One of the most fulfilling parts of CSS leadership is witnessing our College’s positive impact on local, national and international levels.
In this CSS Fall 2024 newsletter, learn how two summer academic programs for Hawaiʻi high school students give them a head-start in the high-demand, high-paying professions of national intelligence and cybersecurity.
Also, our CSS faculty continue to make a difference – not only in the classroom, but throughout the community at large. For example, meet the Sociology/Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies instructor inspiring her students to work with Women’s Community Correctional Center residents, who share their poetry, art, quotes, testimonies and general creativity in a regular newsletter.
Nationally, we were recently visited by representatives of the U.S. State Department who were interested in how CSS and other units at UH Mānoa could collaborate. The goal: to develop foreign service employees into future ambassadors, administrators and leaders with a stronger understanding of policy in the Pacific.
And internationally, our students are seeing the world and then sharing their impressions with a wider audience – like the four Journalism students who traveled to the Philippines this summer and covered an international conference in Manila.
I invite you to join me in celebrating CSS and its local, national and international accomplishments with enthusiasm and pride. More accomplishments are on the horizon.
Denise Eby Konan
Dean, College of Social Sciences
