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Event Calendar ItemChaminade Celebrates Fall Commencement
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Date: Monday - 12/17/2012
Time: 7PM
Location:
Neal Blaisdell Center
777 Ward Avenue
Honolulu, HI
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Chaminade will hold its 2012 Fall Commencement at
Neal Blaisdell Arena on Dec. 17-The Most Rev. Amando Samo, bishop of Caroline
Islands, will receive honorary doctorate
Chaminade University will hold its 2012 Fall
Commencement Ceremony on Monday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m., in the Neal
S. Blaisdell Arena. Nearly 250 students, more than usual for fall
graduation, will receive their degrees at the free public event. Olelo will
broadcast the commencement ceremony live on Channel 55. It will also be
streamed live on the internet at
www.olelo.org
(Click on the button that says Channel 55 on Olelo’s home page to
view.) For more information, go to:
http://www.chaminade.edu/graduation/
Highlights include student salutatory speaker
Justin Alai Tuiasosopo, receiving his B.S. degree in accounting with
honors, and the Most Reverend Clarence “Larry” Silva, bishop
for the Diocese of Honolulu, who will give the invocation.
Of very special note, Chaminade University will confer
an honorary doctorate degree (Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa) on
the Most Reverend Amando Samo ’73, bishop of the Diocese of the
Caroline Islands, the ecclesiastical territory of the Roman Catholic Church in
the Federated States of Micronesia and in the Republic of Palau. Chaminade is
privileged to acknowledge the bishop’s role in founding the Caroline
College and Pastoral Institute (CCPI), located in Chuuk, one of four states
of the Federated States of Micronesia. Bishop Samo is also an alumnus of
Chaminade.
CCPI is an outreach college of Chaminade University
that was opened on September 6, 2010, thanks to Bishop Samo’s vision and
support from his diocese, Chuukese parishes in Hawaii, Guam, and the mainland,
as well as Chaminade University. This December, Chaminade will also confer
degrees on its first 14 CCPI graduates, with even more graduates expected in the
spring. Three of the CCPI graduates will be attending graduation ceremonies in
Honolulu, while most will be viewing it via a live internet downstream provided
by Olelo.
Baccalaureate Service followed by the
Academic Honors Ceremony will be held the day before commencement, on
December 16 in Mystical Rose Oratory, at Chaminade University. Family
members and friends of graduates are cordially invited to attend. Baccalaureate
starts at 2 p.m., and the Academic Honors Ceremony starts at 3:45
p.m.
For more information, go to:
http://www.chaminade.edu/graduation/
Educating students for life, service and successful
careers, Chaminade University is a Catholic/ Marianist university offering
programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and
accelerated courses. A Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander serving institution,
Chaminade is located at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 9681, which is its main
campus. It also has nine satellite locations around Oahu, as well as an outreach
campus in Chuuk (Caroline College and Pastoral Institute). Chaminade University
is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and looks forward to increased
opportunities to promote environmental sustainability. For more information,
visit the Chaminade Web site at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.
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Back to the top ABOUT CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU INTRODUCTION
Celebrating 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University offers programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses.
The main campus is located in Kaimuki at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with 11 satellite locations around Oahu military bases and Catholic parishes and schools.
For more information, visit the Chaminade University website (link above) or call (808) 735-4711.
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY'S MISSION
Chaminade University offers its students an education in a collaborative learning environment that prepares them for life, work and service. Guided by its Catholic, Marianist and liberal arts educational traditions, Chaminade encourages the development of moral character and personal competencies, and the commitment to build a just and peaceful society. The University offers the civic and church communities of the Pacific region its academic and intellectual resources in the pursuit of common aims.
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OVERVIEW
INSTITUTION: Chaminade University of Honolulu
PRESIDENT: Dr. Mary C. Wesselkamper
YEAR FOUNDED: 1955
SPONSORSHIP: Independent with Catholic, Marianist affiliation
DEGREE LEVELS OFFERED: Associates, Bachelors, Masters
CALENDAR PLAN: Semester, two summer sessions/four, ten-week evening sessions
FTE Student/FTE Faculty ratio: 10.97: 1
Students receiving financial aid -93.71%
Native Hawaiian ethnicity breakdown: 13.91 %
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY -- DESCRIPTIVE OVERVIEW
Chaminade University of Honolulu is a small, Catholic, comprehensive university sponsored by the Province of the United States of America of the Society of Mary (Marianists). It is located on a hillside in suburban Honolulu, two miles from Waikiki beach. Chaminadefs fall 2005 enrollment is more than 3,000 -- 1112 traditional day students, and approximately 2,000 students enrolled in graduate studies and the accelerated evening program offered at 11 sites on Oahu and via distance education. Chaminade currently offers three bachelors degrees in 21 undergraduate majors, six graduate degree programs, and several professional certificate programs.
