Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Keywords
training teachers, higher education, church college
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In early 1921 Elder David O. McKay, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, embarked on a world tour of the foreign missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints to ascertain the educational needs of the Church. One of his stops in early February was in Hawaii, where he asked local Church leaders what they thought the greatest need of the Hawaiian Mission was. These leaders replied that a Church school was the biggest need. Samuel H. Hurst, a missionary, recorded in his diary that Elder McKay indicated to these leaders that “he would write a letter to the First Presidency recommending that one be built.”[1] Nearly thirty years later McKay presided at the groundbreaking for the Church College of Hawaii (CCH). In the interim Church leaders had worked with Presidents Franklin S. Harris and Howard S. McDonald to take concrete steps at their flagship educational institution in Provo to ensure that it successfully created a space where secular and sacred education could be intermingled in a higher education environment that had become increasingly secular.[2]
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Daines, J. G. III "Training Teachers and Learning to Lead Church Higher Education and the Establishment of the Church College of Hawaii, 1957 1961." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 24, no. 1 (2023). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol24/iss1/11
