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FEBRUARY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES


FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
February 4, 2011
10:00 am - 2-510
MINUTES

Attending: Jerry Cerny, Silvan Chung, Carol Hasegawa, Monir Hodges, Steve Mandraccia, Norman Takeya and Cyndi Uyehara
Unable to attend: Ralph Kam
Guests:, Kyle Higa, Emily Kukulies, Joe Kwok, Billie Leuder-Takaki, Guy Shibayama and Cynthia Smith

Handouts - the following handouts were distributed to the committee members:

Old Business

  1. Excellence in Aloha Day - this year the Excellence in Aloha Day will be held on Friday, March 4. This is a non-instruction day for the campus. Significant continuing planning for the day took place at the meeting and details are available from the Faculty Development Coordinator upon request.
New Business

The non-Faculty Development Committee Members were excuses and the meeting progressed.

  1. Spring Activities - The follow activities are proposed for the spring semester:

    Cyndi stated she believes there is a need for Laulima Workshops for non-DE instructors. Jerry said her would contact Jonathan Wong and set up a series of two workshops later in February. Jerry distributed a schedule of DE professional development activities recently sent from Cynthia Smith, Lianne Nagano and Pat Patterson. Faculty Development is co-sponsoring these events and will provide refreshments if wanted. Jerry encouraged the members to attend as they can/want.

  2. Faculty Development Charter - Jerry distributed a Faculty Development Charter copied from the Committee section of the HCC Intranet. He stated this is the Committee's required annual update of the Charter. The Charter will stand unless any members send needed changes to Jerry by the end of February.

  3. Faculty Exchange - Over Christmas break, a faculty member, Dr. Gary Klein, from Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, visited the campus and talked to Ralph Kam about a faculty exchange program between his College and HCC. Ralph handed off Gary's contact information to Jerry and they have been communicating. Jerry tracked down a UH Administrative Procedure for faculty exchange which is very straightforward. Jerry has announced this possibility to the HCC faculty and had received several responses from interested colleagues. Jerry will continue this discussion with Gary and see where the partnership leads.

  4. Spring Faculty Professional Development Money - Jerry shared an email from Ken Kato who informed the Committee that he has $20,000 for faculty professional development this spring. He also stated he has an additional $10,000 for faculty grant activities. Because no applications were received in the fall, all money will be distributed this spring. Friday, March 4 at 4:30 pm was set as the application deadline. Funding decisions will be made at the March 11 Faculty Development meeting. Jerry will inform the faculty of this and let colleagues know the application is available on-line.

Open Discussion

The next Committee meeting will be March 11, 9:00 am in 2-510.

Adjourn

The meeting was adjouned at 11:10 am.

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