

Campuses across the will receive grants for the Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Program totalling about $6 million a year from the U.S. Department of Education for an anticipated five years. The five year total for the eight grants is more than $31 million.
These funds will be used for priority projects that fit within the and individual campus mission goals. Federal legislation mandates that these federal grants must be specific to campuses.
糖心Vlog官方 President David Lassner said, “These awards are a credit to our hard working, dedicated faculty and staff across the 糖心Vlog官方 system who are working collaboratively to advance the University of Hawaiʻi’s goal of becoming a model indigenous serving institution. We also thank our congressional delegation for their critical support of Native Hawaiian education.”
Annual awards
- Honolulu CC: Hoʻala Hou-Renewing a Pathway to Student Success Through Culture-Based Learning
- Kapiʻolani CC: Kauhale Ke Kuleana, the Responsibility of the Whole Village
- 糖心Vlog官方 Hilo and Hawaiʻi CC: Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant
- 糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa and CC Maui College: Kekaulike
- 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College: Kaiao: Dual Enrollment Program, Creating a Successful First Year Experience, Native Hawaiian Leadership Program
- 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College and Kapiʻolani CC: Lawelawe Poʻokela: Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Student Success
- 糖心Vlog官方 West Oʻahu and 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College: Building and Bridging Hawaiian Futures
- Windward CC: Kahua Hoʻonaʻauao: Foundations of Knowledge Building
, $2,295,706 over five years for Hoʻala Hou-Renewing a Pathway to Student Success Through Culture-Based Learning
Principal Investigator Katy Ho-Middleton, vice chancellor of academic affairs, Honolulu CC; Co-Investigator Kaleialoha Lum-Ho, Hawaiian Center director, Honolulu CC
This grant proposes seven activities to increase access, success and college completion of Native Hawaiian students.
The activities are:
- Developing and implementing a culturally appropriate outreach and recruitment plan focused on increasing access and enrollment to the college by Native Hawaiians
- Creating a team of peer mentors to outreach to the community and establish community based partnerships
- Erecting a hālau (community gathering space) through traditional community building practices
- Creating a digital cultural and historical bilingual (Hawaiian and English) tour of the campus and native plant species
- Creating a culture and place-based training program based on the Hawaiian resource management system of ahupuaʻa and ʻIke ʻĀina
- Establishing a cohort of mentors to sustain what is learned through the training program
- Using technology to deliver the training materials for future use
, $3,894,015 over five years for Phase II Kauhale Ke Kuleana, the Responsibility of the Whole Village
Principal Investigator Leon Richards, chancellor, Kapiʻolani CC; Project Director Kelli Kealakeonaona Goya, pathways coordinator, Kapiʻolani CC
Coupled with the Title III Part F grant, this project will directly address Native Hawaiian student achievement gaps in course success, persistence, transfer and graduation through one activity—Increasing Native Hawaiian Students’ Access to Success—employing strategies that will increase the success, persistence and progression, degree completion and transfer rates of Native Hawaiian students. The project will provide highly structured pathways for students to advance from basic skills to associate degrees, employment and transfer.
Project activities include
- Strengthening Native Hawaiian language preservation and revitalization
- Offering place-, community- and culture-based professional development for faculty and staff campus-wide to support an indigenous serving institution
- Improving student support services
- Hiring new personnel to focus on academic pathways, access to financial aid and career exploration for Native Hawaiian students

(cooperative award with ) $3,984,894 over five years for 糖心Vlog官方 Hilo and Hawaiʻi CC Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant
Principal Investigator Donald Straney, chancellor, 糖心Vlog官方 Hilo; Co-Investigator Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, assistant professor and coordinator, Hawaiʻi Community College
Promoting and sustaining a Hawaiian worldview in the 糖心Vlog官方 Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College campuses’ environments, programs, services and leadership to increase the success of Native Hawaiian students—faculty will be the focus of this cooperative arrangement development grant.
The three grant activities proposed
- Building capacity through leadership development
- Strengthening campus and community engagement
- Facilitating Hawaiian language, culture and knowledge learning pathways

(cooperative award with ), $4,159,895 over five years for Kekaulike: A Collaborative Partnership between 糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa and 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College
Principal Investigator Willy Daniel K. Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at 糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa; Co-Investigator Brandi Jean Nalani Balutski, research and assessment specialist at 糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa’s School of Hawaiian Knowledge; Co-Investigator Lui Hokoana, chancellor, 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College
The partnership between the two campuses will expand multi-disciplinary research and networking opportunities for Native Hawaiian students, faculty and staff; will provide support for 糖心Vlog官方 Maui students transferring to 糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa; and will help 糖心Vlog官方 Maui Native Hawaiian faculty and staff in obtaining advanced degrees at 糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa through fellowships.
, $4,000,000 over five years for Kaiao: Dual Enrollment Program, Creating a Successful First Year Experience, Native Hawaiian Leadership Program
Principal Investigator Benjamin Guerrero, Kaiao project director, 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College
The design of the proposal is to assist underprepared and at-risk students in getting them college ready prior to their first fall semester. To that end the college is proposing to increase college enrollments through pre-college preparation, to create a successful first-year experience and to establish a faculty and staff professional development program, and Native Hawaiian student leadership program.

(cooperative award with ), $4,496,726 over five years for Lawelawe Poʻokela: Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Student Success
Principal Investigator Lui Hokoana chancellor, 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College; Co-Investigator Leon Richards, chancellor, Kapiʻolani Community College
Lawelawe Poʻokela, which means “quality service,” addresses institutional challenges for Native Hawaiian student success. Working together, 糖心Vlog官方MC and Kapiʻolani CC will: 1) Support professional development, and faculty/staff fellowships to assist in attaining advanced degrees; and 2) Strengthen funds management and administrative management by creating “shared services centers.”
(cooperative award with ), $4,487,682 over five years for Building and Bridging Hawaiian Futures
Principal Investigator Judy Oliveira, interim vice chancellor for student affairs, 糖心Vlog官方 West Oʻahu; Co-Investigator Lui Hokoana, chancellor, 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College
This grant will fund the design of a curriculum for a BA in Hawaiian studies at 糖心Vlog官方 West Oʻahu. The grant will also enable 糖心Vlog官方 West Oʻahu, in partnership with 糖心Vlog官方 Maui College, to offer the degree to students from Maui, 尝ā苍补ʻ颈 and Principal Investigator Ardis Eschenberg, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Windward Community College This application focuses on three activities Earlier this month, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa also received $1.8 million a year for three years for Native Hawaiian Education from the U.S. Department of Education. 
, $3,994,408 over five years for Kahua Hoʻonaʻauao: Foundations of Knowledge Building
