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For Immediate Release:	October 8, 1997
Contact: Michael Graves, (808) 956-9679 Cheryl Ernst, (808) 956-5941

Finalists to be Interviewed for UHM College of Education Dean Post Two candidates for the position of dean of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Education are expected to visit the UHM campus early late this month and in early November for a series of interviews and meetings with administrators, faculty and staff members and students. The candidates are Randy Hitz, dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Development at Montana State University, and Edward Kame'enui, director of the Institute for the Development of Education Achievement, at the University of Oregon. They were recommended for interviews following a national search by a committee composed of administration, faculty, student, Department of Education and community representatives and chaired by Patricia Ewalt, dean of the UH Manoa School of Social Work. Hitz has been the education dean at Montana State for six years. A graduate of Indiana State University with a doctorate in elementary education, he has spent 23 years in the field of education, teaching at Southern Oregon College and Montana State, working as an elementary teacher in Indiana and as a specialist for the Oregon Department of Education and serving on the governing board of a number of professional organizations related to teaching and administration. Hitz's primary focus is on early childhood education and teachers education, and he has published widely an given presentations a variety of professional conferences throughout the United States. Kame'enui is a professor in and former associate dean of the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Born in Hilo, reared in Kalihi and graduated from Kamehameha Schools and Pacific University, he received master's and doctoral degrees in special education from the University of Oregon. He has taught at the University of Montana and Purdue University, consulted for Kamehameha Schools and worked for the U.S. Department of Education. He serves on a number of editorial boards and is a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children. His research focuses on instructional strategies in reading, language arts and mathematics and his list of publications includes seven textbooks that he co-authored or co-edited.

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