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Kaylie Hayashida
A student assistant who was key to helping the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa move online and observe pandemic protocols has been recognized with the campus’s Student Employee of the Year (
SEOTY) award.
A Japanese studies major,
Kaylie Hayashida has worked with the University Scheduler’s office in the Office of Undergraduate Education for more than two years. Due to COVID-19, the office revamped the fall 2020 course schedule twice over the summer, reassigned classrooms for social distancing in fall and in spring 2021, and converted all operations from paper to digital procedures.
Hayashida adeptly switched gears to digital tracking forms and helped teach departments how to use the new process. She precisely entered new information into the database to change 3,000 course formats and locations, twice. Without her assistance, the fall 2020 course schedule would not have been completed in time for the semester to begin.
Eliot Usherenko is transitioning
to the next chapter of his life. After four years studying at Boston University and working as a member of the School of Law’s Student Affairs team, he’s beginning his quest to become a lawyer.
But not before accepting this year’s Undergraduate Outstanding Service Award.
Eliot Usherenko (Pardee’21). Photo courtesy of Usherenko
“I only wish I could hire him on as a more permanent team member; but the world needs lawyers of his character, ethics, and sense of self,” writes Geraldine Muir, LAW associate dean for student affairs, in her letter recommending Usherenko for the Student Employee of the Year Awards.