UH President Recognizes Kapi'olani Faculty with Sustainability Awards
Kapiʻolani Community College
Art Professor Carl Jennings received the 2015 Kapiolani Campus Sustainability Award.
Institutional Effectiveness Director and Prof. Robert Franco received UH President Leadership Award.
HONOLULU – During the third annual Hawaiʻi Sustainability in Higher Education Summit at UH-Mānoa, Art Professor Carl Jennings received the 2015 Kapiʻolani Campus Sustainability Award from UH President David Lassner. Jennings’ early focus on the environment led to the establishment of the Sustainability Committee on campus in 2009, which today is the Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Committee for Sustainability. Jennings’ concern for the environment reaches across disciplines and his informed teaching is shared in a Creating Thinking course that he designed and continues to teach. Students rave about Jennings’s insights and his ability to transform students into better and more responsible caretakers of the environment.
Robert Franco, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Office for Institutional Effectiveness, received the 2015 UH President’s Leadership Award for his contributions to system-wide sustainability efforts. Franco has been an active participant on the UH Sustainability Task Force since 2013. From the beginning, he has reiterated the need to integrate policy, planning, measures and metrics in the 2015-2021 planning cycle for the System and its campuses. UH President David Lassner's Executive Policy on Sustainability, signed on February 26, aligns these components in a very clear, accurate, and consistent manner.
Bob Franco is an advocate for the guiding force of Native Hawaiian knowledge, and of mutually beneficial long-term community partnerships in the public, private and non-profit sectors. He also coordinates the Kapiʻolani Service and Sustainability Learning program, and with UHM Ethnic Studies/Civic Engagement Coordinator Ulla Hasager, leads the National Science Foundation’s Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENSER) initiative statewide.