Dr. Amy Hubbard is passionate about student academic success. She has served 29 years at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a faculty member in the Communicology Program (formerly Communicology Department and Speech Department). She has experienced many changes throughout the university during that time period. She will bring to the position a growth mindset, recognition of the need to balance stability with innovation, flexibility and creative problem-solving, trustworthiness, and a focus on succession planning.
Dr. Hubbard is a full professor and has over 8 years of experience as the department chair/program director for the Communicology Program/Department. She has served 10 years as the Director of Undergraduate Studies (undergraduate advisor) in Communicology and 7 years as the Graduate Chair in Communicology. She is currently advising four graduate students and, over her career, has chaired/advised over 40 graduate students. She has also served on 37 graduate student committees. She has consistently made service contributions to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the local community, and in her disciplinary field throughout her tenure at the university. This has allowed her to gain experience and knowledge in program planning and assessment, curriculum management and development, academic advising, institutional review boards, student life, faculty development, personnel actions, and shared governance.
Additionally, Dr. Hubbard is an experienced volunteer mediator for the Mediation Center of the Pacific, a facilitator role as the Universityʻs first cohort of faculty who completed the Association for College and University Educators certification for Effective Teaching Practices, and her grant work as a co-investigator on a $4 million National Science Foundation grant focused on science communication (and the creation of a small virtual reality lab to practice public speaking skills).
Dr. Hubbard holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in Marketing and a master’s degree in Speech from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a doctorate in Communication from the University of Arizona.