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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:

New Business

  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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