Mission
The mission of POD unit is to provide leadership, service and support to the faculty and staff of the Bluegrass Community & Technical College by promoting quality and excellence through professional and organizational development activities.
Goals
- Support to faculty and staff for projects and programs designed to strengthen the college as a whole,
- Facilitate opportunities for personal growth and professional development,
- Support the best practices and goals of the Learning College in order to
- Cultivate an organizational culture where policies, programs, practices, and personnel support learning as the major priority.
- Create or expand (a) recruitment and hiring programs to ensure that new staff and faculty are learning centered and (b) professional development programs that prepare all staff and faculty to become more effective facilitators of learning.
- Use information technology primarily to improve and expand student learning.
- Develop strategies to improve learning outcomes, assessment processes to measure the acquisition of the learning outcomes, and means for documenting achievement of outcomes.
- Create or expand learning-centered programs and strategies to ensure the success of underprepared students. (League for Innovations in the Community College)
Contact:
Barbara Hoskins
Director, Professional & Organizational Development
2647 Regency Road Suite 101
Lexington, KY 40503
(859) 246-6585
Fax (859) 323-3653
Barbara.hoskins@kctcs.edu
