Akamai Workforce Initiative Retreat

I got to Lahaina early yesterday to be in a retreat designed to engage a bunch of communities working on re-designing the "Professional Development Program", create the new Maui Community College 4 year BS program, and on how to integrate teaching teams in to lab courses run by the PDP.... I'm on the hook to develop / teach some upper level courses as part of the new 4-year program. Teaching is time consuming..... especially when trying to make a course relevant, fit the local workforce, address under-represented minority / language issues and teach processes and attitudes (not just content).