Bulletin No. 84
Date/Time sent: 03/07/2022 9:00 amE ala! E alu! E kuilima!
Awaken! Come together! Join hands!
Statement of Gratitude and Kindness
In Celebration of Women’s History Month
Mother Teresa
“The best way to show my gratitude is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.”
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which comprised more than 4,500 religious sisters in 133 countries. For her gargantuan humanitarian efforts, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Welina mai kākou!
Hoʻokāhi ka ilau like ana (Wield the paddles together)
Mahalo nūnui to all the participants in our WSCUC Accreditation campus visit!
Working to keep our campus safe!
We continue to revitalize our campus by prioritizing health and safety. Next time you see a janitor, a groundskeeper, a building maintenance worker, a security guard – please mahalo them for maintaining the safety of our campus. They have been on-campus everyday over the last two years!
During this time of crises and change, *COVID Years 2020-2022, we continue to consult our strategic plan as a road map. We have strengthened our abilities to govern through shared governance processes, adhered to our strategic imperatives through change management, engaged effectively with both university system partners and community stakeholders, and strategically managed the financial impact of each event by mitigating actions that have helped us to close gaps. Over the next months we will be reviewing how we have met our strategic plan imperatives and revise our metrics to better capture our forward movement.
Our communications unit will continue to provide you information regarding the state of the pandemic and its effects on our campus community. Your attention to your emails, texts, and UH West Oʻahu social media platforms will help you stay informed. Over the next several months and through the summer your kakoʻo/support to revitalize and return to campus will help us to optimize our mission in the “next normal” to fulfill our learning, scholarship, service, and student life priorities.
Remember the Pueo Promise
Please take a moment to update your vaccination on LumiSight UH by submitting your booster shot information. It is easy to do:
To upload your Covid-19 Booster shot to Lumisight UH, log into https://uh.campus.lumisight.com/
Go to Vaccine > add Vaccination Booster shot > Fill in your information > Submit.
Note that the option to upload a booster shot is only available should your vaccination information already be uploaded and approved
Keep in mind, kūkūlu kaiaʻulu! Please strengthen our community with your passions, respect for one another, and patience! On behalf of your campus leadership, enjoy a safe and vivacious 2022 spring semester on campus!
COVID-19 Reminders for Monday, March 7
It is the responsibility of each and every one of us to protect ourselves from exposure by using well-fitted masks, to be vaccinated and appropriately boosted, to take breaks and eat meals safely, and to stay home if we are displaying new respiratory symptoms.
Visitors to our beautiful campus: All visitors entering a University site must provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test from a UH-recognized testing facility either through the LumiSight UH app or by showing their vaccination card or current and valid negative COVID-19 test results (test within 72 hours).
Regarding Domestic Travel: The CDC, on Jan. 27, stated:
- Delay travel until you are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines.
- Check your destination’s COVID-19 situation before traveling. State, tribal, local, and territorial governments may have travel restrictions in place.
- Wearing a mask over your nose and mouth is required in indoor areas of public transportation (including airplanes) and indoors in U.S. transportation hubs (including airports).
- Do not travel if you are sick, tested positive for COVID-19 and haven’t ended isolation, had close contact with a person with COVID-19 and haven’t ended quarantine, or are waiting for results of a COVID-19 test.
- If you are not up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines and must travel, get tested both before and after your trip.
Please stay informed: UH COVID-19 Dashboards have been updated. The dashboards provide you with a daily summary of COVID-19 Positive Cases across the UH System and by Campus, Summary of Employee Vaccinations across the UH System and by Campus Percentage and head count. Additionally, there are student information dashboards to include: Summary of Student Vaccinations across the UH System and Vaccination head counts by campus.
The most recent version of the System’s UH COVID-19 Guidelines is available. You can also access UH West Oʻahu guidelines, which were updated for the spring 2022 semester.
Reminder about coming to campus: Students, employees, and visitors must download LumiSight UH to your smartphone. Register and upload all relevant COVID-19 information. Prior to coming to campus please check-in using your LumiSight UH and respond to all health questions. BE PREPARED TO SHOW YOUR “GO GREEN” SCREEN at our campus verification stations. If for some reason you forgot to sign-in, please do so before entering campus or see our friendly student assistants at any of the verification sites. They will assist you with signing in or getting a day pass. NOTE: you must have proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test to retrieve a day pass.
Mahalo nūnui for taking the time to review this week’s bulletin.
E mālama pono!
Maenette Benham, Chancellor