Calling all alumni! Here is an opportunity of a lifetime…

Have you ever daydreamed about presenting a lecture or seminar to your former CCBC instructors? Do you have an expertise to share with the faculty and staff of your alma mater? If so, please consider offering us the benefits of your knowledge at our annual CCBC Professional Development Conference in late May of 2008.

Each year the college hosts a conference for all of its employees and this year, since it’s our 50th anniversary, we’d like to feature some of the products of all those years of student development. We are interested in finding alumni who have a professional expertise, area of research or avocation which might be of interest to our faculty and staff. While we typically feature workshops and seminars which relate to the various disciplines and work responsibilities at the college, we also include sessions of a recreational nature at times – photography, dance, yoga, time management, etc. -- as well as a variety of technology/ computer software sessions.

We’d love to hear from you and discuss your ideas! Please contact Dr. Judy Snyder, Director of Institutional Equity and Organizational Development at jsnyder@ccbcmd.edu, providing some details of the session you would like to offer. She will send you a brief proposal form at that time which will then be reviewed by the conference selection committee.

There are a few guidelines:

• The session must be of interest to a subgroup of CCBC employees and have educational value.
• The session cannot be used to advertise or otherwise promote a service or a product for sale.
• Ideally, the topic can be developed in a session that is 50 minutes to one hour long.
• The presenter cannot ask for remuneration for the presentation.

The conference will be held May 21, 2008 on the Catonsville Campus and lunch will be provided. If you have additional questions, please contact Dr. Snyder for more information. We hope that you will consider this opportunity to provide development opportunities for your past instructors in celebration of our 50th anniversary.