Education briefs
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School safety topic of session keynote
Bill Bond, a national authority on school safety issues, will be keynote speaker Sept. 25 at the Hawai'i Association of Secondary School Administrators conference, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Radisson Prince Kuhio Hotel.
Bond is former principal at Heath High School in Paducah, Ky., where three students were killed in a school shooting Dec. 1, 1997. He has spoken to groups in 40 states.
For registration to the conference, "From Tragedy to Triumph — Rebuilding a Positive School Climate," call Burt Tomita at 841-0195 Ext. 519, Phyllis Unebasami at 832-3201 or Caroline Wong at 831-7850. Conference fee is $30 for members, $50 for nonmembers.
Law school event recalls 30 years
More than 800 people are expected to attend the 30th anniversary celebration of the University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
The evening will honor outgoing Dean Emeritus Lawrence Foster and welcome incoming Dean Aviam Soifer.
Additionally, four former deans will attend the celebration, and there will be reunions of the 1976 inaugural class, as well as the classes of 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993 and 1998.
The first class had six faculty members and 53 students. Today there is a faculty of 20 and a total student enrollment of 300.
Tickets are $100 per person for the event and are available by calling Associate Dean Carol Mon Lee at 956-5561 or spokeswoman Trudy Wong at 956-5516. Reservations will be available until tomorrow afternoon.
Second-language program extended
Full-time students in the University of Hawai'i Community College system will now have access to an intensive second-language learning-and-study-abroad program, thanks to a two-year $1.2 million grant from the Freeman Foundation.
The program, titled "Integrating International Language Study and Service Learning in Asia," will be housed at Kapi'olani Community College and open to students interested in language and the study of East Asia. Thirty community college students will be chosen on a competitive basis each year to participate in the program.
But first, KCC will use the grant to develop semester-long intensive courses in Japanese, Chinese and Korean as second languages, plus related culture courses. These will be followed by a semester-long study program at partner institutions in Japan, China and Korea. Students selected receive financial support for tuition, room and board, books and travel.
