CAMPUS NOTABLES

Science students to attend Experimental Biology 2006 Meeting in San Francisco
by Patti Lee-Robinson,

Adeline Del Rosario, Natasha Flores, Allicia Enerva and their adviser, Professor Patricia Lee-Robinson, have received Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) travel awards to attend the Experimental Biology 2006 Meeting in San Francisco, April 1-5. Del Rosario will present research conducted last summer at the University of Washington under the direction of Dr. Randal Ching. Her poster is titled, “Relationship of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Spinal Mechanics.”

More than 10,000 people attend the Experimental Biology meeting annually. Not only will the Chaminade students attend scientific talks and workshops, they will also attend an undergraduate research poster session sponsored by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), and also MARC Student Day. This year’s MARC Student Day’s featured speaker will be our own forensic science professor and dean of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division, Dr. M. Lee Goff.  

Service Learning staff to present workshop at 82nd Annual WASC Meeting
by Stacia Garlach

Richard Kido, Candice Sakuda and Wayne Tanna will present a workshop on service learning at the 82nd Annual Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Meeting: “From Compliance to Commitment: The Inquiring Institution,” on April 11 -14 in Irvine, Calif. Their presentation is titled “Service-Learning, the Next Generation; Passing the Torch or Igniting the Flame.” 

The three members of Chaminade’s Service Learning program will share their data and findings on service learning and its direct effects on students and the on the community. “We have found that engaging students in service learning in college tends to instill in them a greater sense of civic awareness and a deeper empathy for those in the community who are less economically blessed,” Tanna, professor of accounting, said. “We have also found that students become less self absorbed and more engaged in life-long learning and service.”

WASC invited proposals in six areas. Chaminade’s service learning team chose the Whole-Person Learning track, which includes topics such as valuing skills and ethical competencies; measurable indicators of character development; civic engagement as a defined learning experience; self-reflection and lifelong learning as defined competencies; and transformational learning.

Kido, assistant professor of accounting, Sakuda, director of Service Learning, and Tanna will explain how to move both established programs and start-up projects to higher levels of transformational activities for students. They will discuss how new class structures and course offerings can bring students to a greater awareness of their civic responsibilities – not only as current college students, but as engaged and concerned citizens after they leave the security of college.

The team will share student reflections to demonstrate the effectiveness of long running projects, and will also share students’ calls for new projects that will empower them to address issues important to them. They will discuss how service learning builds academic skills while developing students’ abilities to empower them after they graduate.

Tanna said, “We see service learning as transformational learning that creates engaged citizens out of our graduates.”

Hong Kong and Hawaii: Countable islands, unlimited opportunities
by Evan Walker

Hogan students Evan Walker and Maureen Caracciolo were guests of the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council at their luncheon for Jacqueline Ann Willis, Hong Kong Commissioner for Economic and Trade Affairs, at Hawaii Prince Hotel on March 9. The main focus of this event was to bring China, Hawaii and Hong Kong together through trade and investments. Willis described the economic relationship between Hong Kong and Hawaii, and she mentioned the key infrastructure projects that could make trade between the areas easier.

Education faculty members presented online program at NCAC conference

Judy Tran, assistant professor of education, presented the Education Division’s online teacher preparation program at the National Center for Alternative Certification’s (NCAC) third annual conference on Feb. 10 in San Diego. In her presentation titled, “Online Teacher Preparation Program: Addressing the Need for Licensed Teachers in Hawaii and American Samoa,” she discussed how Chaminade’s fully online licensure programs in secondary education strive to meet the needs of off-island teacher educators.

Tran explained the data collection, development and implementation of the program, and she showed examples of exit portfolios collected in a pilot run of the course in secondary licensure. She answered questions regarding the program’s feasibility elsewhere in the United States, and also about the various differences in assessments she has found between on-ground and online courses.
 
At the same conference, Dr. Lynn Simek-Morgan presented Chaminade’s education programs in American Samoa as an outgrowth of the online licensure programs. She and Tran learned more about the national Troops to Teachers program, which Chaminade offers through its Accelerated Undergraduate Program (AUP). Tran was able to gather information during the conference that will be help Chaminade’s Education Division in writing grant proposals as well as in planning various alternative licensure programs. She studied comparative data on the entry requirements for alternative certification routes by state-to-state comparison for 2006, and gathered information on the Department of Education’s budget proposal for the 2007 fiscal year by various educational programs’ alternatives.

Learn about Marianist volunteer opportunities this week

Dan Richter, the national director for the Marianist Volunteer Program, will visit the
Chaminade campus on Tues. and Wed., March 28 and 29. Richter will be sharing information
about opportunities to spend a year in service with one of several volunteer communities sponsored
by the Marianists. Richter will be available several times during both days in the Vi and Paul Loo
Student Center to discuss volunteer options available for students, staff and faculty. He will have
an information session in the conference room across the hall from Campus Ministry at noon on
March 29.  Refreshments will be served.

COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING CONTACTS
Stacia Garlach, Publications Editor/Creative Director (Campus Report, Chaminade Quarterly, others): (808) 735-4789, sgarlach@chaminade.edu
Kapono Ryan, University Public Affairs / Information Officer: (808) 735-4797, kryan@chaminade.edu
Wera Panow-Loui, Marketing Officer (Marketing and Advertising): (808) 440-4259, wloui@chaminade.edu

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Donate used cell phones, printer cartridges
Waikiki Elementary School is collecting used printer cartridges, copier cartridges and cell phones to benefit their technology fund. Please call Myra at 735-4794 or e-mail mbaliare@chaminade.edu to arrange for pick-up, or you can drop it off at the Business Office. Please do not ask Paul or his people to deliver.

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