Monthly Archives: October 2015

Fall 2015 Supernatural Story Contest Winners

Congratulations to this yearʻs Supernatural Story Contest Winners!

  • Moani Terukinaʻs “Mirror Mirror” won the Super Spooky category.
  • Brad Momokiʻs “Ghoul Gray”   won the Super Superpowers category.
  • Tony Huynhʻs “Murderous Thoughts of a Stranger” won the Supernaturally Inspirational category.

Each of these talented fiction writers will receive a $100 University of Hawai‘i Bookstore gift card and publication in Kapi’o Online.

 

Outside Employment Training for Faculty on 11/6/15

This training is intended for Faculty, Staff & E/M.
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The Office of Human Resources will be conducting an training ​session on Outside Employment: Learn and understand the specific conditions and expectations governing BOR appointees (faculty, APT, and executive/managerial employees) who engage in outside employment while employed at the UH; what you need to do prior to performing outside consulting work; and how to ensure that you do not conflict and/or violate State laws governing conflicts of interest under Chapter 84, HRS.
 
Date:       Friday, November 6, 2015
Time:       10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location:  Various HITS sites
 
Deadline to register is November 3, 2015.
 
(Please ensure that you request and receive authorization from your supervisor prior to registering and attending one session.)
 
Training will be broadcast via HITS at various sites.  Please register at one of the following locations.
Please contact the System Office of Human Resources at 956-8643 or via email to uh-ohrtrain-l@lists.hawaii.edu by November 3, 2015 if you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, or if you have any questions.

Fall 2015 Literary Reading

Fall 2015 Literary Reading

Thursday, November 5, 2015

10:45 – Noon

Lama Library Media Alcove

Guest Authors Are:

  • Juliet Kono-Lee, is both a poet and fiction writer. She is a recipient of the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award for Excellence in Literature for most recent novel, Anshu: Dark Sorrow.
  • Jean Toyamaʻs recent publications include a volume of short stories in The Piano Tunerʻs Wife and a volume of renshi poems in No Choice But to Follow.
  • Shareen Murayama is currently a candidate for her MFA in poetry at Oregon State University. She lives and writes in Honolulu.
  • Mavis Hara is the author of An Offering of Rice, a collection of stories.

We will also be giving away 2 copies of Issue No. 106 of Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawaiʻi Literature and Arts in which of all our guest authors have been published.

SOS Workshops (Week of November 3 – 5, 2015)

Tuesday, November 3

APA Citations (Referencing)
Lama 118 (Library)
10:45 am – 11:30 am 

COMPASS Info Session 
Lama 118 (Library)
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Wednesday, November 4

Microsoft PowerPoint Basics
Lama 118 (Library)
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Scholarship Writing
Lama 118 (Library)
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm

Thursday, November 5

Health Management (103)
(Drink Two Monsterns and Don’t Call Me)

Lama 118 (Library)
10:45 am – 11:48 am

Library Resources
Lama 118 (Library)
1:45 pm – 2:15 pm

Job Readiness – Professionalism and Ethics
Marie Kumabe, Kristine Uclaray (KumabeHR)

Manele 102 (New Location – Hawaiian Studies)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

For more information and workshops, visit the SOS Website http://library.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/SOS

Stayin’ Alive – 30:2 Learn CPR!

KCC’s Healthy Campus 2020 committee is sponsoring a Learn CPR Day on Thursday afternoon, 10/28, in front of the Ilima Building on the Great Lawn.  This FREE event is open to all students, faculty and staff and will feature continuous, brief hands-on demonstrations of CPR and use of the automated external defibrillator (AED).  It will be held between 1:00pm-4:00pm.

Come and learn the basics of CPR – you could save a life!

(no certification provided – but you may get a treat!)

THINK—The Doctor is IN: Jaworowski & Evans

Our THINK sessions for 2015-2016 begin with two faculty presenting their recent doctoral research.

Friday, October 30, 3:15-5:00, in the 220 Grille.
As always, light refreshments will be served.

Evans, Dave Faculty Perspectives of Satisfaction at a Large, Public, Research University Through the use of a qualitative, multiple case study design, this research examined the level, sources, and nature of the satisfaction of faculty at a large, public, research university. With the objective to inform all constituents of the importance of higher education, suggestions and examples of best practices are suggested in the Implications for Practice section.

Jaworowski, Susan Are Law Schools Poised for Innovation? Three Case Studies of Law Professors Teaching Online American J.D. Programs Whether American law schools are at the tipping point where they recognize the value or and support online education, or whether they are more likely to stay with bricks and mortar face-to-face education. Lens used was Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory. Specifically analyzed the participants on whether they were innovators or early adopters (in brief, innovators are less likely to affect their peers and spur adoption of an innovation and early adopters are more likely to do so. The value to my peers is in the diffusion of innovations theory. Why do some innovations take off and some get stuck in the mud?

The Study Hub @ Lama Library – Extended Hours for Writing and Math Mentoring

Study with us!  Get support in all levels and types of writing and math from Student Mentors as well as Faculty Volunteers at the Study Hub in the Lama Library Alcove. Support is also available from History and Chemisty faculty, including peer-led CHEM 161 Plus.

Study Hub support is available Monday to Friday. Core hours are 8:00-5:00 Monday to Thursday, and 8:00-2:00 on Friday. Additional hours and subjects are listed at http://bit.ly/thestudyhub The schedule may change subject to mentor availability.

Contact us at studyhub@hawaii.edu or 734-9352

Reminder: SLO Friday featuring SLO Stories

Join us this Friday, Oct 30 for our first SLO Stories session of the semester.

In our SLO Stories sessions, you will hear about what your colleagues are doing with SLOs in their classrooms. In this session, Mark Kunimune shares his story of developing a rubric to evaluate paramedic student interns in the field.

Friday Oct 30, 11:00 – 11:45 am in Naio 203

If you would like an email reminder on the day of the session, please email Susan Jaworowski (susanjaw@hawaii.edu)

For more information contact Susan Jaworowski (susanjaw@hawaii.edu) or Tony Silva (silvaa@hawaii.edu)

“Your Kapiolani Experience” — Update #3

Dear Kapiolani Community College Ohana,
The campus open house event, “Your Kapiolani Experience” on November 6th is building momentum!  The event theme is a journey.  Numerous “destinations” on campus will be open to our guests.  Guests may  join a tour group hosted by a student ambassador, or they may explore using a self guided tour map.  
 
Drum rrrrrrroll!!  The one and only Royal Hawaiian Band will be performing at 5:30 p.m. on the Great Lawn! Roosevelt High Schools Hula Halau and KCC’s own musical ensemble led by Anne Craig Lum will be performing as well.
 
The chili cook off is promising to be very tasty!  Recipes are still being accepted by 9am on October 29 to johnlric@hawaii.edu.
 
Please share the event date and times with your students during upcoming classes.    It is a great opportunity for them to check out areas and programs on the campus that are not part of their current Kapiolani Experience!  They are welcome to invite friends and family as well.
 
Please rember, if someone asks you to help with the event, please say yes.  If you are not asked to help at the event, please stay and enjoy it as a guest.  YOUR family and friends are very welcome as well!  
Thank you so much for joining me in opening our doors to our neighbors on November 6th.  With your kokua it will be an evening to remember!
 
Leon Richards