University of Hawaii at Manoa
The
University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the main campus of the greater
University of Hawaii System. The school is located in
Mānoa, an urban neighborhood community of
Honolulu, Hawaii,
USA, approximately three miles east and inland from
downtown Honolulu and one mile from
Ala Moana and
Waikīkī. The campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of the greater Mānoa Valley. It is accredited by the
Western Association of Schools and Colleges and is governed by the
Hawaii State Legislature and a semi-autonomous Board of Regents, which in turn hires a president to be administrator.
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa was founded in
1907 as a
land grant college of agriculture and mechanical arts. In 1912 it was renamed the College of Hawaii and moved to its present location. William Kwai Fong Yap petitioned the territorial legislature six years later for university status which lead to another renaming to the University of Hawai'i in 1920. This is also the founding year of the College of Arts and Sciences.
In 1931 the Territorial Normal and Training School was absorbed into the university. It is now the College of Education.
Today the primary facet of the university consists of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. The college of agriculture and mechanical arts is now the college of tropical agriculture and human resources (CTAHR), one of agricultural colleges focused on tropical research in the United States. The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is also home to two of the most prominent professional schools in the state. The
William S. Richardson School of Law and the
John A. Burns School of Medicine are the only law and medical schools in Hawaii, respectively.
All the colleges of the university offer bachelor degrees in 87 fields of study, master degrees in 87 fields, doctoral degrees in 53 fields, first professional degrees in three fields, post-baccalaureate degrees in three fields, 29 undergraduate certification programs and 26 graduate certification programs. Total enrollment as of 2004 was 20,549 students, 14,251 of which are undergraduates. There are fifteen students per instructor.
Ka Leo O Hawaii is the student newspaper at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, founded in 1922. The Ka Leo was printed daily during the fall and spring semesters, but as of Fall 2005, it is printed four times a week (Monday-Thursday), and weekly during the winter and summer breaks. Page length is normally 8 page, tabloid format. Circulation is 14,000.
According to the
2003 report of the Institutional Research Office, a plurality of students at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa are
Caucasian making up twenty-four percent of the student body.
Japanese Americans represent twenty percent,
Chinese Americans represent nine percent,
Filipino Americans represent eight percent as do
native Hawaiians. Ten percent of the student body are racially mixed. Smaller populations of Pacific Islanders and other ethnic groups make up the remainder.
Colleges & Schools
Colleges
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