Monthly Archives: April 2017

Reminder: SLO Friday featuring SLO Skills + Chili !

Join us this Friday, Apr 28, for our final SLO Friday of the semester: Part 4 of our Assessment Basics Course (ABC) + chili !

In Part 4, Using Assessment Results, you will broaden your SLO knowledge and hone your assessment skills by learning more about the fourth step in the SLO assessment process. What are some ways to summarize results? What other analyses can be done? What can be done to “close the loop”? Explore these questions and more in this SLO Skills session.

Friday Apr 28, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm in Naio 203

Click here for the full SLO Fridays schedule for Spring 2017.

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

Reminder: 2017 EUTF, PCP, and Island Flex Open Enrollment

EUTF and PCP OE Period:  April 3, 2017 through May 12, 2017 (it has been extended)

Effective Coverage:             July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018

Deadline for Employees:   COB Friday, April 28, 2017

During open enrollment, you have the opportunity to make changes to your health coverage and PCP elections.  

You may:

  • Add a health plan, change from one health plan to another, or drop a health plan
  • Add a dependent or drop a dependent
  • Change coverage tiers such as changing from single to family or family to 2-party
  • Change or terminate participation in PCP

If you wish to make changes to your health benefit plans and/or PCP election, you must complete the EC-1: Enrollment Form for Active Employees (EC-1) and submit to your designated human resources representative by COB April 28, 2017.  Forms submitted after April 28, 2017 will be rejected by EUTF.  NOTE:  If making changes to the health plans, coverage selection, dependent information and/or PCP election, please mark all the plans, coverage you want to be enrolled in, not just the ones you want to change.

The employer monthly contributions on the new Employee Rates and Contributions sheets reflects the July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017 employer contributions, until the collective bargaining agreement is reached.

Reduction in the HMSA PPO 75/25 Plan premiums beginning July 1, 2017.

EUTF Website

The PCP is a voluntary benefit program that allows employees to pay for their health plan premiums on a pre-tax basis.

Employees who are already enrolled in the PCP and who do not want to make any changes, do not need to do anything since their participation in the PCP will automatically continue.

Employees who wish to enroll, change, or terminate their participation in the PCP, should do so during the open enrollment period.  Open Enrollment PCP enrollments, changes, and cancellations must be done in Section 3 of the EC-1.

Employees should review the PCP Plan Document before making changes. (updated 3/24/2017)

The Governor has approved the use of up to two (2) hours of work time, including travel time, to attend an open enrollment informational session or up to 1-1/2 hours to view a webinar.

Process

  • Deadline for Employees:  If an employee wants to make a change to his/her health plan (i.e., add/change/drop a plan, add/drop a dependent, change coverage tiers from single to family or family to 2-party etc), the employee shall complete the EC-1 Enrollment Form and submit to the human resources office by COB Friday, April 28, 2017.
  • The HR representative is responsible for auditing the EC-1 form, ensuring that all sections are completed, and entering the departmental information on the bottom, including the correct BU.

Island Flex OE Period:       March 6, 2017 – April 28, 2017 

Effective Coverage:            July 1, 2017 –  June 30, 2018

Deadline for Employees:  Postmarked Friday, April 28, 2017

Process

  • Deadline for Employees: If an employee wants to sign up for Island Flex, the employee shall complete the Enrollment Forms and postmarked to Comprehensive Financial Planning, Inc no later than Friday, April 28, 2017.
    • To continue coverage, you must re-enroll during open enrollment.

Lē‘ahi Creative Arts Journal

 

The Board of Student Publications would like to congratulate the artists and authors whose work was published in the Kapiʻolani Community College 2017 Lē’ahi Creative Arts Journal.

Nani Lē‘ahi, he maka no Kahiki.

Beautiful Lē‘ahi, object of the eyes from Kahiki. (Diamond Head, always observed with interest by visitors from foreign lands.)

Mary Kawena Pukui, ‘Ōlelo Noe‘au 2277.

Lē’ahi is the name of the highest peak on the volcanic crater overlooking Waikiki beach. Kapi’olani Community College sits on her mauka slope, in the ‘ili of Kapahulu. The crater was called Diamond Head by visitors who thought crystals found in the crater were diamonds. The original name is Lae‘ahi: Lae, a headland or promontory and also a forehead, suggesting wisdom; ‘ahi is the yellow-fin tuna. Hi‘iaka (Pele’s sister) is said to have compared the profile of the headland to the brow of an ‘ahi. The name also suggests that offshore was an ‘ahi fishing ground. Lē‘ahi appears in “The Fire Chant for King Kalakaua,” by David Malo II, composed to honor the newly-elected King upon his return to Honolulu from his first royal tour of the islands, in March—April, 1874.

