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President's Council, Design Team Outline New BYUH Reorganization
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Mike Foley
June 17, 2008 07:18 AM
BYU-Hawaii faculty and staff filled the McKay Auditorium on June 12 to hear the President's Council and Organizational Design Team outline the details of realigning all University functions and activities under President Steven C. Wheelwright [pictured at left], the Assistant to the President, and three vice presidents between now and the beginning of Fall Semester.
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Former Prof, Alumna Named BYUH Vice PUniversity Advancementresident
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Mike Foley
June 13, 2008 01:17 PM
BYU-Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright announced on June 12 that Dr. Debbie Hippolite Wright, LCSW, Ph.D. [pictured at left], will become the new Vice President for Student Development and Services. Dr. Hippolite Wright, who is currently an LDS Family Services Clinical Supervisor in West Valley, Utah, will assume her new position on July 7.
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Elder Ballard Speaks on Future BYUH, PCC Roles
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Mike Foley
June 11, 2008 08:55 PM
Elder M. Russell Ballard [pictured at left] of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, emphasized the importance of the generosity of members of the BYU-Hawaii and Polynesian Cultural Center Presidents' Leadership Council (PLC) at their April 7, 2008, meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, by underscoring the role the Lord would have the sister institutions accomplish, especially in Asia.
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President's Council Q-and-A forum, June 2008
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Mike Foley
June 06, 2008 04:47 PM
The BYU-Hawaii President's Council question and answer forum on June 5 tackled the following:
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BYUH Sailing Canoe, Iosepa, Takes to the Water
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Mike Foley
May 30, 2008 02:57 PM
After being in dry dock for three years behind Hale 5 dormitory, BYU-Hawaii's 57-foot traditional wa'a kaulua or twin-hulled Hawaiian sailing canoe, Iosepa, has spent the past several weeks temporarily moored off Hukilau Beach in Laie. Two co-captains from BYUH's Hawaiian Studies program and 10 student crewmembers have been sailing it along windward Oahu from Kualoa to Kaena Point and preparing for a training voyage to the island of Hawaii. Wind and weather permitting, the canoe and 28-foot escort vessel Nihipora tentatively plan to embark in the coming week.
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BYU Animation Team Shares Skills in Polynesia
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Mike Foley
May 14, 2008 12:09 PM
A BYU Provo animation professor and a team of his students have been working over the past year to capture a Polynesian legend and share their skills through workshops this week for students at BYU-Hawaii and later in Samoa.
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New BYUH Academic VP Holds First Faculty Meeting
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Mike Foley
May 13, 2008 11:43 AM
In his first faculty meeting since becoming Vice President of Academic Affairs at BYU-Hawaii, Dr. Max L. Checketts [pictured at left] listed three objectives he would like to work on with the teachers: Admitting more students who are better prepared when they arrive on campus, using more technology to appropriately help those students, and increasing the "traction" for teaching and learning.
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New BYUH Entrepreneurship Director Named
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Mike Foley
May 13, 2008 09:58 AM
James W. Ritchie [pictured at left], a member of the BYU-Hawaii/Polynesian Cultural Center Presidents' Leadership Council, has volunteered to serve as the new director for The Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship.
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President Wheelwright: First-year Retrospective
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Mike Foley
May 08, 2008 08:52 AM
As BYU-Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright draws near the completion of his first year of service, a faculty member in the May 2008 question-and-answer forum asked what "report card" grade he would give himself for his accomplishments at the university to this point.
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