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\u201cI leave with not only the knowledge and skills to contribute meaningfully to my field, but also with lasting relationships and profound respect for the community that made this journey possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I prepared to graduate from the Communication and Information Sciences (CIS) Ph.D. program at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa, I found myself filled with deep appreciation and gratitude. This interdisciplinary program offered far more than academic rigor; it provided a vibrant intellectual community, a space for personal growth, and a remarkable support network that carried me through the challenges of doctoral study.<\/p>\n

The CIS faculty have my sincere thanks for their dedication, wisdom, and guidance. Their commitment to student success, thoughtful mentorship, and openness to interdisciplinary exploration created an environment where curiosity was nurtured, and scholarly ambition was encouraged. I am especially grateful for the faculty's support throughout my research journey and for the opportunities they provided to contribute to meaningful academic work.<\/p>\n

Equally enriching were the experiences made possible through this program, from collaborative research projects and academic conferences to workshops, seminars, and teaching opportunities. These experiences have been instrumental in shaping my development as a scholar, educator, and professional.<\/p>\n

I would also like to acknowledge the extraordinary community of CIS students and alumni. Their camaraderie, insight, and encouragement were invaluable. Whether through peer reviews, late-night writing sessions, or shared milestones, the sense of solidarity among us has been a defining feature of this program. The alumni network, too, has been generous in offering guidance and mentorship, proving that the support extended by this program continues well beyond graduation.<\/p>\n

Completing this degree is both a personal and professional milestone, and I am deeply proud to be a graduate of the CIS program. I leave with not only the knowledge and skills to contribute meaningfully to my field, but also with lasting relationships and profound respect for the community that made this journey possible.<\/p>\n

Mahalo nui loa!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\u201cI highly recommend the program if you are seeking the advantages of a U.S. scholarly institution, coupled with the uniquely placed cultural environment of Hawai\u2018i and the opportunities to carry out fully interdisciplinary communications research.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The CIS Ph.D. program was a phenomenal experience, from the engaged and supportive faculty, to the lifelong friends and mutual support of my fellow classmates, to the opportunity and freedom to explore research interests in the unique environment of a Pacific institution. I was provided with a toolkit of skills to pursue innovative research areas.<\/p>\n

I highly recommend the program if you are seeking the advantages of a U.S. scholarly institution, coupled with the uniquely placed cultural environment of Hawai\u2018i and the opportunities to carry out fully interdisciplinary communications research.<\/p>\n

