Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa (Hawaiian) | |
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Former name | College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi (1907–1912) College of Hawaiʻi (1912–1919) University of Hawaiʻi (1919–1972) |
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| Motto | Maluna aʻe o nā lāhui āpau ke ola ke kānaka (Hawaiian)[1] On seal:Mālamalama (Hawaiian) |
Motto in English | "Above all nations is humanity" On seal: "Enlightenment[2]" |
| Type | Publicland-grantresearch university |
| Established | March 23, 1907; 118 years ago (1907-03-23) |
Parent institution | University of Hawaiʻi |
| Accreditation | WSCUC |
Academic affiliations | |
| Endowment | $491.36 million (2023) (system-wide)[3] |
| Budget | $1.1 billion (2019)[4] |
| President | Wendy Hensel |
| Provost | Michael Bruno |
| Students | 20,012 (Fall 2024)[5] |
| Location | ,, United States 21°17′49″N157°49′01″W / 21.297°N 157.817°W /21.297; -157.817 |
| Campus | Large city, 320 acres (1.3 km2) |
| Other campuses[6] | |
| Newspaper | Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi |
| Colors | Green and white[7][8] |
| Nickname | Rainbow Warriors & Rainbow Wāhine |
Sporting affiliations | |
| Website | manoa |
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TheUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa[a][b] is apublicland-grantresearch university inHonolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is theflagship campus of theUniversity of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offices of the system. Most of the campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth ofMānoa Valley onOahu, with the John A. Burns School of Medicine located adjacent toKakaʻako Waterfront Park.
UH offers over 200 degree programs across 17 colleges and schools. It isaccredited by theWASC Senior College and University Commission and governed by theHawaii State Legislature and a semi-autonomous board of regents. It also a member of theAssociation of Pacific Rim Universities.
Mānoa isclassified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[9] It is a land-grant university that also participates in thesea-grant,space-grant, andsun-grant research consortia; it is one of only three such universities in the country to participate in all four consortia (Oregon State University andPennsylvania State University are the others). UH and its subsidiary, the Applied Research Laboratory, is one of only fourteenUniversity Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) of theUnited States Department of Defense and is one of five UARCs in the country for theUnited States Navy.
Notable UH alumni includePatsy Mink,Robert Ballard,Richard Parsons, and the parents ofBarack Obama –Barack Obama Sr. andStanley Ann Dunham. Forty-four percent of Hawaii'sstate senators and 51 percent of itsstate representatives are UH graduates.[10]
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was founded in 1907 as aland-grant college of agriculture and mechanical arts establishing "the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi and to Provide for the Government and Support Thereof".[11] The bill Maui Senator William J. Huelani Coelho through the initiatives ofNative Hawaiian legislators, a newspaper editor, petition of an Asian American bank cashier, and a president ofCornell University,[12] was introduced into the Territorial Legislature March 1, 1907 as Act 24, and signed into law March 25, 1907 by GovernorGeorge Carter, which officially established the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi under a five-member Board of Regents[12] on the corner of Beretania and Victoria streets (now the location of the Honolulu Museum of Art School).[11] The Board of Regents first selected J.E. Roadhouse of the University of California to head the new college in October 1907 but unfortunately had died before leaving Berkeley.[12] With classes scheduled to start in February 1908, the regents persuaded Willis T. Pope, vice principal of the Territorial Normal School, to head the college for its first semester. In Spring 1908, the regents appointed John W. Gilmore, professor of agriculture atCornell University, as the college's first president. The Cornell connection would strongly influence the shaping of the new college, even today.[12] It officially became an institution of higher learning on September 14, 1908, when it enrolled 5 freshmen registered for a bachelor of science degree. Willis T. Pope went on to become the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Territory of Hawai’i from 1910 until 1913 and later a professor of botany and horticulture at the university.
In September 1912 it moved to its present location in Mānoa Valley on 90 acres of land that had been cobbled together from leased and private lands and was renamed the College of Hawaii.[11] William Kwai Fong Yap, a cashier atBank of Hawaii, and a group of citizens petitioned theHawaii Territorial Legislature six years later for university status which led to another renaming finally to the University of Hawaiʻi on April 30, 1919, with the addition of the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Applied Science.[13][12]
In the years following, the university expanded to include more than 300 acres. In 1931 the TerritorialNormal School was absorbed into the university, becoming Teacher's College,[13] now the College of Education.
