UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement (fwd link)

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

Wow! That's even better... Thanks Keola for the expansion update. I sure hope this will initiate some movement in a similar direction and with many more indigenous peoples and languages. What is that old idiom... 'I shall return....' Indications are, that is happening now. Right on too. Best of luck to all. This is great stuff.
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wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Keola Donaghy 
  To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
  Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [ILAT] UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement (fwd link)


  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.


  Keola


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  Keola Donaghy                                           
  Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies 
  Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu 
  University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/


  "Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
  A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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  On 18 Kek. 2008, at 6:16 AM, phil cash cash wrote:


    Wouldn't it be swell if we all could establish a doctoral program supporting our language(s)?  A feel good thought for today...

    Phil
    UofA

    Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca>:

    > Thanks Phil...that is really great news to receive. I have been 
    > watching what the Hawaiian and Maori peoples have been doing for some 
    > time.
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    > wahjeh
    > rolland nadjiwon
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: phil cash cash
    > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
    > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:51 AM
    > Subject: [ILAT] UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall 
    > commencement (fwd link)
    >
    >
    > UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement
    >
    > University of Hawaii at Hilo
    > Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
    > Director Media Relations
    > Posted: December 16, 2008
    >
    > A Maori educator from New Zealand will become the first recipient 
    > of a doctoral
    > degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
    >
    > Katarina Edmonds will receive the Ph.D. in Hawaiian and Indigenous 
    > Language and
    > Culture Revitalization awarded by Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani College of
    > Hawaiian Language. Edmonds will receive her degree in absentia during fall
    > commencement, scheduled for Saturday, December 20, beginning at 
    > 9:00 a.m. in
    > the UH Hilo New Gym.
    >
    > A member of the Te Whanau a Apanui and Rutaia tribes, Edmonds has 
    > an extensive
    > background in language and cultural education dating back to 1980. 
    > She earned
    > her undergraduate degrees in education and Maori and a master’s in applied
    > linguistics from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. After
    > eight years of teaching in mainstream, English medium schools, 
    > Edmonds became
    > involved in Maori immersion education and discovered the value of teaching
    > through the Maori language. Subsequently, Edmonds returned to 
    > Waikato to earn a
    > graduate degree in bilingual education and to train Maori immersion 
    > teachers in
    > the University’s teacher education program.
    >
    > Access full article below:
    > http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20081216143052











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