Planning
Our goal is to coordinate the campus-wide Integrated Planning and Budgeting process each academic year, specifically:
- OPPA provides program coordinators, division chairs, and unit heads with coordinated assistance to complete the Annual Report on Program Data, Comprehensive Review and Evaluation, and Resource Request.
- OPPA also works with the governance group executives and administration team to ensure the appropriate consultations, communications, and decisions are made in determining the Institutional Priorities List for funding.
Services
OPPA provides:
- Instructions on submission procedures and deadlines
- Report templates
- Trainings, one-on-one assistance, and resources to help you complete your reports
- Institutional data
- Prior ARPDs and CREs for your reference
ARPD and CRE Resources
- Schedule
- Responsible Programs & Units
- ARPD Template
- CRE Schedule
- CRE Template
- CRE Instructions
- ADA Guidelines
- ARPDs and CREs
- UHCC System Published ARPDs
- UHCC System Data (For details about how data is defined and/or calculated, click on “Glossary/Rubric” at the bottom of the page. Email UHCC for additional assistance.)
- OPPA Institutional Data Request Form
Resource Requests
- Schedule
- 2024-2025 Resource Request Template
- Resource Request Rubrics
- Resource Request Guidelines
Institutional Research
Our goal is to provide you with timely access to high quality institutional data to help inform your work.
Services
Our Institutional Analyst provides:
- Assistance in determining what data is available to help answer your questions
- Data pulls & in-depth analyses of data based on your requests
- Data Dashboards
- Coordination of campus-wide surveys
Resources
- Data Request Form – Please give us as much advance notice as possible if you are working with a deadline. For complicated requests, we will work with you to determine a timeline.
- Information Security Awareness Training (ISAT) – needs to be up to date (within a year) for data requests.
Institutional Data
View Leeward CC and UH System data
Assessment
Our goal is to help you assess and evaluate your courses, programs, and service areas in order to improve student learning and/or your service area’s ability to achieve its goals.
Services
Our Institutional Assessment Specialist can help you:
- Create and/or revise learning and service area outcomes (SLOs/CLOs, PLOs, SAOs).
- Create and implement a plan for assessing or evaluating your outcomes.
- Enter your learning outcomes assessment data into the campus Assessment Management System (AMS).
- Pull reports from the AMS.
- Configure your Course Evaluation System (CES) (i.e., add/modify questions).
- Help students and instructors troubleshoot CES
Resources
- Institutional Learning Outcomes
- Outcomes Overview
- Curriculum Mapping
- Course Assessment Worksheet
- Anthology
- Anthology Portal Site
- Anthology Video Tutorial
- Anthology step-by-step instructions
- Assessment Reports
- Course Evaluation System:
Course Assessment Schedule
We recommend every instructor enters assessment data for all CLOs in at least one section per course (e.g., ENG 100) taught.
- Fall Courses – Enter by beginning of February
- Spring Courses – Enter by end of the summer
All course SLOs/CLOs must be assessed over a five year period.
Grants
Our goal is to help you develop and manage new grants in order to support innovation at Leeward CC.
Services
OPPA helps you:
- Understand what grants are available to fund your idea.
- Develop your idea into a high quality proposal.
- Submit your proposal via online grant submission systems (MyGrant, Grants.gov, Fastlane).
- Manage your award successfully.
- Maintain communication with your funder.
- Obtain procurements and contracts.
Resources for Developing a Proposal
- Grant Inquiry Form
- Step by Step Checklist
- Meet the OPPA Team
- Grant Process Overview
- Data (link to OPPA Institutional Research page)
- Data Toolkit
- Logic Model Template
- Tables
- Budget Template
- Organizational Template
- ORS myGRANT
- Fringe Rates – Office of Research Services
Resources for Grant Teams
- Orientations
- 2023-2024 Leeward Employee Handbook
- Meet the OPPA Team
- Grant Roles & Responsibilities
- Procurement Procedures
- Data (link to OPPA Institutional Research page)
- ORS myGRANT
- Fringe Rates – Office of Research Services
There’s no one better to write grants for our college than our own people. We know what our students, colleagues, and communities need and have a vested interest in ensuring the success of our objectives.
Leeward is especially the best training ground for grant writing because in addition to encouraging innovative ideas, there is a tremendous support network available to guide you throughout the process.
So, if you have a dream, grant writing is a viable means to make that dream become reality.
Contact
Summer Barrett
OPPA Coordinator
Phone: (808) 455-0597
Email: summerl@hawaii.edu
Princess Soares
Institutional Analyst
Phone: (808) 455-0598
Email: pfrederi@hawaii.edu