Monthly Archives: June 2017

President’s Emerging Leaders Program 2017-18 Cohort

Congratulations to Kelli Brandvold, HR Manager, and Cheri Souza, Health Sciences/EMS Counselor, who have been appointed as Kapi‘olani CC’s participants in the President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP). They will join faculty and staff selected from the other UH campuses and system offices to participate in the 2017-18 cohort of this professional development program designed to identify and prepare future leaders within the University of Hawai‘i System. We are proud to have Kelli and Cheri represent Kapi‘olani in this distinguished program.

Health Program Students Awarded at HOSA Conference

Congratulations to our students who were awarded and recognized at the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) 40th Annual International Leadership Conference!

Students from across the world attended the conference, held in Orlando, Florida on June 21-24, including delegates from Canada, Puerto Rico, and America Samoa. HOSA is a national student organization endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education and the Health Science Technology Education Division of the Association for Career and Technical Education. These students convene to compete among different categories of skills within the health profession.

Our students recognized were:

Medical Spelling – Jolene Jordan, 2nd place

Medical Assisting – Latanya Edwards, 1st place (2nd year in a row)

Nursing Assisting – Bernadette Agcaoili, 1st place

Medical Math – Howard Dang, top 10

Clinical Specialty – Ashley Cabrito, top 10

Sports Medicine – Alden Chong and Royce Moux, move on to round 2

Kapiʻolani CCʻs 2017 delegates to HOSA

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REMINDER: A Webinar on Effective Online Advising: Best Practices For Improved Communication & Connection

A friendly reminder…hope to see you there!

WHEN:  Thursday, June 29 @ 7 am

WHERE:  Naio 203

This is a live webinar facilitated by Innovative Educators and will be broadcast in Naio 203.

Overview

Due to decreasing budgets and increasing demands from students for more online support services, advisors are faced with serving more students online. Advising students through a variety of modalities can be challenging due to the fact that online and campus-based students often face common limitations and barriers. In addition, advisors run the risk of eliminating some of the developmental advising strategies that are critical to effective advising as they attempt to manage a seemingly unmanageable amount of emails and phone calls. This session will address essential components of successful online advising: building rapport and trust, assessing and anticipating student needs, providing information and support, reducing fears, and facilitating a sense of connectedness. Even though the use of technology is essential for providing online advising services, it inevitably breeds some issues, such as confidentiality and security, connectivity, and clarity of the information exchanged. The presenter will address these issues by presenting real-life examples and participants will be encouraged to provide input and feedback.
 

Objectives

  • Identify benefits and challenges unique to the online experience
  • Discuss best practices in advising
  • Explore essential components of advising online
  • Examine real-life examples of effective and ineffective communication with students
  • Discuss the issues of confidentiality and security, connectivity, and clarity of the information exchanged
  • Learn strategies for engaging students in a meaningful, productive advising relationship

Who Should Attend

  • Student Services/Affairs
  • Online Learning
  • Advising
  • Counseling
  • Career Services
  • Financial Aid
  • Retention Specialist

Presenter

“Online students are at significant risk for attrition as they experience isolation and a sense of disconnect from the institution, as well as find themselves lacking resources and information. Advisors can significantly impact students’ perceptions of their online experience by providing ongoing support and information to students.”

 

Sue Ohrablo is a nationally recognized speaker and author in the areas of academic advising and student services. Her presentations blend theory and practice, and include real-world scenarios for professionals to apply as they work to support students. Sue’s areas of expertise include comprehensive developmental advising, student engagement, advising adult and online students, supporting students at a distance, advisor skill development, and advising administration.

Sue has over thirty years of experience in higher education administration, working in public and private institutions and with diverse student populations ranging from freshman to doctoral level students. She has held positions as director of academic advising, academic advisor, personal counselor, career counselor, and employment specialist. Sue currently works as a higher education consultant and serves as an academic advisor and adjunct professor at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida.

Staff Council Ratifies Bylaws In First-Ever Signing Ceremony

June 27, 2017 marks a milestone for the Staff Council at Kapiolani Community College. With a stroke of a pen, the Staff Council officially ratified bylaws for the first time in the organization’s existence dating back decades ago.

Today’s signing ceremony was supported by a unanimous vote in favor of the bylaws from the Staff Council membership. Over forty staff members gathered for this occasion to sign the bylaws in person and were accompanied by faculty and administrators from campus who came in support of the event.

Chair DeMello explained the significance of today’s signing ceremony as a milestone which supports campus governance, one of the criteria the campus will be evaluated on in the upcoming 2018 ACCJC Accreditation. Furthermore, Staff Council’s bylaws will honor the campus policy on governance, entitled “Governance at Kapiolani Community College.”

