News and Events
Join Kapua Tani, service-learning coordinator at the Next Step Shelter, who is helping the Care-A-Van and Youth Outreach Program of the Waikiki Health Center, organizing a 100K Homes Oahu event in Hawaiʻi on Sept. 16-19. Volunteers needed.
Students doing service learning at the Shelter can earn hours by participating in this activity.
The community-based movement, 100K Homes Oahu, is focused on identifying and housing the 100 most vulnerable homeless residents on Oʻahu by September 30, 2014. Volunteers and service-learning students are needed to survey and photograph homeless in Waikīkī on September 17-19, 3:30-7am. Volunteers are also needed to input data and upload photographs on September 17-19, 7-10am. If you can help out, there will be a mandatory training on September 16, 2-5pm at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol.
To sign up and for additional information, please email Paul Oshiro at poshiro@waikikihc.org. Next Step service-learning students should let Paul know that they have been invited by Kapua Tani to participate, that they are service-learning students, and from which school and class they come.
100K Homes Oahu is a community-driven movement to identify and house the 100 most vulnerable homeless residents on Oahu by September 30, 2014. This effort to end chronic homelessness is modeled after the national 100,000 Homes campaign, followed by over 150 communities including Hilo, Hawaii. The movement is led by a partnership of community volunteers, business entities, faith-based organizations, government offices, and non-profit agencies. The 100K Homes Oahu movement aims at saving lives and money, and improve the quality of life for everyone in our communities. Urban Honolulu, Waianae, and Waikiki comprise the three most dense concentrations of unsheltered homeless families and individuals. 100K Homes Oahu is focusing resources in these areas to maximize the impact of the community-based initiative.
The UH Manoa College of Social Sciences, Center for Teaching Excellence and Ethnic Studies Department present:
To Knowledge Through Action:
Civic Engagement and Liberal Education
A Commitment to Liberal Education Initiative Event
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Halau o Haumea, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies,
Hawaiinuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge
The conference will provide a forum for exchange of ideas, practices, and assessment of civic engagement and liberal education with a focus on high-impact teaching practices and essential learning outcomes. It will be a day of lively exchange between national and local speakers, faculty and community leaders about planned and implemented actions as preparation for a longer-term approach to liberal eduation in Hawaii.
Click this link for more information: Center of Teaching Excellence
KEYNOTES
Konrad Ng - Professor, UHM Academy for Creative Media; Director, Smithsonian Institution, Asian Pacific American Program: "A Case for Civic Engagement as Learning"
Caryn McTighe Musil - Senior Vice President, Association of American Colleges and Universities: "A Crucible Moment, College Learning and Democracy's Future"
Dahlia Asuega - Resident Services Manager, Mutual Housing - Palolo Homes: "Working with Institutions of Higher Education for Social Change: A View from the Community"
Robert Franco - Professor and Director, Office for Institutional Effectiveness, KCC; Senior Faculty Fellow, National Campus Compact: "Community, Capability, and Completion: A Lasting Agenda for Higher Education"
To register:
http://www.cte.hawaii.edu/Summary/Knowledge_Conference041812.html
Basic Health Hawaii: Broken Spirits, Healing Souls
Keola Kim Diaz
MA Candidate
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
Tuesday, March 20 2012
12:00 – 1:00 pm
John A. Burns Hall,
Room 3121/3125 (3rd floor),
East-West Center
Keola Kim Diaz will present his independently-produced video project that investigates the
Hawaiʻi State Department of Human Services' "Basic Health Hawaii" health insurance program
for Micronesian immigrants. The Compact of Free Association binds the peoples of three
Micronesian nations – the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the
Republic of the Marshall Islands – with the United States in an international treaty. Despite
being promised healthcare, among other benefits, by the United States, migrants from these
three nations have been denied medical access in an attempt to reduce state and national
spending.
