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Mike Foley | University Advancement | 19 September 2006
BYU-Hawaii's current entrepreneur in residence used a financial author's "cash flow quadrant" model to suggest ways School of Business students might pursue their own careers.
In the September 19 entrepreneurship lecture in the McKay Auditorium, Elder Jim Sheffield, a service missionary who is president of a family-owned real estate development company in Colorado, drew from Hawaii-born financial author Robert T. Kiyosaki's Cash Flow Quadrant and added a student state to reflect the following paths to a successful career: employee, self-employed, business owner and investor.
In the September 19 entrepreneurship lecture in the McKay Auditorium, Elder Jim Sheffield, a service missionary who is president of a family-owned real estate development company in Colorado, drew from Hawaii-born financial author Robert T. Kiyosaki's Cash Flow Quadrant and added a student state to reflect the following paths to a successful career: employee, self-employed, business owner and investor.
For the past eight years Brigham Young University Hawaii has been conservatively developing relationships with various universities and programs that enable our international students to maintain stronger educational ties with their homelands and enhance their opportunities for returnability.
BYU-Hawaii History Associate Professor Dr. James B. Tueller created a classroom atmosphere in the Cannon Activities Center on September 14 as he explored aspects of ambiguity in university education during the annual faculty convocation.
After successfully completing his two-year mission in Brisbane Australia (Mandarin speaking), the first Elder called from the People's Republic of China has enrolled at BYU-Hawaii.
In the first entrepreneurship lecture of Fall Semester 2006, Honolulu attorney Larry Gilbert provided BYU-Hawaii School of Business students with "some real world lessons" on the "big payday most entrepreneurs dream of" — the exit, or selling off a start-up company.
Mike Foley | University Advancement | 7 September 2006
In the first BYU-Hawaii devotional of the 2006-07 school year, President Eric B. Shumway pled with single students "to acquire those personal attributes that will sustain a happy marriage. If you learn all this school has to offer, but fail to acquire these qualities that sustain a marriage and family, your education will be sorrowfully incomplete."
Speaking in the Cannon Activities Center on September 7, President Shumway, who is also an Area Authority Seventy for Hawaii and California, spoke of the alarming decline of traditional families — "that is, a father and mother married with children" — and "the hesitancy for a variety of reasons of many young people to enter into formal marriage."
Speaking in the Cannon Activities Center on September 7, President Shumway, who is also an Area Authority Seventy for Hawaii and California, spoke of the alarming decline of traditional families — "that is, a father and mother married with children" — and "the hesitancy for a variety of reasons of many young people to enter into formal marriage."
Twelve BYU-Hawaii interns, led by psychology professor Dr. Ronald M. Miller, formed a mentored consulting team with 15 students from the Shenzhen Tourism College from June 28 to August 23 to design, execute and analyze a high-level visitor satisfaction and marketing survey for the largest entertainment-based company in China.
The university's lead application programmer analyst for PeopleSoft brought a somewhat unique hobby with him when he came to Laie almost a year ago: temple riding.
Twenty-five years ago — at a time when relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China were expanding — six promising young Chinese officials came to Laie to participate in the first BYU-Hawaii/Polynesian Cultural Center Asian Executive Management training program. In the years since then the significance of the program for the participants, the two institutions and their sponsor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has grown exponentially.
As recently as four years ago, only one BYU-Hawaii international student filled an internship, but for the past three years — thanks to the generosity of Gene and Allyson Yamagata of Las Vegas, who fund round-trip internship transportation to home countries and some other expenses — that number climbed to 102 in 2004 and is expected to exceed 250 by the end of this year.
BYU-Hawaii Athletics
Staff Writer | University Advancement | 30 August 2006
Aloha new and returning students!
School has begun as of Wednesday, August 30, and new faces are getting their schedules all lined up with their respective classes. We are committed to making each new student's orientation to BYU-Hawaii an exciting, welcoming and memorable experience. The campus 'ohana is our driving force and ultimate goal to help create a united student body.
School has begun as of Wednesday, August 30, and new faces are getting their schedules all lined up with their respective classes. We are committed to making each new student's orientation to BYU-Hawaii an exciting, welcoming and memorable experience. The campus 'ohana is our driving force and ultimate goal to help create a united student body.