Chancellor Pagotto praised Staff Council’s Board of Representatives for their efforts, saying, “I would like to acknowledge the leadership of Staff Council, who put together a remarkable program of activities and who nurtured the participation in the development of the by-laws from all constituent groups. Youʻve done a great job. And a very special thanks to and appreciation for the the driving force in 2016-2017: Lee Ann DeMello.”

Staff Council was included in the campus authorized governance organization structure to provide an official voice for staff members, which includes administrative professionals, technical experts, clerical staff and janitorial staff at the campus. According to the campus governance policy, Staff Council was established in 2000 by then-Provost John Morton with its original mission to “provide a formal voice and organization representing the staff in the administration of the campus, while offering avenues to enhance the professionalism, skills and competencies of our staff members, creating a working atmosphere of respect, dignity, equality and cooperation.”

Chairwoman DeMello shared the successes of Staff Council during the 2015-17 term, congratulating her fellow officers and the members for their active participation in professional development, governance advisory decisions and other trainings. Many of the campus-wide activities benefitted students and faculty, who attended activities ranging from a visit from vendors who generously donated office samples, to communication tips from Prof. Keith Kashiwada (Speech).

The Board of Representatives, led by Chairperson Lee Ann DeMello, took turns signing the bylaws before inviting Interim Chancellor Louise Pagotto for her endorsement. Staff Council is the final authorized governance organization (“AGO”) to ratify bylaws and officiate the rules by which official actions will be taken on behalf of its membership.

In her farewell message, Chairwoman DeMello encouraged Staff Council members to nominate officers for the next term to serve as the first cohort of staff leaders operating under the new bylaws. Nominations will open this Friday, June 30, 2017.

 

KapCC Continuing Education & Training Receives $112,850 HTA Grant Award

Kapi`olani Community College’s Office of Continuing Education and Training (OCET) received notification today, June 27, 2017, that it is the recipient of a $112,850.00 Hawaii Tourism Authority grant. The award is for he “HTA 2017 Training Program” which includes: providing two workshops at the Global Tourism Summit in September 2017; offering one train-the-trainer workshop for two certification workshops – the Certificate of Customer Service in Hawai’i (for non-tour guides) and the Certificate for Hawai`i’s Professional Tour Guides; and training a minimum of 90 participants statewide for the Certifications listed above. The statewide training will be offered in collaboration with the OCETs at Maui College, Kauai Community College, and Hawai`i Community College.

New Civil Service Vacancy

The vacancy announcements listed below are available for viewing via the OHR Home Page. The deadline to apply for these positions is 7/11/2017.

#46484 JANITOR II, BC-02,BU-01 – MANOA CAMPUS
#8055 MECHANICAL REPAIR HELPER, BC-05 ,BU-01 – MANOA CAMPUS
#00799 OFFICE ASSISTANT IV (TYPING), SR-10,BU-03 – KAMUELA, HAWAII

The Web page address is:

http://www.pers.hawaii.edu/wuhcs/

Keck Foundation Funds Multi-State Partnership to Develop Indigenous Knowledge

Los Angeles, California — The W.M. Keck Foundation announced today that Kapiolani Community College will be a recipient of an Undergraduate Education Grant to fund a multi-state consortium of colleges with Hawaii and Alaska. The project entitled, “Transcending Barriers to Success: Connecting Indigenous Knowledge to Science,” includes the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Kapiolani Community College.

The Keck grant will support the Kapiolani CC Strategic Plan objectives to integrate STEM and environmental studies with indigenous knowledge and Western science. The Kapiolani CC portion of the project will be lead by Bob Franco (Director, Office for Institutional Effectiveness), an expert on Samoan, Polynesian, and Pacific Islander demographic, ecological, health, and cultural issues. 

According to Franco, who will be serving as a co-investigator for the project, the project “advances the core idea to develop synergies between indigenous knowledge and natural and social science in order to bring more coherence to the curriculum, advance indigenous student success, and develop authentic partnerships with informal science (museums, arboreta, acquaria, community-based learning centers) and place-based sites.”

Franco’s work will expand upon his prior work on STEM grants, including his leadership roles as the NSF Hawai`i EPSCoR liasion, and Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation coordinator for Kapi’olani Community College.

 

The project will integrate ongoing initiatives promoting an indigenous serving institution, including place-based learning, service-learning, and undergraduate research as high impact teaching practices.

The indigenous knowledge integrated by the project team will follow various themes throughout the projects, including Conservation/Cultural Perpetuation in the first year, Water/ Wai in the second year, and Food/ ‘Ai in the final year.

The Stony Brook Foundation will serve as the official recipient of the award and subgrant two sites in Hawaii to conduct the project activities. Ulla Hasager (Associate Specialist & Civic Engagement Director, Ethnic Studies Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa) will lead the Hawaii team. Other partnering campuses include Windward CC – Dave Krupp, Biology and UH West Oahu – Albie Miles, Sustainable Food Systems.