As of September, the School of Travel and Industry
Management (TIM School) at the University of
Hawai’i at Manoa (UH) moved its operations
under the umbrella of the university’s Shidler
College of Business. The TIM School will retain its
focus on tourism and maintain a separate identity
from Shidler College, as part of a “school-withina-
college” model. Alumnus and donor Jay Shidler
has pledged to develop internships for students in
his hotel holdings across the U.S. mainland. He also
has committed US$1.55 million to fund an initial
two years of summer research support for TIM
School faculty, as well as matching funds for six
new faculty endowments in the TIM School.
Amazon recently announced its Upskilling 2025
pledge, for which it will invest more than US$700
million in training programs. It expects that the new
training will benefit 100,000 of its workers—onethird
of its U.S. workforce. Among these programs
are the Amazon Technical Academy, which trains
workers without technical backgrounds to transition
into software engineering careers; Amazon Career
Choice, which trains fulfillment center associates
to enter the high-demand jobs of their choice; and
Amazon Apprenticeship, a program certified by the
U.S. Department of Labor that offers paid classroom
training and on-the-job apprenticeships.
Global online training provider Simplilearn and
tech company IBM are collaborating to deliver
four “master’s programs” to train professionals
in artificial intelligence and data science. These
programs will cover data science, artificial science
engineering, data analysis, and data engineering.
Each curriculum provides professionals with access
to live virtual classrooms and self-paced video
courses that combine Simplilearn’s blended learning
platform with IBM’s labs and course content.