Hawaiian – University of Hawaiʻi System News

Record-setting Native Hawaiian, Filipino and overall 4-year UH Mānoa graduation rates

December 3, 2018

From 2010 to 2018, the four-year graduation rates for first-time freshmen increased from 10.3 percent to 32.3 percent for Native Hawaiian students, and from 13.8 percent to 37.7 percent for Filipino students.

Disney’s Moana in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi to be available to schools across the state

November 27, 2018

Moana will be distributed to schools across the state as the culminating act of a year-long production that strives to encourage students to learn the Hawaiian language.

Native Hawaiian law digital archive receives international award

November 9, 2018

The UH law school received an International Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums award for Punawaiola, a digital archives project of Hawaiian kingdom historical and legal materials.

Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds merges science, education, music and art

November 5, 2018

Hawaiʻi students had the opportunity to see and hear the diversity of Hawaiʻi’s native birds as well as feel the loss of extinction and the urgency for conservation at the Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds.

Center on Disability Studies receives $6.9 million to support diverse populations

October 17, 2018

Five programs in the Center of Disability Studies in UH Mānoa's College of Education receive nearly $7 million to serve diverse groups.

Helping Waimānalo families use aquaponics, improve health

October 8, 2018

Three researchers have won a national fellowship and will receive $350,000 funding over three years.

UH Hilo indigenous teacher education program receives accreditation

October 2, 2018

WINHEC congratulated Kahuawaiola for its “commitment to elevate high standards of indigenous teacher education as an exemplar example for all Indigenous peoples.”

Register for Native Hawaiian place of learning Pīkoʻokoʻo Conference

September 25, 2018

Pīkoʻokoʻo is aimed to gather students, staff, faculty, administration and community members to celebrate, connect and learn from one another to make the university the best it can be.

$2.4M grant to revitalize Hawaiian language, address disparities

September 25, 2018

Funding from federal Department of Education is led by principal investigator Katrina-Ann Oliveira, a professor in the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge.

Davianna Pōmaika’i McGregor named Center for Oral History director

September 20, 2018

The center produces oral histories and interpretive historical materials about lifeways, key historic events, social movements and Hawaiʻi’s role in the globalizing world.