Celebrating 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University offers programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. The main campus is located in Kaimuki at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with 11 satellite locations around Oahu military bases and Catholic parishes and schools. For more information, visit the Chaminade University website at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.
CHAMINADE AT A GLANCE
- Students and faculty at Chaminade have a very wide range of backgrounds and beliefs. The values-centered education at Chaminade is universal and ecumenical.
- Students and faculty at Chaminade have a very wide range of backgrounds and beliefs. The values-centered education at Chaminade is universal and ecumenical. Chaminade is ranked nationally among the top colleges in its category for diversity by U.S. News & World Report.
- Chaminade offers significant financial aid to assist underrepresented minority students.
- Chaminade University of Honolulu (CUH) is the only Catholic University in Hawaii. Founded by the Society of Mary under the leadership of Father Robert Mackey in 1955, Chaminade has been educating students in the Catholic Marianist tradition for nearly 50 years.
- Chaminade is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
- Intimate in size with an excellent student teacher-ratio (11:01), CUH students and faculty enjoy a spirit of ohana supporting each other ensuring their future success.
- Chaminade has been producing teachers who serve in the state for nearly 50 years; the statefs first online Masters in Education was offered in 2004. The University also offers degrees in early childhood development and elementary education. It is also the only Montessori teacher preparatory program in Hawaii.
- The award-winning Interior Design program is the only one in Hawaii offering a four-year degree in interior design.
- Business is one of the most popular areas of study, and the Hogan Entrepreneurial Program, led by a group of successful business advisors, prepares undergraduate students for entrepreneurial work in a wide range of organizations.
- Chaminadefs basketball team earned worldwide acclaim in 1982 with its 77-72 victory over the number-one ranked University of Virginia, still known as one of the biggest upsets in sports history.
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY - A BRIEF HISTORY
The University is named after the founder of the Society of Mary, Father William Joseph Chaminade, a French Catholic priest who survived the political turmoil and religious persecution of the French Revolution. Father Chaminade believed that the rebuilding of the Church in France in the aftermath of the French Revolution would best be accomplished by the engagement of the laity in small communities of faith, dedicated to prayer, education and acts of service to the larger community. After two decades of work with those communities, and the founding of the Daughters of Mary in 1816, the third part of his vision of the Marianist Family materialized when he founded the Society of Mary, a religious community of priests and lay brothers in 1817.
The Marianists realized that education provided the means for passing on their distinctive vision of the Christian life to future generations, and, central to their educational efforts, was an emphasis on liberal education. In this sense, they understood that education was not merely a means for imparting a religious vision, but also an intellectual formation valuable in itself. This educational tradition and spirituality of the Society of Mary also embodies the ideal of service and an abiding respect for the complementary nature of a liberal education, on the one hand, and professional and technical education on the other. As the only Catholic university in Hawaii, Chaminade affirms a commitment to the integration of intellectual skills, Marianist values, social responsibility and cultural awareness.
In 1849, members of the Society of Mary came to the United States to minister to immigrant populations. As an outgrowth of their ministry, they founded first what grew to the University of Dayton and, shortly thereafter, what became St. Maryfs University of San Antonio. In September of 1883, eight Marianists arrived in Honolulu and assumed the leadership of what is now St. Louis School. After many years of encouragement by the alumni of St. Louis, the decision was made by the Marianists to establish a Catholic college in Honolulu and, as a consequence, St. Louis Junior College opened in 1955. In 1957, the college became a four-year coeducational institution and the name was changed to Chaminade College. Chaminade expanded its services to the community in l967 with the establishment of an evening session to serve adults with business, family and military responsibilities who desired to pursue a college degree. In l977 Chaminade added graduate programs, and the name was changed to Chaminade University of Honolulu.
Leadership
In 1996, Dr. Sue Wesselkamper became Chaminadefs eighth president and the first woman to serve in such a post in Hawaiifs history. The University is guided by a 40-member Board of Regents and 25-member Board of Governors representing a wide spectrum of business, government and education leaders from throughout Hawaii. Chaminade employs 291 full time faculty and staff and has approximately 300 adjunct professors on its active list.
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