{"id":172421,"date":"2023-02-07T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=172421"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:44:08","slug":"higa-named-uci-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/07\/higa-named-uci-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u02bbolani CC<\/abbr> director selected as fellow of White House initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Brandon Marc Higa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College<\/a> Director of Resource Development Brandon Marc Higa <\/strong> has been selected to participate as a fellow in the U.S.<\/abbr>–ASEAN<\/abbr> University Connections Initiative<\/a> (UCI<\/abbr>). The White House initiative will bring together 50 leaders from diverse colleges and universities in the United States and eight ASEAN<\/abbr> member countries for a series of virtual and in-person training designed to foster sustainable international academic partnerships and the two-way exchange of students, scholars and researchers between U.S.<\/abbr> and Southeast Asian higher education institutions.<\/p>\n

“The UCI<\/abbr> fellowship is a timely opportunity to align Kapiʻolani<\/span>\u2019s international partnerships in the ASEAN<\/abbr> region with capacity building funding opportunities to prepare the next generation of global leaders,” Higa said. “World Learning is providing an extraordinary opportunity to directly contribute to U.S.<\/abbr> President Joseph Biden\u2019s White House Initiative launching the U.S.<\/abbr>–ASEAN<\/abbr> Comprehensive Strategic Partnership<\/a> through people-to-people diplomacy supporting key priorities for the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in the Asia-Pacific region.”<\/p>\n

The U.S.<\/abbr>–ASEAN<\/abbr> University Connections Initiative is administered through the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S.<\/abbr> Students (IDEAS<\/abbr>) Program, which builds U.S.<\/abbr> colleges and universities\u2019 capacity to engage in global partnerships and study abroad programming aligned with U.S.<\/abbr> foreign policy goals.<\/p>\n

“Brandon Marc\u2019s participation in the UCI<\/abbr> Fellowship raises the profile of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> as a destination for study abroad partnerships with higher education institutions based in the ASEAN<\/abbr> region,” said Kelli Nakamura<\/strong>, associate professor of history and principal investigator of the IDEAS<\/abbr> Grant. “Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> students and faculty have already benefited from Brandon Marc\u2019s network at the State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs as they consider applying for nationally competitive study abroad scholarships. He has been critical in providing institutional and student support to promote study-abroad initiatives and is an invaluable colleague who is passionate about supporting international education.”<\/p>\n

The fellowship was limited to grantees from the State Department\u2019s 2022 IDEAS<\/abbr> Grant program, which was awarded in the fall to Higa\u2019s project, Militourism and Indigenous Identities in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Okinawa<\/em><\/a>, that promotes study abroad and U.S.<\/abbr> foreign policy interests through a week-long summer institute as part of a redesigned Ethnic Studies 101 course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr>\u2019s Brandon Marc Higa has been selected to participate as a fellow in the U.S.<\/abbr>—ASEAN<\/abbr> University Connections Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[953,1073,63,698],"class_list":["post-172421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-international-education","tag-international-exchange","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-staff-recognition","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172421"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172530,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172421\/revisions\/172530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}