Ken Schoolland


Ken Schoolland is an Associate Professor of Economics at Hawaii Pacific University, a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Individual Liberty, and a Sam Walton Fellow for Students in Free Enterprise.

Education

Following his graduate studies at Georgetown University, Schoolland served as an international economist in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and on assignment to the White House Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations under President Gerald Ford. Schoolland left government for the field of education, teaching business and economics at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska and then at Hakodate University in Japan. Prior to his current responsibilities, Ken Schoolland was also the Director of the Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies program at Chaminade University of Honolulu and head of the Business and Economics Program at Hawaii Loa College.
In 2008 Ken Schoolland served as the Senior Economics Adviser to Hawaii congressional candidate Daniel Brackins.

Books

In 1988 and 1990, Ken Schoolland ran for the office of United States Senator for Hawaii as a Libertarian candidate. In 1988 Schoolland received 8,948 votes, for 2.8% of the vote. In 1990 he received 4,787 votes, for 1.37% of the total vote.