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Organizational history

June-July 2005: Survey to ascertain interest in forming a local evaluation association sent to members of the evaluation community.

July 2005: Volunteer group of evaluators begin meeting to form association and to develop petition to AEA for offical affiliate status.

September 2005: Petition signed by 29 evaluators sent to AEA.

October 2005: Petition approved by AEA in Toronto, Canada.

September 8, 2006: Inaugural conference in Waikiki attended by 69 evaluators and graduate students. Officers elected at the meeting.

H-PEA received several congratulatory letters, which you can see here:

H-PEA first Annual "Evaluators' Exchange"

The first Hawaii-Pacific based American Evaluation Association (AEA) affiliate hosted their first evaluation conference in Honolulu on September 8, 2006. At the all-day "Evaluation Exchange" conference held at the Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio hotel, distinguished panelists and keynoter Dr. Lois-ellin Datta talked about evaluation issues in the Hawaii-Pacific region; the association's draft by-laws was shared with the membership, and a slate of officers was elected to serve the inaugural year.

For the conference brochure, click here. 

A team of Dr. John Norris' graduate students has provided us with a very professional conference evaluation report. Please click here to download the full conference evaluation report.

Thank you all very much for participating!

Thank you also to our speakers for wonderful presentations, to the poster-presenters for insights into their interesting projects, and to our new officers willing to serve H-PEA in the upcoming year.

We believe it was a very successful conference and look forward to the next.

Speakers for the 2006 conference on September 8, 2006 were:

For more photos of the conference, you can also download the following three files:

Newly elected president Dr. Judith Inazu, Dr. John Norris, Dr. Robin Brandt at the poster session.