Posts Tagged ‘Kauai Community College’

April 25, 2013

Kauaʻi CC Chancellor Helen Cox honored

Helen Cox

Kauaʻi Community College Chancellor Helen Cox

Congratulations are in order for Kauaʻi Community College Chancellor Helen Cox, who has been named one of the five recipients of the 2013 Hoʻokanaka Leadership Awards. The awards celebrate and honor exceptional adult and youth leaders from Kauaʻi. The award celebration takes place on Saturday, May 4, 6 p.m. at the Kauaʻi Beach Resort.

Helen Cox became chancellor of Kauaʻi CC in August of 2008. Since then, Kauaʻi CC has become a promoter of sustainable living, where students are learning how to grow their own food and develop unique businesses out of their gardens. Congratulations Chancellor Cox!

Mahalo to the UH System team that joined us for the March for Babies at Kapi‘olani Park.

February 21, 2013

Honoring Senator Daniel K. Inouye

The Board of Regents today approved our proposed tribute to the late Senator Daniel Inouye. The plan calls for the naming of four programs or facilities in honor of Senator Inouye. They include The Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) at the UH Mānoa, The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, The Daniel K. Inouye Allied Health Center at UH Maui College and The Daniel K. Inouye Electronics Technology Building at Kauaʻi Community College.

We are elated. Senator Inouye’s family will accept our tribute during a brief ceremony at UH Mānoa’s C-MORE Hale tomorrow, February 22, at 11 a.m.

UH Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy

UH President M.R.C. Greenwood, UH Hilo College of Pharmacy Dean John M. Pezzuto, Former Chief of Staff for Senator Daniel K. Inouye Pat DeLeon, UH Board of Regents Chair Eric Martinson and UH Hilo Chancellor Donald Straney admire the planned new home for the newly named Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. (Photo provided by UH Hilo College of Pharmacy)

May 2, 2012

Kauai Community College visit

Kauai Community College visit

With Kauaʻi CC Chancellor Helen Cox and Director of the Sustainable Living Institute of Kauaʻi Eric Knutzen

I had the pleasure of visiting our garden island campus, Kauaʻi Community College on Thursday where I visited with Chancellor Helen Cox, the administration, staff and students. Our pāʻina and talk story session with staff members, community leaders and students featured a “Healthy Choice” lunch that was prepared for us by Kauaʻi CC’s cafeteria manager, Melanie Bacio. The Healthy Lunch program offers students healthy meal options everyday. We had a farro salad with barbecue chicken or shrimp which was delicious and good for you.

During our afternoon open forum campus discussion, faculty, staff and students could ask me anything they wanted. They expressed their support of distance learning and working with other campuses toward common goals. I was exceptionally pleased to hear that because, as I have stated publicly many times, one of my goals during my presidency is to help UH become one of the best performing systems of higher education in the country.

Thanks to Chancellor Cox and Kauaʻi Community College, we’re on our way.

Kauai Community College visit

With Kauaʻi CC Chancellor Helen Cox and student Ian Ross

 

Scientist and experienced administrator M.R.C. (it’s pronounced “Marci”) Greenwood is the 14th president of the 10-campus University of Hawaiʻi System.

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