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Hoʻokahua: Creating a Strong Foundation for Student Success

The project established the Center for Applied Learning to increase student engagement through place-based learning, created a database to allow programs to enter and mine data through one portal and developed a cadre of faculty and staff who shared strategies…

Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions

The project developed and revised curriculum using a multicultural foundation and perspective in support of student learning and embedded service learning within the curricula to address the needs of the Native Hawaiian and local communities. The project also established a…

Hanakahi Student Success Programs

This $3.7 million grant is being used to support activities to improve Native Hawaiian persistence and graduation rates through three activities: facilitation of student engagement through living-learning communities and activities such as first-year experience seminars and other academic and social…

Hale Kanilehua Renovation

Funding was used to renovate an existing University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo student housing facility to create the Hale Kanilehua Living-Learning Center. The Center was completed in May 2013 and can accommodate 50 student residence, two support staff and a…

Center for Pacific Islander Education/Retention

The two-year project will turn a third-floor Campus Center lanai into an enclosed 2,700-square-foot facility where multicultural training and workshops can be conducted at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. The Center for Pacific Islander Education and Retention will also…

Waihonua: 2 year Renovation Grant

This grant provides needed space and technology to support Hawaiʻi Community College’s expanding initiatives to bridge communities and to support student success. Grant activities include the renovation of the Waihonua Media Lab and the Haʻakūmalae Office of Transformation, and developing…

Hālaulani

A joint venture with the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo to promote transfer of Native Hawaiian students between Hawaiʻi Community College and UH Hilo. The grant includes supporting activities that improve persistence and graduation rates, as well as programs that…

Kulukuluua: 5 year Development Grant

A Developmental Grant that supports academic programs to improve course completion rates or develop support programs that are designed to increase completion rates. Activities include developing themed learning communities, strengthening the Hawaiʻi Life Styles academics and bridging the community and…

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