Malamalama: A History of the University of Hawaii

Robert M. Kamins; Robert E. Potter

Published by University of Hawaii Press 1998

Malamalama

A History of the University of Hawaii

Robert M. Kamins and Robert E. Potter

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824863500

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In 1907 Hawai‘i's fledgling College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, boasting an enrollment of five students and a staff of twelve, opened in a rented house on Young Street. The hastily improvised college, and the university into which it grew, owed its existence to the initiative of Native Hawaiian legislators, the advocacy of a Caucasian newspaper editor, the petition of an Asian American bank cashier, and the energies of a president and faculty recruited from Cornell University in distant Ithaca, New York. Today, nearly a century later, some 50,000 students are enrolled yearly at ten campuses--in a unique system of community colleges and professional schools.

Malamalama: A History of the University of Hawai‘i documents the many contributions the University has made over the decades to culture and education in the islands. From its start, the University rejected the racial stereotyping and prejudice common in territorial Hawai‘i, thus fostering an ease of association among students of diverse backgrounds and providing, through student government and campus societies, a venue where future political leaders of the islands could hone their skills. The story of how the University of Hawai‘i grew from a regional undergraduate college to an internationally recognized graduate and research university, weathering repeated crises along the way, is told by emeritus professors Kamins and Potter in Part I. They highlight the University's relationship with the legislature, the actions and personalities of its very different presidents, and the effects of social upheaval and changing budgets on an evolving institution. Three alumni provide personal accounts of their years at the University. Parts II and III offer particular histories by knowledgeable contributors, including faculty members and administrators, of the Hilo and West Oahu campuses, of each fo the seven community colleges, and of programs at the Manoa campus.

The strands of history woven together here reveal the University's abiding determination to serve as a cultural link across the Pacific and among Hawai‘i's own ethnic communities. The University seal, dominated by the Hawaiian word malamalama, "light of knowledge," depicts a map of the Pacific hemisphere, celebrating the great diversity of people and cultures that contributed to its founding and the westward reach of its connections.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
FOREWORD Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Part I. The Manoa Campus and the University System
1. ORIGINS AND EARLY YEARS: 1907–1946 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. BECOMING A STATEWIDE SYSTEM: 1947–1968 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
3. EXPERIENCING MATURITY: 1969–1995 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
PART II: MANOA COLLEGES AND PROGRAMS
4 .THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE AND HAWAIIAN STUDIES Rubellite K. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
5. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS PROGRAM Norman Meller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
6 .ASIAN PROGRAMS AND LINKAGES Robert M. Kamins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
7. THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Wilfred J. Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
8. THE COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES Wallace C. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
9. ARTS AND SCIENCES AFTER STATEHOOD Deane E. Neubauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
10 .THE UNDERGRADUATE HONORS PROGRAMS James R. Linn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
11. ORGANIZED RESEARCH UNITS Robert W. Hiatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
12 .THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES E. Alison Kay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
13. ASTRONOMY Robert M. Kamins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
14 .MUSIC AT MANOA Dale E. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
15. THEATRE AND DANCE Robert M. Kamins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
16. SUMMER SESSION Victor N. Kobayashi and Robert E. Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
17 .THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS William Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
PART III : BEYOND MANOA: HILO, WEST O‘AHU, THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES
18. THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT HILO Frank T. Inouye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
19. THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I– WEST O‘AHU Daniel B. Boylan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
20 .THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES Robert R. Fearrien and Ruth Lucas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Summing Up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Appendix 1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
A NOTE ON SOURCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 374

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Published: August 1, 1998
ISBN: 9780824863500