Pat Hurley

Aloha mai! I am Professor Pat Kamalani Hurley, and I teach business writing and business communications and linguistics courses online. I'm lucky to always have the very best students in my classes: interesting, hard-working, self-motivated. My goal is to build community inside and outside of my courses and in student-centered, student-directed learning.

I regularly present workshops for academic and business audiences on resume and interview preparation, effective business writing concepts, business language usage, Hawaii Creole (pidgin), and Native Hawaiian teaching and learning issues. A Native Hawaiian, I am dedicated to encouraging native students to successfully pursue higher education.  Most notably, I founded Ka 'Umeke Kāeo Language Arts Tuition Assistance Award and Pūpū A 'O 'Ewa Native Hawaiian Arts and Literary Magazine and am a member of the Native Hawaiian Educators' Association and Leeward CC's Puko'a No Na 'Ewa Native Hawaiian Council.

Please email me anytime at phurley [at] hawaii [dot] edu or visit my website at http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/hurley/index.htm.