Hanakahi“News of People Working Together”

Ka Lono

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT HILO VOLUME 18, NO. 2, OCTOBER 2002

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Jeff Scofield

UH Hilo enrollment of3,000 hits historicmilestoneby Ken Hupp

Enrollment at UH Hilo reached an important milestone this fallsemester with preliminary figures showing enrollment increasing by5.4 percent to 3,069 or 157 more students than Fall 2001. It is the first timeenrollment has topped 3,000 since 1993.

“This is extremely good news,” said Chancellor Rose Tseng. “3,000has been an important plateau to reach in meeting our enrollment goals,and I’m very pleased that we have now surpassed this number.”

The increase continues a steady upward climb dating back to 1997when enrollment stood at 2,639 and now spans five semesters: 2,730(1998); 2,790(1999); 2,874 (2000); 2,913 (2001).

“This year’s growth is significant, but even more important is the factthat UH Hilo has sustained growth over the last five years,” Tseng said.“To accomplish that during a period of budgetary constraints is atestimonial to our dedicated faculty and staff.”

Reflecting the growth over the past several years, students fromHawai‘i County are the largest and most significant group enrolled at1,620 students or 78.9 percent for fall 2002. Over one-third of the studentbody is comprised of families on the Big Island and nearly one-fourth ofenrolled students are graduates from the three high schools in Hilo.

“Recruiting and graduating students from Hawai`i reflect the val-ues, priorities and the mission of UH Hilo,” Tseng said.

The Fall 2002 preliminary figures reveal that 67 percent of UH Hilo’senrollment is from Hawai‘i. Numbers and percentages from the neigh-bor islands include: 184 students or 9 percent from O‘ahu; 180 studentsor 8.8 percent from Maui; and 68 students or 3.3 percent from Kaua‘i.

The 1,017 non-residents enrolled this semester include 678 from 48states across the U.S. mainland and U.S. possessions, and 339 interna-tional students from 41 countries.

“We’re very happy to see continued strong interest in UH Hilo fromboth the U.S. mainland and overseas. This certainly reinforces our

Bluegrass fan findsharmony at UH Hiloby John Burnett

Just talking to JeffScofield, one gets the feel-ing that the new director offinancial aid is going to fitin quite nicely, both at UHHilo and on the Big Island.For openers, his reasons foraccepting the position thatJean Coffman held for 25years before retiring earlier

this year, are right on the money — no punintended.

“It’s a good school, a nice size in a won-derful place to live,” Scofield said. “We’re look-ing for a great place to raise a family with a lot ofcultural diversity and lots of things happening.The opportunity presented itself, so out we came.”

Scofield’s family consists of wife Hettie, whowas an adjunct professor at his last stop,Longwood College in Virginia. Right now she’s astay-at-home mom to daughter Camille, age 6,and son Carter, 4.

So far things seem to be good. The Scofieldshave moved into a place toward Kaumana upAinako, in the area serviced by DeSilva Elemen-tary, which is generally considered to be the bestpublic elementary school in Hilo.

“We lucked out, really,” Scofield said. “Annand Keith Miser found the house for us. Ann didthe house-hunting for us. We couldn’t just popout here for the weekend from Virginia. So wejust signed the lease and moved in, sight unseen,and we’re happy as can be. It’s quiet, on a cul-de-

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reputation as a culturally diverse residential university,”Tseng said.

Dr. Keith Miser, vice chancellor for student affairs, notedthat only a few years ago, UH Hilo’s student body populationspanned just 44 states. And he expects this trend to continue.

“As we become better known throughout the states forour distinctiveness, we’re beginning to broaden the statesand interests of students who aspire to come here,” Misersaid. “Hopefully, we’ll attract students from Arkansas andRhode Island by this time next year, so that all 50 states willbe represented.”

The percentage of international students at UH Hilo is thesecond highest among U.S. public liberal arts colleges anduniversities. International Student Services Director Dr.Ruth Robison says that indicates an excellent match betweeninternational students and UH Hilo.

“The international students who come here generallyhave a very good experience, are made to feel welcome andthink fondly of UH Hilo after they graduate,” Robison said.

“I think the individual attention that students receivefrom our faculty is particularly important and helpful forinternational students, who must learn to function effec-tively in a new language and culture, in addition to learningtheir subject matter.”

UH Hilo’s ability to accommodate its growing enrollmenthas been enhanced by the addition of some big-ticket capitalimprovements within the past year. These include the $3million Marine Science Building opened last fall, the newlycompleted $19 million University Classroom Building, a $1.6million covered walkway between the new building andCampus Center, now under construction, and the $900,000paving and improvements to the Theater parking lot, sched-uled for completion early next year.

The latest numbers also reveal a higher retention rate.The figure, which tracks the percentage of new first-timefreshmen who re-enroll the following year, reached 64 per-cent, compared to 58 percent a year ago. That was the bestshowing since 1994.

Miser said the strong showing was the result of a totalteam effort, with the Office of Admissions setting goals forthis year’s recruitment of freshmen and transfer students,which were supported by the Student Services Division andthe University’s Marketing Program.

“The University is a high quality and distinctive institu-tion with an excellent faculty and strong student supportservices,” Miser said. “Enrollment goals were met because ofthese factors, along with participation of the entire campuscommunity in helping retain a record number of continuingstudents.”

