Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 12 July 2005 President Eric B. Shumway of BYU-Hawaii and President Von Orgill of the Polynesian Cultural Center recently accompanied a Hawaii State-sponsored delegation to the People's Republic of China, with the purpose of strengthening existing relationships and establishing new ties for the promotion of tourism, education and business development.

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 24 June 2005 BYU-Hawaii hosted a five-day conference on Hawaiian culture and education, sponsored by Ka Lei Papahi O Kakuhihewa, an Oahu-based Hawaiian Education organization made up of Kupuna or grandparents.

In Hawaii, Kupuna are part-time educators in the State Department of Education Hawaiian Studies Program. However, Ka Lei Papahi O Kakuhihewa is an independent organization formed by the Kupuna to advance cultural education.

Every four years the organization holds a conference on a different island to collaborate and train one another in Hawaiian culture and education methods. This year's theme was E Ho'omau Me Ke Aloha, which means "Continue, Persevere, Perpetuate and Renew the Legacy of Aloha."

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 18 June 2005 BYU-Hawaii, celebrating 50 years of educating and graduating tomorrow's leaders, graduated 248 more today in its Jubilee commencement exercises.

Of the 248 "jubilee graduates," 76 or 31% are international students from 31 different countries. Next to the U.S., Japan had the highest number of graduates at nine with Tonga following at eight. Other countries represented ranged from Cambodia to Papua New Guinea.

The diversity of the graduating class directly reflects the culturally diverse demographics of BYU-Hawaii's student body—the most international in the nation—and the university's mission of training students to become leaders back in their home countries.

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 13 June 2005 Elder Pita Vamanrav, Area Authority Seventy for the Pacific Islands Area and BYU-Hawaii alumnus, passed away from cancer last Friday, June 10, after a life full of loving service to the Church and the people of Tonga.

Elder Vamanrav, Indian by birth, was raised in Tonga and attended Liahona High School where he was baptized. He came to Church College of Hawaii in 1963 to study electronics but was called back to Tonga in 1966 to serve a mission.

As a missionary, Elder Vamanrav baptized his brother and his brother's wife, among many others. He returned to CCH in 1968, graduated in 1970 and married his wife, Seini Pasi, the following year.

After returning to Tonga, Elder Vamanrav and his wife owned and operated an importing company; however, as successful as he was professionally, his life is better characterized by his service.

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 9 June 2005 Elder Stuart Poelman, CES missionary in the School of Business, contrasts our sense of duty and our sense of desire in today's devotional, encouraging all to be "anxiously engaged in a good cause."

Elder Poelman prefaced his address by advising listeners how to study the scriptures—not just read them but truly study them. He recommended reading a scripture several times, each time asking oneself the following questions: What does this scripture tell me? What does the Lord want me to learn from this scripture? What have I learned from this scripture? What I'm I going to do about it?

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 6 June 2005 BYU-Hawaii's Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach is hosting this week's 9th annual Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education—the first time the conference is being held outside of Asia.

The conference began today and will run until Thursday, June 9. For four days, BYU-Hawaii is hosting close to 300 of the brightest minds in instructional technology out of Asia and parts of the United States.

Organized by the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education, the conference is traditionally held at prestigious universities in major Chinese metropolises, such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Nanjing and Singapore.

The unprecedented move to Hawaii symbolizes the society's burgeoning global interests and increasing willingness to interface with the Western world.

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 1 June 2005 BYU-Hawaii's chapter of SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) ranked among the top 40 in the nation at the 2005 SIFE USA National Exposition held in Kansas City last week.

SIFE is a global, non-profit organization with student chapters on over 1800 university campuses in more than 40 countries. Each team is given the charge to teach principles of free enterprise—including market economics, entrepreneurship, personal and financial success, and business ethics—through educational outreach projects that better themselves, their communities and their countries. More on SIFE.

Sandra Rogers, VP of International Students at BYU in Provo, Utah, counseled the BYU-Hawaii 'ohana on our individual responsibilities as members of the Church to participate in the rolling forth of the Kingdom of God to fill the earth.