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

[Scott DeLancey]

Phil (and others) -- Help me imagine what a program like that
might look like.

Scott DeLancey
Department of Linguistics 
1290 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1290, USA

delancey at uoregon.edu
http://www.uoregon.edu/~delancey/prohp.html


On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, 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 :
>
>>  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.
>>  -------
>>  wahjeh
>>  rolland nadjiwon
>> 
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>>    ----- 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)
>> 
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>>    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 masterÂ’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 UniversityÂ’s teacher education program.
>>
>>    Access full article below:
>>    http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20081216143052
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