Pacific Basin Consortium
WAIS Scholar Siegfried Ramler, our Man in the Pacific, has sent me a memo which I am forwarding to you in abridged form: An initiative with great promise for education in the Asia-Pacific region was recently launched in Honolulu. Close to 600 educators and school leaders, representing 21 countries in the region, gathered at Honolulu's Punahou School in the summer of 1996 for a conference to exchange ideas and explore the potential for active collaboration.
A key outcome of that conference, organized by the independent school associations of Hawaii, World and the North-West, was the establishment of a Pacific Basin Consortium with headquarters and a secretariat in Honolulu. The mission of the consortium is to promote exchange of information, provide access to educational resources, and create opportunities for communication and interaction among schools and teachers of the Pacific Basin.
The next conference will take place again in Honolulu in 1998. A Master's degree in educational leadership from Teachers College at Columbia University, to be offered in Hawaii to in-service teacher candidates from the Asia-Pacific region, Hawaii and the mainland U.S.during two consecutive summers, is presently being designed and is also scheduled to start in the summer of 1998.
For more information, contact the Pacific Basin Consortium, 1585 Kapiolani Boulevard, Suite 1212, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96814. Phone 808- 973-1533, Fax 808-973-1545, e-mail: terrinaw@hais.mhpcc.edu. You are also invited to visit the PBC website at http://www.sis.net/pbc