Ho‘oluehu i luna ke ahi o Lē‘ahi. Lē‘ahi’s fires scatters to the stars.

The chant alludes to a bonfire set on Lē’ahi to welcome Kalakaua back to O‘ahu. (The Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians, 134-144).

If you are interested in getting published in the 2018 journal, we will be accepting submissions from the spring 2017 semester online soon – stay tuned!  If you have any questions, please contact the Board of Student Publications at kccbosp@hawaii.edu

Pick up a free copy in the Kalia lobby, Office of Student Activities, Board of Student Publications Office or Koa Gallery.

Ka Hue Anahā Journal of Academic and Research Writing

The Board of Student Publications would like to congratulate the students whose work was published in the Kapiʻolani Community College 2017 Ka Hue Anahā Journal of Academic and Research Writing. 

Ka Hue Anahā publishes academic and research writing in all disciplines and programs and from all courses, except for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math research reports, which are published in ‘Upena o Ku: Journal of Writing in Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The name Ka Hue Anahā, determined by LLL Department Chair and Hawaiian language professor Nawa’a Napoleon, translates as “The calabash of light” or “The wellspring of reflected light,” and is meant to reflect the diversity of opinions and spectrum of cultures our island state fosters, and also pays homage to the concept of ‘welcoming ideas from across the curriculum’ previously engendered in a 2004-2006 publication called Spectrum.

If you are interested in getting published in the 2018 journal, we will be accepting submissions from the spring 2017 semester online soon – stay tuned!  If you have any questions, please contact the Board of Student Publications at kccbosp@hawaii.edu

Pick up a free copy in the Kalia lobby, Office of Student Activities, Board of Student Publications Office or Koa Gallery.

 

Free Brain Food – BOSP Snack & Chat

It’s 11 a.m. on Wednesday (4/26) and your stomach is rumbling, you have some time to kill, and you’re looking for something to read over the weekend.  What do you do…  head over to the Ilima Courtyard (under the big tree facing the Great Lawn) and grab some great snacks, engage in exciting conversation, and pick up your copy of the Leʻahi and Ka Hue Anahā journals!

Your Board of Student Publications executive team will be there with yummy snacks, engaging journals, and exciting conversations and can’t wait to meet you!  If you’re interested in getting involved next semester, BOSP has paid and unpaid positions available!  Stop by and chat with us today!

If you’re not able to make it, but want to learn more, email us at kccbosp@hawaii.edu or stop by Iliahi 124.

LLL Student Poster Session 5/5 @ 2:30 PM

Come and experience Undergraduate Research (UR) from the LLL Department! Students will present their academic research projects from three (3) different classes: ENG 100 and ESL 100: Composition and ENG 272M: Literature of Hawai’i, Oceania, and Asia.

Learn from students as they share their independent research projects (flyer attached).

WHEN: Friday, May 5
TIME: 2:30 – 4:30 PM
WHERE: ‘Iliahi 123 AB & Lobby

SP17 LLL UR Flyer

ALFS Annual Update on Friday 5/5

Don’t miss our first ever ALFS (Administrative Leadership Feedback System) Annual Update!

On Friday, May 5, 2017, at 4:30 pm, come to the Tamarind Room in the Ohelo Building to enjoy some good food, good company, and vital responses to the concerns and kudos we expressed in our Administrative Leadership Feedback Surveys. All Kapi‘olani CC staff and faculty, including lecturers and part-time employees, are invited.

Individual Administrative Leadership Feedback Survey results data and comments, aggregated and anonymized, have been presented directly and exclusively to the Administrative Leader who was the subject of the survey. The Administrative Leaders are asked to include their survey data, and a discussion of these data, in their individual Annual Self-Assessments.

We are not asking Administrators to share these data or the comments they received at the Annual Update. Instead, they will be sharing with us how they plan to address our concerns and respond to the survey results.

Event Information:

  • what: first ever ALFS Annual Update
  • when: Friday, May 5, 2017 at 4:30 pm
  • where: The Tamarind Room, Ohelo Building
  • Delicious food supplied by the Culinary Arts Program will be served
  • Space in the Tamarind Room is limited. Please RSVP to help us better estimate food needs. To RSVP, click here, then click on the green “Register” button.
  • If you have questions about the Administrative Leadership Feedback System, watch this narrated Prezi and/or contact any of the members of the ALFS Pilot Implementation Team:

2017-2018 Student Congress Executive Team

Please join me in welcoming the 2017-2018 Student Congress Executive Team:

PRESIDENT – Ismael (Ish) Salameh
VICE PRESIDENT – Raiyan Rafid

These student leaders are excited to represent the student voice on campus. The remaining positions of SECRETARY, TREASURER, and PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER will be discussed at the first General Meeting of the fall term in September. Thank You!