Monthly Archives: April 2021

Career Series: Conquer the Job Interview (5/5) – Zoom

Description:  Take advantage of this unique opportunity to observe a full live mock interview. You’ll learn what to do AND not to do for your next interview.

Wednesday, May 5, 2021
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join Interactive Zoom:  https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/93286484602
Passcode: EPC

Facilitated by Su Lazo, Employment Prep Center

Su Lazo currently manages the Employment Prep Center at Kapi’olani Community College where she loves to help students make informed decisions about their career and employment goals. Originally from Kauai, Su earned her BBA from UH Manoa and her Ms.Ed from Old Dominion University. Before working in higher education, she enjoyed an eight year career in the defense consulting industry in Washington, D.C.

Contact Information:
Su Lazo: Interim Counselor/Coordinator, Employment Prep Center (EPC)
— email: Su Lazo <sudim@hawaii.edu>

Employment Prep Center (EPC)
Kikaha O Lae‘ahi Center, ‘Iliahi 231
Phone: (808) 734-9066
Email: gethired@hawaii.edu

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

Thank you
SOS Coordinator: Guy Inaba
inaba@hawaii.edu
(808) 734-9206

🌊 Pāoa Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Education Research Presentations

✨Come join us as we celebrate these students’ first sparks of research! 

This semester, nine students conducted original research on the experiences of Kapiʻolani Community Collegeʻs Native Hawaiian and indigenous students. If you’ve ever wanted to know what students have to say about their educational experiences and self, pop in for 20 minutes to meet these amazing researchers at their presentation and share the flyer with your students.

Mahalo nui loa to the advisors who volunteered their time and expertise to mentor these students!

Research Questions:

  • Why don’t students come to office hours at KapCC?
  • What knowledge do Marshallese women have to offer higher education?
  • How can we better support our pre-nursing students?
  • How does a kanaka ʻōiwi’s lived experiences and cultural identity shape their perceptions as a returning adult student?

Monday, May 3, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Topic: Office hours
Presenters: Kameron Ko & Hanalei Arakawa
Advisor: Shannon Sakaue, Ph.D.

Tuesday, May 4, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Topics: Course availability, Native cultural knowledge in higher education, pre-nursing student support
Presenters: Tre Zamora, Selah Kone, & Leilani Auld
Advisors: Kara Plamann Wagoner, MLIS and Emma Kaʻahaʻaina, M.Ed.

Tuesday, May 4, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Topics:  Diasporic Marshallese women experiences, Kanaka ʻŌiwi returning students, perceptions of statehood & occupation
Presenters: Winifred Cannery, Miriam Keo, & Brandy Takiguchi
Advisors: Veronica Ogata, Ph.D. and Kristie Malterre, M.Ed.

Wednesday, May 5, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Topic: Native Hawaiian resiliency during COVID-19
Presenter: Sandra Stevens
Advisors: Maegen Walker, Ph.D. and Puna Sabagala, M.P.H.

🌊 Event Info, Sign-in, and Agenda: https://kapcc-research.wixsite.com/surf

The Pāoa Research Program is a pilot initiative from the KapCC Undergraduate Research Experiences Program, Kapo’oloku Program for Native Hawaiian Student Sucess, and the NSF Bridges-to-Bacculareaute (B2B) grant (LSAMP: NSF award HRD-1619702). Logo designed by Tre Zamora.

Bubble Tea Day, Bugs Bunny Day, Bedbug Awareness Week, YES, it’s April 30!

TODAY IS …

The last day to help your department win a pizza party  🍕🎉🎈🍕 by donating at https://hawaiifoodbank.org/donate/

Please forward your donation receipts to joy.oehlers@hawaii.edu by 5pm today. The leaderboard will be updated instantaneously (almost!) throughout today.  Please check the box in the Consumer Apps in your Google@UH account if you are unable to view the leaderboard.

Did you know that:

  1. Farm-to-Foodbank: Your donations help so many people and now you are helping our local farmers (https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDQDEtDF_l/). Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s ‘Ohana Produce Plus mobile food distribution provides fresh fruits and veggies for many families on this island.
  2. Farm-to-home: Buy the $35 Aloha Box or $30 ʻOhana Box sets from KEO & Company for your family and friends (free shipping anywhere on Oahu). $4 and $3 respectively from these boxes count as UH contributions to the Hawaiʻi Foodbank.
  3. The leading department is HOST/CULN with $800 donations. Look out for Admin with $735 and the Library with $675.

Hawaiʻi Foodbank will continue adding our donations to the UH Coalition until May 14 so keep donating and adding UH Kapi’olani Community College in the Additional Comments section.

Mahalo for supporting our community.

