Orientation Checklist
Learning about how HPU works, how we work together to serve students, and how to be successful here is not a one-day task. This document will make your job easier by directing you, as needed, to resources that will help clarify HPU's organization, its academic culture, students and student affairs departments, as well as the procedures and services to support you. This page is organized to help direct you to important information and resources quickly and efficiently.
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Starters . . . learning CRITICAL first things first
Faculty orientation has been merged into a community-building and development event and has elements of value for all staff, faculty, and administrators. This event is held annually at the Hawaii Loa campus before the start of the fall semester. One of its parts is a 90-minute introduction to the HPU teaching culture, required of all new faculty. This probably will be offered as a stand-alone several times each year on 2011-2012. If you are unable to attend an Orientation event, please contact Lia Woo (lwoo@hpu.edu), assistant director at CAIT, to arrange an alternative.
Meet other new faculty and veteran faculty; choose resources-and-expectations sessions if you are new to HPU, and select from other enrichment options. Enjoy breakfast and lunch on us.
Introduce yourself to staff at your college Your top priority is to meet the administrative assistant(s) who operate your college's office. They can answer many questions and will supply information about textbooks and many other details.
All university-wide communication is done through the Pipeline account, which ends in hpu.edu. You will use it to check class rosters, learn critical deadlines, get information about internal grants, communicate with your classes, and submit grades. Learn more about Pipeline in many ways: (a) explore the tabs after logging in and (b) attend workshops at Orientation.
Posting Course Materials Online All courses, including those which are face-to-face classroom-based and those online, now should have syllabus materials posted on Blackboard, which is the new platform for online teaching, communication with enrolled students and course pages for resource materials.
Call or email for an appointment: Sanford (Sandy) Low (slow@hpu.edu) 356-5216, Han Nee Chong Wester (hncwester@hpu.edu) or Eddie Merc (emerc@hpu.edu.)
Visit HumanResources (FH310) to have your photo taken for your ID card.Your ID card admits you to the library and computer labs. If you were very recently hired, bring your contract or a letter (from your dean or college's administrative assistant) to verify your status. Occasionally, delays in transmission of paperwork between HR and IT result in delay and college documents may facilitate issuance of ID.
Downtown campus Adjunct Faculty and current employees may get their picture taken Wednesdays, between 9:00 am and 11:00 am at the Human Resources office; or, by appointment with Human Resources (call the HR Customer Rep. at 544-1193.)
Hawaii Loa campus Adjunct Faculty and current employees may have their picture taken at the Education Technology Center, during ETC operational hours.
Military campus Adjunct Faculty and current employees may have their picture taken by their campus coordinator by appointment with the coordinator.
New to teaching? If your teaching experience is limited, or you last taught many years ago, please make an appointment to chat face-to-face with our director, Stephanie Schull (sschull@hpu.edu) or our assistant director, Lia Woo (lwoo@hpu.edu). They will offer you resources to understand contemporary HPU students and HPU's academic culture, students and teaching expectations.
Visit the Center for the Advancement of Innovative Teaching at our office on the 4th floor of 1188 Fort Street Mall (MP440.) For all faculty, we offer assistance and counsel about teaching and learning through face-to-face consultation, email, and telephone. You can browse our Knowledge Base (click link in right margin of our web site) for information on everything from assessment to online learning and classroom management.
In our office, you will find public high-speed, faculty-only computers; you can also request a semester assignment to short-term office space and lockers (for part-time faculty), get books and DVD from a lending library in our office.
Class Schedule, Class Lists, Buildings, Bathrooms From Pipeline (or from your college's office, if you don't yet have a Pipeline account) get a class schedule and class lists. Well before your first classes, get acquainted with buildings and rooms, find your way to see them, and note the AV equipment and lighting/seating available there. Find the nearby bathrooms and find out whether they are open or require a code! Shortly before the term begins, you'll notice that a schedule of classes in each room is posted next to the doorway. There are building maps inside every HPU telephone directory—find one in your own or your college's office, or in the Faculty Support Center (4th MP downtown.) Click here to view a campus map: http://www.hpu.edu/downtown/index.html.
