{"id":632,"date":"2016-03-13T03:09:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:33:22","slug":"hu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/partners\/hu\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage University"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Technical Representative<\/th>\n<th>Administrative Representative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Kazuhiro Sonoda<\/strong><br \/>Provost and VP of Academic Affairs<br \/>Heritage University<br \/>3240 Fort Road<br \/>Toppenish, WA 98948<br \/>Phone: (509) 865-8584<br \/>sonoda_k@heritage.edu<br \/>Dean, Arts and Sciences<br \/><a href=\"mailto:sonoda_k@heritage.edu\">sonoda_k@heritage.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>Kazuhiro Sonoda<\/strong><br \/>Professor of Environmental Sciences<br \/>Heritage University<br \/>3240 Fort Road<br \/>Toppenish, WA 98948<br \/>Phone: (509) 865-8584<br \/>sonoda_k@heritage.edu<br \/>Dean, Arts and Sciences<br \/><a href=\"mailto:sonoda_k@heritage.edu\">sonoda_k@heritage.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Research, Technical Assistance, and Education Strengths<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quality education: non-profit, independent, accredited institution of higher education offering undergraduate and graduate education; qualified and dedicated faculty and staff and unique educational programs tailored to the special needs of the multicultural, educationally isolated communities of south-central Washington<\/li>\n<li>Multicultural: objective to reverse historical under-representation of some cultural groups in higher education, with a special commitment to bring higher educational opportunities to those who have been isolated or alienated from such chances in the past; commitment to build community in a deliberately pluralistic setting, viewing each student&#8217;s cultural background as an asset to the educational process<\/li>\n<li>Recognition: recipient of regional and national recognition; designated a &#8220;National Center of Excellence&#8221; for rural community development activities by the USDA<\/li>\n<li>Resources\/research facilities: classroom buildings, biology, chemistry, and computer laboratories, library, and academic skills center; science and math faculty involved in cooperative research activities with Batelle Memorial Institute&#8217;s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation<\/li>\n<li>Technical assistance: main campus location on the 1.4 million-acre Yakama Reservation in south-central Washington; working relationships with tribal programs such as the Yakama Tribal School, Yakama Cultural Museum and Library, Tribal Administrator&#8217;s Office,Yakama Nation Department of Natural Resources, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Yakama Agency Branch of Forestry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heritage.edu\/\">Heritage University website<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Representative Administrative Representative Kazuhiro SonodaProvost and VP of Academic AffairsHeritage University3240 Fort RoadToppenish, WA 98948Phone: (509) 865-8584sonoda_k@heritage.eduDean, Arts and Sciencessonoda_k@heritage.edu Kazuhiro SonodaProfessor of Environmental SciencesHeritage University3240 Fort RoadToppenish, WA 98948Phone: (509) 865-8584sonoda_k@heritage.eduDean, Arts and Sciencessonoda_k@heritage.edu Key Research, Technical Assistance, and Education Strengths Heritage University website<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/partners\/hu\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":715,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-632","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 13:32:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19538,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions\/19538"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}