KCC C4WARD PROMO (Tenure & Promotion) Discussion with Chancellor Louise Pagotto TODAY Friday Apr 30th 2pm via Zoom

The C4ward PROMO (Tenure & Promotion) group would like to invite you to join us TODAY Friday April 30th via Zoom from 2-3pm for a discussion with Chancellor Louise Pagotto who will be on hand to share advice and answer questions regarding the Tenure & Promotion process, dossier expectations, and more. Please come with questions!

Tenure & Promotion Discussion with Chancellor Louise Pagotto

Also, be sure to mark your calendars for two more T/P (Tenure & Promotion) and CR (Contract Renewal) events in May:

  1. UH System Training Session for Tenure/Promotion and Contract Renewal Online Applications – Tuesday, May 11th 2021, 10-11am via Zoom
  2. KapCC C4WARD CR + PROMO Online Dossier Formatting Info Session + Q&A w/ Helen Torigoe, Joyce Tokuda, & Chris Gargiulo – Wednesday, May 12th 2021, 11am-12pm

One more announcement: be sure to check out the NEW CR & T/P Dossier Support Google Site with a wealth of resources and helpful links to guidelines, videos, slides, sample dossiers, templates, and more! Many thanks and kudos to Helen Torigoe for setting the site up along with help and support from Joyce Tokuda and me.

You’re Invited to Contribute to the Next Distance Education Plan!

It’s time to write a new DE Plan!

We do DE pretty well at Kapi‘olani CC, and that’s probably due, at least in part, to the guidance and focus of our current DE Plan. But DE is now more important than ever to our campus, and it’s therefore more important than ever to share your thoughts and experiences as we envision how DE might look at Kapi‘olani over the next 5 years. The more staff, faculty, and students that contribute, the better!

But during these stressful COVID times, many of us feel like we’re already working at capacity, and some of us are on the verge of burnout. With that in mind, we’re working hard to structure opportunities to contribute meaningfully, to honor everyone’s voice and vision, without over-taxing anyone’s time and energy.

Might you be interested in contributing? Please contact the DE Coordinator (Leigh Dooley) at ldooley@hawaii.edu. I’m happy to answer your questions as you decide. Or, come to one of these virtual synchronous DE Plan Info. Sessions (just one will do–the same session will be offered multiple times to accommodate folks’ schedules):

Potential Contributor DE Plan Information Session

  • Friday 4/30/21 at 11:00 – 11:30 am

Zoom link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/93101037651

Meeting ID: 931 0103 7651
Passcode: IheartDE

For more information, contact Leigh Dooley at ldooley@hawaii.edu.

TODAY (Fri 4/30): Virtually Tour 2 Classes at Lunch and DEssert

Today, Friday 4/30/21, at 12:00 – 1:00 pm, join us for our last Lunch and DEssert session of the semester. At the session, you’ll experience a virtual tour of two online classes with two Kapi‘olani CC teachers: Nadine Wolff will guide us through one of her online math classes, and Kloe Kang will guide us through one of her online studio art classes.

Just join via the link below, and feel free to munch on your lunch while you peek into the classes (and teacher minds!) of your colleagues. These Zoom sessions are intended to be informal, and there will be time for conversation and Q&A.

Join us at the table while we indulge in some nourishing sweetness.

Two desserts, many forks! At lunchtime (12:00 – 1:00 pm) every Friday this semester, please join your Kapi‘olani CC colleagues for a fun lunch-hour chat and tour of online classes. Each Friday, two teachers will give us a tour of one of their classes and share with us their sweetest ideas. These informal Zoom sessions will include time for Q&A and conversation. Watch the Bulletin for more information about specific tour guides and disciplines, but save these dates!

  • Fridays, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
  • February 5, 12, 19, & 26
  • March 12
  • April 9, 16, 23, & 30

Zoom link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96315187922

Meeting ID: 963 1518 7922
Passcode: sweet!

Questions? Contact Leigh Dooley at ldooley@hawaii.edu.

April 30: Exploring a career in environmental interior design

Innovative, eye-catching, functional AND SUSTAINABLE?

Interior Designers need to do it all! Discover how sustainability is being used every day in Interior Design and how a sustainability certificate can help in that field.

Attendees have the opportunity to win a $25 Amazon gift card!

Oceanside Chat Series: Sustainability in Interior Design
Friday, April 30
11:00 am – 12:00 pm HST
Online via Zoom

Link to join: https://chaminade.zoom.us/j/98975708361
Meeting ID: 989 7570 8361

The Oceanside Chat Series is presented by the Ka Hiki Mai Scholars Program and the Kapi’olani Community College Community Employment Prep Center. To learn more about the other events in this series, go to: https://chaminade.edu/kahikimai/

$1 OFF HOT COFFEE

Aloha Kapi’olani ‘ohana,

Need a little oompf?   Save $1 on any size hot coffee at the Kulanui Cafe for the month of May.   No substitutions, while supplies last.

Our store hours are from 10 am to 2 pm, Monday through Thursday, except holidays.

Mahalo from the Bookstore ‘ohana