Access to Computers in the Classroom Consoles—Users of HPU classroom computers will be prompted for a username and password to log on to those computers. No computer functions, such as internet, computer-based CD or DVD, can be accessed without this log-on. (A few classrooms still have DVD and VHS players that stand free of the computer, and those do not require logon.) If you're not sure what's in your classrooms, visit them ahead of time to check.
To create your log-on access to the classroom computers (VDIs), go to the Tech Support tab on Pipeline and scroll to the BLUE box in the right column and follow the prompts.
- Your log-on username is the same as your Pipeline username.
- Your log-on password (network password) is the same as the one you use to log-on to the HPU WI-FI.
- Click on Submit (make sure you check the little box)
Visit the Faculty Support Center (FSC), MP 441, downtown. Introduce yourself to the managers. Meet the student workers. Ask about services and materials for faculty. Learn the procedures and deadlines for copying syllabi and other materials. SIGN OUT FOR KEYS TO CLASSROOM COMPUTER CABINETS at the FSC. If you teach at LB building, sign out for keys at the 3rd floor desk in that building. Sign out for lap-tops and data projectors at the FSC as well on a first come, first served basis. If you need to reserve equipment in advance, submit an ITS request through the Web Forms channel at the Resources tab on Pipeline. If you teach on the Hawaii Loa campus, sign out for keys from the FSC on the first level (behind the bookstore). Only the key to Room 308 is available at the Ed Technology Center.
Short-term work space CAIT provides short-term work space to HPU’s adjunct faculty at BH204 (second floor of the old Blaisdell Hotel on Fort St. Mall). For office hours or quiet scheduled meetings with students, you can use this BH-204 space. BH is open 7 AM - 6 PM weekdays. Access to the office is by a key kept in a combination lockbox on the door. Visit CAIT (between 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM, M-F) at MP440 to request the days and hours you need—up to 10 hours per week for the entire fall semester. You’ll receive a copy of a Memo of Understanding, and be given the lock-box combination.
Lockers A limited number of lockers are also available for short-term storage of materials for HPU class use and/or appropriate personal belongings on campus. These lockers are located at MP445. Please see Sandra Meyer to obtain a locker allocation. You will need to provide your own lock.
Shuttle If you need to travel between the downtown and Hawaii Loa campuses, find shuttle information here. Currently, students have seating priority but the shuttles run often.
Parking and Bussing Parking is a challenge for students, staff and faculty, both downtown and at Hawaii Loa. Consult your college's Administrative Assistant or colleagues for counsel. Human Resources can provide you with a bus pass each month for the following month, the cost of which is a salary deduction that reduces your taxable income. Find the form at a visit to the HR office on the third floor of First Hawaiian Tower.
HPU's Administrative Organization
A sense of how HPU is organized can be obtained from browsing the public website, at http://www.hpu.edu. View the drop-down menus, and click on departments that interest you.
Military Campus Programs (MCP), now included in the Center for Off-Campus Programs, is a unit of HPU that serves, through online classes and face-to-face classes on local military bases, the special needs of service members and their families. Learn more at http://www.hpu.edu/Military_Campus_Programs/index.html
Governance (policy-making, program-design and decision-making) at HPU is a joint venture of administration and an elected body called the Faculty Assembly. For more about the Assembly, see the Assembly tab on Pipeline. Participation in the Assembly is a form of uncompensated service to HPU, expected of full-time faculty and open to both full-time and adjunct faculty (voting on business is available to full-time faculty only).
Faculty Handbook The HPU Faculty Handbook is available by signing in to your Pipeline account and going to the Faculty Assembly tab.
Resources for Adjunct Faculty
Physical and computer resources Part-time HPU faculty do not have permanent offices, but your college's administrative assistant may suggest sharable spaces, and CAIT maintains high-speed computers for faculty use in MP445 as well as at BH-204 (second floor of the old Blaisdell Hotel on Fort St. Mall). Access to the office is by a key kept in a combination lockbox on the door. To sign up to use this work space or to use lockers in BH or at MP445: Visit us in person - we're on the 4th floor of 1188 Fort Street Mall (MP building); see Sandra Meyer to complete a user's agreement for the days and hours you need—10 hours per week—more can be negotiated).
Professional development All professional development resources for HPU faculty are open to adjunct faculty. Announcements of events are usually made through Pipeline or college deans.
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