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SOME FACTS ABOUT THE CENTER
- The Center along with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
collectively form the National Resource Center for Southeast Asian
Studies (NRCSEA) at UH, with funding roughly at $1 million every 3 years
from Title VI of the federal education programs. The "Philippine Year"
component (2001-02) conducted an academic conference and a short-term
courses on Mindanao to analyze the roots of the Mindanao crisis,
bringing to Hawai'i the recognized experts in the field.
- The Center serves as the secretariat for the International
Philippine Studies Committee and has hosted two out of the six
international conferences, each attended by 200 of the best scholars in
the field. Three recent conferences are the International Philippine
Studies Conference, held in Manila, Philippines in August 2008, in Leiden,
Netherlands in June 2004, and the International Conference on the Hawaii
Filipino Centennial, held in Honolulu in December 2006.
- The Center is routinely consulted for information on current Philippine
issues, like the September 2009 typhoons, the 2007 Mindanao conflict, and the
May 2004 elections, by international media from as far away as Egypt, Australia and China.
- Hamilton Library houses an extensive Philippine research collection,
which can compete with Cornell, Michigan, and other top universities in
the country, as revealed by one survey. Many scholars studying the
Philippines from other countries and states use our collection throughout the year.
- The Center institutionalized the Philippine Studies Newsletter
and Pilipinas Journal as outlets for Philippine scholarly
writing and current information on the state of Philippine Studies.
Nationally, the Center is linked to the Philippine Studies Group of the
Association for Asian Studies.
- The Center has a regular colloquium series, which has hosted at
least 500 speakers since its inception, and a publication series, which
has published some of the best occasional papers in the field.
- The Center has undertaken various outreach activities in the large
Filipino community over the years. The current director of the Center,
Dr. Belinda Aquino, has been named a member of the statewide Filipino
Centennial Celebration Commission, which hosted the 100th anniversary
of Filipino immigration to Hawai'i in 2006. The Centerlobbied the State
Legislature for funding for the Commission which set $150,000 as "seed
money."
- The Center maintains an Academic Exchange Program with the
University of the Philippines since 1990. The Center has also worked
closely with the International Affairs Office and Study Abroad Center on
student study tours to the Philippines.
- The Center has helped to educate at least three generations of
students of Filipino ancestry at UH Manoa, who now have a deeper
understanding of Philippine culture and their ethnic heritage. The
number of students has been increasing every year.
- The Center has two endowment funds totalling $85,000, named after
Ambassador Alfonso Yuchengco and Ligaya Fruto. Former UH Regent Robin
Campaniano has donated an "enrichment fund" of $5,000 to Philippine Studies.
The endowment funds provide scholarships/fellowships for deserving students.
Six students of Filipino ancestry have been awarded
such grants as of 2009.
- Students majoring or minoring in Asian Studies can apply for study
tours to Asia up to $7,000/year from the Freeman Grants administered by
the Asian Studies Program.
PHILIPPINE STUDIES AS A FIELD OF STUDY AT
UHM
- Philippine Studies can be taken as a field of concentration for a
B.A. Asian Studies major, or for an M.A. in Asian Studies. Doctoral
students can take courses and write their dissertations on the
Philippines, but the degree is in the discipline, e.g., Ph.D. in
Linguistics, Political Science, Economics, etc.
- There is another B.A. in Philippine Languages and Literatures in
both Filipino and Ilokano offered by the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages
and Literatures, College of Languages, Literature and Linguistics.
- Students currently taking their M.A. in Asian Studies can pick up a
Graduate Certificate in Philippine Studies
after 18 credits. Graduate
students in other departments or colleges (e.g. Business Administration,
Education, etc.) are also eligible for the Certificate after
consultation with the Center.
Inquiries: Center for Philippine Studies
1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 416
Honolulu, HI 96822
Email: cps@hawaii.edu
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