OFDAS Staff

As a Faculty Specialist with the Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support (OFDAS), Hazel Gedikli leads the development, implementation, and assessment of faculty development initiatives that support faculty success across the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She oversees a portfolio of programs and collaborates with faculty, campus partners, and advisory groups to create professional learning opportunities that foster excellence in teaching, mentoring, leadership, and academic career development.

Hazel is passionate about creating spaces where faculty can connect across disciplines, exchange ideas, and build supportive communities of practice. Drawing on evidence-informed approaches to educational development, she designs programs that encourage reflective teaching, collaborative learning, and inclusive pedagogies while supporting faculty at every stage of their academic careers.

Before joining OFDAS, Hazel earned her PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in American Studies, and taught literature and composition. Her scholarship brings together contemporary U.S. literature, American cultural studies, and Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms to explore gender violence, social justice, and cultural resistance. She also teaches literature courses in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

A Fulbright alumna and self-described cultural nomad, Hazel enjoys discovering new places and perspectives. Her latest learning adventure is sailing—a practice that, like professional development, invites curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to embrace the unfamiliar.

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Dr. Reneé Rose Morala Jorg serves as an Educational Specialist with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support. She collaborates with faculty and campus partners to advance teaching excellence, faculty development, and innovative educational practices that promote student success.

With more than a decade of experience in higher education, career development, workforce development, and student success, Reneé specializes in integrating Career Development Learning (CDL) and Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) into curriculum, faculty development, and institutional initiatives. Prior to joining OFDAS, she served in leadership roles at Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate and led workforce development initiatives through the Title III partnership between Kapiʻolani Community College and Chaminade University of Honolulu.

Reneé earned her EdD in Professional Educational Practice, MEd in Higher Education Administration, and BA in Human Relations and Organizations from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a licensed Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF), Certified Career Services Provider (CCSP), Strong Interest Inventory® Certified Practitioner, a member of the Phi Delta Kappa Association, and a lifetime member of the Pi Lambda Theta International Honor Society. Her doctoral research examined the integration of Career Development Learning into higher education to strengthen student success, career readiness, and long-term career attainment.

Although born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Reneé has called Maui home for decades and now resides on the ʻEwa side of Oʻahu. Grounded in Native Hawaiian values and place-based education perpetuated through the legacy of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, she believes higher education can transform lives, empower the lāhui, and cultivate Hawaiʻi’s future ʻŌiwi leaders.

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Mark has been a professional graphic designer with OFDAS since 1988. His graphic works can be found in many local, national and international periodicals and books, as well as at conferences and lectures. In addition to his work in the graphics field, he has worked the fields of industrial relations and library and information sciences. His research contributions have been published in journals and books and he has lectured courses in labor-management relations.

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Joseph assists faculty across UH Mānoa by supporting workshops and managing OFDAS-controlled innovative learning spaces (including the Sakamaki Innovation Zone, Webster 101 Collaborative Classroom, and Dean Hall Culture Lab). He also provides hands-on technical support for faculty to effectively leverage technology for traditional, hybrid, and distance learning environments. Joseph brings years of experience in teaching, instructional design, and organizing learning outcomes. His background in education at various levels provides insight for encouraging student-centered learning.

A fourth-generation Okinawan-Japanese American born and raised in ʻAiea, Hawaiʻi, Joseph graduated from ʻAiea High School and began his college journey at Leeward Community College before transferring to UH Mānoa, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and master’s degrees in both Second Language Studies and Learning Design and Technology. He is now a PhD student in Learning Design and Technology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Education. 

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As the retired director of the Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support from 2011–2024, Dr. Kathleen Kane oversaw three units, including a TA professional development program and two faculty development programs: the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and the Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP). Kathie has been associated with the development of CTE since 1991 and FMP since 2003. Her responsibilities included extending and expanding support for faculty and TAs to develop and thrive professionally in their teaching, research, and service. 

Kathie earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 1994 and has taught in Political Science and Women’s Studies as an affiliate faculty, with a focus on the intersections of theory, aesthetics, memory, and film.

Kathie has focused on the concept of Space Matters, a movement towards agility in education—as in educational spaces—as a response to more immersive, more engaged opportunities to teach and learn. More complex than the design of an agile physical environment is how to align agile design with agility in teaching and learning, schedules, curriculum, and subsequent demands on faculty development. She has been deeply involved in the development of transformative environments such as Sakamaki Innovation Zone, Webster 101 Collaborative Classroom, the Dean 104 Cultural Lab, and a number of classroom improvements in buildings across the Mānoa campus.

Kathie is the 2024 recipient of the UH Board of Regents (BOR) Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service to the University.