{"id":83356,"date":"2018-08-21T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=83356"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T02:15:41","slug":"pagotto-new-kapiolani-cc-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/21\/pagotto-new-kapiolani-cc-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kapi\u02bbolani <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> Chancellor Louise Pagotto shares vision and priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_97417\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9o-pdojUS8?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"New Kapi\u02bbolani CC Chancellor Louise Pagotto shares vision and priorities\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76684\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/kapiolani-pagotto-l-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/kapiolani-pagotto-l-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/kapiolani-pagotto-l.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Pagotto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a>\u2019s new chancellor, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/louise-pagotto\/\">Louise Pagotto<\/a><\/strong>, has served in various capacities at the campus since 1989 as part of a 30-year career with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Canada recently shared her vision for the campus.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My vision for this college is that it\u2019s the first choice for students. That they choose to come to <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> because we have high-quality, relevant academic programs, that they transfer or begin their careers from this college,&rdquo; Pagotto said. &ldquo;They would choose to come to <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> because they know that while they are here, they make a difference.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pagotto says her three top priorities are to enrich, expand and extend science, technology, engineering and math (<abbr>STEM<\/abbr>); integrate indigenous ways of knowing and Hawaiian values into the curriculum and co-curricular activities; and to graduate civically responsible students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Come to the campus,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Join us in the progress that we\u2019re going to make and the heights that we\u2019ll climb together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She began her <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> career in 1988 at Leeward Community College as an English and English as a second language lecturer and instructor. At <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, Pagotto has served as assistant dean for vocational and distance education, department chair of language arts, and assistant dean and dean for arts and sciences. She then served as vice chancellor for academic affairs, including oversight of the Library and the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching and Technology for 12 years until her appointment as interim chancellor in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagotto&#8217;s three top priorities are to expand <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and math\">STEM<\/abbr>, integrate Hawaiian values into the curriculum and to graduate civically responsible students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[691,63,71,56],"class_list":["post-83356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-administration","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83356"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83494,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83356\/revisions\/83494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}