On-Campus Living

ON CAMPUS

Living

Professional Staff Recruitment 2023

Welcome

On behalf of the Professional we would like to give you a warm community here at the University ing in Hawaiʻi is a unique experience any transition, there is a lot to it as seamless as possible. In mation about the things that and political climate of our university

Welcome to UH!

Staff Recruitment Committee, warm welcome to our on-campus University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Livexperience unlike any other, and like to learn and we wanted to make In this guide, you will find inforthat inform the social, economic, university and Hawaiʻi as a whole.

Division of Student Success

In July 2021, the Division of Student Success (DSS) was established to encompass three integral areas to support students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa:

1) Student Academic Success

2) Student Co-Curricular Success, and

3) Student Diversity & Inclusion.

Mission Statement

“The Division of Student Success fosters the developmental, educational and career goals of students in a student-centered environment that encourages diversity and global awareness, character development and campus and community engagement.”

Key Directions

1) Perpetuating a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning

2) Collaborating to strengthen services for students

3) Sustaining a model of holistic student retention

4) Designing programmatic growth and innovation

Success

Cultural

“A member government multiple cities

The Hawaiian Prior to the was an independant

Literacy

Hawaii had not, the highest rates in the the time Kingdom lished with of the total able to read

Cultural & Historical Context

member of the Universal Postal Union, the Hawaiian Kingdom government established over ninety legations and consulates in cities across the world.”

- Noelani Goodyear Kaʻōpua

Hawaiian Kingdom

the illegal overthrow and annexation, the Hawaiian Kingdom independant nation with its own functioning government.

Literacy

had one of, if highest literacy the world at the Hawaiian Kingdom was estabwith over 90% total population read and write.

One of the many accomplishments of the Hawaiian Kingdom was the construction of ʻIolani palace, which had running water and electricity before the White House.

Independant Nation

On November 28, 1843, the Hawaiian Kingdom was recognized as an independant nation through the signing of the Anglo-Franco proclomation.

ʻIolani Palace

Cultural & Historical Context

“Tourists flock to my Native land for escape, but they are escaping a state of mind while participating in the destruction of a host in a Native place. To Hawaiians, daily life is neither soft nor kind. the political, economic, and cultural reality for most Hawaiians ugly, and cruel.”

Despite the ovethrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom happening 1893, Native Hawaiians continue to suffer in its wake.

Following the overthrow, the provisional government enacted Act 57, a law banning the use of the Hawaiian language as a medium of education in schools. Revitilization efforts are on-going to prevent its loss.

Native Hawaiian land continues to be descrated through construction upon an destruction of sacred sites. Examples include the construction of TMT & the jet fuel leak from the U.S. Navyʻs storage facility at Red Hill.

With the median a home set at dollars, more native Hawaiians forced to leave. Native Hawaiians the continental pared to nearly living in Hawaii.