Professional Development

Webinar Topics


February 13, 2025
9:00 AM

Your Academic Success Toolbox

Become familiar with the range of academic support services available and how to effectively utilize them.

Dr. Amy Hubbard

Dr. Amy Hubbard

Presenter

Dr. Amy Hubbard is the interim Assistant Vice Provost for Student Academic Success. Prior to that, she had 29 years of service as a professor in the Communicology Program in the School of Communication and Information at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research, teaching, and community service focus on understanding and improving our communication with others, largely by working to expand people’s communication repertoire and dispelling myths about what is supposedly good and bad communication.


February 27, 2025
9:00 AM

Guiding Lights: Excellence in Academic Advising

Acquire effective academic advising techniques to enhance student success.

Dr. Andrea Hazzard

Dr. Andrea Hazzard

Presenter

Dr. Andrea S.D. Hazzard serves as UH Mānoa’s inaugural Director of Mānoa Academic Advising. Her academic advising philosophy is a fusion of appreciative advising and critical pedagogy. She has over 30 years of experience as an educator and earned her lifetime appreciative advising certification in 2023. Dr. Hazzard’s professional interests include examining academic and institutional factors which promote student success, particularly for diverse students from underrepresented and under-resourced backgrounds. She believes that student success requires a holistic approach to education, informed by dynamic institutional relationships.

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