North Hawaii News By Landry Fuller Special to West Hawaii Today | Monday, December 3, 2018, 1 a.m. Share this story Three gardens sit on the 1,200-acre educational farm near Hawi that’s open to students and adults for special visits. (LANDRY FULLER/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY) Teacher’s assistant Michael Burnett explains how the measurement of water fall effects the varying size of sweet potatoes growing on vines in his experiment. (LANDRY FULLER/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY) Stanford students spend a day harvesting uala in the garden as part of their 11-week field study course. (LANDRY FULLER/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY) Professor Peter Vitousek, born and raised on Hawaii Island, speaks with his students in a garden at Ulu Mau Puanui. (LANDRY FULLER/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY) NORTH KOHALA — For the past eight years, 20 or so Stanford University students have headed to the Big Island every other fall to spend a quarter learning … [Read more...] about Stanford students literally reap the benefits: Learn about the Hawaiian culture, aina during 11-week field course on Hawaii Island
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K-Drama Weekly Update: UH offering college course on K-pop, J-pop
Entertainment By Jeff Chung Special to West Hawaii Today | Thursday, May 17, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Share this story The first college-level course dedicated to K-pop and J-pop is available this summer at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Jayson Chun, an associate professor at UH West Oahu, will be teaching with Dr. Patrick Patterson this summer their class ASAN 464 K-pop and J-pop: Korean and Japanese Popular Music and Society. The class runs from May 21 through June 15. Learn, examine and analyze why K-pop and J-pop are popular and their cultural influences with its global appeal. I hope to sit in a class this summer or in the fall semester. For more information on signing up for class, please contact: Asian Studies Office: 956-6085 or Jayson Chun at [email protected] ADVERTISING The Good Witch Episodes 29 &30; 31 &32 Sunday, 6:30p.m.: Tae-ri’s hysteric rhetoric reaches an epic high. She pledges to put her father behind bars. Do-hee reclaims her … [Read more...] about K-Drama Weekly Update: UH offering college course on K-pop, J-pop
College credits where credit’s due: Schools slowly come around to accepting transfer students’ work
LA VERNE, Calif. — Gage Ramirez was a year and a half into his studies toward a biology degree at a California public university when he came up against an unexpected roadblock: calculus. Ramirez ultimately found himself changing majors and transferring to another California public institution. Little of the work he had put in came with him. “As soon as I got there, it was like I was starting fresh. Even the high school credits I got didn’t mean anything,” he said. Before long, Ramirez said, “I was six years deep and still not done.” It is as common an experience for college students as it is frustrating, time-consuming and expensive for them, their families and taxpayers: credits that will not transfer, even among public institutions in the same states. After decades of demands that this be fixed, a report from the Government Accountability Office finds that students who transfer among colleges and universities still lose more than 40 percent of … [Read more...] about College credits where credit’s due: Schools slowly come around to accepting transfer students’ work
CBS News Logo Prisoners may soon be eligible for financial aid to take courses behind bars
WASHINGTON -- Some federal and state prisoners could soon be eligible for federal student aid to take college courses while behind bars. The aid would come in the form of Pell grants, which are for low-income people and do not have to be repaid. The Education Department confirmed Tuesday that it would conduct a limited pilot program to give prisoners access to the Pell grants. The official announcement was scheduled for Friday, when Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch visit the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup, Maryland. The prison has a partnership with nearby Goucher College. Previewing the program, Duncan said Monday that the administration wants to develop "experimental sites that will make Pell grants available" to inmates to help them get job training and secure a productive life after they are released. Asked for more details, Duncan told reporters in a call after the speech, "Stay tuned." Department spokeswoman Dorie Nolt declined to … [Read more...] about CBS News Logo Prisoners may soon be eligible for financial aid to take courses behind bars
Indiana teen graduating from college before getting high school diploma
GARY, Ind. -- Eighteen-year-old Raven Osborne is about to get her college degree. "I graduate from college on May 5," she told CBS News' Jericka Duncan. But when does she graduate from high school? May 22. Yes, it's true; Raven gets her college degree two weeks before her high school diploma. "When people hear that … they're going, 'What? How did she do that?'" Duncan said. "Yeah they think I'm lying," Raven said. She did it through online classes, year-round community college and two years at Purdue University Northwest. Her semester-long college courses counted as a full year of high school credit. "Sophomore, that was the most work. I had five high school classes, four college classes," she said. Raven attends the 21st Century Charter High School in Gary, Indiana. The school is surrounded by dilapidated buildings, a common sight throughout the city. Everyone here is required to take college classes on a college campus in order to graduate. Some get just a few credits. Five of … [Read more...] about Indiana teen graduating from college before getting high school diploma