hardware components and software. They will install peripheral components such as monitors, keyboards, printers, tape and disk drives and will troubleshoot PC problems, etc. It is assumed that they may be involved with some degree of network administration.

This group include on-site ODU employees, CEU instructors and other personnel that may require training but do not fall under the faculty and staff groupings.

Faculty and Staff will have professional development opportunities to learn about desktop applications, multimedia and compressed video applications, NVCC applications, network, end-user programming, and pedagogy.

3. Academic Support & Training

The responsibilities, roles, and inter-relationship of the various committees, groups, offices, and individuals tasked with developing and implementing the Technology Training Plan across all elements of the College are detailed below. As part of the implementation of the Plan, the Human Resources Department, Technical Applications Center, and Extended Learning Institute staff will coordinate the professional development opportunities for the College. Staff from these offices will maintain lists of professional development opportunities for the College, including campus specific opportunities that will be posted on the new Professional Development Opportunities Web Site at http://www.nvcc.edu/depts/profdev/ and linked from the HR, TAC, and ELI Web sites. The following is a list of all parties involved:

President/Administrative Council:

Determines future skills and abilities needed by the various groups and individuals within the College to meet the long-term college goals; provides financial and personnel support necessary to achieve the goals and objectives of NVCC Technology Training Plan; approves and/or revises the goals and objectives of this Technology Training Plan.

Information Technology Committee (ITC):

Provides strategic planning and direction necessary to support the NVCC Technology Training Plan; serves as an oversight organization on matters of information technology and is responsible for setting the information technology strategic direction of the college; sets college-wide information technology policies, procedures and standards; reviews, approves and sets priorities for the development of applications and for capital requests; serves as an information-sharing forum; recommends financial priorities, within assigned resources, for approved programs and events to achieve approved objectives.

Dean of Information and Instructional Technology:

Provides operations, telecommunications and centralized computing support; establishes training requirements for CIS Network Specialists; has college-wide responsibility for the application aspect of information technology; selects, designs, and develops software necessary to carry out specific academic and administrative tasks; plans strategies for instructional computing; designs and develops applications of information technologies.

Dean of Academic and Student Services:

Provides general supervisory administration for curriculum services, academic technology, distance learning, planning and institutional effectiveness, student benefits and support services, and grants development; assumes general supervisory administration for the enhancement of the instructional programs of the College through instructional technologies.

The Technical Applications Center (TAC):

Supports faculty and staff in developing and producing applications that take advantage of modern information technology through workshops and individual consultation; assists faculty and staff in the use of microcomputers, new office systems, and instructional applications of modern technology; assists the Dean for Information Technology as a member of the management team, giving guidance and support to the future development of technology use at the College; evaluates courses and business practices at the College to identify appropriate applications of modern technology; coordinates training opportunities with the campuses and ELI.

The Extended Learning Institute (ELI):

Serves as the focal point within the College for all information and liaison activities with external institutions/agencies pertaining to distance education; provides academic support for use of technology in distance education.

Director of Human Resources:

Coordinates with the various committees outlined in the NVCC Technology Training Plan to ensure appropriate application training for faculty and staff; accountable for some of the financial resources provided to support training requirements for the NVCC Technology Training Plan; proposes new training initiatives and concepts for consideration by various committees; establishes written procedures to ensure standardization of technology training and faculty and staff; establishes written procedures to ensure appropriate training records are maintained for staff and faculty; conducts faculty and staff technology training needs analysis through the assistance of NVCC Institutional Research Office.

College Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable (CTLTR):

Responsible for strengthening communication, cooperation and collaboration among representatives of the NVCC faculty, students, and academic support service staff; improving teaching and learning with technology; developing effective and efficient methods for using technology in the teaching and learning process; sharing successful teaching and learning strategies and lessons learned in using technology among NVCC campuses; and enabling faculty, students, and staff to make optimum use of technology to enhance teaching and learning.

Campus Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable Groups (TLTRs):

Responsible for assessing the current use and deployment of technology and recommending new technologies for use in both the classroom and the office to improve teaching and learning; assesses the effectiveness of current resources in meeting student needs and accommodating faculty and staff in their continued professional development; cultivates the use of computer technology in connection with teaching and learning; conducts research on using technology instructional delivery systems; suggests technology training programs for faculty to enhance teaching and learning.

The Learning Resource Center on the Campuses:

Provides campus library services; provides the campus instructional support services; evaluates, purchases, and implements new technologies; provides in-service training for faculty, staff, and administrators to assist them in learning the new technologies.

Human Resource Development Committee:

Responsible for assisting in the preparation and delivery of the college-wide Human Resource Development Plan; examines and evaluates programs which will increase the human potential of all employees; provides tuition assistance funding to the campuses for credit and non-credit courses; provides funding on the campuses for faculty & staff to attend conferences and meetings.

Campus Resource Centers:

Coordinates and/or provides professional development training opportunities on the campuses; coordinates with TAC and HR for training opportunities.

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A variety of methods for delivering technology training will be implemented by the various training options, including face-to-face workshops, Web-based training, videotapes, CD-ROMs, small group activities, individual consultations, demonstrations, mentoring, information sharing, presentations, seminars, satellite downlinks, collaborative projects, Faculty & Staff Cross Campus Day events, institutes, and VCCS initiatives.

ELI

Campus TLTR

Campus Funds Related to Campus Resource Centers

VCCS

Input and feedback for identifying needed technology training will be provided through College and campus TLTRs, provost staffs, LRCs, campus contract administrators, and Human Resources Development Committee. In addition, all TAC/ELI sponsored workshops collect evaluation comments for each workshop where input and feedback are provided. To ensure that the Technology Training Plan activities and dollars are appropriately targeted, the Plan is reviewed at the Information Technology Committee meetings. ITC comments about the plan are disseminated to the appropriate units for consideration for future planning.