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BYU-Hawaii Vice President for Academics, Keith Roberts graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, with majors in both mathematics and history. He earned his M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Marquette University, Milwaukee, and his Ph.D. in curriculum and mathematics from the same university. The co-author of several mathematics textbooks, he was Project Associate for the Carnegie Mathematics and Curriculum Development Project at Milwaukee Area Technical College as well as Assistant to the President at the same institution. Brother Roberts came to BYU-Hawaii in 1991 as Director of Institutional Research and subsequently served as Assistant to the President before being appointed as Vice President for Academics in January of 2000.
Among his many scholarly presentations, he presented "The Role of English Language in the Academy in the Twenty-first Century" at South China Normal University sponsored by the US Consulate in Guangzhou in 2006; he presented the invited lecture "American Colleges and Universities' Influence in the World: Ethics and Religion in the Twenty-first Century" at the Institute for World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing in 2005; he delivered the keynote lecture, “Using Performance Indicators in the U.S. and the U.K.” at the 1997 Conference on Performance Indicators in Higher and Further Education, in London, U.K.;
He has been active in accreditation, serving on the WASC Accreditation Team for Pepperdine University and as Assistant Chair of the WASC Accreditation Teams for Fresno Pacific University and the University of Guam. He currently serves on the WASC Eligibility Review Panel for new institutions. An avid supporter of cross-cultural scholarship, he heads the Pacific Institute Board of Fellows and is a member of the Advisory Board of "Globalization for the Common Good" in Oxford, UK. He has been listed in "Top Executives You Need to Know in Hawaii" in 2006 and 2007.
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