Rate My Professor Kala Fagasoaia

Prior to her university roles, Fagasoaia accumulated over five years of experience managing various retail stores, where she developed crucial management and organizational skills that she now applies effectively in her position. She is passionate about encouraging academic excellence among Pacific students in the Division of Health Sciences. Fagasoaia has contributed to discussions on educational impacts through verbal presentations at the University of Otago's COVID-19’s Impact on Teaching and Learning: Lessons Learned Symposium in November 2022. She co-presented 'The grind never stops: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 impact on the POPO Programmes' with I. Lucas, M. Lameta, G. Williams, K. Masina, M. Lameta, and G. George. She also co-presented '"Extra just got more extra": Leaning on Pacific values to lead our team through uncertainty' with R. Richards, F. Cockerell, M. Lameta, B. Weastell, L. Pereira-Moeono, and F. Sopo'aga.