The Aloha Pathway partnership assists Hawaiʻi Community College students who want to pursue a social sciences degree at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Winners of the UH President’s Green Initiative Awards were honored in a ceremony on February 8 as part of the Hawaiʻi Sustainability in Higher Education Summit.
Leaders representing all 10 campuses of the University of Hawaiʻi kicked off a two-day planning session to craft a strategy to encourage thousands of former UH students to return to school to earn their degree.
In support of its goal to become a model indigenous serving institution, UH has been awarded almost $3.9 million in grants by the U.S. DOE’s Native Hawaiian Education Program.
Inaugural UH Mānoa Strategic Investment Initiative projects capitalize on the strengths of the university and focuses on a challenge facing Hawaiʻi, the solutions of which can be exported to the world.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities presented UH Mānoa with the 2017 Project Degree Completion Award which honors institutions using innovative strategies or programs to increase retention and graduation.
The annual prize works to identify, recognize and reward public universities across the country that employ innovative approaches to improve retention and degree completion.