TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

From Ku Kahakalau's written statement:

I am a native Hawaiian educator, researcher, scholar, composer and recognized expert in Hawaiian language and culture... Moreover, I am the first person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in Indigenous Education.

She is clearly an educated person, however in reference to her doctorate in Indigenous Education I would like to note it was obtained from Union Institute and University a distance learning school, with varying requirements over the years sometimes allowing for "life credits" and sometimes not. The school has been investigated, put on probation, and their PhD program was for a time not accredited, although now they appear to be "regionally accredited":
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaint...24477.html

This may have no bearing on Ku Kahakalau's PhD, but I thought it worth mentioning that her advanced degree was not received from from U of Hawaii (where she lived and which has numerous Hawaiian Studies professors and doctorate advisors), or another more traditional public or private university.

"Only fear real things, such as minds full of delusions." -Last Aphorisms

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There are several folks in the UH and DOE community with advanced degrees from Union. I don't know how to read in to that, but all of them work with Hawaiian programs. The fact that Union offered an on-line PhD certainly disputes why Ku had not chosen the more "traditional" route. The on-line PhD route in the UH is dismal at best.