FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING November 7, 2002 2:30 pm - RAC Facility MINUTES Attending: Jerry Cerny, Lei Lani Hinds, Xin Li, Allen Takeishi Not Attending: Jess Aki, Leon Florendo, Theron Craig 1. The following handouts were distributed; Agenda Calendar of November Faculty Development Activities Web Page Development Workshop flyer Stew Cookoff flyer Old Business 1. November activities were discusses. The current schedule includes a Grant Writing Workshop on 11/8, a Web Page Workshop series on 11/8 and 15, Lion Dance Presentation on 11/13 and a PowerPoint Workshop series on 11/26, 12/3 and 5. A Photoshop 6.0 workshop series is in the works. The Native Hawaiian Program has offered the use of their computer lab and software license. An instructor needs to be found. Once found the workshop series can be scheduled. 2. Jerry encouraged all members to continue to look at the Faculty Development website and send any needed changes (information updated, dead links, edits, etc.) to him for fixing. 3. Jerry collected Entertainment Book checks and stated that there are only eight books left to be sold and encouraged that these books be sold as soon a possible so the fundraiser project can be finalized. The committee will sell 42 books. Including cash donations, this will net $300 for the Faculty Development Foundation account. New Business 1. The Faculty Mentor Program was discussed. Jerry stated that as of the November 1 deadline, only two mentor forms were returned. No mentoree forms were returned. No match-ups were necessary. Jerry stated he would contact the mentoree requesters from the spring semester to see if a relationship had been established and if not, offer the new mentors as possible matches. 2. The Professional Development applications were discussed. Twelve applications were received by the deadline. Four of these are for "major travel." The Committee decided to defer making a decision on these until the spring semester. They will be evaluated with the other "major travel" requests that will be submitted then. Eight requests for $950 were approved. Jerry will contact the awardees and the Fiscal Officer for distribution of the funds. Open Discussion 1. Lei Lani suggested that links to professional organizations which are having upcoming conferences be linked from the Faculty Development Website. All agreed this is a good idea. Lei Lani will solicit this information from the faculty members and Jerry will make the links from the website. 2. Lei Lani also suggested that the approved assigned time requests be posted on the Faculty Development Website. These approved requests would give other faculty ideas about what can be done on assigned time. Jerry agreed to investigate the feasibility of this. 3. Xin suggested that copies of successful grant applications be placed on reserve in the Library along with the current samples of Tenure/Promotion Dossiers and Reappointment Applications. All agreed this is a good idea. Jerry will send out an email solicitation for these. Lei Lani suggested that these also be posted on the Faculty Development Website. Jerry agreed to investigate the feasibility of this. 4. The following computer workshops were suggested to be offered during the spring semester- - advanced PowerPoint including putting video clips into a PowerPoint presentation - additional web site development - digital video editing 5. It was agreed that no Faculty Development Committee meeting be held in December. The January meeting will be scheduled after the spring schedule is set and a day and time can be chosen. Allen conducted a very informative tour of the RAC facility. The meeting was adjourned at 3:40 pm. cc: Committee Members Jerry Saviano, FSEC Chair Ramsey Pedersen, Provost