{"id":83800,"date":"2025-07-29T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=83800"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:52:02","slug":"a-college-leader-makes-connections","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/a-college-leader-makes-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"A College Leader Makes Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin is-style-text-over-image has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-text-position-x-center has-text-position-y-bottom\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-992x661.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-1984x1323.jpg 1984w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-banner-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Photo courtesy of Ardis Eschenberg<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner has-opacity-60\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Collegial Conversations<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA College Leader Makes Connections\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Chancellor Ardis Eschenberg discusses how leadership helps the community thrive<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">July 29, 2025<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-comments\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#comments\" class=\"wp-prepress-component-comment-counter label has-no-comments\"><span class=\"wp-prepress-component-comment-counter-zero\"><span>0<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/bu-author\/jay-halfond\/\">Jay Halfond<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">The University of Hawaii might be the most ethnically diverse academic institution in America. Across its ten campuses on six islands, only one-fifth identify as Caucasian, and the plurality are indigenous Hawaiians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2025\/07\/Ardis-Eschenberg-Headshot-710x710.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption>Ardis Eschenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">One of these campuses, the <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/about-wcc\/institutional-research\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaneohe,_Hawaii\">Kaneohe<\/a> (on the island of Oahu) is two-fifths native Hawaiian\u2014and another one-fifth descendants of those from the Philippines, Japan, and other parts of Asia. Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/ardis-eschenberg\/\">Ardis Eschenberg<\/a>, previously dean of a tribal college in Nebraska, has thrived by embracing and being embraced by Windward&#8217;s unique multi-ethnic campus. Among her successes, she has been able to accelerate a movement that has generated pride and heritage within the native population in Hawaii.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\"><em>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a news-block-editorial-q-and-a\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title-heading\">Q<span>&amp;<\/span>A<\/h2><h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title-subheading\"><\/h4><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jay Halfond:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">When you first began at Windward, you relocated from a tribal college in Nebraska to Hawaii as a single mom with two preschool children\u2014and transitioned into a very different community and professional role. Can you describe these challenges?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Ardis Eschenberg:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Fifteen years ago, I applied for a deanship at Windward and was brought out to visit and then offered the job. I had no childcare set up, no relatives to help\u2014but this college is an amazingly supportive family-based institution. As my kids grew, I enrolled them in public schools that taught Hawaiian language and culture.<br><br>The magic of this college is its ties to native Hawaii. I\u2019ve learned to appreciate that indigenous Hawaiians are truly a nation within a state, especially as pride in language and culture flourished on the island. Many of our students are now in Hawaiian Studies programs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jay Halfond:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">As chancellor, you now oversee a multi-generational and ethnically diverse institution grounded in the Hawaiian heritage. And your early experiences ultimately inspired one of your major initiatives, didn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Ardis Eschenberg:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Yes, since becoming chancellor six years ago, an important accomplishment was creating a Hawaiian immersion childcare center, the only one in the University of Hawaii. It was a crazy dream, but the students wanted it\u2014and many appeared at every on-campus meeting we held, lobbied legislators, and helped overcome resistance. I didn\u2019t even have to ask.<br><br>The Hawaiian renaissance is one of the most successful examples of language revitalization in America. Families now speak their ancestral language in their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jay Halfond:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">And like many other US community colleges, you also serve high schoolers. What is that program like?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Ardis Eschenberg:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Yes, about 20 percent of our students are either \u201cearly college\u201d\u2014embedded in the high school\u2014or \u201cmiddle college\u201d\u2014on our campus. We teach in every local public and charter school, as well as in immersive, culture-based schools across the islands. Rather than focus on advanced placement students, we prioritize first-generation, free lunch students, and native Hawaiian high school students. We even teach in Hawaiian to high schoolers across the entire state.<br><br>We have high school students in our middle college on campus two days a week and in service learning one day a week out in the community. These students have access to all our resources. They eat lunch with the older students, attend classes and events, and use our library.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jay Halfond:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Windward also does significant work with incarcerated students by teaching classes in local prisons. Can you tell us about that?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Ardis Eschenberg:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">We have such high rates of incarceration in Hawaii. Just within our local community, Windward has several prison sites, including a women\u2019s prison and a youth facility, where we teach liberal arts and Hawaiian Studies. We recently added a nearby men\u2019s prison, as well as prison education for the approximately 900 men from Hawaii incarcerated in Arizona. We are proudly the only University of Hawaii college offering degree programs within the carceral system and possibly the only US college teaching prisoners in another state.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jay Halfond:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">What\u2019s it like being part of such a unique state system as the combined, centralized University of Hawaii?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Ardis Eschenberg:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Windward is the smallest college on this island, so the beauty of our university system is access to human resources, such as legal counsel, as well as the inspiration and collaboration that my colleagues across the system provide. Hawaii is such a human-size state. And the legislature is very community college-centered because we&#8217;re the ones they see day to day helping their communities. As two examples, we created the only theater conservatory program in the state and the only Hawaiian music certificate anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jay Halfond:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Students come from many backgrounds and countries of origin, with none in the majority, and this variety probably allows students to be more comfortable expressing their backgrounds.<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Ardis Eschenberg:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Definitely. The relationship with the land and genealogy is very important here. Many non-Hawaiian families have been here for generations, often with great grandparents who worked on the plantations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jay Halfond:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Your remarkable acceptance within this adopted community has created opportunities to strengthen and extend education in such various ways.<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Ardis Eschenberg:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Mahalo! This community is extraordinarily kind, and they appreciate your heart when you&#8217;re working hard on their behalf. I\u2019m so honored to work at this institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/tag\/collegial-conversations\/\">Collegial Conversations<\/a> is a series of interviews that explore our vast academic landscape, highlighting what to celebrate or lament in America\u2019s unique and often perplexing approach to higher education.<\/em> <em>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/jay-halfond\/\"><em>Jay Halfond<\/em><\/a><em> is professor of the practice emeritus and former dean of Boston University\u2019s Metropolitan College. 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