Attending: Jerry Cerny, Charlene Gima and Chris Hacskaylo
Unable to attend: Grace Funai, Ralph Kam, Jessica Kaniho and Guy Shibayama
Guests: Kyle Higa, Monir Hodges, Shanon Miho, Joy Nagaue, Elton Ogoso and Jonathan Wong

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

• Meeting Agenda
• Faculty Development Committee Charter
• Faculty Professional Development Funding Application Form

Old Business

1. Excellence In Education Planning
   The Excellence in Education Day will be held on Friday, March 6. All former Wo's, the Faculty Development Committee, the Staff Development Council and the Recruitment and Retention (R&R) Retention Sub-committee are all part of the planning for this day. The planning for the day was finalized. Upon Shanon's suggestion, Kimo Keaulana's presentation "Treating Others with Aloha" will be the keynote replacing Erika Lacro's presentation of Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) data. Upon Elton's suggestion, the name of the day is changes to "Excellence in Aloha Day." The day will begin with a continental breakfast. Monir and Jessica have agreed to coordinate this. Lunch will be bentos. Grace will coordinate purchasing them. Jonathan and Joy will coordinate an afternoon campus beautification service project. At the end of the afternoon project, participants will gather in the large Apprenticeship classroom for a mixer with light refreshments. Jonathan and Joy will work with Monir and Jessica on refreshments for the afternoon. A $5 registration fee will be collected. Jerry will produce and distribute a flyer for the day. Jonathan and Jerry will collect registrations and money. The theme for the day will be aloha and retention. After breakfast Erika Lacro will welcome the participants in the Loui Conference Center. Chancellor Mike Rota will be unable to attend. A plenary session of all attendees with a discussion of retention will follow Kimo's presentation. Questions were finalized which will be sent out to the campus community before the day to stimulate small group discussions and presentations during this session. The morning will end with breakouts for faculty and staff. Suggested breakouts include;
   • Learning Communities by Leon Florendo and Robbie Dotson
   • Universal Design for Learning by Megan Conway
   • Millennial Student and Education Technology by Jon Blumhardt
   • Presentation of CCSSE Data by Erika Lacro
   • Staff coordinated breakout - TBA

2. Planners, other than Faculty Development Committee members, engaged in Excellence in Aloha planning were thanked and dismissed.

3. Faculty Development Committee Charter - Several minor changes were made to the Committee Charter. Jerry will communicate these to Jim Poole, Chair, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, and find out how to institute the changes.

4. Spring Newsletter - Jerry and Chris will be writing and editing the Spring Faculty Development Newsletter. It will be published and distributed on April 17. Chris will write an article about concrete training for developmental math and English students. She stated that Mike Ferguson who teaches Cosmetology Chemistry also uses concrete training aids and she will contact him to contribute to the article. Jerry will find out from Personnel the names of new faculty members and obtain biographies for the Newsletter.

New Business

1. Spring Faculty Professional Development fund applications - the form updated last fall will be used for spring application awards. Friday, March 6, was chosen as the deadline for submission for this spring. Jerry will notify faculty members of this deadline. Funds will be distributed at the March Faculty Development Committee Meeting.

Open Discussion

None

The next Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, March 12, at 3:30 pm in one of the 1st floor Library Study Rooms.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:40 pm.

cc:

• Committee Members
• Mike Rota, Interim Chancellor
• Erika Lacro, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs
• Jim Poole, FSEC Chair