UH News, first published March 25, 2024.

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Related UH News story, Oli mālama ʻāina at the heart of UH Mānoa initiative, first published March 19, 2024.

A team from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa tasked with groundbreaking efforts to help advance the campus as a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning launched an immersive initiative with an inaugural cohort of executives, faculty, staff and students this spring. On March 18, the UH Mānoa Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office (NHPoL AO) started a weeklong professional development series guiding more than 50 participants in activities focused around Native Hawaiian values and traditions such as mapping various moʻokūʻauhau (genealogies that shape us) mālama ʻāina (care for the land), oli (chants), and pilina (connection) circles.

“If we want our students, the next generation, to be more connected to each other and to this place we have to model that and sometimes that means we have to go learn that and so we are growing the next generation by also growing the sources that nourish them,” said Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Punihei Lipe, director NHPoL AO.

A total of 13 UH Mānoa units comprise this first cohort called Cohort Kumukahi. They will engage in an initial two-year process with the NHPoL AO. These units include:

• UH Cancer Center
• College of Arts, Languages and Letters (CALL)
• College of Engineering (CoE)
• College of Social Sciences (CSS)
• Division of Student Success (DSS)
• Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB)
• Institute for Astronomy (IfA)
• John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM)
• Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing (NAWSON)
• Office of Communications
• Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health
• Hawaiʻi Sea Grant
• School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)

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Related UH News story, Oli mālama ʻāina at the heart of UH Mānoa initiative, first published March 19, 2024.