(Editor’s note: Ken Hupp is a public information officer.)

Pidgin-speaking actors needed forlocal comedy, “Stew Rice”

The UH Hilo Theatre will be holding auditions for“Stew Rice,” Edward Sakamoto’s local comedy aboutgrowing up and leaving the comforts of home. Auditionswill be held at 7 p.m. on October 7 and 8, on-stage at theUH Hilo Theatre. Performances are scheduled for No-vember 15-23.

Beginning in Hawai‘i during 1957 and ending in 1978,the play centers around three young men and their femalecounterparts, examining what happens to friendship whentime and distance have their way -- and more importantly,what happens when someone moves away and can nolonger relate to “home” in the same way.

The show’s director, Justina Mattos, is a graduate ofUH Hilo, and recently completed her doctorate at UHManoa, where she specialized in the study of Hawai‘i’slocal theatre tradition. She says that part of the challenge- and fun - of acting in this play is that the characters age20 years within the space of an evening.

“They start out in high school during act one, and arereunited 20 years later for act two,” Mattos said.

Mattos is seeking three local men and three localwomen who can span these ages for the production.

“All of the characters speak Pidgin, and some alsospeak standard English. The three men are best friends:Ben is outgoing and ambitious; Zippy is loyal and idealis-tic; and Russell is the thoughtful and introspective onewho serves as the play’s narrator. He hooks up with theshy, self-conscious Donna, and they never get comfort-able together. Ruby is the sophisticated girl who decideswhat she wants and goes for it - whether with Ben oranything else in her life. Sharon marries Zippy and liveshappily eva aftah... more-or-less,” Mattos explained.

Actors should come prepared to play improvisatorytheatre games and to read from the script. For those whowould like to read the script in advance, perusal scripts areavailable at the UH Hilo Theatre.

For more information, please contact the Theatre atx47310.

UH Charter School ResourceCenter announcesappointments

The University of Hawai‘i Charter School Resource Cen-ter last month announced the appointments of Mr. QuddusAddison and Ms. Zanette Johnson as Center Associates. Bothnew associates come to the Center with extensive back-grounds in Charter School education and are expected to addstrong support to the Center’s programs in research andservices for Hawai‘i schools of choice.

Addison is currently a teacher and faculty operationschair at Hawai‘i Academy of Arts and Sciences Public Char-ter School. His previous experience includes work withWaters of Life Public Charter School, the New Earth EnglishAcademy in Taitung, Taiwan and Addison English School inKanazawa, Japan. He serves as secretary and member of theBoard of the Hawai‘i Association of Charter Schools. He hasalso served as a member of the Message Development Com-mittee for the transition of the Charter Friends NationalNetwork and Exchange Coordinator for the Hawai‘i-Ari-zona Charter School Student Program. He has a bachelor ofarts degree from Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho andattended high school in Portland, Oregon.

Johnson currently works as a teacher and staff developerat Kanu O ka ‘Aina New Century Public Charter Schoolwhere she is also Title I and SID coordinator. Her previousexperience includes teaching at Cleveland High School inPortland, Oregon and Honoka‘a High & Intermediate Schoolin Honoka‘a, Hawai‘i. She has a BA from Bowdoin Collegeand a masters from Lewis & Clark College’s Graduate Stud-ies Program. She recently joined the first cohort of the Lead-ership For Educational Entrepreneurs Program as a Fellow.

In existence at the University for little more than a year,the UH Charter School Resource Center has until now con-fined its activities to research on the unique ethnocentricnature of many of the charter schools in Hawai‘i, providingadvice and support to emerging Hawai‘i Charter Schools.With the addition of Addison and Johnson, the Center willembark on a number of new initiatives, including a weeklynewsletter for the Hawai‘i Charter School community and anannual Charter School Report providing both statistics andprogress reports from each Hawai‘i charter school.

Johnson and Addison will also be involved in a numberof current Resource Center projects, including the Leader-ship for Entrepreneurial Educators Project, which is con-ducted in collaboration with Arizona State University, theTransitional Teaching Grant in collaboration with the Uni-versity of Nevada, the Charter School Incubator Project withthe Ohio Charter School Resource Center and Strategies forBuilding Democratic Communities Conference at UH Hiloon January 25, 2003.

Center co-directors Dr. Nina Buchanan and Dr. Robert

Fox, whose recent studies of ethnocentric schools will appearas a chapter in “The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools:Towards a Progressive Politics of School Choice,” beingconsidered for publication by both SUNY Press and NewPress, were enthusiastic in their praise of Addison andJohnson.

“Hawai`i is fortunate to have two such experienced anddedicated educators,” Fox said. “First, they share their tal-ents with their students and colleagues in the classroom. But,even more, Quddus and Zanette are students of educationwho will work with the Center to examine ways in whichHawai`i’s children can better be served. We are lucky to havethem aboard.”

The Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center’s Content AdvisoryPanel, made up of 40 community members, including astronomers,navigators and cultural practitioners, met on September 5 to discusscurrent developments in the Center’s interpretive plan as well as tosolicit ideas. Nainoa Thompson (right), president of the PolynesianVoyaging Society, remarked on the Center’s progress, saying “ [22months] ago was a scary time, a very different culture and climate thanwhat we have ... right now. When I sat through this presentation, I sawthat what brought it together ... was almost a mix in science and culturearound a common vision ...looking at the importance of discovery, thepower of imagination and exploration...and through exploration, thebetterment of humankind.”

