Excellence in Teaching

Rick Caulfield

Rick Caulfield is an assistant professor in the UH Manoa Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. As a UH Manoa graduate, he believes it is a privilege to be here, to make a difference and to touch students’ lives. Caulfield was previously honored with the Frances Davis Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and a Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching.

Caulfield loves to teach lifespan development which begins at conception and proceeds until death. Although he has been teaching large sections of lifespan development for more than eight years, he continually challenges himself to make each semester better than the last. He structures class time and activities to encourage face-to-face interactions among students and him. His office is active, always bustling with students involved in college clubs, research or consulting with him on their class work and ideas. Whenever possible during the semester, he tries to incorporate his own research on Asian American families in Hawai‘i into his lectures.

Caulfield also serves as an academic advisor for Phi Upsilon Omicron, the National Honor Society in family and consumer sciences.