Kevin Paz, a resident of Kihei and student of the Maui Community College’s Maui Culinary Academy, has been selected to receive the first Alexander & Baldwin Culinary Arts Scholarship award, which pays full tuition — and more — through an endowment funded by the Alexander & Baldwin Foundation.
Paz just completed his second semester at Maui [...]

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) Youth Executive Board is pleased to announce that Colleen Akin, Marina Riker, Hannah Holland Shook and Mary B. Lauritsen have been selected as this year’s recipients of the USDF Youth Convention Scholarships for the 2006 Adequan/USDF National Convention and Symposium, to be held November 29-December 3 in Kansas City, [...]

The Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) has awarded $400,000 in scholarships from its 2006 scholarship program to 200 students, of which 32 are from the Pacific Region.
APIASF is the primary and largest national organization solely devoted to providing scholarships for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (APIAs).
All of the scholarship recipients will be [...]

A new bachelor’s degree program in early childhood education at the University of Hawai’i-West O’ahu could greatly expand the pool of potential employees for Head Start and preschool programs across the state. It will also mean a higher quality of education for Hawai’i’s keiki, early childhood education advocates say.
“Research shows that a professional with a [...]