Please find UH Maui College-related news and updates below.

 IMPORTANT UPDATE  SUMMER ON CAMPUS

For those coming to campus this summer, please review the in-person COVID-19 protocols below. For complete UH guidance, please go to https://maui.hawaii.edu/health-center/coronavirus-update/

Face masks are now required indoors except when working alone or separated from others by at least six feet. Restoration of this practice, consistent with current CDC recommendations, was recommended by UH medical and public health experts and the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health and affirmed by UH leadership.

Campus officials may further specify areas where face masks are required to enhance safety.

The indoor face mask requirement will remain in place and be re-evaluated when the level of COVID-19 transmission in the state decreases. All members of the UH community should continue to monitor your hawaii.edu email and UHNews.org for updates.

For those returning to campus after quarantine or isolation, face masks must be worn around others in all settings – including outdoors – for the remainder of the 10-day period.

If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home and isolate for at least 5 days (until you are fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and your symptoms are improving).

Full or Up-to-date vaccination is required for employees and students in specific UH programs or courses (medical, nursing, social work, dental hygiene, etc.) where they are embedded within partner institutions that require vaccination.

We strongly recommended that you stay home when feeling ill, whether with COVID-19 or not, to recover and prevent community spread.

If you need a COVID test, please call the Campus Health Center at 984-3493 to schedule an appointment. If you have medical insurance, please bring your medical card and ID when you come for testing. But you do not need medical insurance to get a test. The testing is free.

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 NEW  FREE SUMMER CULINARY WORKSHOPS

Still a few spots available for these FREE workshops for Maui County middle and high school students. Workshops are held at the Pā‘ina Building on our Kahului campus. If you are interested in having your child participate, please fill out our program's application form and our Google Form to select a date/time that works best for you. See more information here.

2022 SUMMER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 

Our Summer Professional Development program offers a variety of workshops to enhance professional and personal development of college faculty and staff. The 2022 summer learning opportunities maximize professional growth, specifically in Distance and Online Teaching, Contract Renewal Document Writing, and Open Education Resources (OER).

Overload funding is available in $200 increments, stackable to a maximum of $400. Faculty or lecturers requesting summer PD overload are responsible for submitting their request for overload funding and any requirements for funding in a timely manner. Request overload funding for 2022 Summer PD. Request overload Funding.

Nine-month faculty and lecturers are eligible to apply for Summer PD overload funds. The overloads offered for the completion of various summer PD is federally funded by the CARES program, which does not allow for overload for 11-month faculty. Please discuss any concerns with Dean Kahele Dukelow (kaheleon@hawaii.edu) or Dean Laura Nagle (llees@hawaii.edu).

Complete information here.

 UPDATED  MAILROOM PACKAGE PICKUP

The Mailroom package pickup window ONLY now has new hours to accommodate an external vendor.

Package pickup is extended until 11:30 a.m. and the mailroom will be closed from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Package pickup will then be open again from 1:30 to 3:45 p.m.

Access to the lobby and individual mailboxes remains the same – open from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.

 UPDATED  LIBRARY BUILDING SUMMER HOURS

The building is open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Please call 984-3359 or email uhmclib@hawaii.edu with questions or for more information.

DISTANCE AND ONLINE TEACHING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Summer 2022 course includes six facilitated and asynchronous online modules. Each module is fully online, immersive and designed to guide, prepare and support you with the design and development of your distance and/or online course. This course is designed for you to experience an online course as a student in the hopes the experience with provide you with a model, new ideas and renewed strategies to elevate your course.

You may be eligible for an overload. Complete three modules for $200; six modules for $400.

Module 1 – Introduction to Distance and Online Teaching, June 6th to June 12th

Module 2 – Quality Standards and Best Practices, June 13th to June 19th

Module 3 – Creating Equity in the Online Classroom, June 20th to June 26th

Module 4 – Introduction to Course Design and Laulima Tools, June 27th to July 3rd

Module 5 – More Laulima Tools, July 4th to July 10th

Module 6 – Learning Technology, July 11th to July 17th

Register for one or more modules here.

TUITION-FREE SUMMER COURSES

As part of the Kekaulike transfer program and E Hoʻoulu Lāhui Hawaiian Studies program at UH Maui College, courses are being offered tuition-free for eligible students. These courses are being offered in-person with an online section for off-island students or students who are otherwise unable to attend in-person. For more information, visit website. Once your application is approved, directions to register will be provided. Please email olelo2@hawaii.edu with questions.

 NEW  A HEARTWARMING STORY ABOUT PATRICIA ADAMS

Patricia Adams (“Pat”) was a longtime faculty member at UH Maui College, where she first taught English and later served as Interim Assistant Dean of Instruction. She helped many of UHMC’s faculty with contract renewals and tenure documents, and she spent countless hours helping them improve their classroom teaching.

She was beloved by students, administrators, and support staff, who honored her with a study area and a plaque commemorating her lasting contribution to Maui’s community.

Joe and Jean Adams, Pat’s son and daughter-in-law, recently established the Patricia Jean Adams Memorial Fund in Pat’s honor and in appreciation for Maui College’s expressions of affection to their mother. You can read the whole story here.

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