Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Brigham Young University-Hawaii is an accredited four-year undergraduate institution with 2,500 students from more than 70 countries. It is a unique multi-cultural campus where spiritual as well as academic learning is encouraged among the most "international" student body in the U.S. BYU-Hawaii students are fulfilling a prophesy envisioned by David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1955, standing in an isolated field that would evolve into the beautiful campus of today, President McKay declared: "From this school, I'll tell you, will go men and women whose influence will be felt for good towards the establishment of peace internationally."
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New I-WORK Program Improves and Expands
By the beginning of first term in July 2009, Brigham Young University–Hawaii will have absorbed its International Work Experience Scholarship (IWES) program into I-WORK— the International Work Opportunity Return-ability Kuleana —and added several significant enhancements, including the following: Full Story
Pineapple icon depicts BYU-Hawaii objectives
Because many people associate pineapples with Hawaii, Dr. Max L. Checketts, BYU-Hawaii Vice President for Academic Affairs, used the imagery to create an easy-to-remember representation initiatives and objectives derived from the university's two-fold mission and imperatives. Full Story
President Wheelwright encourages devoted discipleship
President Steven C. Wheelwright of Brigham Young University-Hawaii began a new semester by encouraging students, faculty, and staff to improve in their efforts to become devoted disciples of Jesus Christ in his initial devotional address. Full Story