Ka Lono Hanakahi is published by the Office ofUniversity Relations on the first of the month during theacademic year for the faculty and staff of the Universityof Hawai‘i at Hilo. News and submissions are welcome.Deadlines are on the fifteenth of each month for thefollowing first of the month publication. Contact AlysonKakugawa-Leong, Director Media Relations, CollegeHall 9; (808) 974-7642 or email alyson@hawaii.edu.

Fujisaki Student EDventuretour highlighted summerby Ken Hupp

East met West in July when a delegation of high schoolstudents and dignitaries from Japan’s Fujisaki Prefecturevisited the Big Island for a four-day educational excursion.

From July 26-29, approximately 18 students, accompa-nied by representatives from the Fujisaki Board of Educationand teachers from Fujisaki High School, visited Kilaueavolcano, stargazed, danced the hula, learned to cook “Ha-waiian Style,” explored marine life, and studied the arts ofchanting and pa`u drumming. The Fujisaki visit was anextension of the educational and cultural tours promotedthrough the award winning Hawaiian EDventure program,run by the UH Hilo Conference Center.

“Experiential learning has its own unique way of teach-ing, breaking down language barriers and bridging culturaldifferences,” said Conference Center Director Judith Fox-Goldstein. “When these students carved pa`u drums, theywere learning the Hawaiian language and culture. Theirinteraction with volcanologists exposed them to hands-onscience. And their participation in service learning projects,like planting trees in Ookala, gave back to the community.“The Fujisaki students and teachers would like to come atleast twice a year, and originally planned to return in Janu-ary,” she added. “Unfortunately, the events of 9-1-1 side-lined those plans.

“One of the most significant things we can do in the post9-1-1 period is to break down cultural barriers, promoteinternational exchanges and relations with other countries,and perpetuate the idea that Hawai`i is defined not bydivision, but by diversity,” Fox-Goldstein said. “This pro-gram does that, while promoting UH President Evan Dobelle’s

goal of expanding edu-tourism.”The Fujisaki Tour, like other EDventure programs, has

become a multi-faceted recruiting tool as students residewith host families who are invited to participate in all theactivities, thus giving the University valuable exposure. Atthe same time, it provides obvious economic benefits throughpartnerships with local businesses and industries.

Fox-Goldstein believes the educational market is one areawhere Hawai‘i can expand its reach in Japan. She notes thateach year, approximately 700,000 “Shugaku Ryoko,” or studyabroad students, travel outside of Japan, and Hawai‘i cancertainly develop this market.

“The Japanese save money to study abroad the way thatAmerican families save for college,” Fox-Goldstein explained.“Traditionally, Hawai‘i hasn’t been a major competitor forthese students, but with programs like this, it is becomingmore of what they are looking for in terms of educational andcultural-based programs. Therefore, the potential for expan-sion is quite significant.”

Capital improvements/new faces highlight October Focus on UH Hilo

Several aspects of the University’s new look will be featured during the October telecasts of Focus on UHHilo. The program is hosted by Chancellor Rose Tseng, and airs Wednesday evenings from 8:00 - 8:30 p.m. onChannel 54.

Dr. Jack Whittaker, vice chancellor for administrative affairs, will appear on the October 2nd telecast. He willupdate ongoing capital improvements taking place on campus, including the recently completed $19 UniversityClassroom Building, a new $1.6 million covered walkway for the area between the new building and the CampusCenter, and the $900,000 paving, landscaping and improvements to the Theater parking lot.

The October 16th telecast will feature two newcomers: Dr. Linda Marie Golian-Lui, director of the EdwinH. Mookini Library and Jeff Scofield, director of financial aid. They will discuss their respective visions and initiativesthey plan to pursue.

Focus on UH Hilo highlights UH Hilo programs, up and coming developments and the University’spartnerships with various community organizations.

Students try their hand at pa‘u drum making.

Edwin H. Mookini: Thename and spirit behind ourLibraryby Dr. Linda Marie Golian-Lui

It is not uncommon for peoplein higher education to considerthe library as the heart of the uni-versity campus. For UH Hilo, thisconcept is extremely true. Locatedin the middle of the upper cam-pus, the Edwin H. Mookini Li-brary is a three-story, 93,000-square-foot library that was builtin 1981 to meet the needs of a

growing campus that would one day have a full-timeenrollment of 5,000+ students.

Having a showcase library was the vision of Mookini,who was appointed in 1975 as the acting chancellor ofUH Hilo. Working collaboratively with Ken Herrick,UH Hilo library director from 1978 to 2000, Mookinitirelessly advocated for the University in order to makethis library vision a reality.

According to his wife, Esther Mookini, “Edwardbelieved that the strength of a university could be mea-sured by the reputation of its library.” At the 2002Annual New Faculty Reception held by the MookiniLibrary and Graphics Staff, Mrs. Mookini explainedhow her husband wanted the students of UH Hilo, thestudents of Hawai`i Community College, and the peopleof the Hilo community and island of Hawai`i to have anexceptional facility and collection that supported theiruniversity library needs.

