President’s February 2018 highlights and updates
Highlights include enrollment initiatives, sustainability, indigenous serving institution, Willard Wilson award and more.
UH helps middle school students prepare for future careers
More than 750 students from nine Oʻahu middle schools engaged exhibitors through hands-on, interactive activities designed to educate and expose them to various career pathways and college opportunities.
Greg Chun appointed as senior advisor to UH on Maunakea
Chun is a UH Mānoa faculty member whose work focuses on the intersection of land use, community engagement and culture and he also chairs the Maunakea Management Board.
“Stopped out” student returns to UH Maui College thanks to re-enrollment initiative
Kalaheo Macadangdang decided to pursue his associate degree at UH Maui College after receiving a postcard from the college encouraging him to return.
Popular tuition-discount program benefits UH and mainland-bound Hawaiʻi students
According to a Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education report a total of 2,600 out-of-state students attended four UH campuses via a tuition-discount exchange program that grew significantly in 2017–18.
UH Foundation raises more than $77 million in 2017
Donors included alumni, community members, private foundations and corporations.
UH film experts guide budding Waiʻanae High filmmakers
Films produced by Waiʻanae High School students, aided by Academy for Creative Media at UH WestOʻahu mentors, received outstanding reviews at the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Forum.
UH experts appointed to city climate change commission
The role of the commission, which includes UH Mānoa's Rosie Alegado, Makena Coffman and Chip Fletcher, is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawaiʻi.
UH collaborates on Hawaiian language version of Disney’s Moana
The movie is a collaboration of five UH programs, spearheaded by the Academy for Creative Media System and recorded at the sound studio of Honolulu Community College’s MELE program.
President’s January 2018 highlights and updates
Highlights include new programs in industrial technology and ethnomathematics, U.S. tax bill impact, state legislative bills and more.
