Faculty Development Committee

 

Minutes – 12/02/2005

 

1:00pm – Humanities Department

 

Committee Members Present:

 

Current Members – will vote until next semester

Holly Boomer

Tony Fresquez

Shannon Calitri

Marty Red Bear

Incoming members:

Kim He Crow

Jean Reeves

 

 

Minutes:

 

Minutes of 11/4/05:

 

Motion:

Holly Boomer – Motion to accept minutes

Marty Red Bear – Second

Motion passed unanimous

 

 

 

Meeting with Bush Foundation Liaison – Thursday 12/8/2005

 

  • Dr. Giraud will plan lunch. He and Dan Koopman will meet with Bert Ahern and the other representatives until noon. Shannon, Jean, Holly, Susie will meet during lunch with the Bush reps.
  • Friday morning Doug and Marty will meet them at He Sapa for a tour of the center.

 

Upcoming Conferences

 

OLC has been invited to send representatives to a National Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference for Minority-Serving Institutions conference titled “Teaching and Learning for Empowerment” at Clark Atlanta University January 15-17. All OLC needs to provide is airfare and a modest hotel and the conference organizers will provide meals, transportation and conference fees. They are eager for representatives from tribal colleges.

 

Jean and Kim volunteered to attend this conference.

 

The FDC needs to make travel plans to attend The Collaboration’s Register today for “Building a Learning-Centered Institution” from February 17-18 at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota. The early bird deadline for registration is January 23.

 

The entire committee should plan to attend.

 

 

Motion:

Doug Noyes – Motion to approve travel for these two conferences

Susie White Thunder – Second

Motion passed unanimous

 

 

 

Funding Requests –

 

 

1.)    Andrew Thompson ($1,500+) – Attend IRB Conference

 

Discussion:

·        We sent this back to Andy at our last meeting because we felt this was a benefit to the Instructional Affairs division rather than an individual professional development request. We informed Andy to ask Dr. Giraud to support the expenditure as it is more appropriate as an expense from the Academic/Instructional Division. We informed Andy that if Dr. Giraud refuses, the committee will reconsider Andy’s request.

·        Dr. Giraud refused to fund this.

 

Motion:

Doug Noyes – Motion to approve Andy’s request with the knowledge that this will count as his own personal professional development funding

Susie White Thunder – Second

Motion passed unanimous

 

 

 

Meeting during holiday break:

 

  • Committee scheduled Friday January 7 and Saturday January 8 to meet in Rapid City so the new members can be brought up to speed and a new committee structure and processes and procedures can be developed.
  • Holly and Shannon will investigate hotels and locations in Rapid City to conduct the meeting.

 

 

 

Meeting adjourned 2:45 p.m.