PGCC FACULTY MEMBERS
MODEL FOR EXCELLENCE

Excellent teachers seek innovative and effective ways to apply the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education as described by the American Association of Higher Education:

• Good practice encourages student-faculty contact.
• Good practice encourages cooperation among students.
• Good practice encourages active learning.
• Good practice gives prompt feedback.
• Good practice emphasizes time on task.
• Good practice communicates high expectations.
• Good practice respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

Teaching well comes from caring about teaching well. PGCC faculty participate in workshops, attend professional conferences, read the journals on teaching in their disciplines, use the latest appropriate technology, and discuss teaching with their colleagues.

Excellent faculty participate actively in the endeavors of their academic divisions and departments.

• They improve courses, design new ones, and revise curricula.
• They cooperate with their colleagues on committees.

Some students enter college underprepared for good college success. PGCC faculty foster student success. They have improved placement procedures, designed new courses, experimented with new teaching methods, developed tutoring services, and explored many other ways to help students succeed in their courses.

Excellent faculty improve the total college environment.

• They propose new and better ways of doing things.
• They serve on committees and cooperate with others to devise new approaches and ways to implement them.

Resourceful and creative faculty initiated most of the achievements that PGCC is famous for: the Science and Technology Resource Center, Humanities Resource Center, Honors Program, Writing Center, Tutoring Center, summer programs in history and theatre, Book Bridge Project, successful professional conferences, and many widely publicized innovations.

Excellent faculty are knowledgeable about their disciplines and develop and maintain good reputations in their professions.

• They publish, exhibit, perform, coach.
• They serve their professional organizations as leaders, committee members, conference planners and volunteers, and journal referees.

PGCC faculty have written scholarly books, articles, and widely adopted textbooks; their art and performances have been critically acclaimed; their teams have won regional championships. They have served as officers of their professional associations, made hundreds of presentations at national and regional conferences, planned and hosted highly praised conferences, and earned high respect among their disciplinary colleagues.

Excellent faculty serve their wider community .

No list can exhaust the ways that hundreds of PGCC faculty have served their community, from service in the Maryland House of Delegates or county boards to such volunteer activities as singing in church choirs, collecting coats for kids, tutoring school children, and coaching youth athletic teams.