MAY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT NEWSLETTER


Honolulu Community College - University of Hawaii
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Volume 10 No. 2          May 4, 2001
A MESSAGE FROM THE FCULTY DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Welcome to the Spring 2001 edition of the Faculty Development Newsletter.
The publish date is later this semester for several reasons, however the
members of the Faculty Development Committee hope you will find the
information presented here interesting and helpful.  Perhaps you can pick
up your copy and read through it while your students are slaving over the
final exam you will give them or while you take a break from all of the
end of year duties you must complete.  I want to thank all the members of
the committee for the hard work each has contributed to the Faculty
Development efforts here at HCC this year.  As special thanks goes to
Cynthia Smith for the information she has provided on the Wo Learning
Champions below.  I also want to thank all of the faculty members for your
input of ideas for Faculty Development activities and your attendance at
activities this year.  I hope you will consider serving on the Faculty
Development Committee next year or in the near future.  Hard working
volunteers are always welcome on the committee.  As this most interesting
academic year draws to a close, have a great summer break and see you in
August.  Aloha.

					Jerry Cerny
					Faculty Development Coordinator

WO LEARNING CHAMPIONS

This year saw the beginning of exciting efforts to increase support for
faculty development activities in the Community College system.  The
Robert and Betty Wo and the James and Juanita Wo Foundations provided a $1
million gift over five years to create a sustainable endowment.  The
monies from this endowment will fund faculty and staff enrichment projects
in support of teaching and learning.  The fundamental goal is a visible
and influential commitment to faculty development and renewal at
University of Hawai'i Community Colleges.

For the next two years, Foundation monies are being reinvested to increase
the growth of the endowment.  As an additional gift, therefore, the Wo
Foundations provided additional "seed" money for campus faculty to plan
for programs and direction.  The first group of campus representatives,
termed Learning Champions, started meeting in Spring 2001.  I am the
representative for Honolulu Community College.  Our primary task is to
facilitate information gathering from our colleagues as to perceived needs
and proposed areas of faculty development support, and to investigate
approaches and models in other states and educational systems.  As an
example, some folks have been examining models of Master Teacher and
mentoring programs.  Some of this planning money is being used to visit
campuses and go to pertinent conferences.  Seed money is also being used
to fund and organize a fall retreat (to include more CC members) and work
on ways to publish and disseminate information and increase dialogue
across the CC system.  In addition, the Wo Learning Champion committee is
working on methods for assessment and reporting outcomes of current
activities, and for future projects funded by Wo monies.

The underlying priorities are to structure a variety of activities and
opportunities on CC campuses for faculty and staff to enhance their
abilities and energies as teachers.  Recognize, the term "teacher" is used
in the most inclusive way to apply to all who help students learn.
Endowment funds will support initiatives that foster and mentor new
faculty, and renew seasoned instructors.

We are still in the beginning stages of sounding out colleagues and
learning from the experiences at other institutions.  This process will
continue with renewed commitment in the fall.  Be on the look out for
updates from me, and later from the representative who succeeds me on this
committee.  Please continue to email me or contact me with ideas and
suggestions - all given to me so far have been shared with the committee
and are part of our growing list of considered possibilities.

					Cynthia Smith
					Faculty Development Committee
					Wo LearningChampion Committee

101 WAYS TO COPE WITH STRESS

The following tips on coping with stress are provided courtesy of the
Tripler Army Medical Center here in Honolulu.  You can find this list,
other tips on stress and a wealth of teaching information at the HCC
Faculty Development website at:
http://www.honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/index.htm.

