Monthly Archives: May 2018

Staff Council Title IX Staff Training This Friday (5/25)

Aloha Staff! Plenty seats still available for this training! Sign up today! 

The 2017-2018 Staff Council is proud to co-sponsor along with the Kapi`olani Community  College Title IX Team and the University of Hawai`i System Title IX and The Office of Institutional Equity a professional development opportunity for ALL STAFF to attend and participate on Friday, May 25, 2018.

Ms. Michelle Rocca Senior Advisor, of the Office of Institutional Equity will be conducting the training. Please look at the attached flyer for more information on the program, it’s speaker and why it is important to attend. Please RSVP to this forum today at this link. 

 

Do you want to exercise at work?

Learn basic strengthening, Active Isolated Stretching as well as overall fitness techniques in the Senior Fitness class(Tue/Thur 7:30am-8:45am). Don’t let the word “Senior” fool you. Other classes starting up such as Advanced Tai Chi(Tues. 5:30pm or Thurs.10:45am) is open to anyone interested in the Sun style of Tai Chi. See our website http://www.kupunaeducation.com or call 734-9108.SU18 KEC Sched.pdf

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New Position Vacancy

The following vacancy on the Kapi‘olani Community College campus, listed below is available for viewing on the Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai‘i page via:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu   Job Number 2018-00282

and shadow posted on the Work at UH website via:

http://workatuh.hawaii.edu/Jobs/Default

This recruitment will close on 06/12/18:

#81964, Instructional and Student Support (Financial Aid Sp), PBB, BU-08

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) May Newsletters

The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) May 2018 edition of the Hawai‘i Employee and Hawai‘i Supervisors newsletters are posted on the Worklife Hawai‘i website.

Featured topics this month:

Hawaii Employee:

    • Communicating with millennials;
    • Using caution with mental Health apps;
    • Mental health in the workplace;
    • Stress management and gardening;
    • Risk and complacency;
    • Update on e-cigarettes;
    • Productivity and getting up earlier.

Hawaii Supervisor:

    • Silo mentality;
    • Humor in the workplace;
    • Leadership skills;
    • Dishonesty

Howls for Towels drive continues on to May 31

With us now at the two week mark, your Kapiolani Community College Staff Council would like to remind everyone that our Howls for Towels campaign continues on. We are still looking for you to check to see if you could spare a few used towels from your home’s towel cabinet and donate them to our friends at the Hawaiian Humane Society. 

The Society uses hundreds of towels and other donated goods to help animals who enter the shelter get cleaned up and ready for adoption. Towels that may be a bit used in your home would be perfect for the Society. Along with towels, donations of extra shopping bags (the durable plastic type that you now have to buy at the store) that you may have would also be helpful as well as other items listed on their Website as “wish list” items.

For the towel drive, here are three locations you can go to and drop off your donations.

Kalia 114 – Ground Floor next to the Stairs & Elevator (Staff Council Chair Alissa Kashiwada’s Office)

Kauila 121 – Department of Emergency Medical Services (Staff Council Immediate Past Chair LeeAnn Demello’s office)

Ohia 103 – Apprenticeship/TAACCT-4 Grant Office (Staff Council Vice Chair Stan Fichtman’s office)

Mahalo for your kokua to our friends at the Hawaiian Humane Society from your KCC Staff Council!

Collaboration Leads to Celebration of Sustainability

There’s a lot of buzz lately about sustainability. A strong commitment from the campus to advancing sustainability sets the foundation for individuals to take action, transforming our green goals into reality.

Kara Plamann Wagoner (Institutional/Policy Analyst, Office for Institutional Effectiveness) made her commitment to sustainability through her role as President of the Hawaii Library Association. During Kara’s tenure as HLA president, the organization partnered with the Hawaii Association of School Librarians to host its 2017 conference. The conference committee selected the theme of sustainability because of critical issues of economic, and social sustainability that impacts libraries and their users.

The efforts of HLA and HASL garnered interest among community leaders and earned them the distinction of receiving the Hawaii Green Business Award (Green Events) by Governor David Y. Ige. Information professionals from Windward Community College, UH Manoa, and Kapolei High School joined Kara in receiving the award in Governor Ige’s chambers:

Mariko Kershaw, HLA-HASL 2017 Conference Chair
Gwen Sinclair, HLA President
Kara Plamann Wagoner, HLA Past President
Michael-Brian Ogawa, HASL Co-President
Sandra Yamamoto, HASL Co-President
Not pictured: Sarah Gray, HLA-HASL 2017 Conference Sustainability Coordinator

Kara credits her colleagues for her commitment to outreach: “Although I represented HLA for this particular event, the librarians on our campus contribute a great deal to the organization year-round. Joy Oehlers is on the board as treasurer and Annie Thomas chairs the scholarship committee. Many KCC librarians have been board members in the past, organized HLA meetings and conferences, or helped out wherever and whenever needed.  I learned so much about serving the community during my time at Lama Library.”

Determining how sustainability fits into department operations, integration with staffing and potential change of everyday practices are critical to the success of our campus green goals. Kara’s leadership and the success of the HLA/HASL 2017 Joint Conference  give us the inspiration and head start to make these sustainable goals something we can all strive for.

For more information about the Hawaii Green Business Program, visit http://greenbusiness.hawaii.gov.

Congratulations to Kelli Nakamura for Prestigious Historian Award

Kelli Nakamura (Assistant Professor, History) was selected as the recipient of the 2018 Judith Lee Ridge Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians (“WAWH”). Nakamura was selected among finalists for the category for the best article in the field of history and is one of just eight winners for WAWH awards this year. Nakamura joins the ranks of top women historians recognized by WAWH, “the largest of the regional women’s historical associations in the United States.”

Nakamura’s article, Into the Dark Cold I Go, the Rain Gently Falling, uncovers an untold story of incarceration of Japanese internees inHawai‘i. The article was originally published in the Pacific Historical Review and subsequently recommended for consideration for the WAWH’s award. The abstract reads,

During World War II, authorities arrested and incarcerated Japanese on the island of Hawai‘i due to racist fears. Many scholars skim over the details of the incarceration of residents of Hawai‘i island and other islands as part of the larger narrative of O‘ahu incarceration, where authorities held Japanese at sites like Sand Island and Honouliuli. However, these lives and experiences are meaningful to understanding the incarceration experience in Hawai‘i and expanding the focus beyond O‘ahu to encompass the neighbor islands and rural areas—two areas still in need of study in order to understand the history of Hawai‘i’s Japanese.

Nakamura is a current member of the Wo Learning Champions and has been teaching history at Kapiolani Community College since 2006.