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Bulletin No. 5

Date/Time sent: 06/15/2020 9:00 am

Welina mai UH West Oʻahu ʻOhana!

Please see updates on our Safe Return to Campus that can be found on this site: https://westoahu.hawaii.edu/covid-19/safe-return/

Our summer school (fully online) is running well! Mahalo nui to our instructors, academic advisers, student services, and IT support. This week we focus on planning for our July Summer hybrid pilot courses, scheduling our academic courses for Fall 2020, and a handful of updates preparing the way to “WELCOME everyone back to campus!”

Pilot Summer Courses July 2020

We will be piloting three (3) hybrid courses that have on-campus as well as online learning components. This will assist us in planning and piloting cleaning/sanitization procedures; monitoring flow of students, faculty, and staff before and after the course period; work out the IT bugs; and get ongoing feedback from instructors and students. All three courses are listed here:

Math 103M/L (5.0 credits) – Hybrid / Online Blend
SD 101 (1.0 credit)
On-campus class meetings Tuesdays and Fridays 9 to 9:50 a.m.
Students: Traditional Freshman (High school graduates)

EDUC 210 & EDEF 200 & 201 (6.0 credits) – Hybrid Here-or-There (HOT) – Rotating Groups version
SD 103 (3.0 credits)
On-campus class meetings TBD 40% on-campus/60% online
Students: Non-Traditional/Transfers

ENG 100T (5.0 credits) – Hybrid Here-or-There (HOT) – Reserved seating (sign-up) version] SD 101 (1.0 Credit)
On-campus class meetings TBD
Students: Traditional Freshman (High school graduates)

Overarching view of the 1.0 Credit SD Courses Math 103M/L and ENG 100T
Summer Bridge is a course that introduces first-time students to the University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu environment and college experience prior to entering the fall term. This course provides a bridge to help freshmen transition high school to college and assists these students by exposing them to college level expectations in English, Math, and Science coursework. The course also includes college study skills enrichment, and provides the opportunity to build relationships and network with their peers, faculty and staff.

Course Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

  1. Navigate an online delivery mode of a course using laulima.
  2. Identify and analyze preferred learning styles.
  3. Analyze and implement personal best-fit success skills such as note taking, study habits and test taking habits.
  4. Understand different resources in google drive and other online management and collaborative platforms to support successful habits in self-management.
  5. Explore effective forms of communication.
  6. Build a community of learners.

Scheduling for Fall 2020

A list of course sections (150) that have been identified by UH West Oʻahu faculty and Division Chairs for conversion from fully in-person/on-campus to fully online is posted here https://westoahu.hawaii.edu/covid-19/fall-2020-courses/.

Princess Soares (Scheduler) and Vicky del Prado (Registrar) are in the process of manually converting the courses. Please be patient as course information in STAR GPS may not be up-to-date until they have completed the process for all course sections. Going forward, the information on our website will be displayed as close to real-time as possible. So, please continue to check the website for updates. Additional conversions will also be featured on this page. Please share this information with students so that they are aware that their course(s) section(s) may be impacted!

Next step: Division Chairs and DE/IT are now working with faculty to schedule the remainder of our courses that will be all taught through a hybrid modality, that is, both on-campus as well as online components. Here is the plan for faculty selection of one of the seven (7) Modalities for Hybrid Delivery:

  • Communication to all faculty from the OVCAA released on Monday, June 15
  • Division Chair agenda item on Monday, June 15
  • Princess Soares to send course sheets to the Division Chairs on Tuesday, June 16, to select hybrid modalities for on-campus classes
  • Offer Q&A sessions for faculty times to be announced.
  • Deadline for Division Chairs to submit course sheets is Tuesday, June 23

Questions please direct to your Division Chair and/or VCAA Office.

Welina mai! Welcome back to campus!

The CORE Committee and all three (3) Work Groups are developing UH West Oʻahu Guidelines that will provide pathways and processes to prepare for the return of faculty, staff, and students to campus. An initial draft of the guidelines is being vetted.

New to campus protocol: All employees and students must acquire a UH West Oʻahu ID card and wear it on a lanyard while on campus. Details regarding how to get your ID card will be provided soon.