Alongside this, with the opportunity and career readiness provided by a graduate assistantship (teaching classes throughout the duration of the Ph.D. program in the Communications Department), I hit the ground running with a Cal State (teaching-intensive) faculty position, starting immediately after completing the Ph.D., and which I\u2019ve been in ever since (full-time NTT, with the flexibility of fully remote).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChamil Rathnayake, 2016 CIS Alumnus<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubject Leader, Journalism, Media and Communication School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\u201cI continue to conduct collaborative research with CIS faculty as well as graduates of the programme. The network\u00a0 of friends that I am currently part of as a CIS graduate is invaluable.\u201d<\/blockquote>\nInterdisciplinary curriculum was the main reason why I chose the CIS PhD programme offered by the Â鶹´«Ã½Manoa. The CIS curriculum includes a diverse set of subject areas that you can specialise in. It is a well-balanced advanced degree programme that covers the key subject areas that interdisciplinary CIS students need to study as well as areas for comprehensive examinations that will provide specialist knowledge. There is a wide variety of classes you can chose from and the degree offers flexibility to develop expertise in areas in which you are interested. CIS faculty has experts in many areas within the field. Having done my master's degree at the UH, I was aware that the CIS programme has an excellent community of students and faculty. I wanted to join a programme provides a positive and mutually supportive learning environment. Support given by my CIS colleagues was crucial for me to complete the degree successfully.\n\nI am a Lecturer in Media and Communication (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the American system) at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I started my academic career as a Lecturer at the Middlesex University London in 2016, and I moved to Strathclyde in 2018. Currently, I am the leader of the Journalism, Media and Communication subject area at Strathclyde.\n\nCIS provided me with high quality interdisciplinary knowledge in the field. The programme has a strong emphasis on research, which helped me to develop expertise in a range of methods, such as computational analysis of digital trace data. CIS faculty played an important role in shaping my academic background and helped me to find my position within the field. Guidance and support provided by advisor was crucial when securing a faculty position after I graduated in Spring 2016. I continue to conduct collaborative research with CIS faculty as well as graduates of the programme. The network of friends that I am currently part of as a CIS graduate is invaluable.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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\u201c Three of the common denominators I learned from my Professors in the CIS program were critical thinking, interdisciplinary approach to research, and contributions to the IS field.\u00a0\u201d<\/blockquote>\nJoining the University of Hawaii Communication and Information Sciences (CIS) PhD program in 2007 is one of the best academic decisions of my life. With an Engineering degree and an MBA my academic aspirations were perfectly aligned with interdisciplinary approach of the CIS program. The CIS program provided me opportunities not only to conduct research on information systems for crisis management, understand institutional theory, convergence behaviors and inter-agency coordination during crisis situations, but also provided me a platform to interact and gain knowledge from an array of internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary CIS faculties. With their support my PhD research contributions include six papers including the recent one \u201cNepal Earthquake Response through Twitter\u201d at HICSS\u201917.\n\nAfter returning from Hawaii I re-joined government service as the Deputy Director of Communication Directorate, as well as started teaching at Kings College in Kathmandu, an affiliate of Westcliff University, California, USA. The knowledge gained from the program helped me become a successful pracademic. The CIS program enabled me to implement theoretical knowledge to practice for the benefit of the public at large when in distress. Immediately after the Nepal earthquake on 25th<\/sup> April, 2015, I decided to practically implement my PhD research knowledge to help people in crisis. In addition, by getting personally involved on the Twitter handle for crisis response, I felt a sense of accomplishment when my knowledge not only successfully enabled the project to provide crisis information on rescue and relief operations, but also helped save lives. I was honored with two national awards - including the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology Award conferred by Prime Minister of Nepal.\n\nThree of the common denominators I learned from my Professors in the CIS program were critical thinking, interdisciplinary approach to research, and contributions to the IS field. Moreover, the program enabled me to understand the three teaching priorities: interdisciplinary content, interactive teaching sessions, and activity-based learning. The passion for teaching that I developed through the CIS program has not only honed my actual teaching skills, but also gained my recognition as a Distinguished Professor at Kings College, Westcliff University. Fundamentally, the CIS PhD degree not only changed my professional portfolio, but also enabled me to contribute and make a significant impact on society of which I am very proud.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Thanks to my interdisciplinary CIS roots, I am able to collaborate from my business school position across campus with different academic disciplines.<\/blockquote>\nMy CIS PhD enabled me to study in areas and topics that truly interest me, yet forced me to broaden my view and embrace different theoretical and methodological perspectives.\u00a0 The interdisciplinary nature of the PhD program ensured that I was exposed to ideas outside of my expected comfort zone and, in doing so, helped me understand and break through my own confirmation biases in what I studied and accepted to be true.\n\nThe amazing CIS faculty excelled at identifying when I was going off track and provided the reasoned mentorship I needed to succeed.\u00a0 When I realized I wanted to study behavioral information security challenges, Â鶹´«Ã½did not yet have a program that was focused on understanding the intersection of the technological, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that motivate or inhibit security behaviors.\u00a0 The CIS faculty, and my dissertation committee in particular, helped me navigate widely diverse research disciplines and focus my research efforts.\u00a0 Coupled with the opportunity to teach a variety of courses at the Shidler College of Business during my PhD studies, the CIS program fully prepared me for a major career shift into academia at a research university.\u00a0 Thanks to my interdisciplinary CIS roots, I am able to collaborate from my business school position across campus with different academic disciplines.