Today, this library vision is very much alive. Librarypatrons find a motivated staff that welcome students

with a generous aloha spirit. Visitors worldwide com-ment about the strong undergraduate library collectionhoused in a facility that also utilizes current informationtechnologies and sound librarianship practices.

Few UH Hilo newcomers however, know muchabout the remarkable man that the Library is namedafter.

Edwin H. Mookini received his bachelor and masterdegrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago.He then received his PhD in mathematics from UCLA.His academic career includes teaching mathematics as afaculty member at UH Manoa, where he was the depart-ment chair from 1964-1967. His talents eventually ledhim to become the first computer center director for UH.

In November 1975, UH President Fujio Matsudaappointed Mookini acting chancellor of UH Hilo. Heserved in this position until 1978 when a permanentchancellor was selected. Mookini then became chancel-lor of the UH Community Colleges where he served thesystem until his unfortunate death in 1979.

In 1984 the BOR recommended and approved nam-ing the UH Hilo Learning Resource Center in his honor.In part, the recommendation stated: “Upon his arrival inHilo to serve as Chancellor of UH Hilo, Mr. Mookiniobserved the lack of adequate library facility and equallyinadequate library collections. Under his leadershipand guidance, he was successful in obtaining funds foradditional volumes for the library in order to build itscollections to a level that was acceptable to the WASCstandards. Along with increases in the library collec-tion, he was eventually successful in obtaining the nec-essary funds for new buildings. The Mookini Librarywas one of the few buildings that was built to accommo-date the long-range projected enrollment of 5,000 forUH Hilo.”

(Editor’s note: Dr. Linda Marie Golian-Lui is library director.)

Edwin H. Mookini

‘02 HIUW campaign underwayby Dr. Margaret Haig

Since 1967, the Hawai‘i Island United Way (HIUW), throughits agencies, has provided needed services to the people of theBig Island, helping our children grow, strengthening our fami-lies, and being there in time of need.

One out of every two people on the Big Island receivesservices from the 34 HIUW agencies. You, or a family member,or a friend, have been helped by community agencies.

In this year of great sacrifice and concern for our families,loved ones, and communities, we can respond to the greatsacrifices made for our country and our communities.

Your donations to HIUW (98 percent) go to work right hereon the Big Island, helping people in Hilo, Kona, Hamakua, Punaand Kohala who need it most: entire families are homeless orhungry; children receive organized recreational opportunities;those with substance abuse problems receive treatment andinterventions. The list goes on and on.

Give because you care. Give because Hawai‘i is special. Giveback to your community.

Please send your pledge cards directly to your Unit Coordi-nator. We at UH Hilo hope to raise over $27,000. A smalldonation from everyone will make it possible for us to reach thatgoal.

(Editor’s note: Dr. Margaret Haig is dean, College of ContinuingEducation and Community Service and HIUW UH Hilo coordinator.)

Hats off to...

George Jacob

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Embao Wang

Nina Buchanan

Judith Gersting

John Gersting

Hirokuni Masuda

Michael Bitter

Shuguang Li

Linda Marie Golian-Lui

Thomas Pinhey

George Jacob , Project Director,Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Cen-ter, has been selected to attend theLeadership Workshop at the YaleSchool of Management this month. Thehighly acclaimed program focuses onteam effectiveness, leadership andmanagement skills, and has benefittedexecutives from major institutions suchas NASA, NSF, World Bank, PolaroidCorp, Xerox, and British Airways, toname a few.

Enbao Wang , Associate Professorof Political Science, is included in theseventh edition of Who’s Who AmongAmerica’s Teachers, 2002.

Nina Buchanan, Professor of Edu-cation, is the guest editor of a new issueof Roeper Review: A Journal on GiftedEducation entitled “Innovative Pro-grams and Home Schooling to Meetthe Needs of Gifted Learners.” Theissue contains three articles by Hawai`iauthors, one of which is co-authoredby Buchanan. Additionally, Buchananand Robert Fox , Professor of Physicsand Astronomy, have submitted achapter on “Back to the Future: Ethno-centric Charter Schools in Hawaii,” tobe published in The EmancipatoryPromise of Charter Schools: Toward aProgressive Politics of School Choiceby Eric Rofes and Lisa Stulberg (edi-tors).

Judith Gersting, Professor of Com-puter Science, had her book Invitationto Computer Science, second edition,published in an Italian edition entitledCorso di Informatica. The book was co-authored with Michael Schneider ofMacalester College.

John Gersting , Professor of Com-puter Science, had his paper “Cardio-vascular Interactions: An InteractiveTutorial and Mathematical Model”published in Adv. Physiol. Educ., vol.

26, no. 2 (2002). The paper was co-authored with Dr. Carl Rothe of Indi-ana University.

Hirokuni Masuda, Assistant Pro-fessor of Japanese and Linguistics, hadhis paper on “Narrative Representa-tion Theory: A creole-linguistic ap-proach to superstructure” published inJournal of Pidgin and Creole Lan-guages, 17 (1). The theory explains thatthe language faculty is able to processdiscourse structure as a distinct mentalrepresentation from other grammati-cal structures such as morphology andsyntax.

