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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii Board of Regents formally endorsed the Hawaii Graduation Initiative (HGI) and the university’s strategies for achieving its goals at its September board meeting. The HGI’s primary goal is to increase the number of UH graduates by 25 percent by 2015. This would mean awarding 10,500 degrees/certificates in 2015 compared […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Opening enrollment for the University of Hawaii’s fall 2013 semester is 59,288 students, a slight decline of 1,345 students, or 2.2 percent compared to fall semester 2012. This decrease comes after record-breaking enrollments in each of the last five years. Since 2007, enrollment has grown by 17 percent. The UH system’s newest campus, […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii System’s “15 to Finish” team took the spotlight on the national stage this week at the Complete College America (CCA) conference in Denver, Colo. The CCA, a non-profit national alliance of 33 states, invited the UH to serve as a national model for its highly successful “15 to Finish” […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Opening enrollment for the University of Hawaii System for the spring 2013 semester stands at 55,373 students, a slight decline of 1,303 students, or 2.3 percent, compared to spring 2012. With a new campus in Kapolei to serve the western region of Oahu, the University of Hawaii — West Oahu posted both the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Following a systemwide “15 to Finish” campaign, a higher percentage of incoming freshman students at the University of Hawaii’s campuses statewide registered to earn 15 or more credits for the Fall 2012 semester than freshmen who entered the UH system last year. This increase puts these new students on track to complete college […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The fall 2012 opening enrollment for the University of Hawaii System reached yet another high in the institution’s history with 60,633 students. It surpasses fall 2011’s record enrollment of 60,519 by 114 students, or 0.2 percent. UH’s fall opening enrollment has increased for a sixth straight year and has grown by 21 percent […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii System encourages full-time students at any of its two- or four-year campuses to take 15 credits per semester to graduate on time. Research has found that students who take at least 15 credits per semester have higher rates of timely graduation than students who take fewer classes. Those students […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii resident undergraduates attending the University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Hawaii–West Oahu and the seven UH community colleges will benefit from a reduction in the 2011 summer session tuition schedule recently approved by the UH Board of Regents. The reduction sets the 2011 summer session tuition rate for these campuses at […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Opening enrollment for the University of Hawaii System for the spring 2011 semester reached an all-time record of 56,716 students, the highest spring enrollment in the university’s history. UH spring enrollment has increased for a fourth straight year, and it has increased by 22.5 percent since 2007. “The University of Hawaii is committed […]

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