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BYU-Hawaii gets first non-Mormon student president
Brigham Young University-Hawaii has its first non-Mormon student body president — and he’s a Muslim. Mustapha El Akkari, the Lebanese-born student who came to the Mormon-owned school three years ago on a full-ride basketball scholarship, takes office this week, according to an article in the...
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland: The parable of BYU-Hawaii
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve told BYU-Hawaii’s graduating students that they must get over their insecurities and look to the future with faith. Elder Holland spoke to more than 200 graduates on Saturday, Dec. 17, in commencement exercises held in the Cannon Activities...
BYU-Hawaii to break ground for new campus buildings
Brigham Young University–Hawaii announced that the groundbreaking for a new multi-use building and new student housing facilities will be held Saturday, Dec. 17, following the Fall 2011 Commencement exercises to be held that morning.
Elder Nelson speaks at BYU-Hawaii Commencement: Visions past, present and future
Prophetic visions of the past, present and future are a gift from Heavenly Father to guide His faithful children, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve said during commencement services at Brigham Young University-Hawaii on April 9. "You are beneficiaries of prophetic visions of the...
How BYU-Hawaii Students are Changing the World
Mormon Life says: Students come to BYU–Hawaii from all across the globe. A university filled with promise and prophecy, those who study here often return to their homelands as a powerful influence for good. Here are some of the ways they are striving to change the world after choosing to move forward with the knowledge they have gained from this place.
*Editor's note: This is an excerpt from "From This Place." Read the full article in the Jan/Feb 2011 issue of LDS Living magazine. At 12 years old, Salisha Allard didn’t know how to read. In...
Learn, lead, build — BYU-Hawaii's influence felt across the globe
Mormon Life says: Beautiful photo gallery.
Standing in a Sugarcane field in Laie, Hawaii, on Feb. 12, 1955, President David O. McKay founded the Church College of Hawaii. On that day he spoke of a vision he saw 34 years earlier when he...
Reinventing Laie
Mormon Life says: The presence of the Church in the Pacific centers around a powerful trifecta: The Laie Temple, Brigham Young University – Hawaii, and the Polynesian Cultural Center. For the locals it’s a place to worship, for youth it’s a place to gain an education, and for a worldwide audience, the students have a phenomenal opportunity to share the mission of the Church.
During any given semester, more than sixty countries are represented in Laie. Students arrive from as far as Cambodia and the Ukraine to join the Polynesian population that has come to work and go...