Michael Bitter, Assistant Professorof History, presented a paper on “St.Petersburg During the Reign of AnnaIoannovna: The Forbes/Maas Chartand the Evolution of the Early Map-ping of the City” at the InternationalConference on St. Petersburg, orga-nized by the Study Group on Eigh-teenth-Century Russia at CambridgeUniversity, and held at FitzwilliamCollege, Cambridge, UK, in August.The conference celebrated the upcom-ing tercentenary of the founding of theRussian Imperial capital of St. Peters-burg in 1703.

Shuguang Li, Assistant Professorof Mathematics, had a paper he co-authored with Carl Pomerance ac-cepted to Journal fur die reine undangewandte Mathemaik, also knownas Crelle’s Journal. The joint paper ispartially supported by the ResearchRelation Fund from RCUH.

Linda Marie Golian-Lui, LibraryDirector, gave a presentation on “Re-ducing Work Place Negativity” at the2002 Hawai`i Library Association Con-ference held last month.

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Thomas K. Pinhey, Assistant Pro-fessor of Sociology, will organize andchair the Illicit Drug Use session at theforthcoming annual meeting of theSouthwestern Sociological Associationin San Antonio, TX, April 16-19, 2003.

Yoshiko Okuyama, Assistant Pro-fessor of Japanese and Linguistics, hada software review on “TileTag forKana/TileSet Creator for TileTag” ac-cepted for publication. The Web ver-sion of her review will appear in theOctober CALICO Review, and itsprinted version later in the CALICOJournal.

Wayne Miyamoto, Professor of Art,is presenting work in intaglioprintmaking in the Global Matrix In-ternational Print Exhibition at the Rob-ert L. Ringel Gallery and the StewartCenter Gallery at Purdue University,West Lafayette, Indiana through No-vember 24, 2002. The exhibition willtravel to various locations throughoutthe U.S. in 2003. Additionally,Miyamoto presented an intaglio printin the International Print Biennial Soci-ety of Northern Alberta Print-Artists,which was presented in the SNAP Gal-lery in Edmonton, Canada last month.He was one of 25 artists selected fromthe original group of 247 artists repre-senting 23 countries.

Ron Gordon, Professor of Commu-nication, presented a paper in a “Spot-light Session” at a conference on “Chal-lenges and Opportunities in Global-ization” held at the Institute for MediaStudies at Yonsei University, Seoul,Republic of Korea, this past summer.The title of the presentation was “TheAge of Globalization: Electronic Colo-nialism, or Communication Hope?”

Catherine Becker, Assistant Pro-fessor of Communication, had her re-search results discussed in a presenta-

tion on “Talking Stories: Diversity atUHH” at the Hawai`i InternationalConference on Social Sciences in Hono-lulu. The research was conducted inconjunction with Becker’s students inOrganizational Communication (Com440).

Jerry Calton, Associate Professor ofManagement, had his article on “Cop-ing With Paradoxical ‘Messes’: Multi-stakeholder Learning Dialogue as aPluralist Sensemaking Process” ac-cepted for publication in Business &Society, one of the top refereed journalsin management. He also recently pub-lished two book reviews in the Interna-tional Journal of Organizational Analy-sis.

Sharon Ziegler-Chong, UH SeaGrant Extension Service, received a rec-ognition of service award for her “ex-ceptional dedication” to the UH Ha-waiian Internship Program (UH-HIP)from The Secretariat for ConservationBiology in July. UH-HIP is a collabora-tive effort of the Pacific Aquacultureand Coastal Resources Center (UHHilo), USGS Biological Resources Divi-sion, the USDA Forest Service Instituteof Pacific Island Forestry, UH Sea Grant,the Secretariat for Conservation Biol-ogy, The Nature of Conservancy ofHawai`i, Kamehameha Schools, andmore.

Michael West, Associate Professorof Astronomy, published a paper on“The Relative Ages of the GlobularCluster Populations in M87,” whichappeared in the September 10, 2002issue of Astrophysical Journal. Thepaper is based on observations madewith the Hubble Space Telescope, andis co-authored with astronomers fromRutgers University and San FranciscoState University.

Yoshiko Okuyama

Wayne Miyamoto

Ron Gordon

Catherine Becker

Jerry Calton

Sharon Ziegler-Chong

Michael West

Kelly Burke

Terrance Jalbert

Hank Hennessey

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Kelly Burke, Assistant Professor ofManagement Info Systems, had his pa-per on “Do Some Things Change Fasterthan Others? The Dynamics of Behav-ioral Change in Computer-SupportedGroups” published in Group Decisionand Negotiation.

Terrance Jalbert, Associate Profes-sor of Finance, had “A New Method forTeaching the Time Value of Money”published in Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Business, “Does SchoolMatter? An Empirical Analysis of CEOEducation, Compensation and FirmPerformance” published in The Inter-national Business and Economics Re-search Journal, and “Implementationof ISO 9000 and Implications for TQM:A Survey of Hong Kong Companies”published in Quality Management Fo-rum.

Steve Hora, Professor of Manage-ment Science & Stats, presented paperson “Motion Picture Production Sched-uling with Binary-Linear Program-ming” in Delft, Netherlands and Xi’an,China at the First International Confer-ence on Information and ManagementSciences.

Hank Hennessey, Professor of Man-agement, attended the invitation-onlySociety for Human Resource Manage-ment 2002 Thought Leaders Retreat inDenver this summer. The retreat fo-cused on aligning HR strategy withbusiness priorities, leveraging humancapital for business results, impact oftechnology on the human resource role,the future of the HR function and HRleadership in disasters.

