Aloha KCC Ohana,

If you have not registered for the 2015 Hawaii Strategy Institute (HSI) on Friday & Saturday, March 6 & 7, please do so right away. Registration is still  open, so please register online at  http://hsi2015.weebly.com/ This institute is all about Student Success. Please see the attachment below for all the wonderful workshops that are being offered. Come and support your colleagues system wide who are presenting on what they are doing for Student Success on their campuses. Come and support your KCC colleagues, too!

Also, please wear your Student Success shirts to this institute. If you do not have a shirt and would like to place an order, please fill out the attached order form and email it to alandgra@hawaii.edu. Once the order is processed, you will be sent an email and your order may be picked up from Nancy Okada in Koa 109, Monday-Friday from 10am-3pm. Please have exact cash.

Thank you. Vern (Student Success Campus Council, Chair)

Student Success Shirt Order Form

2015 HSI Program

Aloha KCC Ohana,

This year the Community College Leadership Champions (CCLC) are collecting “Recipes for Promising Practices,” focusing on different areas of student success (i.e., college readiness, distance education, sustainability) that align with the UHCC System Strategic Directions. Our role is to collect promising practices from each of the CC campuses – as many as we can for as many different areas as we can – by March 15th. The promising practices will then be put together in a “recipe book” and distributed to each campus.

I’d like to invite and encourage all of you to submit at least one promising practice. More is certainly welcomed. Just think of what you do to support students in their successes at KCC and in their lives. I know that each and every one of you contribute to student success everyday! :o) It can be a simple practice to a more complicated practice. I just want to share with the other campuses all the wonderful things that KCC is doing for students.

The form to submit your promising practice is below. Please invite a colleague/friend to contribute.

Thank you.  Vern, KCC CCLC Representative

http://goo.gl/forms/YSso05ded3

Congratulations to Joy Oehlers, Kelli Nakamura, Julie Rancilio, and Maiana Minahal for being awarded an IDEAS (formerly Diversity and Equity Initiative Award) grant from the UH SEED Office for their project entitled “Celebrate Diversity Month:  Social Justice and Community Activism Diversity Workshops.”  The project will add a new element to diversity programming in April 2015 with a series of speaker workshops on key social challenges in Hawaiʻi to promote awareness, commitment to personal and civic responsibility, and community action.

Speakers include Kathryn Xian of Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery (PASS), community-building facilitator and organizer Puanani Burgess, Assistant Professor Julie Rancilio, and UH System Commissioner for LGBTIQ and certified Safe Zone Trainer Maiana Minahal. Together these community leaders  along with student facilitators will examine LGBT issues, community-building by embracing diversity, human trafficking, and feminism in the media.

The UH SEED Office has been a strong and consistent supporter of diversity programming at Kapiolani Community College.  Funding for diversity programming is available every fall and spring semester through the SEED Initiatives for Diversity, Equity, Access and Success award.  To view a comprehensive list of previous grant recipients from the UH SEED Office, please visit the Office for Institutional Effectiveness website Grants Development section.

Congratulations to Carl Hefner, Project Director of the Kapiolani Language, Culture and Cinema Institute funded by the UHCC Honda International Opportunities Fund Grant.

Carl’s proposal was deemed an excellent idea, as the screening committee was impressed with his innovative approach to continue to raise awareness of international education on the Kapiolani Community College campus.

This project consists of a full day of selected international film showings and scholarly panel discussions in an institute format that will enable participants (students, faculty, staff and community members) to attain multiple levels of aesthetic experience learning about the diversity of cultures of the world through language, culture and cinema.

The project is designed to enhance their knowledge of the peoples of the world, their languages, and increase sensitivity to other cultures and values through visual productions such as television and films

Keynote speaker will be Mr. Chris Lee, founding member of the Academy for Creative Media at UHM, followed by two morning panel discussions featuring documentary, television/film producers and scholars Christal Whelan, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, Risa Okamoto, Brent Anbe, Louis Bouquet, Beryl Yang, Michelle Tupou and others.

The full day of events will also feature a screenwriting workshop, conducted by well-known local author, playwright and screenwriter Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. In this workshop, students will explore the crucial script writing elements of language, dialogue and exposition. This lively session will include examples, exercises and your willing participation. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of cultural considerations when creating a script with Pacific or Asian themes and cultural content. KCC students will be invited to attend through their instructors and tasked to begin a script with Pacific or Asian cultural content.

Following the workshop, after establishing a due date of April 15, 4 awards will be made when the developed scripts are turned in to the workshop instructor and judged for script and character development, establishment of a cultural environment, and creative use of music.

Greetings! The Contract Renewal and Tenure and Promotion C4wards would like to invite interested faculty members to attend a workshop on assessment hosted by Tony Silva on Friday, February 27, 2015 from 1-2:30 in Naio 203. Thank you!