Professional Development FAQs

Professional Development office runs a report at the end of each quarter to see who has completed a PD Certificate. You will receive a confirmation email at that time. Please do not change your designated certificate, or the system will not recognize your designation and check for completion. You may change your designated certificate after you receive the confirmation email from Professional Development.

You do not need to notify Professional Development that you have taken the last class.

You may see your progress on a PD Certificate on the CE website.

• Log into cereg.mclennan.edu
• Click on Professional Development
• Select Automated Certification Plan
• Scroll down to see the certificate you have designated and your progress. You will see the classes you have credit for and the classes still needed.

PD classes are valid for 5 years. If a class has expired, you are welcome to retake that.

Short answer: 12 hours per year, between July 1st through June 30th.

Long answer:

F-III-a Academic Freedom Responsibility and Tenure: Faculty are expected to comply with the annual faculty evaluation process and to fulfill the professional development requirements as outlined in Policy B-XII.

Policy B-XII. Curriculum and Instruction XII. Evaluation: Faculty section B states: Professional Development 1. "Thus, the institution requires that all full-time faculty members must list their proposed professional development activities each year in their Professional Development Plan (PDP) including attendance at the bi-annual Professional Development Day and an additional number of hours of professional development to equal a minimum of 12 hours a year."

www.mclennan.edu/employees/policy-manual/docs/B-XII.pdf

You may see what PD hours you have completed on the CE website.

• Log into cereg.mclennan.edu
• Click on Professional Development
• Select Professional Development Information
• Enter the date range you are searching for and click submit
• The PD classes (ZPODs) will show with the number of hours for each section

You may submit outside professional development activities to your supervisor for approval by using the POD Professional Development Credit Request form available in SoftDocs. Be sure to include how much time was spent doing each activity as well as the agenda for the event that was attended. The PD Credit Request is administered by the Department Chair and Dean. The PD Department is not involved.

You may submit outside step credit activities to your supervisor for approval by using the Step Credit Pre-Approval and Final Approval forms in SoftDocs. The Step Credit Request is administered by the Department Chair and Dean. The PD Department is not involved.