University of Hawaii--Manoa is a public institution that was founded in
1907.
It
has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,499,
its setting is urban,
and the campus size is 320 acres.
It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
University of Hawaii--Manoa's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges
is National Universities,
168.
Its in-state tuition and fees are $10,620 (2014-15); out-of-state
tuition and fees are $29,412 (2014-15).
The University of Hawaii—Manoa is located just outside downtown
Honolulu on the island of Oahu. The school's academic departments
include the School of Hawaiian Knowledge, the School of Ocean and Earth
Science and Technology, and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Outside of class, there are more than 200 student organizations to check
out. UH Manoa's recreation center coordinates kayaking trips, sailing
and surfing classes, snorkeling and hiking excursions and more. Most of
the University of Hawaii—Manoa's athletic teams compete in the NCAA
Division I Big West Conference.
The school also offers a wide variety of graduate programs, including degrees through its highly ranked College of Education, the William S. Richardson School of Law, the Shidler College of Business and the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Notable alumni of the University of Hawaii—Manoa include oceanographer
Robert Ballard, former Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons and President
Barack Obama’s parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham Soetoro.
The University of Hawai`i at
Manoa's special distinction is found in our Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific
orientation and our unique location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The setting and the diversity of our students and faculty foster unique
advantages in the study of Asian and Pacific cultures, foreign
languages, tropical agriculture, tropical medicine, ocean and marine
sciences, astronomy, volcanology, and international business.
Our
unique geographical, cultural, and historical heritage suggests that
the University of Hawai`i at Manoa values and the responsibilities
inherent in embracing those values include the following:
A
focus on developing an awareness of and sensitivity to diversity and
commonality. The Manoa campus is culturally rich and complex, providing a
perfect social setting for frequent interactions with persons from cultures
other than one's own. At Manoa we incorporate and celebrate
intercultural experiences and understanding into our social and
educational environments in a comprehensive fashion. Manoa is also a
place where historic political, economic and social conflicts between
Native Hawaiian people, settlers and working immigrants have contributed
to the diverse perspectives, beliefs, values and even conceptual
frameworks of our islands' people. Growing out of the core Hawaiian
value of aloha, an essential component of the Manoa Experience, are
insights that both bond us and simultaneously express the variations
that collectively enrich us.
A focus on
global awareness and local responsibility. These values are consistent
with a uniquely Hawaiian place of learning. Hawai`i is a place where the
strength of identity is important to Native Hawaiian people struggling
to maintain traditional connections while establishing new global
relationships. Their struggle for cultural distinction forms a
significant part of the story of human history and change. Hawai`i is
also a place where the peoples from Asia, Europe, and the Pacific
regions gathered, formed communities, and built lives together. The
pluri-cultural children of Hawai`i are global citizens, a true
pan-ethnic population. Hence, we attempt to infuse our pedagogical,
social, and cultural environments with a global perspective and with
questions and issues of global significance. Moreover, engaging and
acting upon local questions and issues during their educational experience at Manoa engenders in students a sense of responsibility toward future generations.
A
focus on sustainability and renewability. These values are also a
reflection of our unique Hawaiian cultural history, as voiced in the
Hawaiian core value of malama i ka aina, malama i ke kai (caring for the
land and sea that sustain us). The Hawaiian culture teaches us to see
Manoa as part of an ahupua`a extending from mountaintop to ocean,
emphasizing an ecosystem understanding of our home. Hawai`i's unique
geographical status as the most isolated, populated land mass on the
planet makes it incumbent upon us to develop research, technologies,
economy, and a way of life based on sustainability and renewability, as
Polynesians did over thousands of years of voyaging, discovery and
settlement. Fostering a pedagogical, social, and cultural environment
that reflects these values and the knowledge developed by Native
Hawaiians over the millennia is central to our efforts. Cultivating,
practicing, and communicating these values are our University's gifts
and obligation to the rest of the world.
