Name
Terri Pyer
Moises Almendariz
Representing
CHRO; co-chair
Administrative
Present
Lori Kildal
Augustine Nevarez
Laura Lark
Marina Reyes
Andrea Marble
Janet Flores
Sunita Lanka
John Perez
Nancy Wheat
Janeen Whitmore
Administrative
Administrative
Professional
Development Center
CSEA
Human Resources
Faculty
Faculty
Faculty
Faculty
Faculty, co-chair
Leslie Price
Others
Name
Monica Massimo
PT Faculty
Title or Representing Present
HR Staff
CALL TO ORDER & INTRODUCTIONS
Meeting called to order at 1:50 p.m.
ACTION ITEMS
1. Agenda was approved. x x x x x x x x x
2. Minutes of February 22, 2016 meeting approved.
INFORMATION/DISCUSSION/PRESENTATIONS
1. Final plans for Educator-in-Residence tomorrow
Absent x x
Absent x x x
Terri Pyer
Terri Pyer
Terri Pyer
J. Whitmore
HARTNELL COLLEGE VISION STATEMENT
Hartnell College will be nationally recognized for the success of our students by developing leaders who will contribute to the social, cultural, and economic vitality of our region and the global community.
HARTNELL COLLEGE MISSION STATEMENT
Focusing on the needs of the Salinas Valley, Hartnell College provides educational opportunities for students to reach academic goals in an environment committed to student learning, achievement and success.
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Janeen said that everything was ready for the visit for the Educator-in-Residence tomorrow. He will be giving an afternoon session for faculty on Making Your Teaching Memorable, and one at 6 for students on Making Your Learning Memorable. Anyone can go to any of the sessions; they aren’t limited to the main target audience. Because they are interactive, we’ll have the room arranged with rows of tables and chairs instead of just chairs. Room set-up is one of the things we need to ask presenters ahead of time. She’ll send out a reminder email today.
2. Flex Day update J. Whitmore
Discussion about the committee’s role, if any, for the fall flex day/convocation. Lori said that the agenda is pretty standard without a lot of room for change or need for input from the committee.
Lori reported on a new initiative that we’ll start this year. She and a committee of four others (3 faculty members and one manager) are developing four modules/seminars designed to assist new teachers to learn essential aspects of teaching, classroom management, learning about our students, building a syllabus, and incorporating technology into their teaching. She’ll share more details as the committee’s work proceeds. The face-to-face workshops will be given before the fall semester begins. Attendance will be mandatory for new teachers, but all teachers, including adjuncts, will be invited. Discussion about how to make these sessions available to others after the fact.
The group discussed the fact that the entire committee will serve as the flex committee and will vote on the approval of flex activities – there is no separate subcommittee. We should have a clearer after-action report for faculty after particular activities, which is clearly different from the final report (that is submitted in May of each year). This final report is still needed, because the
Isupport system will not capture the pre-approved activities that people completed.
Lori said that she would provide a count of how many staff members attended the student success conference this January.
3. Next round of travel and conference – April 15 Terri Pyer
The committee approved proceeding with the next round of travel and conference fund applications the way that it has done in the past. The HR Office will post all applications to our google drive and send out a notice to committee members to review the applications, complete their scoring sheet (using the rubric provided), and submit their scores by the announced deadline. No matter how many or few committee members vote, the results of that voting will control which applications are funded.
Terri will send email reminder to campus about the April deadline.
4. 4CSD Conference – April 7-8, Claremont, CA Terri Pyer
The group supported sending Laura Lark to the conference this year.
5. Plan for innovation grant wrap-up Terri Pyer
As it was done last year, there will continue to be time set aside for the innovation grant recipients to give a brief presentation on their projects.
6. Next Educator-in-Residence selection process J. Whitmore/T. Pyer
The group discussed moving up the deadline for choosing the next Educator in Residence to before the summer break so that we could book dates for that person to be our keynote in
HARTNELL COLLEGE VISION STATEMENT
Hartnell College will be nationally recognized for the success of our students by developing leaders who will contribute to the social, cultural, and economic vitality of our region and the global community.
HARTNELL COLLEGE MISSION STATEMENT
Focusing on the needs of the Salinas Valley, Hartnell College provides educational opportunities for students to reach academic goals in an environment committed to student learning, achievement and success.
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January, as well as our EinR. This year, we had finalized the January selection in early October.
But, selecting spring dates for the EinR has been challenging because there are so many events in the spring.
Terri and Janeen will look at the nomination form to update it before our May meeting.
NEXT MEETING(S)
April 18, 2016
May 16, 2016
June 20, 2016
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 3:10 p.m.
HARTNELL COLLEGE VISION STATEMENT
Hartnell College will be nationally recognized for the success of our students by developing leaders who will contribute to the social, cultural, and economic vitality of our region and the global community.
HARTNELL COLLEGE MISSION STATEMENT
Focusing on the needs of the Salinas Valley, Hartnell College provides educational opportunities for students to reach academic goals in an environment committed to student learning, achievement and success.
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