In memoriam: Ronald Heck, education leadership advocate
Nationally renowned education scholar, teacher and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor Ronald Harvey Heck died on January 11.
$1.6M to prepare Native Hawaiian, Asian, Pacific Islander special education teachers
Project Equal Access aims to create a more diverse teacher workforce to serve students of color in rural and remote communities.
PhD grad goes from directing commencement to walking in same ceremony
Lori Furoyama joined 860 fellow graduates at the fall 2022 commencement ceremony and received her PhD in education.
Kaiser HS Peace and Sustainability Garden grows plants and students
Paul Balazs and his students spent several months clearing an overgrown plot of land that would become the Peace and Sustainability Garden.
Face of Nike Indigenous collection is Kānaka ʻōiwi grad student
2022 Miss Aloha Hula Piʻikea Lopes is the first Native Hawaiian to be featured in Nike’s N7 collection.
10 UH Mānoa subjects on Times Higher Education premier world ranking
Five of the 10 ranked subjects placed in the world’s top 1%, while the others placed in the world’s top 2–4%.
Project addresses low pay for community-based early educators in Hawaiʻi
The survey yielded responses from 99 directors and 48 family child care providers representing 143 center-based sites.
More ethnomathematics educators wanted
More than 60 educators have earned certificates or master’s degrees since the first ethnomathematics academic program launched in 2018.
UH seeks developer to monetize land, create student learning opportunities
The project must also fit in the context of the surrounding community, and the developer must have an on-property physical presence and manage the project after it is built.
$8M grant to support underserved children, family engagement in education
Over the next five years, Hye Jin Park and Chuan Chinn will work with the students and their families to find ways to address their needs.
