Strategic Plan
Our Strategic Priorities
- Increase the recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian students;
- Increase the recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian faculty;
- Increase opportunities for faculty, students, and leadership to participate in courses, programs, research, teaching, service and partnerships, that strengthen, sustain and support Native Hawaiian education (language, history, and culture);
- Provide opportunities and support for Native Hawaiians to hold significant leadership roles within the College of Education;
- Provide advocacy, leadership, and the infrastructure within the College of Education to ensure that the College’s research, teaching and service endeavors are responsive to the needs of the community;
- Provide a Lāhui compass for funding, professional, research and service activities in the College of Education.
UHM College of Education
ʻĀinahou supports the mission of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, College of Education to collaborate as a professional community in three primary areas of responsibility or kuleana:
Teaching–prepare new educational professionals and provide on-going professional development in education.
Research–increase the knowledge base in education and related fields through the production and application of educational research.
Service–serve as partners and leaders for excellence in education.
Philosophy–A sense of purpose, a sense of place: Preparing knowledgeable, effective, and caring educators to contribute to a just, diverse, and democratic society—The College of Education envisions a community of educators who provide innovative research, teaching, and leadership in an effort to further the field of education and prepare professionals to contribute to a just, diverse, and democratic society. The College aims to enhance the well being of the Native Hawaiian people and others across the Pacific Basin through education.
Hawaiʻi Papa O Ke Ao
The Hawaiʻi Papa O Ke Ao Report (January 2012) set goals and objectives to address the higher education needs of our Indigenous people – Native Hawaiians – by creating a model Indigenous serving institution. The ʻĀinahou strategic priorities align to the goals and objective of these University of Hawaiʻi, system-wide goals and objectives.
| ʻĀinahou | Hawaiʻi Papa O Ke Ao |
|---|---|
| Increase the recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian students. | Hawaiian enrollment at parity with Hawaiians in the Hawaiʻi state population.
Hawaiian students performing at parity with non-Hawaiians = success. |
| Increase the recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian faculty. | Number of tenured Hawaiian faculty increase by 25% each year. |
| Increase opportunities for faculty, students, and leadership to participate in courses, programs, research, teaching, service and partnerships, that strengthen, sustain and support Native Hawaiian education (language, history, and culture) | The University fosters and promotes Hawaiian culture and language at all its campuses. |
| Provide opportunities and support for Native Hawaiians to hold significant leadership roles within the College of Education; | Hawaiians hold leadership roles in the UH administration. |
| Provide advocacy, leadership, and the infrastructure within the College of Education to ensure that the College’s research, teaching and service endeavors are responsive to the needs of the community; | The university is responsive to the needs of the Hawaiian community and, with community input, implements programs to address these needs.
Gauges its effectiveness in including Native Hawaiian values in its decision making and practices. |
| Provide a Lāhui compass for funding, professional, research and service activities in the College of Education. | The University of Hawaiʻi is the foremost authority on Native Hawaiian scholarship. |