The University
of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH) is a public co-educational research
university, and is the flagship campus of the greater University of
Hawaiʻi system. It is located in Manoa, an affluent neighborhood of Honolulu,
approximately five kilometers east and inland from downtown Honolulu and
1,6 km from Ala Moana Center and Waikiki. The campus
occupies the eastern half of the mouth of Manoa Valley. It was
founded in 1907. The current CEO of the university is Dr. Robert
Bley-Vroman who was appointed interim Chancellor on September 1, 2014.
Coincidently, Dr. Bley-Vroman comes from the Second Language Studies Department
where I'll be based under Dr. Crookes', the current head, supervision. Out of
the notable ex-students is Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, maternal half-sister of
United States President Barack Obama. She is currently an Assistant
Faculty Specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict
Resolution, which is based in the College of Social Sciences. I'll be
meeting with her early October. The campus is really nice, well organized
and full of trees. Some buildings are nice, others not much, but the Center for
Korean Studies excels. Really impressive. The good thing for me is that I’m
within walking distance from the campus. That will save me time and money. By
the way, took this picture, yesterday, Sept 14th.
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