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HONOLULU—June 22, 2007—Chaminade University has been accepted into the prestigious national organization Leadership Alliance. A consortium of 33 institutions of higher learning from across the country, the Leadership Alliance seeks to develop underrepresented students into outstanding leaders and role models in academia, business and the public sector.
“The Leadership Alliance will help our university to network with leading research institutions across the country,” said Patricia Lee-Robinson, Chaminade University associate professor and Chaminade’s Alliance coordinator. “Research program opportunities, such as the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program, will provide our students with opportunities to conduct research in more than 20 institutions beyond our state and enhance their scientific knowledge and research skills.”
Member institutions include such leading research and teaching colleges and universities as Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale Universities, as well as historically black colleges and universities such as Spelman College, Tougaloo College and Xavier University of Louisiana. All member institutions are committed as a core value to an intimate scholarly relationship built upon student-faculty mentoring, through which opportunities for undergraduate research in the biological, physical and social sciences as well as the humanities are promoted. For more information on the Leadership Alliance, go to: www.leadershipalliance.org.
Celebrating more than 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University offers programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. The main campus is located in Kaimuki at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with 10 satellite locations around Oahu military bases and Catholic parishes and schools. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.
