University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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VP for Community Colleges As Vice-President for Community Colleges, Richard Kosaki has been confronted with the imposing problem of setting up the Com- munity College System, given the basic foundation of the existing technical schools. The three major tasks involved in creating the system he feels are “the construction of the five campuses, the development of new programs and the possible revision of exist- ing programs, and the recruitment of facul ty and staff.” Vice President Richard Kosaki. Community Colleget Dean W. Todd Furniss, Arts and Sciences Arts and Sciences To 'liberate' the student from prejudice based on ignorance, to free him to make sound judgments with the methods and knowledge appropriate to the question he is judging is for Dean W. Todd Furniss the goal of the College of Arts and Sciences. The achievement of this end is made possi- ble by the diversity in student backgrounds and the enormous range of cultural tradi- tions. Two avenues must be followed: the use of a variety of approaches to teaching— “lectures, seminars, individual tutoring, even machine teaching all have their pla- ces —and an increase in smaller units in the environment, where students and facul- ty can meet, and an avoidance of the mono lithic. 31

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Chancellor of the EW Center Howard P. Jones was brought to the East West Center in 106 to fill the then vacant office of chancellor. Since he had served as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, the appoint ment was especially appropriate, for it em- phasized the institution's concern for an in- tellectual and cultural exchange among the lands of the Pacific. The East West Center is the culmination of an old dream that Ha waii might become a meeting place of East and West. It was founded with the recogni tion that each tradition had unique contri- butions to make. “The Center is planning for a hundred years. It is planning for peace. It is planting men, Chancellor Jones has said. Chancellor Howard P. Jones. East-West Center Vice-President Harold M Bitner, Student Affairs VP of Student Affairs Harold M. Bitner, Dean of Student Per- sonnel since 1954, was this academic year made Vice-President of Student Affairs. He has been very interested in student matters. President Hamilton announced that the new position created by the Board of Regents was intended to give increasing recognition to the prime importance of students in the Uni versity’s program. Vice-Presidents With a growing campus, duties multiply. The extension of responsibilities necessi- tates the creation of positions to handle them. The President cannot manage them all himself. Robert Hiatt serves as University Vice President for Academic Affairs, while Richard Takasaki is Vice-President for Bus- iness Affairs. Robert Balch, former Peace Corps director in the Philippines, was ap pointed to the new position of Vice President for Continuing Education and Community Service. The whole spectrum of University- associated activities, from construction and maintenance to registration and academic programs, comes under their scrutiny.

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Dean Richard K. C. Lee, Public Health Dean Marjorie S. Dunlap. Numng Dean Fred DellaQuadn, Social Work Dean Windsor C. Cutting. Medicine Health Sciences and Social Welfare The College of Health Sciences and Social Welfare is composed of several previously independent schools. Rather than having a single director, it is managed by a council of four deans. Windsor C. Cutting heads fl i School of Medicine and is presently the chairman of the executive committee of the college. Richard K.C. Lee of the School of Public Health was the pioneer planner for the college’s professional programs and brought with him the experience of 19 years as director of the Hawaii Department of Health. Marjorie S. Dunlap is the dean of the School of Nursing, which like the other schools has become an upper division depart- ment. Just recently named dean, Fred Delli- Quadri already perceives a role for the Uni- versity’s School of Social Work. We’re be- ginning to see the need for some of the 70 schools of social work in this country to gear their programs to working in other coun tries, and the University of Hawaii is in an ideal location to work with Asian and Paci- fic countries. 32