The university continued its growth throughout the 1930s and 1940s increasing from 232 to 402 acres. The number of buildings grew from 4 to 17. Following theattack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, classes were suspended for two months while the Corps of Engineers occupied much of the campus, including the Teacher's College, for various purposes. The university's ROTC program was put into active duty, which made the campus resemble a military school. When classes resumed on February 11, 1942, about half of the student and faculty body left to enter the war or military service. Students who returned to campus found classes cancelled due to lack of faculty and were required to carry gas masks to classes and bomb shelters were kept at a ready.[13] Once the war was over, student enrollment grew faster than the university had faculty and space for.
In 1947, the university opened an extension center in Hilo on Hawaiʻi Island in the old Hilo Boarding School. In 1951, Hilo Center was designated the University of Hawaii Hilo Branch[13] before its reorganization by an act of the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 1970.[14]
By the 1950s, enrollment increased to more than 5,000 students, and the university had expanded to include a Graduate Division, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Business Administration, College of Tropical Agriculture, and College of Arts and Sciences.[14]
When Hawaiʻi was granted statehood in 1959, the university became a constitutional agency rather than a legislative agency with the Board of Regents having oversight over the university. Enrollment continued to grow to 19,000 at the university through the 1960s and the campus became nationally recognized in research and graduate education.[14]
In 1965, the state legislature created a system of community colleges and placed it within the university at the recommendations of theDepartment of Health, Education and Welfare's report on higher education in Hawaii and UH President Thomas H. Hamilton.[12] By the end of the 1960s, the University of Hawaiʻi was very different from what it had since its beginning. It had become larger and with the addition of the community colleges, a broad range of activities extending from vocational education to community college education, which were all advanced through research and postdoctoral training.[14]
The university was renamed the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to distinguish it from other campuses in the University of Hawaiʻi System in 1972.[15]
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa operates within the University of Hawaiʻi System, which is governed by an 11-member board of regents who are nominated by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council, appointed by the governor, and confirmed by the State of Hawaiʻi legislature. The board also appoints the president of the University of Hawaiʻi System, who provides leadership for all 10 campuses, including as the chief executive of UH Mānoa. Day-to-day academic and operational management of UH Mānoa is the responsibility of the Provost.
When UH began as the College of Hawaiʻi, Willis T. Pope served as acting dean from 1907 to 1908, despite declining the title of "acting president." Since that initial period, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has always been led by a president, chancellor, or provost, including interim or acting roles.
From 1908 to 1965, the president of the University of Hawaiʻi, before the creation of the University of Hawaii System (UH System), served as chief executive of the university. Technical and community colleges and Hilo College operated separately from what would later become the UH System.[16]
| No. | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| - | - | Willis T. Pope | 1907-1908 | Served as "acting dean" until the Board of Regents could hire a permanent president. |
| 1 |  | John W. Gilmore | 1908–1913 | A graduate of Cornell University and an agriculture professor who established schools in China and the Philippines. Forced to resign. |
| - | - | John Donaghho (acting) | 1913–1914 | - |
| 2 | - | Arthur L. Dean | 1914–1927 | A graduate of Harvard, he oversaw the transformation of the College of Hawaiʻi into the University of Hawaiʻi and growth of the university from 21 students to 874. |
| 3 | - | David L. Crawford | 1927–1941 | - |
| - | Arthur R. Keller (acting) | 1941–1942 | ||
| 4 | - | Gregg M. Sinclair | 1942–1955 | - |
| 5 | - | Paul S. Bachman | 1955–1957 | Died in office just 14 months after taking office. |
| - | - | Willard Wilson (acting) | 1957–1958 | Served as acting president after the death of Paul S. Bachman. |
| 6 | - | Laurence H. Snyder | 1958–1963 | - |
| 7 | - | Thomas H. Hamilton | 1963–1968 | Served as president of the university until 1965 and both as president and chancellor from 1965 to 1968. Resigned amid protests related to the Vietnam War and controversial faculty tenure cases. |
In 1965 theHawaiʻi State Legislature created theUniversity of Hawaiʻi System, which incorporated the technical and community colleges into the university. The President's role was expanded to include oversight of the new university system.[16]
| No | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| 7 | - | Thomas H. Hamilton | 1963–1968 | Served as president of the university until 1965 and both as president and chancellor from 1965 to 1968. Resigned amid protests related to the Vietnam War and controversial faculty tenure cases.[17] |
| - | - | Robert W. Hiatt (acting) | 1968–1969 | - |
| - | - | Richard S. Takasaki (acting) | 1969 | - |
| 8 |  | Harlan Cleveland | 1969–1974 | A graduate of Princeton University. Created UH Hilo and appointed the first chancellor for the university. Resigned in the fall of 1973. |
In 1974, the role of chancellor was established to handle campus-specific leadership, allowing the UH President to focus on system-wide governance.
