Englert ceremony

From right: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert with former colleagues TeRipowai Higgins, who heads the Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa, School for Maori Studies; Victoria University Associate Vice Chancellor Piri Sciascia; Victoria University Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon; Whitireia Community Polytechnic Chief Executive Officer Diedra Dale, Victoria University Deputy Dean of Equity Liz Richardson; and Victoria University Associate Dean of Students Shona DeSain.

‘O‘ili ka Makamaka — A Friend has Arrived A ceremony marking the passage of Peter Englert from Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, where he assumed the position of chancellor on Aug. 1, 2002. See the release. Waiting to present leis to the Victoria University delegation are, from left, University of Hawai‘i Regent and retired faculty member Walter Nunokawa, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies Director Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa and UH President Evan S. Dobelle and Native Hawaiian students and staff from UH Manoa. In a traditional Maori ceremony, Victoria University Associate Vice Chancellor Piri Sciascia, left, and TeRipowai Higgins, who heads the university's School for Maori Studies, clear the path and deliver Peter Englert, center front, to his new post as chancellor of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Following them are, from right, Victoria University Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon, Whitireia Community Polytechnic Chief Executive Officer Diedra Dale and Victoria Associate Dean of Students Shona DeSain, partially obscured. Through ceremony, chant and speeches, the delegation paid tribute and bid farewell to Englert as he began his first day at UH Manoa. Students of Halau Ku Mana, part of the Hawaiian charter school that meets on the UH campus, performed hula kahiko for the new chancellor. Among those presenting gifts to the new chancellor were Kua‘ana Student Services representatives, from left, staff member Kalawaia Moore, graduate assistant Miki Huihui, Director Ku‘umealoha Gomes and student assistant Makaa Hoa Duarte. The basket, in a weave that represents cooperation, contains books to acquaint Englert with the colonization of Hawai‘i and overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, including The Queen's Story, which also explains the Kua‘ana program’s important and symbolic role as occupants and stewards of the Queen Liliu‘okalani Center for Student Services on the Manoa campus.
Chancellor Peter Englert with Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies Director Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa.		Chancellor Peter Englert greets Manoa Athletic Director Herman Frazier, whose first day at UH was also Aug. 1.
From right: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert with former colleagues TeRipowai Higgins, who heads the Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa, School for Maori Studies; Victoria University Associate Vice Chancellor Piri Sciascia; Victoria University Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon; Whitireia Community Polytechnic Chief Executive Officer Diedra Dale, Victoria University Deputy Dean of Equity Liz Richardson; and Victoria University Associate Dean of Students Shona DeSain.