MICRONESIAN CONNECTIONS FORUM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012, 1:30-6 pm
Room 3125/3121, John Burns Hall, UH Mānoa Campus
Perspectives on Micronesian Communities in Hawaiʻi and Micronesia's Pacific Connections (particularly Hawaiʻi)
PROGRAM
Opening: Dr. Ty Kawika Tengan, and Paul Otoko
Panel 1: Personal Stories of Micronesian Students. Students discuss individual struggles and perspectives on discrimination: Ebil Matsutaro, LJ Rayphand, Dolmii Remeliik, Nikita Salas
Panel 2: Public Policy and Issues Relating to Discrimination: Senator Kalani English, Law Professor Charles R. Lawrence, Health Law Policy Center/Community Projects Legal Director, Dina Shek. Moderator: Jon Osorio.
Panel 3: Overview of Micronesian Communities in Hawaiʻi - COFA, Health, Housing, and Education: Neal A. Palafox, Joakim Peter, Josie Howard, and Dahlia Asuega.
Closing: Navigational Students of Pius "Mau" Pialug
Pius "Mau" Pialug:
"I have laid the stick that connect people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia."
The idea for this forum was influenced by Master Navigator, Mau Pialug's quote above and a concern with inter-ethnic relations in Hawai'i, particularly concerning our newest immigrant groups from Micronesia.
Education, research, and civic engagement can go a long way to avoid repeating the results of difficult integration in the local community, discrimination, and prejudice of new immigrant groups of Hawai'i. With this forum, we aim at contributing to a positive and open dialogue in the UH community about the current situation, leading to both public knowledge and policy changes.
Come when you can, leave when you have to.
Light refreshments will be served.
Free and open to the public.
Organizers: Lola Bautista, Jesi Bennett, Ulla Hasager, Willy Kauai, Leonard Leon, and Joakim Peter
Sponsors: The UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Ethnic Studies Dept., College of Social Sciences, Diversity and Equity Initiative (SEED), and student organizations, as well as the Pacific Islands Development Program of the East-West Center.
For more information, contact Dr. Ulla Hasager, Ethnic Studies Dept., 956 4218, ulla@hawaii.edu.
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Service Learning and Community Engagement in the Pacific
Dr. Robert Franco
Public Lecture by the driving force in making the Hawai'i a national and international leader in service learning
February 8, 2012, 2-3 pm
Room 3015/3019, John Burns Hall, East-West Center, UH Manoa Campus
Service Learning and Community Engagement in the Pacific
Dr. Robert Franco
Public Lecture on February 8, 2012, 2-3 pm
Room 3015/3019, John Burns Hall, East-West Center, UH Manoa Campus
Dr. Robert Franco is an anthropologist focusing on contemporary Hawaiian, Sāmoan,
and Pacific Islander educational, employment, health, environmental, and cultural
issues. He has published scholarly and policy research on Sāmoan political and cultural
change, the meaning and management of water in ancient Hawaii, and sociocultural
factors affecting Pacific tuna fisheries. He is also one of only two Senior Faculty
Fellows, who serve as leading consultants in the fields of service learning and civic
engagement and as advisors to the National office of Campus Compact and to State
offices. Senior Faculty Fellows are appointed based upon their deep knowledge and
experience regarding service-learning and civic engagement, their capacity as expert
consultants in the field, and their leadership in strategically advancing the mission of
Campus Compact.
Bob Franco is Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Kapiʻolani Community College,
where he takes primary responsibility for campus strategic and long-term planning,
grants writing and development, institutional research, assessment.
The seminar is cosponsored by the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the
Pacific Islands Development Program. For more information and disability access,
please contact Katherine Higgins at 956-2652.
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Guest speakers on the topic of Next Step Shelter Kaka'ako and Houselessness in Hawai'i.
Tuesday 2/7/12 10:30 am to 11:45 am in Moore 120.
Speakers: Kapua Tani (site coordinator at Next Step Shelter), Ryan, Charles
Open for other interested students and faculty.