Presidents
| No | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| 9 | - | Fujio Matsuda | 1974–1984 | Retired from the university. |
Chancellors
In 1984, the role of the chancellor was dissolved and the president resumed direct oversight of UH Mānoa.[14]
| No | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| 10 | - | Albert J. Simone | 1984–1992 | Resigned in late 1991 to become president of theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT). |
| - | - | Paul C. Yuen (acting) | 1992–1993 | - |
| 11 | - | Kenneth P. Mortimer | 1993–2001 | - |
In 2001, the position of chancellor was re-established by UH System presidentEvan Dobelle overconflict of interest concerns.[18]
Presidents
| No | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| 12 | - | Evan S. Dobelle | 2001–2004 | |
| 13 | - | David McClain | 2004–2009 | |
| 14 | - | M.R.C. Greenwood | 2009–2013 | Retired at the end of 2013. |
| No | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| - | - | Deane Neubauer (interim) | 2001–2002 | - |
| 1 | - | Peter Englert | 2002–2005 | - |
| - | - | Denise Konan | 2005–2007 | - |
| 2 | .jpg) | Virginia Hinshaw | 2007–2012 | - |
| 3 | - | Tom Apple | 2012–2014 | - |
| - | - | Robert Bley-Vroman (interim) | 2014–2017 | - |
The Provost role was established to handle the academic and operational affairs of UH Mānoa, while the President served as the chief executive of the university and retained overall UH System leadership. This reorganization was made to create a governance structure similar to other major research universities, such as the University of Washington and Indiana University.[19]
| No | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| 15 | .jpg) | David Lassner | 2017–2024 | Appointed as president of the University of Hawaii System in 2014 and provided directed oversight of the university in 2017 when the Board of Regents removed the role of the chancellor. |
| 16 | - | Wendy Hensel | 2025–present[20] | - |
| No | Image | President | Term of office | Notes |
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| 1 | - | Michael S. Bruno | 2019–2025[21] | Bruno announced he would be stepping down as Provost effective July 1, 2025, returning as an Ocean Engineering Professor in the university's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.[21] |
| - | - | Vassilis Syrmos (interim) | 2025–Present[22] | Appointed interim provost by UH PresidentHensel effective July 1, 2025, taking over for former Provost Bruno.[22] |
UH Mānoa, the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi System, is a four-year research university consisting of 17 schools and colleges. In addition to undergraduate and graduate degrees in the School of Architecture, School of Earth Science and Technology, the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters, theShidler College of Business, the College of Education, and the College of Engineering, the university also maintains professional schools in law and medicine.
Together, the colleges and schools of the university offer bachelor's degrees in 93 fields of study, master's degrees in 84 fields, doctoral degrees in 51 fields, first professional degrees in five fields, post-baccalaureate degrees in three fields, 28 undergraduate certification programs, and 29 graduate certification programs.
Originally called the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi and formerly the College of Applied Sciences, the College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources (CTAHR) is the founding college of the university.[23] Programs of the college focuses ontropical agriculture,food science and human nutrition, textiles and clothing, and Human Resources. The name of the college was changed in October 2024 to the College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resilience.[24]
The college was established as the Honolulu Training School in 1895 to prepare and train teachers and then Territorial Normal and Training School after Hawaiʻi became a territory in 1905.[25] As the school outgrew its location on thePunchbowl side of Honolulu, a new campus was to be constructed on the corner of University Avenue and Metcalf Street. The first two buildings constructed by the Territorial Department of Public instruction became known as Wist Hall and Wist Annex 1.[26] The normal school was eventually merged into the University of Hawaiʻi in 1931 as the Teacher's College. In 1959, the name was changed to the College of Education.