101 WAYS TO COPE WITH STRESS
Courtesy of the Tripler Army Medical Center
Honolulu, Hawaii

1. Get up 15 minutes earlier
2. Prepare for the morning the night before
3. Avoid tight fitting clothes
4. Avoid relying on chemical aids
5. Set appointments ahead
6. Don't rely on your memory ... write it down
7. Practice preventive maintenance
8. Make duplicate keys
9. Say "no" more often
10. Set priorities in your life
11. Avoid negative people
12. Use time wisely 
13. Simplify meal times
14. Always make copies of important papers
15. Anticipate your needs
16. Repair anything that doesn't work properly
17. Ask for help with the jobs you dislike
18. Break large tasks into bite size portions
19. Look at problems as challenges
20. Look at challenges differently
21. Unclutter your life
22. Smile
23. Be prepared for rain
24. Tickle a baby
25. Pet a friendly dog/cat
26. Don't know all the answers
27. Look for a silver lining
28. Say something nice to someone
29. Teach a kid to fly a kite
30. Walk in the rain
31.  Schedule play time into every day
32.  Take a bubble bath
33.  Be aware of the decisions you make
34.  Believe in yourself
35.  Stop saying negative things to yourself
36.  Visualize yourself winning 
37.  Develop your sense of humor
38.  Stop thinking tomorrow will be a better today
39.  Have goals for yourself
40.  Dance a jig
41. Say "hello" to a stranger
42. Ask a friend for a hug
43. Look up at the stars
44. Practice breathing slowly
45. Learn to whistle a tune
46. Read a poem
47. Listen to a symphony
48. Watch a ballet
49. Read a story curled up in bed
50. Do a brand new thing
51. Stop a bad habit
52. Buy yourself a flower
53. Take time to small the flowers
54. Find support from others
55. Ask someone to be your "vent-partner"
56. Do it today
57. Work at being cheerful and optimistic
58. Put safety first
59. Do everything in moderation
60. Pay attention to your appearance
61. Strive for Excellence NOT perfection
62. Stretch your limits a little each day
63. Look at a work of art
64. Hum a jingle
65. Maintain your weight
66. Plant a tree
67. Feed the birds
68. Practice grace under pressure
69. Stand up and stretch
70. Always have a plan "B"
71. Learn a new doodle
72. Memorize a joke
73. Be responsible for your feelings
74. Learn to meet your own needs
75. Become a better listener
76. Know your limitations and let others know them, too
77. Tell someone to have a good day in pig Latin
78. Throw a paper airplane
79. Exercise every day
80. Learn the words to a new song
81. Get to work early
82. Clean out one closet
83. Play patty cake with a toddler
84. Go on a picnic
85. Take a different route to work
86. Leave work early (with permission)
87. Put air freshener in your car
88. Watch a movie and eat popcorn
89. Write a note to a far away friend
90. Go to a ball game and scream
91. Cook a meal and eat it by candlelight
92. Recognize the importance of unconditional love
93. Remember that stress is an attitude
94. Keep a journal
95. Practice a monster smile
96. Remember you always have options
97. Have a support network of people, places and things
98. Quit trying to fix other people
99. Get enough sleep
100. Talk less and listen more
101. Freely praise other people
	
BONUS: Relax, take each day at a time...you have the rest of your life to
live!

PUZZLEMAKER

We hope you enjoy the crossword puzzle on the next page (This puzzle could
not be printed here - contact Jerry Cerny, Faculty Development Coordinator
for a copy). This puzzle was created on the Discovery School's Puzzlemaker
website found at http://puzzlemaker.com/.  In addition to crossword
puzzles you will be able to create and print fallen phrases puzzles,
letter tile puzzles, cryptogram puzzles, double puzzles, math squares,
number blocks, hidden message word search puzzles and mazes at this
website.  All can be applicable to your classroom teaching.  Check them
out!

NEW FACULTY

The following faculty members are new to our campus this spring.  As you
meet our new colleagues, now or in August, please help them feel welcome.
They include;

Laure Burke, Instructor, Cooperative Education.  Laure comes to the HCC
Cooperative Education staff with a vast array of education and work
experience.  She earned a BA with a dual major of Speech and Psychology
and an MA in Organizational Communication, both from the University of
Hawaii at Manoa.  She earned a Teaching Certificate in Secondary English
Education from Chaminade University.  Laure was a graduate teaching
assistant in the UHM Communications department and performed academic
advising in the UHM College of Arts and Sciences.  She also taught as an
adjunct instructor at Chaminade University.  Her business and industry
experience includes working at Bristol-Myers Squibb, GTE and Johnson and
Johnson.  In her free time she enjoys spending time, mostly sports and
other outdoor activities, with her five and seven year old sons and
reading.

Mark Kimura, Instructor, Boat Maintenance and Repair.  Mark is currently
filling a temporary instructional position at the Marine Education and
Training Center.  For the past four years Mark has been an Educational
Specialist at the center.  Since beginning work in the program, in
addition to his APT duties, he has been the lecturer for the marine
propulsion class each year that it is offered in the program.  He is now
teaching the second semester classes in the MARMR program.  Mark earned a
Certificate in Achievement in Automotive Maintenance Technology from
Windward Community College.  He worked for over 16 years in the marine
industry at several companies on Oahu.  Mark spends as much of his free
time as he can surfing.

Xin Li, Instructor, Library, Instruction and Reference Librarian.  Xin was
born and grew up in Beijing, P. R. China. She earned a BA in English
Language and Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University.  Before
moving to Hawaii in 1993, Xin taught English at Beijing Foreign Studies
University.  Xin has earned a Masters Degrees in Library and Information
Studies and a Masters Degree in Asian Studies from University of Hawaii at
Manoa. While at Manoa, Xin worked at various departments in Hamilton
Library as a student assistant. She worked for two years as a research
assistant at the East-West Center.  Prior to coming to HCC Library, Xin
was an APT in the Kapiolani Community College Library. Xin has great
enthusiasm for classical music, literature, and art.  Her dream is to
someday travel around the world.

