Committees

Professional Development Committee

Develops, coordinates, supports, and monitors the institutional and individual non-sabbatical professional development activities of faculty. To further collegiality and make good use of resources, this committee coordinates with both classified and administrative professional development committees.

 

Fall Professional Development Day 2025 Schedule


Faculty Forum Professional Development Workshops

If there is something you would like to see - please reach out with the Give a workshop/Want a workshop button above!

Faculty Forums are designed to engage faculty in key issues and challenges facing our college, a place to learn and share equity and pedagogical practices and a place to build community with fellow faculty.  

  • We encourage our speakers to record the event for maximum accessibility. When the events are recorded, the recordings will be posted shortly after each meeting.
  • Recording of previous Faculty Forums are posted below. 
Faculty Forum meeting date Speakers & Topic

September 8, 2025 

3:00 - 4:00 pm

 

On Zoom only

 

 

 

Title: Academic Senate Town Hall​ & You

Presenters: Senate President, Dr. Vicenta Arrizon
Description: Curious about the Academic Senate? Join us for a Faculty Senate Town Hall where we’ll talk about what the Senate does, how you can get involved, and why it matters for faculty and students. We’ll also open the floor for you to share the issues and ideas you’d like the Senate to explore this year.
 
 
This session will be recorded.  

 

 

 

Past Faculty Forum Events and Recordings

Previous Faculty Forum resources and recordings. 


 

Faculty Professional Development Funding

Guidelines for Professional Development Conference Request for Faculty

Information

  • PDC Conference Request Applications are accepted for in-person and virtual funding opportunities
  • Full-time and adjunct faculty may apply for PDC Conference Requests.
  • To ensure a greater distribution of funds, SMC faculty are eligible to apply once per academic year for up to $1,100.00 of professional development funding for conferences or other professional development activities for full-time faculty, $1,300.00 of professional development funding for conferences or other professional development activities for part-time faculty. 
  • NOTE: Starting with applications submitted on October 14, 2024 or later the funding amounts will increase to $1500 for full-time faculty and $1700 for part-time faculty.  These amounts are for the 2024-25 academic year only and the amounts will be reevaluated the following academic year.  This video explains the changes to the funding. 
  • Funds will be allotted on a first-come, first served basis. Once the PDC Conference Request funds are depleted, applications will not be accepted until the next fiscal year.
  • The PDC is an Academic Senate Joint Committee that only meets during the fall and spring semester and does not meet during the intersessions. The PDC can receive conference funding applications dated before the start of the academic year, but since the committee does not officially meet until the fall semester, applications will not be reviewed or approved during the summer months.

Steps to Request Funding

Please read the form carefully to be sure that your proposed activity meets the guidelines established in AB1725. The application requires the approval of five signatures in total: the Department Chair, Vice President of Academic Affairs, PDC Chair, Vice President Human Resources, and the President/Superintendent. Therefore, we ask that the form be turned in at least 30 days in advance of the event.

 This 7-minute video demonstrates how to fill out the funding request form from start to finish.

Step 1: CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT THE FACULTY FUNDING REQUEST FORM

Procedures for Claiming Reimbursement of Conference Expenses

  • Step 2: To request reimbursement of expenses, submit the Conference Reimbursement Claim Form
    • Reimbursement requests must be accompanied with original detailed receipts.
    • Submit the claim form with original itemized receipts to Accounts Payable (accountspayable@smc.edu) for all reimbursement items. The subject line of the email requesting reimbursement should read: “PDC Reimbursement Request.”

Policies

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Committee Members

  • Chair, Lea Hald
  • Vice-Chair, Kiersten Elliott
  • Jessica Krug
  • Llanet Martín
  • Esmeralda Martinez
  • Marissa Moreno
  • Brian Rodas
  • Steven Sedky

Email Address

AcadSenProfDev@smc.edu

Current Meetings

Time: Tuesdays - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (Fall and Spring semesters only)

Location: Senate office - HSS 261 or the EpiCenter - M104 or (please see agenda), public participants can also join via Zoom, Zoom link is in agenda.

2025-2026 Academic year

Agendas will be made available prior to each meeting. Minutes posted after the meeting.

Meeting Date

Documents

September 9, 2025

September 9 Agenda

 

September 23, 2025  
October 7, 2025  
October 21, 2025  
Novemeber 4, 2025  
November 18, 2025  
December 2, 2025  

Past Meetings

Meeting Archive

Agendas, Minutes, and Information