UH Hilo's Hawaiian Ph.D. program ordered to improve (fwd link)

[David Lewis]

This is a very interesting article. This issue of program conflict of interest is a common enough critique of any indigenous people who work within their cultural sphere. A friend, Beth Piatote, now at Berkeley, had this problem when working at a newspaper. they would not allow her to write articles about Indian people as it was called a conflict of interest. However, they do not say there is a conflict of interest when former or current athletes work in sportscasting or write articles about sports. Now, clearly this is not the same case, but it is related. What this says to me is that Indigenous people cannot be unbiased or avoid a conflict of interest when involved at the highest levels of education, when the issue is their own cultural phenomenon. If this is the case do the similarly monitor and criticize French people who are getting a PhD within French studies? Of course not. In fact, in American universities, it is quite common that people who are studying a "classical language" will be teaching in the department to gain experience in teaching and to paid for the college fees. 

The implications in the article are unspecific- what exactly is the program doing wring that is different from a classical language program? 

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Subject: Re: [ILAT] UH Hilo's Hawaiian Ph.D. program ordered to improve (fwd link)
 
Here is the full URL:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080730/BREAKING01/80730060/-1/LOCALNEWSFRONT

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Phil
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Quoting phil cash cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu>:

> Wednesday, July 30, 2008
>
> UH Hilo's Hawaiian Ph.D. program ordered to improve
> Associated Press
>
> HILO, Hawai'i — The University of Hawai'i at Hilo has been told to 
> improve its
> new Hawaiian language doctorate program or face sanctions.
> Advertisement
>
> The Western Association of Schools & Colleges, which accredits schools across
> the West, issued the warning in a June 30 letter to Hilo Chancellor 
> Rose Tseng.
>
> Access full article below:
> 

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