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 house a library of cultural education material, with an overall aim of increasing success and retention of the university’s approximately 200 Pacific Islander students. Students will be able to use the center for peer mentoring, tutoring, networking or to relax.