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

[William J Poser]

As I understand it, there are three criticisms of the Hawaiian Ph.D. program:
(a) lack of a published curriculum;
(b) size - only three permanent faculty and five students;
(c) since four of the five students also hold faculty positions,
    the faculty may feel unable to evaluate their work objectively.

The last is the "conflict of interest" issue. The criticism is not that
Hawaiian people cannot teach Hawaiian studies without conflict of
interest, it is that faculty may have difficulty objectively evaluating
students who are also their colleagues.

Bill