OCTOBER FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES

MINUTES OF THE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
October 10, 2000
10:30 am - RAC Facilities

Attending:  Jerry Cerny, Allen Tateishi, Ivan Nitta, Linda Buck, K. Gopal,
Cynthia Smith, Eric Holmberg, Lianne Nagano (guest), Hanwell Kaakimaka
(guest), Heidi Ross (guest)
Not Attending: Sharon Ota

1. Allen Tateishi conducted a short tour of the Refrigeration and Air
Conditioning facilities.  The meeting followed in the RAC classroom.

2. The October Faculty Development Committee calendar of activities and
flyers for two upcoming events were distributed.

3. The September committee meeting minutes were approved.

OLD BUSINESS

1. Subcommittees were discussed.  Gopal volunteered to chair the activity
sub-committee and will coordinate a brown-bag lunch speaker for the
cafeteria for November.  Gopal will find a speaker to talk about a timely
and relevant topic such as tsunamis or volcanoes.  Although helping to
sponsor, coordinate and publicize social activities is seen as important
to the campus, these activities are not within the professional
development charter of the committee and no social sub-committee will be
formed.  Eric volunteered to chair the professional development award
sub-committee.  Application procedures will again be sent to all faculty.
Fac Dev committee members were encouraged to personally advertise this
also.  Applications will be accepted until November 13 and decisions made
at the next committee meeting on November 14.

2. Jerry has checked with Cindy Martin, Staff Development Coordinator at
LeewardCC and she awards stipends for professional speakers up to $99.  At
$100 other fiscal rules kick in.  The committee agreed to offer $75 to $95
for these stipends.

3. Jerry announced that the Faculty Development Statement was approved by
the FSEC at their last meeting.  He thanked Linda for her input into
cleaning up the wording in the statement as to what is a legitimate Fac
Dev activity.  Release time for the Fac Dev Coordinator was changed from
40% to 20% in the statement.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Entertainment books sales were discussed.  Jerry stated he would pick
up another case of books.  If all are sold, 60 books total would be sold
for a profit of $360.

2. A draft of the October Newsletter has been distributed on email
recently.  Jerry asked for activities to include in the Faculty Spotlight
section.  The newsletter will go to the print shop by October 23 with a
publication and distribution date of October 27.

3. Ivan stated that the AMT students would be holding a car clinic before
the end of the semester.  Fac Dev will help to publicize this.

OPEN DISCUSSION

1. Ivan noted that the topic of discussion for the 10/24 Teachers Talking
Seminar is dealing with disruptive students and the student conduct code.
He stated he will not be able to make this meeting and asked for advice on
when he could kick a student out of class for being uncooperative and
disruptive to the learning/teaching process in the classroom.  A short
discussion followed.

2. The next committee meeting is scheduled for November 14 at 10:30 am in
5-108.  Gopal will give a short tour of his fish tanks and an explanation
of his fish.  This meeting will be advertised again to the campus for
others to attend.

3. The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 am.

Cc:	Committee Members
	Sam Rhodes, FSEC Chair
	Ramsey Pedersen, Provost