February Faculty Development Commitee Minutes
FEBRUARY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
February 9, 2006
3:00 pm - ECE Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, Building 2
MINUTES
Attending: Jerry Cerny, Monir Hodges, Bernadette Howard, Jeannie Shaw,
Rona Wong, Lisa Yogi, and Rick Ziegler
Unable to attend: Femar Lee
Guest: Sheryl Legaspi
The following handouts were distributed:
- Committee Meeting Agenda
- February Calendar of Faculty Development Events
- Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilites flyer
- Google Workshop flyer
New Business
- UH Foundation Account: The committee members agreed that if the
Student with Disabilities workbooks, which will be on sale for $5 each at
the upcoming Identifying and Helping Students with Disabilities at HCC
workshop, look useful, Jerry can buy up to 10 copies to distribute to
strategic locations around campus. Reimbursement can be made from the
Faculty Development Foundation account.
- Spring Activities:
- WILD: Sheryl Legaspi reviewed the progress of the planning for
WILD on Friday, March 3. She stated that the Native Hawaii Center has
setup an excursion to the Academy of Arts to view the current Captain Cook
exhibit there. They will solicit participants and pay for transportation
and admission. Sheryl asked for volunteers for 'greeters' for the morning
breakout sessions to introduce the speakers and present leis. Lisa
stated she could do this for two sessions and volunteered Iris Saito to do
this for one session. Bernadette and Jeannie also volunteered to be
greeters. Sheryl stated that Wo Learning Champions program will
contribute $1095 for WILD. Lisa will pick up continental breakfast goods
and drinks at Costco the day before WILD and asked for help to setup on
Friday morning. She will pick up coffee the morning of WILD. She will be
using cash collected with registrations to pay for these items. Paper
goods will be provided from current Faculty Development supplies.
- Identifying and Helping Students with Disabilities at HCC
workshop: This workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, February 21 at 3:00 pm.
Dr. Shannon Simonelli from the UH Center on Disabilities Studies will be
leading this workshop. The workshop is open to all HCC faculty and staff.
Dr. Simonelli has volunteered to return for follow-up workshops if there
is interest.
- Jeannie stated that she would contact Jeff Owens to discuss his
"Lunch and Learn" Series Presentation on security that will be delivered
here during the spring semester. With WILD in March, April was suggested
as a good month for this presentation.
- Lisa stated that Pierre Senat, Emergency Cardiac Care Instructor
and proactive fitness and lifestyle management educator with the Allied
Health and Fitness Institute, who is doing a health and wellness breakout
during WILD, is willing to return after WILD for follow-up health and
wellness workshops. He will possibly be doing a CPR renewal session for
the ECE faculty and staff on the afternoon of WILD.
- Professional Development Awards: The current on-line application
for Faculty Professional Development Awards was approved for use this
spring. March 3 was set as the application deadline for the spring.
Awards will be decided at the March Faculty Development Committee meeting.
Jerry stated there is $9550 left to distribute and asked all committee
members to encourage their faculty colleagues to find an applicable
professional development activity to attend and apply. Two slots for this
summer's Hawaii Great Teachers Seminar will be paid from this money.
Matching slots paid for by System Perkins funds should be available later.
- Faculty Development Newsletter: Rona reported that Silvan Chung
would write an article for the Spring Faculty Development Newsletter.
There are two new faculty members to highlight in the newsletter. Jerry
stated the newsletter will be published in mid to late April and asked
committee members to solicit professional development activities from
their colleagues for inclusion in the Newsletter.
Open Discussion
- Vern Takebayashi will be offering a 30-minute workshop this Friday
on using Google in a more efficient and effective manner. A flyer was
distributed for a $35 Google: Advanced Search Techniques workshop to be
offered at UH Manoa Krauss Hall on March 4. Monir summarized several of
the highlights of Google for the committee members.
- Lisa asked the members if they thought we as a committee were
doing what we are suppose to be doing or not doing enough. The consensus
was that with the current efforts needed to plan for WILD and the other
spring activities in place, the committee is on track with what we should
be doing.
- The members thanked Lisa for hosting the meeting and providing a
delicious vanilla wafers, strawberries and yogurt snack.
- The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 9, at 3:00 pm,
location TBA.
- The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 pm.
cc:
- Committee Members
- Ramsey
Pedersen,
Chancellor
- Sharon Ota, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
- Chris Ann Moore, FSEC Chair