Greg Morris, Instructor, Cooperative Education.  Greg, who is handling the
Coop Education duties at Pearl Harbor, relocated here to Hawaii from
Virginia this past January.  He grew up in a small town in southwest
Pennsylvania and earned an undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture
from the University of West Virginia.  He is a registered Landscape
Architect in the state of Virginia. He earned an MBA from Regents
University.  Greg taught drafting and CAD at Tidewater Community College
in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for six years.  He was a department head for
the CAD program at ITT Technical College in Virginia for three years.  He
also has eight years of part-time Landscape Architecture experience.  In
his free time Greg enjoys hiking and planing tennis.

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

TECH 1

	Mike Jennings, Assistant Professor, Drafting, became certified in AutoCAD
2000 last fall.  He has obtained level I and II certification.  HCC
through the PCATT has become an Autodesk Training Center, which can offer
classes that will allow students to obtain AutoCAD certification.

	Doug Madden, Associate Professor, Drafting, participated in an online
conference "Student Success in Online Learning Experiences" last fall.

TECH 2

	Paul Jacoby, Instructor, CENT, obtained CompTIA Network Certification last
fall.  HCC through the CENT program, is a Certified CompTIA training site
and instructors must be certified in order to teach courses in the CENT
program.

	Aaron Tanaka, Associate Professor, CENT, recently passed the Microsoft
Certification Exam in Windows 2000 Professional, Server and Networking
Infrastructure.  He is now able to teach courses which cover this material
in the credit and non-credit programs here at HCC.  

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

	Droic Little, Professor, Speech, and Joyce Henna, Associate Professor,
Language Arts, attended the 2001 Pacific Basin Learning Disabilities
Conference recently in Waikiki.  This was a very informative and
productive event with workshops presented by local and national experts in
the field.  In addition, Doric was the keynote speaker at the first
JANAMEF/NMRI Joint Seminar in Tokyo last fall.  She also spoke at the Saga
School of Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Osaka Gakuin University
and Kameda Medical Center.  She has written a chapter entitled "English is
the Key Element for Clinical Training in the U.S." in the
soon-to-be-released book, Getting into Clinical Training in the U.S.
(editor, Takami Sato, M.D.).

	Rick Ziegler, Professor, and Pat Patterson, Instructor, History,
collaboratively wrote a book titled, The Pearl Harbor Hinge this past
fall.  The book, available online through Trafford Publishing, is an
alternative history or 'fictional history' of what would have happened if
Japan had invaded and occupied Hawaii after the December 7, 1941 attack.
The book is based on Japanese plans and policies Rich and Pat obtained
through research. Bess Press in Hawaii will be publishing a paperback
edition in May, under the title Red Sun Over Hawaii. 

	Keith Crockett, Associate Professor, Spanish, has returned to HCC this
semester after spending one semester on a Fulbright Exchange Program at
the University of Chiapas in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.  He taught two
courses in advanced English as well as conducted an American Civilization
course in Spanish, addressing topics such as law and order, attitudes
toward death, and relationships between men and women in the course.

PLAID/PCATT

	Beryl Morimoto, Director, PCATT, attended a weeklong training course
offered by the Learning Resources Network (LERN) in Columbus, Ohio, last
fall.  She is now a Certified LERN Program Planner.

	Bill Becker, Assistant Profession, Information Technology Center, attended
Sun/Solaris training on Sun system administration in Colorado last fall.
This training will allow him to teach Sun/Solaris system administration
non-credit classes for PCATT and help him attain Sun/Solaris system
administration certification.

	Monir Hodges, Instructor, Information Technology Center, attended
Sun/Solaris training on Java programming in Colorado last fall.  This
training will allow her to teach Java programming non-credit classes for
PCATT and help her to attain Java certification.

	Wayne Lewis, Assistant Professor, Cisco, recently conducted the first
offering of the Semester 6 Cisco Networking Academy training sessions in
Singapore for Cisco Certified Network Professional Local Academy
instructors from Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.  Upon returning
home he turned around and traveled to Beijing, PRC, to conduct the first
offering of Semester 5 Cisco Networking Academy training sessions for
instructors from various colleges and universities in China and Korea.
Wayne and Dallas Shiroma, Associate Professor, Cisco, recently attended
Semester 7 Cisco Network Academy training in Phoenix. 

STUDENT SERVICES

	Lianne Nagano, Associate Professor, Earl Nakahara, Associate Professor,
and Femar Aguinaldo, Instructor all attended the 2001 Pacific Basin
Learning Disabilities Conference recently in Waikiki.  This was a very
informative and productive event with workshops presented by local and
national experts in the field.  

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If your activities/news were not included in the Faculty Spotlight and you
wish them to be, pass on the information to any FD Committee member.  The
information will be included in the next issue of the Faculty Development
Newsletter

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This newsletter was organized and published by the HCC Faculty Development
Committee.  Members:  Jerry Cerny, (Coordinator, Editor), Allen Tateishi,
Ivan Nitta, Linda Buck, Cynthia Smith, K. Gopal, Eric Holmberg, and Sharon
Ota.

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