Assistant Professor, Music
Assistant Professor of Mathematics / I Meyeng UOG-Certified Online Teacher
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Associate Professor of Social Work
Tressa P. Diaz, received her MSW at Hunter College School of Social Work at the City University of New York and is currently a PhD candidate at the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work (MBTSSW) at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.
Tressa is a doctoral scholar under the University of Guam-University of Hawai`i Cancer Center U54 Partnership. Her research focus is on the social determinants of cancer disparities and access to quality healthcare among Chamoru and other Micronesian communities in the Pacific.
She is dedicated to community-centered research, cancer survivorship, and the preservation of indigenous resources. Her doctoral research is on access to care and barriers to colorectal cancer screening among Chamoru on Guam.
Her hobbies include: reading, tennis, and playing guitar.
Assistant Professor of Elementary Education
Associate Professor of Foundations and Educational Research
Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Advanced Education & Research Services
Kathrine Gutierrez, Ph.D., joined the School of Education as an associate professor in January 2021. She is originally from Guam and is an alumna of the University of Guam.
She comes to the University of Guam from the University of Oklahoma, where she was on faculty since 2006. She worked specifically as a graduate faculty member there teaching and advising master's and doctoral students.
Her higher education work experience includes research (scholarly publications and national/international conference presentations), teaching (graduate coursework), and service activities at the national/international levels. Dr. Gutierrez is interested in continuing research to focus on schools, school community, and culture. Her areas of emphasis are educational leadership and conducting educational research.
She has experience in teaching online using technology for teaching and learning and earned certificates from the Online Learning Consortium.
Professor of Management Information Systems
Kevin K.W. Ho is the professor of management information systems at the School of Business and Public Administration. He is the co-editor-in-chief of Library Hi Tech and the associate editor of the International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering. His research has been published in Computers in Human Behavior, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Internet Research, Behaviour & IT, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and Journal of Global Information Management, among others.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ho's research interests include electronic service, information systems strategy, social media, green information systems, sustainability management, and electronic government. He has particular interest in using theories in risk, trust, value co-creation, and technology adoption as the basis for empirical research and practitioner enquiry related to the design of E-service.
He is working on projects in investigating how the development of trust and value co-creation in social media affect purchase intention of online consumers and how different design attributes of E-service website affect its adoption. He is also conducting research on the E-government and E-learning adoption and green information systems and sustainable management.
Acting Chief Planning Officer
Assistant Professor of Foundations and Educational Research
Dr. James is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education and the Program Chair for the Masters in Education School Administration and Supervision Program. She is also an Adjunct Professor for Argosy University/Hawaii’s doctoral education programs teaching graduate students in Guam, Hawaii, and American Samoa and chairing doctoral dissertation committees. Before coming to the University of Guam, Dr. James was an Associate Dean at the Guam Community College. Her professional career also includes over 25 years with the Guam Department of Education as a high school math teacher, school administrator, and Deputy Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Improvement.