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The CIS program and its professors encouraged and facilitated my pursuit of a customized academic path that resulted in a purposeful and satisfying experience. \u00a0\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The CIS program's flexibility allowed me to carve an eclectic road during my doctoral degree, combining disciplines both within CIS and other areas in the University. I took advantage of the communication and organizational studies that the program offers, and made it \"trans-disciplinary\" by adding ocean policy studies from the school of Oceanography. At all times during my studies, the CIS program and its professors encouraged and facilitated my pursuit of a customized academic path that resulted in a purposeful and satisfying experience. I worked with several professors who both challenged me to seek opportunities outside the university and assisted me in the process. As a result, I received NSF funding for my dissertation, established a solid network with people outside the university, and successfully applied to work with the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C., as part of the Coral Reef Conservation Program. I am grateful that the CIS program's interdisciplinary nature allowed me to advance my interests, as varied as they were, and complete a thoroughly enjoyable doctoral degree.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>CIS has equipped me with fundamental capabilities to cope with future challenge in teaching and research.\u00a0\u00a0\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the digital age, the converging phenomena among media, computer technology, and telecommunication infrastructure shape societies significantly that requires an interdisciplinary study to better tackle the complicated new territory. As a lecturer in Taiwan\u2019s university who attempted to stretch her knowledge domains, I decided to attend the Interdisciplinary Communication Information Sciences doctoral program (CIS) at University of Hawai\u02bbi at Manoa in 2004. Honestly, it was one of the best choices that I have made in my life. With three-year rigorous training (courses, exams, proposal, dissertation), I expanded my knowledge span and scope from Communication to MIS and HCI, thanks to these excellent professors and inspiring cohorts. CIS study not only exposed me to varieties of theories and methods cross-disciplines, but also opened my mind to appreciate diversities and further curbed the tendency to embrace \u201cparadigms\u201d blindly. It set up a solid foundation for me to conduct research regarding evolving new communication information technologies (DTV, TV news digitalization, Weblog, mobile TV, etc.), and to collaborate with scholars from different backgrounds, as my doctoral training benefits me to quickly enter novel and unfamiliar arenas, grasp their core concepts, and communicate with people in their disciple languages. Before my dissertation defense in 2007, I obtained the assistant professor position in the Communication and Information School at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As an academic newbie, I am not afraid of any future challenge in teaching and research, because CIS has equipped me with fundamental capabilities to cope with them. CIS and Hawai\u02bbi will be always in my heart and thoughts!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>CIS allowed me the freedom to develop my research in an area that did not fit within any single discipline.\u00a0\u00a0\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The flexibility available to students of the multidisciplinary approach of the doctoral program in Communication and Information Sciences was attractive to me, as it provided an opportunity to pursue my interests in the relatively new and rapidly expanding field of Computer Forensics. The program provided the opportunity to combine relevant aspects from Information Technology Management, Computer Science, Library Information Science, and Communication and allowed me the freedom to develop my research in an area that did not fit within any single discipline. While the dissertation phase of the CIS program provided a forum for the specific area of focus for my research, the earlier, qualifying phase of the program provided a challenging and rewarding experience exposing me to concepts and methods from disciplines that were new to me. The rigor of the qualifying phase also contributed to a delightful, collegial experience working with my colleagues in preparation for the comprehensive examinations that developed lasting friendships with some very talented individuals from diverse backgrounds. The CIS program also provided me with an opportunity to teach graduate and undergraduate courses while completing my dissertation, and as a result of my experiences from the program, I was able to accept a tenure-track position at Cal Poly Pomona and began teaching immediately upon completing my dissertation in August of 2006.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoyce Yukawa, 2005 CIS Alumna<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAssociate Professor at Master of Library and Information Science, St. Catherine University, Minnesota<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The interdisciplinary nature of the CIS program has been the stimulus and springboard for innovations in teaching, writing, and research. It\u2019s a source I draw on surprisingly often.\u00a0\u00a0\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Throughout my work as a CIS student and now from my vantage point as an associate professor in an LIS graduate program on the mainland, the interdisciplinary nature of the CIS program has been the stimulus and springboard for innovations in teaching, writing, and research. It\u2019s a source I draw on surprisingly often. While my mind has always wandered into unlikely places, the program gave me not only a cornucopia of new ideas but also the focus and diverse methods to pursue new avenues with discipline and fortitude. I particularly value my associations with faculty and fellow students, who inspired, provoked, mentored, and wheedled me into being a clearer thinker, more responsible scholar, and intellectual risk taker. The CIS program of my experience was an uncommon gathering of diverse, intelligent, stimulating scholars and downright interesting people. May it ever be so.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Whether your academic future is research, teaching, or administrative the CIS program is a great foundation.\u00a0\u00a0\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I came to the CIS program relatively late in my professional career and earning a doctorate was a bit of unfinished business. I didn't just want a degree for the sake of a degree but rather something that pulled together my interests and experiences while further preparing me for the higher education administrative work in which I am engaged. The CIS program was the perfect fit. The interdisciplinary approach, the blending of technology and communication, the interaction among faculty and students all contributed to a great experience.<\/p>\n

Shortly after completing the program I was tasked with managing a major student information system implementation for the University. The lessons learned in the CIS program helped me immensely in working with others to bring this mission critical application to fruition on-time and under budget. Whether your academic future is research, teaching, or administrative the CIS program is a great foundation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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