September Faculty
Development
Commitee Minutes
SEPTEMBER FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
September 3, 2009
3:30 pm - 2-514
MINUTES
Attending: Jerry Cerny, Silvan Chung, Carol Hasegawa, Ralph Kam, Jessica
Kaniho, Steve Mandraccia and Guy Shibayama
Handouts - the following handouts were distributed to the Committee
members:
- Meeting Agenda
- HCC Faculty Development Committee Mission
- Faculty Development UH Foundation Account Statement
- New Faculty and Lecturers Workshop Flyer
- Travels to China to See a Total Solar Eclipse Presentation Flyer
New Business
- Introductions were conducted around the table - Guy, Jessica,
Ralph and Jerry are continuing members. Silvan, Carol and Steve are new
to the committee this year. Jerry informed them they will serve on the
committee for two years
- Faculty Development Statement - Jerry handed out a Faculty
Development Mission taken from the Faculty Development Statement. The
Statement was written several years ago, approved by the Faculty Senate
Executive Committee and reapproved by the Faculty Development Committee
each year. The Committee member did reapprove the Statement as the
guiding document for activities and initiatives for the 2009-10 academic
year. Jerry also stated that a Faculty Development Committee charter was
developed a couple of years ago and will be reviewed by the committee in
the spring.
- Activities Sub-committee - Carol and Silvan volunteered to serve
on the Activities Sub-committee this year. They will assist Jerry in
gauging our faculty colleagues on activities and helping to facilitate the
activities this year.
- Fall Activities - Jerry stated there are several activities
already planned: Reappointment Application and Tenure/Promotion Dossier
Preparation workshop today and tomorrow; New Faculty and Lecturer Workshop
next Tuesday; Sam Rhoads' Trip to China to View a Total Solar Eclipse
September 16 and 18; Laulima Best Practices Teachers Talking Seminar in
October. Steve stated that several Smart Boards have been purchased and
there was a one day workshop on using them earlier this summer. This was
not a hands-on workshop so was not valuable. He stated the Jonathan Wong
is the resident expert on these boards. Jerry stated he would contact
Jonathan and schedule hand-on training soon.
- Fundraiser - Jerry gave each committee member two Entertainment
Books to sell. He stated that Steven Chu, ABRP, was on the Faculty
Development Committee several years ago and is still willing to sell books
for the committee. If payment is made by check, it should be made out to
UH Foundation with HCC Fac Dev Comm on the memo line. The price of each
book is $30 and the committee makes $6 on each one. Ken Kato allows the
committee to work with State Poultry Processors and have a chicken sale on
a Sunday once a quarter. Chicken sales are schedule for September 27 and
October 11.
- Faculty Development UH Foundation Account - Jerry distributed a
Faculty Development Committee UH Foundation account statement. The
balance stays close to $4000 each year. Jerry asked each member to think
about applicable activities for spending this money. Jerry always
received several requests from other committee and organizations on campus
to help them fund refreshments and food. He stated he will always email a
request to the committee when funding requests are received.
- Faculty Development Website monitor - Jerry asked each committee
member to look at the Faculty Development Website and report any broken
links or other needed changes to him. He will make the changes.
- Faculty Development Newsletter - There was a newsletter written
for publication in the spring but it was never published. Jerry will
update it and publish it for the fall. This may be the last Newsletter.
Ralph published a monthly campus Newsletter and this can take the place of
the Faculty Development Newsletter.
Open Discussion
Guy stated that in the past money was donated to give scholarships in
Grace Ihara's name. The donation money is gone. His vision is to collect
$20-30,000 to set up an endowment for scholarships in the names of our
colleagues who have died while serving at HCC - Grace Ihara, Jeff Uyeda,
Charlie Kim, Merv Chang and others. In the late 1990's a fund raiser was
held in the cafeteria. Guy has discussed renewing such a fund raiser with
Brian Furuto and received a positive response. He stated that Faculty
Development and Staff Development may be asked to assist if this major
fundraiser is renewed.
Fall meetings days and time were established. The October meeting will
take place October 7 at 2:30 at a location TBA and the November meeting
will take place November 4 at 2:30 at a location TBA. There will no
December meeting unless needed.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:20 pm.
cc:
- Committee Members
- Mike Rota, Chancellor
- Erika Lacro, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs
- Ron Pine, FSEC Chair