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Providing Instructional and Professional Development Opportunities to UH Mānoa Faculty and Academic Staff

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support provides opportunities, resources, and services that promote faculty and staff career development and recognizes excellence in teaching within the campus community.

2026 Faculty Awards
Events
Teaching Evaluations
Tenure & Promotion
TA Training
New Faculty Orientation

Upcoming Events

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Specialist Faculty Peer Mentoring Community

Supporting Specialist Faculty Through Transition, Growth, and Connection

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Congratulations Awardees

The 2026 Mānoa Awards were held on May 5, 2026. View the award-winning faculty, their bios, and read some of what their students had to say about them.

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Want to Lead a Workshop?
Got a Suggestion for One?

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Innovative Classrooms on the UH Mānoa Campus

The OFDAS-Center for Teaching Excellence manages innovative classrooms on the Mānoa Campus and are made available for faculty use. These spaces include the following:

Kaiāulu bookcover

Place-Based Book Club’s Featured Book of the Spring

Kaiāulu: Gathering Tides 

by Mehana Blaich Vaughan

Based on two decades of interviews with more than sixty Hawaiian elders, leaders, and fishermen and women, this book shares stories of enduring community efforts to perpetuate kuleana. A personal tribute to a community that is based not on ownership, but reciprocity, responsibility, and caring for the places that shape and sustain us all.

Request a Place-Based Library Book
Visit our Place-Based Book Club Webpage

By the Numbers

UH Mānoa faculty is at the core of OFDAS’ mission. We offer a number of resources and opportunities that benefit our educators and campus community.

+425

Amount of Tenure and Promotion dossiers available for faculty to review

Tenure and Promotion Dossier Library

60

Average number of faculty and staff development events per academic year

Events

90%

Average occupancy of OFDAS Innovative Rooms per academic year

Spaces and Innovative Rooms

Graphic Design

OFDAS Graphics provides graphic design services and support for instruction and academic media

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Land Acknowledgment

Aloha. We are the Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support.

We would like to acknowledge the ʻāina on which we gather, Oʻahu, is part of the larger territory recognized by Indigenous Hawaiians as their ancestral grandmother, Papahānaumoku.

We recognize that Her Majesty Queen Liliʻuokalani yielded the Hawaiian Kingdom and these territories under duress and protest to the United States to avoid the bloodshed of her people. We further recognize that Hawai‘i remains an illegally occupied state of America.

We recognize that each moment we are in Hawaiʻi she nourishes and gifts us with the opportunity to breathe her air, eat from her soils, drink from her waters, bathe in her sun, swim in her oceans, be kissed by her rains, and be embraced by her winds. We further recognize that generations of Indigenous Hawaiians and their knowledge systems shaped Hawaiʻi in sustainable ways that allow us to enjoy these gifts today. For this we are grateful and as a guest, we seek to support the varied strategies that the Indigenous peoples of Hawaiʻi are using to protect their land and their communities, and we commit to dedicating time and resources to working in solidarity. Mahalo.