http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/eol/

Employee and organizational learning (E&OL) is a college wide initiative designed to encourage individual and organizational learning. Employee and organizational learning are key components of the college's foundational goal of moving systematically and continuously toward being a "learning college."

The PVCC Employee and Organizational Coordinating Team (E&OLT), in collaboration with the college's Faculty Development Committee and the Staff Development Team, utilizes "Taking Learning Seriously" as its foundational theme. Over the past three years, collaborative efforts have focused in three areas: 1) learning about learning; 2) powerful learning strategies; and 3)) organizing for learning.

The Employee and Organizational Learning Team assumes responsibility for many activities as one portion of the overall E&OL initiative. Included among these activities are: all-employee meetings; employee learning weeks (fall and spring); the annual President's Advance; technology training; and the employee recognition program.

E&OL and the E&OLT provide both a mechanism and a set of processes for anticipating and responding to professional, personal, and organizational needs of the college's employees and its various components.

Among the most important documents produced through the efforts of the E&OLT, in conjunction with the college's strategic planning initiative, is a list of twelve indicators which faculty and staff use to mark progress toward the college goal of becoming a learning college.

The twelve indicators of a learning centered college appear on the first page of this section. When there is a direct linkage to Governing Board general goals or to specific Governing Board goals for 2000-2001, this fact is included as an annotation under the learning indicator.

Being a "learning institution" is clearly encompassed by the Governing Board's general goal statement. Ten of the twelve indicators relate directly to either general Governing Board goals or to specific goals earmarked as priorities for the 2000-20001 academic year.

In addition, each of the six specific strategic issues which PVCC will address in 2000-2001 is directly related to at least one goal statement, as adopted by the Governing Board.

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