Attending: Jerry Cerny, Grace Funai, Charlene Gima, Chris Hacskaylo, Jessica Kaniho and Guy Shibayama
Unable to attend: Ralph Kam
Guests: Monir Hodges, Shanon Miho, Cynthia Smith, Jonathan Wong

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

• Meeting Agenda
• Faculty Development Foundation Account Statement
• Faculty Development Committee Charter

Excellence In Education Planning
The Excellence in Education Day will be held on Friday, March 6, later this spring. All former Wo's, the Faculty Development Committee and the Staff Development Committee will all be part of the planning for this day. An excellent start to the planning was conducted. The day will begin with a continental breakfast. Monir and Jessica have agreed to coordinate this. Lunch will be bentos. Grace will coordinate this. A $5 registration fee will be collected. Jerry will produce and distribute a flyer for the day, collect registrations and money. The theme for the day will be retention. The day will begin with a welcome from the Chancellor followed by a review of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) data by Erika Lacro. A plenary of all attendees with a discussion of retention will follow. The morning will end with breakouts for faculty and staff. Suggested breakouts include;

• Service Learning
• Learning Community
• Universal Design for Learning
• Retention Follow-up Discussion
• Civility and Treating Everyone with Aloha

Following lunch, an excursion planned by the Staff Development Committee will take place. Money will come from the registration fee, the Faculty Development Committee, the Staff Development Committee and the Chancellor. Jerry will ask Mike Rota if he is willing to contribute money from his Chancellor's Enrichment Account to help cover the costs of the day.

Old Business

1. Guests attending the meeting engaged in Excellence in Education planning were thanked and dismissed.

2. State Poultry Processors fundraiser - Jerry stated that $200 was earned by this fundraiser in November. $25 was paid to the College for a profit of $175. Another chicken sales fundraiser will be planned for March or April.

3. Faculty Development Foundation Account - a Foundation Account statement was distributed. No funds were spent on leis and refreshments during the fall semester. The following funding requests were approved:
   • Up to $35 for refreshments for a recent meeting of those taking part in the HCC 90th Anniversary Project
   • Up to $325 for lunches for the High School to HCC Day on February 27. Grace stated that Allen Tateishi is in charge of this. Jerry will work with Allen and Nida Chock to coordinate using a PO from the Faculty Development Foundation Account.
   • Up to $300 for Excellence in Education Day

New Business

1. Spring Faculty Professional Development money - the timeline for submission of spring requests for faculty professional development money will be finalized at the next Committee meeting. Awards will be distributed at the March meeting.

2. Spring Newsletter - Jerry stated he would draft the Spring Faculty Development Newsletter. Chris will assist and submit an article for it. She will probably write about using manipultives in remedial and development courses. Jerry asked for names of new faculty at HCC this semester who will be highlighted in the Newsletter. The Newsletter will finalized and distributed mid to late April.

3. Faculty Development Committee Charter - Jerry distributed a copy of the Committee Charter. He stated that is it to be reviewed annually. The review will be completed at the next Committee meeting. He pointed out there is a question mark next to the date of authorization by the FSEC. It was suggested that the question mark be deleted and no date inputted, so it will state, "Authorized by the FSEC."

4. Perkins Assessment Conference - Jerry stated he is serving on a UHCC System Perkins Professional Development Committee. The Committee is coordinating a 2nd Annual UHCC Assessment Conference. The Conference will be held at Windward CC on the Monday and Tuesday of Spring Break, March 23 and 24. Jerry stated a call for proposals will be distributed soon and more information and registration for the conference will follow. Chris asked if qualitative can used for assessment. The consensus was, yes. She has already talked to Ross Egloria about this and may submit a call for proposals to present this at the Assessment Conference.

Open Discussion

None

The next Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, February 12, at 3:30 pm in the PCATT Conference Room. It will be another Excellence in Education planning meeting, also.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 pm.

cc:

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