David Hammes, Professor of Eco-nomics, presented the “Economic Out-look for the Big Island” at the annualFirst Hawaiian Bank Economic Out-look Forum in August to the Hawai`iIsland Chamber of Commerce in Hilo

and the Kona-Kohala Chamber of Com-merce in Kona with Dr. Leroy Laney ofHawai`i Pacific University.

Marcia Sakai, Director, School ofBusiness, presented a paper on “Cul-tural Assets and Destination Compara-tive Advantage” at the American Asso-ciation for the Advancement of Sci-ences Pacific Division Conference inWaimea in June. Sonia Juvik, Profes-sor of Geography & EnvironmentalStudies, and Summer Simon, intern inCAFNRM’s MARS program, are co-authors. Additionally, Sakai made pre-sentations to the Exchange Club of Hiloon “Big Island Economic Outlook: Re-covery Delayed?” and at the 2002 Sum-mer Institute on Mauna Kea on the“Economic Impact of Astronomy onMauna Kea.”

Youngki Hahn, Professor of Eco-nomics, David Hammes, EmmelinedePillis, Associate Professor of Man-agement, Alton Okinaka, AssociateProfessor of Sociology, and MarciaSakai completed an evaluation studyof the Rural Economic Transition Act-Hawai‘i for the Hawai‘i Small BusinessDevelopment Center Network. The

study indicates that the project has a net present valueranging from $700 million to $2.3 billion, relative its $23million cost.

Richard Crowe, Professor of Astronomy, completed arevised edition of the book Stars Over Hawai‘i, originallycompiled by Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. in 1955. The new edition,published by Petroglyph Press, includes updated informa-tion about the solar system, stars, galaxies and cosmology, 12monthly star charts, two additional charts with Hawaiianstar names, and two chapters on Hawaiian astronomy andPolynesian Voyaging and Wayfinding. It also includes thestar compasses designed for navigation by Nainoa Thomp-son. The appendix is written by Walter Steiger, ProfessorEmeritus of Physics and Astronomy at UH Manoa andformer physics lecturer at UH Hilo.

Alice Kawakami, Associate Professor of Education, andRichard Crowe attended the first Astronomy/Space Science

David Hammes

Marcia Sakai

Sonia Juvik

Youngki Hahn

Emmeline dePillis

Richard Crowe

Alice Kawakami

Thom Curtis

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Education and Public Outreach Conference hosted by NASA’sOffice of Space Science, held in Chicago in June. Kawakamigave a panel presentation on the New Opportunities ThroughMinority Initiatives in Space Science (NOMISS) program.

Thom Curtis, Associate Professor of Sociology, presenteda paper on “Hawai`i Remembers September 11: Psychosocial

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sac with a little stream running through the side yard. It’sfull of crayfish and minnows for the kids to catch.”

Scofield, who has over 15 years experience as a directorof financial aid at Schreiner College and Our Lady of theLake University, both in Texas, as well as Longwood, said hegot into the field quite by accident.

“I started out in admissions, then got into recruiting anddid three years of roadwork,” he explained. “I was drivingall over Texas. I had this ‘small’ territory that went fromTexarkana to El Paso, which is about a thousand miles andall the way down to Brownsville and all the way up toHouston and Beaumont. I said, ‘I just don’t want to do itanymore.’

“Schreiner was a small college with about 600 students atthat time. They had a financial aid director who had beenthere for 20 years and who before this had a pretty bad boutwith cancer. When he was in the hospital, nobody else oncampus could basically spell financial aid, let alone do it,and it was a pretty critical problem for the school and itsstudents,” he added.

“So they hired me to become half-time director of finan-cial aid and half-time director of student activities. In myspare time, I was resident director of a residence hall andcoordinated the exchange program with a school in Japan.After I had been doing that a year-and-half, the [financialaid] director got quite ill and died a short time later. So I gotinto it by necessity and just stayed in it. That was in 1985.”

Scofield grew up in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, which hecalls “Wisconsin Five-O” because of the five vowels in thetown’s Native American name. He received his MA inhigher education from the University of Texas at San Anto-nio after earning his BA in business administration at CoeCollege in Iowa, where he spent a year abroad studying inJapan. He says he has lost some of his facility with the

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Japanese language and hopes to pick it back up here in theislands.

In addition to his family, Scofield’s major passion awayfrom the job is bluegrass music, and he has been fortunateenough to both witness performances from some of thelegends of the genre as well as to meet and converse with thebluegrass masters.

“I met Lester Flatt, Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe all atthe first-ever multi-day Wisconsin Bluegrass Festival, all atthe same show,” he said. “It was at a ski lodge, actually. Theyset the stage up at the bottom of the run and people sat up onthe hill and just went beserk.”

Scofield is also interested in acquainting himself withone of Hawai‘i’s great cultural treasures, ki ho’alu, a.k.a.slack key guitar music.

“I’m really interested in it,” he said. “I haven’t been herelong enough to be plugged into it, but it’s the bluegrass of theislands, acoustic music and a cultural throwback.”

In the meantime, Scofield is enjoying the process offamiliarizing himself with the island, the campus and hisnew position at UH Hilo.

