Advancing Your Career through Professional Development

As faculty and academic professionals, participating in professional development through the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) advances your teaching practice, deepens student learning, and supports your institutional and professional growth.

Taking CTE courses and workshops also fulfills professional development requirements for:

• Step Increases (adjunct faculty)
• Change in Status (all faculty and academic professionals)

CTE credits track automatically, but you can also fulfill these requirements through external professional development that is pre-approved by your immediate supervisor.

For the full details on criteria and eligibility, please review the MAHE Faculty Contract on the LCC Labor Relations webpage.

Resources and Next Steps

Apply

• Faculty Step Increase Request form: Requests must be submitted by June 30.
• Change in Status webpage: Overview of guidelines; applications due June 30.
• Faculty Step Increases and Change in Status: New faculty orientation handout.
• Check Current Step: Log in to myLCC, click on the Work tab and navigate to: Employee Dashboard, Job Summary, and Job Information. Then click on your current job to view your step.

MAHE Contract References

• Step Increases (Adjunct Instructor & Adjunct Associate Professor): Appendix D-1, pp. 171–172
• Change in Status (Full-Time Professor): Article XIV.J.1, pp. 65–66
• Change in Status (Adjunct Associate Professor): Article XIV.J.2, pp. 66–68
• Change in Status (Full-Time Academic Professionals): Article XIV.J.4, pp. 68-69
• Change in Status (Part-Time Academic Professionals): Article XIV.J.5, pp. 69-70

External Professional Development and Funding

Professional development activities completed outside of the CTE may satisfy requirements, but they require pre-approval from your immediate supervisor. Examples include attending discipline-specific conferences, webinars, courses, and state or national conferences (e.g., Michigan Student Success Summit and Achieving the Dream). External credit does not appear on your CTE transcript, so you must track and document this independently.

If you need funding for external professional development, explore these options:

• Division Funding: Contact your division or your department to apply for funding.
• EDF Grant Application: Apply for personal and professional enrichment grants up to $3,000 (awarded in fall and spring).
• College-Wide Professional Development: Funding from the Provost’s office for professional development related to college-wide initiatives.