University of Hawaiʻi Maui College professor, Rosemary Vierra, was among 15 faculty members from across the state who were awarded the Regentsʻ Medal for Excellence in Teaching. Vierra is also dental hygiene program coordinator and has taught in the program since 2008.
The Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded as tribute to faculty members who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students.
ESL, System Assessment Coordinator Representative, Kapiʻolani
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UH President
David Lassner convened a working group to, “develop a plan for the redesign of general education at
UH both substantively, the skills, competencies and knowledge that comprise general education, as well as structurally, how general education is organized and the curriculum is maintained.”
This is the first revision to the
UH System’s General Education requirements since 1999, which makes this redesign process a monumental milestone in the
UH System’s curriculum development. This is an opportunity for the university community to restructure
UH’s program into a cutting edge model that best prepares students for the modernized, transforming world of industry and higher education that exists for them beyond graduation.