“It’s nice coming into a stable operation here,” he said.“I’ve got a great office with a wonderful staff that has beenvery supportive and has made the transition very smoothand pleasant. That makes it nice to come to work in themorning.

“We’ve got about a seven-page agenda and the staff isgoing through and reviewing all of our operation, start tofinish, from getting the word out about financial aid toclosing up the year with an audit. That includes reviewingall our policies, our procedures, our forms, the process andsee if we can identify ways we can do things better, morequickly and more efficiently — maybe Internet based. That’swhat we’re going to be doing for the fall before we startgearing up for the 2003-2004 school year, which we will startprocessing on in January.”

(Editor’s note: John Burnett is a public information officer.)

Responses among Governmental, Political, Business andReligious Leaders in the 50th State” at the University of SouthDakota’s Disaster Mental Health Institute’s Annual Confer-ence in Rapid City, SD last month.

UH Hilo Theatre announcesnew seasonby Larry Joseph

The UH Hilo Theatre announces a full season of eventsfor the 2002-2003 school year after being intermittentlyclosed nearly three years for renovation.

The season opened last month with the Japanese tradi-tional performing arts tour of Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo andShinnai on September 29.

On Saturday, October 19 at 7:30 pm, the Theatre presentsa collaboration of San Jose Taiko and Japan’s Hanayuientitled “Himawari (Sunflower).” The presentation pre-mieres the union of six women artists in a unique collabora-tion where cultural boundaries and aesthetic sensibilitiesare shared and tested.

The six women include three members of the San JoseTaiko group and three members of Hanayui who have beencreatively exploring their common roots and new offshootsof their Japanese ancestry through music and dance withSan Jose Taiko coming from the Japanese American commu-nity and Hanayui coming from Kodo Village on Sado Islandin Japan. Big Island audiences will remember the spectacu-lar Hilo performances by the now world-famous KODOdrummers presented at UH Hilo several years ago.

Playing November 15 through November 23 will be theUH Hilo Drama production of Ed Sakamoto’s “Stew Rice.”The play centers on six local high school kids who go theirdifferent ways after graduation—some to the mainland andsome remaining in Hawai’i. The six characters are reunitedafter 20 years. Poignant and funny, this two-act comedyexamines what happens to friendship when time and dis-tance have their way - and what happens when someonemoves away and can no longer relate to “home” in the sameway.

Double Grammy Award winning Bela Fleck and theFlecktones are in concert on Wednesday, December 11 at7:30 pm. Bela Fleck is already the world’s most famous banjoplayer. When his band, the Flecktones, mix bluegrass, funk,fusion jazz, and space-age electronics, Fleck becomes theworld’s most innovative banjo player, and maybe the mostemotionally expressive as well. The Flecktones featureequally talented and respected musicians Victor LemonteWooten, Future Man, and Jeff Coffin.

On January 18, 2003 at 7:30 pm the highly original groupImago will be returning to the Theatre with their newproduction “Frogz.” Blending ingenious masks, creativecostumes, and astounding invention, Imago Theatre createsa living world of animation in “Frogz.” Larvae cavort withacrobatic élan, an introverted frog challenges a bunch ofathletic amphibians to a leap of faith, and a group of pen-guins waddle through a mad game of musical chairs. Thisincisively original, madcap show is filled with a multitude

of creatures whose comical and clever occurrences providestriking visual entertainment.

The Theatre, in association with the Kona Association ofPerforming Arts, will be presenting David Henry Hwang’srevolutionary hit play “M. Butterfly” at the Aloha Theatre inKona on January 17, 18, 19 and at the UH Hilo Theatre onJanuary 31, February 1 and 2. Under the direction of UHHilo Drama Professor Jackie Johnson, the production willfeature KAPA’s Theatre Director Jerry Tracy in the starringrole.

Based on a true story, Bernhard Bouriscot and his lover,a Chinese opera singer named Shi Pei Pu, were charged withspying against the French government. Bouriscot, a diplo-matic functionary, met Shi in Beijing and they passed 20years of on-again, off-again romance before they were ar-rested and Shi was revealed to be a man. The play containsadult themes, language and nudity.

On February 8 at 7:30 pm the San Francisco based LilyCai Dance Company will present a concert of dance. El-egant, sensual and captivating, the Company melds ancientChinese forms with modern dance in an artistic and inven-tive marriage of styles. They bridge the continuum frompast to contemporary - from spectacular court dances ofChinese dynasties to contemporary works fusing classicalChinese and ballet, complemented by dazzling costumes,original music, and multimedia designs.

Jointly sponsored by the UH Hilo Theatre and the Hawai‘iConcert Society, and under the baton of Maestro Ken Staton,the Ho’ulu Pila Chamber Orchestra will make their debut atthe UH Hilo Theatre on February 16 at 2:00 pm. The mem-bers of the Orchestra are selected from the finest musicianson the Big Island and elsewhere in the State. The repertoirewill focus not only on traditional orchestra literature of thegreat masters but also on music of contemporary composersas well as specializing in orchestral setting of music ofHawai’i. Founder Ken Staton has encouraged the develop-ment of Hawaiian music arranged for orchestra.

