<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">One of the aspects of the program not mentioned in this article or really elsewhere has been the extensive use of video and audio conferencing to bring a very broad indigenous, and not just Hawaiian, perspective to the program. This included two classes by Bill Demmert at Western Washington delivered to our students in Hilo a few years ago, as well as others at U of Arizona and in Alaska. This past semester, we had a class which originated in Hilo and taught by Dr. Noelani Iokepa-Guerrero and which was delivered to students in Aotearoa, Alaska, Wisconsin, Arizona as well as Hawai‘i students on the islands of Moloka‘i and Kaua‘i. Students in our MA and Ph.d. programs were able to count the classes toward our programs, and students at the other institutions did the same for those schools. Strength in numbers and diversity. I've been planning to write a short article on this most recent class, I'll post it here when I do.<div><br></div><div>Keola<div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">========================================================================</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Keola Donaghy </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani <a href="mailto:keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu">keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">University of Hawai'i at Hilo <a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 17px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><br style="font-family: Courier; "></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam." (Irish Gaelic saying)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A country without its language is a country without its soul.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">========================================================================</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div>On 18 Kek. 2008, at 6:16 AM, phil cash cash wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Wouldn't it be swell if we all could establish a doctoral program supporting our language(s)? A feel good thought for today...<br><br>Phil<br>UofA<br><br>Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon <<a href="mailto:mikinakn@shaw.ca">mikinakn@shaw.ca</a>>:<br> <br> > Thanks Phil...that is really great news to receive. I have been <br> > watching what the Hawaiian and Maori peoples have been doing for some <br> > time.<br> > -------<br> > wahjeh<br> > rolland nadjiwon<br> ><br> ><br> > ----- Original Message -----<br> > From: phil cash cash<br> > To: <a href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</a><br> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:51 AM<br> > Subject: [ILAT] UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall <br> > commencement (fwd link)<br> ><br> ><br> > UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement<br> ><br> > University of Hawaii at Hilo<br> > Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642<br> > Director Media Relations<br> > Posted: December 16, 2008<br> ><br> > A Maori educator from New Zealand will become the first recipient <br> > of a doctoral<br> > degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.<br> ><br> > Katarina Edmonds will receive the Ph.D. in Hawaiian and Indigenous <br> > Language and<br> > Culture Revitalization awarded by Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani College of<br> > Hawaiian Language. Edmonds will receive her degree in absentia during fall<br> > commencement, scheduled for Saturday, December 20, beginning at <br> > 9:00 a.m. in<br> > the UH Hilo New Gym.<br> ><br> > A member of the Te Whanau a Apanui and Rutaia tribes, Edmonds has <br> > an extensive<br> > background in language and cultural education dating back to 1980. <br> > She earned<br> > her undergraduate degrees in education and Maori and a masters in applied<br> > linguistics from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. After<br> > eight years of teaching in mainstream, English medium schools, <br> > Edmonds became<br> > involved in Maori immersion education and discovered the value of teaching<br> > through the Maori language. Subsequently, Edmonds returned to <br> > Waikato to earn a<br> > graduate degree in bilingual education and to train Maori immersion <br> > teachers in<br> > the Universitys teacher education program.<br> ><br> > Access full article below:<br> > <a" target="_blank" href="https://www.email.arizona.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hawaii.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fuhnews%3F20081216143052"><a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20081216143052">http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20081216143052</a><br> <br> </a"></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 17px; ; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Courier; "><br style="font-family: Courier; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>