The College of Arts, Languages, and Letters (CALL) is the newest and largest college at the university. It was created following the dissolution of the College of Arts and Science and the merger of the Colleges of Arts and Humanities, Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL) and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies. The college's core focus is the study of arts, humanities, and languages with a particular focus on Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, and Asia Studies.[27]
The College of Business Administration was established in 1949 with programs in accounting, finance, real estate, industrial relations, and marketing. The college was renamed the Shidler College of Business on September 6, 2006, after real-estate executive Jay Shidler, an alumnus of the college, who donated $25 million to the college.[28]
The School of Nursing was established in 1951, even though courses in nursing had been offered since 1932 with a partnership with Queen's Hospital School of Nursing.[12]
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library, which provides access to 3.4 million volumes, 50,000 journals, and thousands of digitized documents, is one of the largest academic research libraries in the United States, ranking 86th in parent institution investment among 113 North American members of the Association of Research Libraries.[29]
The UH Mānoa offers an Honors Program to provide additional resources for students preparing to apply toprofessional school programs.[30] Students complete core curriculum courses for their degrees in the Honors Program, maintain at least a cumulative 3.2grade-point average in all courses, and complete a senior thesis project.[31]
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The National Science Foundation ranked UH Mānoa 45th among 395 public universities for Research and Development (R&D) expenditures in fiscal year 2014.[42]
According toU.S. News & World Report's rankings for 2021, UH Mānoa was tied at 170th overall and 159th for "Best Value" among national universities; tied at 83rd among public universities; and tied at 145th for its undergraduate engineering program among schools that confer doctorates.[43]
The university offers over 50distance learning courses, using technology to replace either all or a portion of class instruction. Students interact with their instructors and peers from different locations to further develop their education.[44]
With extramural grants and contracts of $436 million in 2012, research at UH Mānoa relates to Hawaii's physical landscape, its people and their heritage. The geography facilitates advances in marine biology, oceanography, underwater robotic technology, astronomy, geology and geophysics, agriculture, aquaculture and tropical medicine. Its heritage, the people and its close ties to the Asian and Pacific region create a favorable environment for study and research in the arts, genetics, intercultural relations, linguistics, religion and philosophy.[45]
According to theNational Science Foundation, UH Mānoa spent $276 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 84th in the nation.[42] Extramural funding increased from $368 million in FY 2008 to nearly $436 million in FY 2012. Research grants increased from $278 million in FY 2008 to $317 million in FY 2012. Non-research awards totaled $119 million in FY 2012. Overall, extramural funding increased by 18%.[45][46]
For the period of July 1, 2012 to June 20, 2013, theSchool of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) received the largest amount of extramural funding among the Mānoa units at $92 million. SOEST was followed by the medical school at $57 million, the College of Natural Sciences and the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center at $24 million, theInstitute for Astronomy at $22 million, CTARH at $18 million, and the College of Social Sciences and the College of Education at $16 million.[47]
Across the UH system, the majority of research funding comes from theDepartment of Health and Human Services, theDepartment of Defense, theDepartment of Education, theNational Science Foundation, theDepartment of Commerce, and theNational Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). Local funding comes from Hawaii government agencies, non-profit organizations, health organizations and business and other interests.[47]
The $150-million medical complex in Kakaʻako opened in the spring of 2005. The facility houses a biomedical research and education center that attracts significant federal funding and private sector investment in biotechnology and cancer research and development.[citation needed]
Research (broadly conceived) is expected of every faculty member at UH Mānoa. Also, according to the Carnegie Foundation, UH Mānoa is an RU/VH (very high research activity) level research university.[48]
In 2013, UH Mānoa was elected to membership in the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the leading consortium of research universities for the region. APRU represents 45 premier research universities—with a collective 2 million students and 120,000 faculty members—from 16 economies.[49]
The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center is part of the Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Its facility inKakaʻako was completed in 2013.[50] It is designated as cancer center by theNational Cancer Institute and represents Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. It was founded in 1971 and was named the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi before 2011.[51] As of December 2022[update],Naoto Ueno serves as the center's director.
