BYU–Hawaii News

Growing up in a small town, of only 3,000 people can give a person a very strong curiosity to learn about the vast world, which certainly has to exist beyond their own limited experience. This was the case with me. Read Full Story

Ryan Anderson| University Advancement | 7 April 2008


Leading international employment consultant and author of The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas, Jean-Marc Hachey (at left), provided information and tips on international employment during the BYU-Hawaii’s Career Services seminar on International Employment held Thursday, March 27 and Friday March 28.

Hachey, who is originally from Canada, has a long list of activities and involvement with organizations that qualify his expertise in the subject. According to Kim Austin, director of Career Services, he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of New Brunswick in 1979 and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the Université Laval, in Québec City, Canada, in 1986.


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Ryan Anderson | University Advancement | 7 April 2008


At a small awards ceremony in the BYU-Hawaii Macintosh Computer Lab on March 19, three students won prizes in the first annual brainhoney.com online lesson competition.

Aaron Doxey, a senior from Provo, Utah, majoring in Information Systems with a minor in Instructional Design and Development (IDD), won the competition and received a scholarship worth $1,000 from Agilix, Inc., the sponsor of both the brainhoney.com site and the competition. Doxey said his instructional video, “Résumé Building,” on how to make an effective résumé, is actually one of four parts to a project he is putting together for Career Services.


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Hundreds of faculty, staff, administrators, service missionaries, volunteers, spouses and guests culminated BYU-Hawaii Employee Appreciation week from March 31 to April 2 and celebrated the university's "new horizons" with a ho'omaika'i [thankfulness] program and luau dinner at the Polynesian Cultural Center. Read Full Story

BYU-Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright [pictured at left] and members of his executive council tackled the latest round of questions submitted by email and in person during the April 2 question-and-answer forum in the Little Theater, including: Read Full Story

The BYU-Hawaii Institutional Assessment program — dedicated to encouraging each academic and administrative unit at the university to submit and update plans listing specific outcomes — presented its annual best practices awards during a March 28 luncheon to: Read Full Story

Students interested in enhancing their résumés by learning how to create highest-quality digital media projects may soon do so in BYU-Hawaii's completely refurbished Media Production Center (MPC). Read Full Story

Members of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accreditation team, who conducted an Educational Effectiveness Review of BYU-Hawaii from March 26-28, shared a brief, "very positive" oral report with university administrators and faculty before departing campus. Read Full Story

BYU-Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright [pictured at left] and Vice President of Administrative Services Michael B. Bliss met with interested faculty and staff on March 25 to answer questions about the university's recent decision canceling plans to demolish 26 homes on Moana Street in Laie and build 52 new replacement units on those lots. Read Full Story

With the 50th and last annual reunion of the Church College of New Zealand set for next month in Temple View and the impending closure of CCNZ [New Zealanders pronounce the letter 'Z' as "zed") at the end of 2009, the annual conference of the Mormon Pacific Historical Society (MPHS) from March 21-22 on campus focused on the rich heritage of the Latter-day Saint high school and some of its ties to BYU-Hawaii. Read Full Story