Board
of Regents June Report
  
At
their monthly meeting on June 20 at UH Manoa, the Board of
Regents
• approved
the appointments of Sam Callejo as
chief of staff, David McClain as
vice president for academic affairs, Walter
Jamieson as travel industry management dean, Shirley
Daniel as interim chancellor of Hawai‘i CC, James
Wills as business administration interim dean and Jan
Yokota as capital improvements director
• established
a bachelor’s degree of applied business and information technology
at Maui CC, an associate’s degree in digital media production
at Leeward CC and the Myron "Pinky" Thompson Endowed
Chair of Research
• extended
the contract for UHM Football Head Coach June
Jones
• honored
outgoing regents Bert A. Kobayashi, Ah
Quon McElrath, Capsun
M. Poe and Kathleen
K.S.L. Thurston
Read more about other
board action.
Klobe
Receives Community Service Award
 Professor Thomas
Klobe, director of the UH Manoa Art Gallery, was
honored with the Robert W. Clopton Award for Outstanding
Community Service.
The level of excellence that he practices with his students
to implement the gallery’s exhibitions and catalogues have been
acknowledged through professional awards in competitions sponsored
by graphic and print trade organizations. Klobe was also instrumental
in establishing and opening the State Foundation on Culture and
the Art’s new Hawai‘i State Art Museum. Read
more about Klobe.
Southeast
Asian Studies Center Receives Funding
The UH Manoa Center for Southeast Asian Studies has been awarded
$230,000 per year for the next three years through the Foreign
Language and Area Studies Fellowship
Program of the U.S. Department of Education. The award will enable the
center to fund graduate fellowship for students who study a Southeast
Asian language.
UHM is the only university in the United States that teaches all four levels
of all four major Southeast Asian languages—Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese
and Indonesian.
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