| Race and ethnicity | Total | ||
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| Asian | 33% | ||
| Two or more races | 25% | ||
| White | 21% | ||
| Hispanic | 14% | ||
| International student | 3% | ||
| Black | 2% | ||
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 2% | ||
| Unknown | 1% | ||
| Economic diversity | |||
| Low-income[c] | 25% | ||
| Affluent[d] | 75% | ||
UH is the fourth most diverse university in the U.S.[10] According to the 2010 report of the Institutional Research Office, a plurality of students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa areCaucasian, making up a quarter of the student body. The next largest groups wereJapanese Americans (13%),native or part native Hawaiians (13%),Filipino Americans (8%),Chinese Americans (7%) and mixed race (12%). Pacific Islanders and other ethnic groups make up the balance (22%).
All UH Mānoa residence halls are coeducational. These include the Hale Aloha Complex, Johnson Hall, Hale Laulima, and Hale Kahawai. Suite-style residence halls include Frear Hall and Gateway House. First-year undergraduates who choose to live on campus live in the traditional residence halls.[53]
Two apartment-style complexes are Hale Noelani and Hale Wainani. Hale Noelani consists of five three-story buildings and Hale Wainani has two high rise buildings (one 14-story and one 13-story) and two low-rise buildings. Second-year undergraduates and above are permitted to live in Hale Noelani and Hale Wainani.[53]
The university reserves some low-rise units for graduate students and families.[54]
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the YMCA of Honolulu has enjoyed a close and robust partnership since the university's founding.[55] Beginning informally in 1908, the YMCA held bible classes and discussions at the University of Hawaiʻi, when it was the College of Hawaiʻi. In 1912, the YMCA of Honolulu followed the college to Mānoa valley and continued its work in Hawaiʻi Hall. In 1922, the relationship was formalized and it was one of the largest and most active groups on the university's campus, including hosting events for high school and incoming students.[56][55]
In 1932, through funding by the Atherton family, the YMCA moved across the street to a three-story cement building on University Avenue. The building, called the Charles H. Atherton House or the "Pink Building", in addition to being the center for YMCA activities, also served as student housing and dining hall. In 1995, the YMCA purchased the Mary Atherton House next door to provide additional residential and activity space.
In 2017, the Atherton building was sold to the university and University of Hawaiʻi Foundation.[56][55] Today, its main offices are located in the Queen Lili'uokalani Center for Student Services building on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where they continue serve UH students and families throughout Hawaiʻi.
The Atherton building has since been closed and renovations began July 2021 to turn the Pink Building into student housing and an innovation center.[57]
The Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (ASUH) is the undergraduatestudent government representing the 10,000+ full-time, classified, undergraduate students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. ASUH was founded in 1910 as the Associated Students of Hawaiʻi[12] and was chartered by the University of HawaiʻiBoard of Regents in 1912.
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa competes in NCAA Division I, the only Hawaii school to do so. It competes in theMountain West Conference for football only and theBig West Conference for most other sports.[58] UH competes in theMountain Pacific Sports Federation in men's and women's swimming and diving, and indoor track and field while the coed and women's sailing teams are members of thePacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference.
Men's teams are known as Rainbow Warriors, and women's teams are called Rainbow Wahine. "Wahine" means "woman" in Hawaiian.[59] They are most notable for men's and women'sbasketball,volleyball,baseball, andfootball programs. The university won the 2004Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships. The women's volleyball program won NCAA championships in 1982, 1983 and 1987. The men's volleyball won an NCAA championship in 2021.[60] The men's volleyball team had previously won an NCAA championship title game in 2002, but the title was later vacated due to violations.
The principal sports venues areClarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex,Stan Sheriff Center,Les Murakami Stadium, Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium, and the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex.
The university's athletic budget in FY 2008–2009 was $29.6 million.[61]
Notable alumni of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa include:
Notable faculty of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa include:
Notable former faculty members include:
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