Rounding out the season will be the Theatre’s musicaltheatre production of one of Broadway’s most neglectedmasterpieces, Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music.”The show deals with the universal subject of love, in all itswondrous, humorous and ironic permutations. Sophisti-cated, literate and stylish, the show is also disarminglywarm, funny, charming and very human. The lilting Ravel-inspired score contains Sondheim’s most popular song todate, the haunting “Send In The Clowns.”

Season subscriptions are currently on sale and may bepurchased in person at the UH Hilo Theatre Espresso Barschool days from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm.

(Editor’s note: Larry Joseph is theatre manager.)

Accreditation updateby Dr. April Komenaka

During August, September, and October, the Accredi-tation Steering Committee worked on the first of tworeports to our accrediting commission, WASC. The pre-paratory review report will inform WASC about theprogress UH Hilo has made in the past two years in termsof our institutional capacity to deliver quality educationas well as improvements that are being put into place thisyear. It also recommends actions that we need to under-take in order to become a truly learning-centered institu-tion.

UH Hilo has accomplished a great deal since Fall 2000,when our self study began in earnest. Here are some of themajor advances:

The Strategic Plan 1997-2007 has undergone carefulscrutiny and revision by the Congress Strategic PlanReview Committee and has been approved by the UHHilo Congress. The process provides a model for futurestrategic plan reviews in terms of breadth and level ofparticipation, communication with the campus and largercommunity, and a strong focus on the educational mis-sion of the University. The six goals of the Plan arestrongly influenced by the findings and recommenda-tions of the 2000-2001 self study. Its objectives, strategies,and performance indicators show what UH Hilo can do toensure that it is fulfilling its primary mission of delivering“high quality undergraduate education in liberal arts andprofessional programs.”

We have invested additional responsibility for aca-demic policy and planning and academic assessment inthe UH Hilo Congress, along with the task of workingwith the administration to make university-level budget-ing and planning more transparent and systematic.

Since Spring 2001, our newly appointed InstitutionalResearcher has compiled, analyzed, and made availableto the University community much of the data gatheredover the years in numerous student surveys and institu-tional reports. Administered in Spring 2001 and Spring

2002, the NSSE has identified areas where teaching prac-tices must be changed if UH Hilo is to become the learn-ing-centered institution it aspires to be.

Academic departments have updated or developedmission statements and learning goals, some for the firsttime since Fall 1996. A new program review policy is inplace that focuses more clearly on student learning, sched-ules feedback from administrators, requires external re-view, and links program planning to budget allocation. Acampus Academic Assessment Plan is being implementedby Congress and the administration that builds assess-ment into budgeting and planning. On September 21, aselect group of faculty, staff, and administrators spent themorning reviewing a draft of the report and the evolvinginstitutional portfolio to ensure that information wasaccurate and complete. In November, a nearly-final draftwill be posted on the campus Web site and suggestionsand corrections solicited from the entire campus commu-nity. The report and portfolio will be sent to WASC inearly December.

A WASC team will visit the campus in March 2003 to“audit and verify” the information we provide in thereport, to meet with faculty, staff, and students as well asadministrators, and to determine whether UH Hilo isready to undertake the next phase: review of our Educa-tional Effectiveness. We plan to complete our Educa-tional Effectiveness review in Fall 2003, with the secondWASC site visit scheduled for March 2004.

Steering Committee members are (in alphabetical or-der): Congress Chair and Professor of Education Dr. NinaBuchanan; Director of Technology and Distance LearningDr. Bill Chen; Director of the Library Dr. Linda Golian-Lui; CAS Assistant Dean and Professor of Geography Dr.Sonia Juvik; VCAA Dr. Chris Lu; VC Student Affairs Dr.Keith Miser; Professor of Horticulture Dr. William Sakai;Director of Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikolani Dr. Kalena Silva;Director of Institutional Research Dr. Lynne Stamoulis.Chair is Dr. April Komenaka, professor of English.

(Editor’s note: Dr. April Komenaka serves as co-chair of the UHHilo Self Study Steering Committee.)

Last month, Chancellor Rose Tsenghosted a “Media Coffee Hour” withlocal media representatives. Followingthe talk-story session was a guided tourof the University Classroom Building.Pictured with Tseng are (L to R): RodThompson, Honolulu Star Bulletin;Ken Hupp, KPUA/KWXX Radio;Hunter Bishop, Hawai‘i Tribune-Herald; Jim Wilson, Hawai‘i Tribune-Herald; and Hugh Clark, HonoluluAdvertiser. Missing from photo:Tiffany Edwards, West Hawai‘i Today.

October

Campus Events

4 Vulcan volleyball vs. BYU-Hawai‘i, 7:15 p.m.,Hawai‘i Prep, Admission

7, 8 Auditions for “Stew Rice,” 7 p.m., Theatre

11, 12 Vulcan volleyball vs. Chaminade, 7:15 p.m.,Waiakea High Gym, Admission

18 Last day to withdraw from courses

Vulcan volleyball vs. Hawai‘i Pacific Univ.,7:15 p.m., Waiakea High Gym, Admission

19 Vulcan volleyball vs. Hawai‘i Pacific Univ.,7:15 p.m., Hawai‘i Prep, Admission

19 Himawari (Sunflower), 7:30 p.m., Theatre,Admission

26 Vulcan cross-country in Pacific WestConference Championship, Hilo

28 “I” removal deadline: student to instructor

31 Last day for international students to apply forspring 2003

October Food Festival, Library Lanai