Pacific Resources for Education and Learning’s (PREL’s) President & CEO, Tom Barlow, recently announced that PREL has been selected as one of 2008’s Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i by Hawai‘i Business magazine.
Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i, sponsored by ProService Hawai‘i, is an annual feature for Hawai‘i Business. This past year, employees of organizations competing for the awards were surveyed across the state. Their responses were compiled by the Best Companies Group and used to determine Hawai‘i’s top employers.
Participation in the program required each organization to go through a workplace assessment process. The process included surveying staff, as well as taking an inventory of company benefits, policies, and offerings. The information was then processed and analyzed to determine the best places to work in Hawai‘i.
The ranking of the 2008 Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i companies will be announced for the first time at the 4th annual Hawai‘i Business Best Places to Work Awards Dinner on March 27th, 2008, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
PREL is an independent, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation that serves the educational community in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific, the continental United States, and countries throughout the world. PREL bridges the gap between research, theory, and practice in education and works collaboratively with schools and school systems to provide services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation. In addition, PREL administers the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Pacific, 1 of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories funded through the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. With a commitment to ensuring that all students have an equal opportunity to develop a strong academic foundation, regardless of circumstances or geographic location, PREL has service centers in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, including American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai‘i, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau.
For additional information about this media release or PREL and its work, please contact Javier Elizondo, Director of Communications, by telephone at (808) 441-1300 or by email at elizondoj@prel.org, or visit our website at www.prel.org.
(Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008)