by Dr. Vid Raatior | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem” – Charles Rosner. We the people of Chuuk are in dire need of a major attitudinal change with regards to educational reform. We need a paradigm shift from thinking that...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jun 3, 2012 | Blog, Education, Featured Article, Youth
It is graduation month and political campaign season in my struggling State of Chuuk. I am mindful of the message I gave as the commencement speaker to the Class of 2008 at Xavier High School. In my address (see below), I challenged the future leaders of the Pacific...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | May 12, 2012 | Blog, Featured Article
May 10, 2012 commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the birth of my beloved nation of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). In a special letter to citizens and friends of the FSM, Mr. James A. Naich, who represented the Northwest Region in the last two FSM...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
Last week I co-facilitated a Leadership Institute for the senior leadership in the Chuuk State Department of Education. While I learned a lot from my co-facilitators Fr. Arthur Leger, SJ, Ph.D., and Mr. Destin Penland, I left Chuuk feeling like I gained much more...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
By Bill Hagen In January 2012 a fully functional, internet connected, computer lab was set up at WeiPat High school on the island of Onoun in the Namonweito Atoll of Chuuk State, FSM. In a partnership between The Cuthbert Project and Guam Community College, funded by...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Featured Article
Congratulations to Mr. Asterio R. Takesy from the outer island of Onoun who recently presented his credentials to President Barrack Obama at the Oval Office as the new Ambassador of the Federated States of Micronesia to the United States. Affectionately known as Aste,...
