FEBRUARY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES

Members present: Stephen Chu, Patricia Gooch, Ralph Kam, Femar Lee, Mario Mediati, and Rona Wong

Guest presenter: Kathleen Kane, U.H. Manoa Center for Teaching Excellence

• The meeting began at 2:10 p.m. with Kathy Kane's presentation on U.H.'s Faculty Mentoring Program. She explained the different aspects of the mid-semester evaluation process: SGID (small group instructional diagnosis), paper and pencil assessment, class observation and the individual meeting to share results and to brainstorm strategies to help. This process is all faculty-initiated and does not replace normal departmental procedures, e.g. peer evaluations.

  In order to learn more about this, Kathleen invited anyone to visit and observe the actual process. We should contact her directly to set this up.

• Femar spoke to Emily Kukulies regarding the graffiti workshop. She will go ahead and schedule it during the third week in March.
• Rona is working on newsletter and it should be completed in April
• Pat will remind faculty about applying for faculty development monies. The due date for the applications will be February 28th, 2007 so that they will be ready for review at our next meeting.
• Other notes: Via e-mail, the following funding requests had been approved by committee members:
  • $150 for refreshments for High School 2 HCC event, February 23rd, 2007
  • $256 for support of Excellence in Education Conference, March 2, 2007.

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• Committee Members
• Ramsey Pedersen, Chancellor
• Jerry Cerny, Interim Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs
• Rob Edmondson, FSEC Chair