Mike Foley

Eleven BYU-Hawaii students and alumni, accompanied by two International Cultural Studies professors and their respective families, recently returned to campus after spending four weeks studying intensive Mandarin in Shanghai and another week visiting historic sites in Beijing. One of the faculty members called the trip a "life-changing experience."

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 26 June 2006 Elder Richard G. Scott, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, used the "hallowed greeting, aloha," during the June 24 commencement to teach the nearly 300 BYU-Hawaii graduates five keys to success and happiness.

Speaking before an audience of over 3,000 in the Cannon Activities Center, Elder Scott told the new graduates they had "not only attained an outstanding secular education, but you have done it while meeting the highest standards of integrity and spirituality. Among graduating students in the world you are among that unique body that do so from our Church universities. Therefore, what we expect of you are future accomplishments far beyond those asked of a graduating class elsewhere."

BYU-Hawaii School of Business Dean Brent Wilson had his first opportunity at a banquet on June 23 to present the crystal trophy that goes with the Executive of the Year award major benefactor Gene Yamagata received in absentia in 2005 for his outstanding business success and exceptional generosity in funding the university's international student internship program for the past several years.

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 20 June 2006 BYU-Hawaii's Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship, the BYUH Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach (CITO), two alumni and the Church Employment Resource Services office in Makati City, the Philippines, are launching the university's first-ever beta testing of a high-level CD-ROM-based entrepreneurship course this summer.

Center Director Gregory V. Gibson, J.D., explained the CIE has been working with CITO for the past two years "to put together an exciting program that we've just rolled out on a limited test basis. It's a high-level college course — the same one we teach here on campus, where it's called Entrepreneurship for Non-Business Majors — and includes accounting, finance, entrepreneurship and marketing principles. We've basically put the course online and actually improved it," he said.

The BYU-Hawaii School of Business recently honored hospitality and tourism professor Bill Hsu as its faculty member of the year and Elder John Simcox, the school's former volunteer entrepreneur in residence, for his outstanding service.

Ten BYU-Hawaii members of SIFE, or the Students In Free Enterprise team, recently returned from Kansas City, Missouri, where they made strong impressions and placed in the top 40 at the organization's national competition.

Dr. Max Stanton, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, has retired after teaching at BYU-Hawaii for the past 35 years and left Laie this evening to undertake seven months of anthropological field studies.

The prestigious Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) recently approved a group of BYU-Hawaii students working closely with the administration, Assistant Psychology Professor Ronald M. Miller, and the Polynesian Cultural Center, to form a chapter on campus.

Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Presidency of the Seventy, in the keynote address of the BYU-Hawaii Women's Conference on May 19, said of President Gordon B. Hinckley, "We are led by the greatest temple builder of all mankind and all history."