Organization:University of Hawaii

University of Hawaiʻi System

Motto	"Ma luna aʻe o nā lāhui a pau ke ola ke kanaka" (Hawaiian)
Motto in English	"Above all nations is humanity"
Established	1907
Affiliation	Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Endowment	US$321 million
President	David Lassner
Students	50,310
Location	Honolulu , Hawaiʻi , United States
Campus	3 campuses, 7 community colleges, 5 research centers, 3 university centers, 4 education centers
|u}}rs	Gold and black
Website	www.hawaii.edu

The University of Hawaiʻi system (formally the University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as UH) is a public college and university system that confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, three university centers, four education centers and various other research facilities distributed across six islands throughout the state of Hawaiʻi in the United States . All schools of the University of Hawaiʻi system are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The U.H. system's main administrative offices are located on the property of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu CDP.

Colleges and universities

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is the flagship institution of the University of Hawaiʻi system. It was founded as a land-grant college under the terms of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. It is well respected for its programs in Hawaiian/Pacific Studies, Astronomy, East Asian Languages and Literature, Asian Studies, Comparative Philosophy, Marine Science, Second Language Studies, along with Botany, Engineering, Ethnomusicology, Geophysics, Law, Business, Linguistics, Mathematics, and Medicine. The second-largest institution is the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo on the "Big Island" of Hawaiʻi, with over 3,000 students. The smaller University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu in Kapolei primarily serves students who reside on Honolulu's western and central suburban communities. The University of Hawaiʻi Community College system comprises four community colleges island campuses on O'ahu and one each on Maui, Kauaʻi, and Hawaiʻi. The schools were created to improve accessibility of courses to more Hawaiʻi residents and provide an affordable means of easing the transition from secondary school/high school to college for many students. University of Hawaiʻi education centers are located in more remote areas of the State and its several islands, supporting rural communities via distance education.

Universities

• University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
• University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo
• University of Hawaiʻi, West Oʻahu

Colleges

• University of Hawai'i Maui College

Community colleges

• Hawaiʻi Community College in Hilo
• Hawaiʻi Community College in Kailua Kona
• Honolulu Community College
• Kapiʻolani Community College
• Kauaʻi Community College
• Leeward Community College
• Windward Community College

Professional schools

• Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy
• School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
• John A. Burns School of Medicine
• William S. Richardson School of Law
• Shidler College of Business

Research facilities

• Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi
• East-West Center
• Haleakalā Observatory
• Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute
• Institute for Astronomy
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
• Institute of Marine Biology
• Lyon Arboretum
• Mauna Kea Observatory
• W. M. Keck Observatory
• Waikīkī Aquarium

University centers

• University of Hawaiʻi Center West Hawaiʻi
• University of Hawaiʻi Center Kauaʻi
• University of Hawaiʻi Center Maui

Education centers

• Molokaʻi Education Center
• Lānaʻi Education Center
• Hāna Education Center
• Waiʻanae Education Center
• Lāhainā Education Center

Board of regents

In accordance with Article X, Section 6 of the Hawaiʻi State Constitution, the University of Hawaiʻi system is governed by a Board of Regents, composed of 15 unpaid members who are nominated by a Regents Candidate Advisory Council, appointed by the governor, and confirmed by the state legislature. The Board oversees all aspects of governance for the university system, including its internal structure and management. The board also appoints, evaluates, and if necessary removes the President of the University of Hawaiʻi.

Student regents

The University's governing board includes a current student appointed by the Governor of Hawaiʻi to serve a two-year term as a full voting regent. The practice of appointing a student to the Board was approved by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 1997.

Notable alumni

Alumni of the University of Hawaiʻi system include many notable persons in various walks of life. Senator Daniel Inouye and Tammy Duckworth both are veterans of the US military who were injured in the line of duty then later entered government service. Bette Midler and Georgia Engel are successful entertainers on the national stage. President Barack Obama's parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, also earned degrees from the Mānoa campus, where his parents met in a Russian language class. His mother earned three degrees from the University of Hawaiʻi including a PhD in anthropology.

Alice Augusta Ball was not only the first woman to graduate from the College of Hawaiʻi (now the University of Hawaiʻi) in 1915, but was also the first African American research chemist and instructor in the college’s chemistry department. In addition, she was the first person to successfully develop a water-soluble form of chaulmoogra oil that was used for decades to relieve the symptoms of Hansen’s disease (leprosy).

Notable faculty

The University of Hawaiʻi system has had many faculty members of note. Many were visiting faculty or came after they won major awards like Nobel Laureate Georg von Békésy. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, principal investigator of the research group that developed a method of cloning from adult animal cells, is still on the faculty.

In July 2019, Bob Huey, a professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, was presented the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, one of Japan's highest honors for those without Japanese citizenship.

See also

• University of Hawaiʻi Marching Band

Further reading

• Robert, Kamins (1998). Mālamalama: A History of the University of Hawaiʻi. 
• David, Yount (1996). Who Runs The University? The Politics of Higher Education In Hawaiʻi, 1985-1992. 

External links

• University of Hawaiʻi Athletics