{"id":48098,"date":"2016-07-22T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=48098"},"modified":"2020-01-17T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T23:21:53","slug":"manoa-academy-creates-college-experience-for-kamehameha-schools-kapalama-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/22\/manoa-academy-creates-college-experience-for-kamehameha-schools-kapalama-students\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101noa Academy creates college experience for Kamehameha Schools Kap\u0101lama students"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Mānoa Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Kamehameha Schools Kapālama campus<\/a> and the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa College of Social Sciences<\/a> partnered this summer in a six-week, dual credit, program called the Mānoa Academy for Social Sciences. In the Academy, 12 KS<\/abbr> Kapālama students participated in two college courses, English 100 and Political Science 110, earning six college credits.<\/p>\n

The program integrated the classes Composition I and Introduction to Political Science to bridge the content and writing skills. The nine KS<\/abbr> Kapālama juniors and three graduates from the class of 2016 met four days a week on the KS<\/abbr> Kapālama campus and one day at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, with the nine juniors also earning high school credit.<\/p>\n

The classes were taught by ʻUmi<\/span> Perkins<\/strong>, a KS<\/abbr> Kapālama teacher and UH<\/abbr> lecturer, and UH<\/abbr> Mānoa graduate student Norm Thompson<\/strong>, with KS<\/abbr> Kapālama English teacher Kaʻimi<\/span> Kaiwi providing study sessions to assist the high school students to bridge their learning experience to align with college-level expectations.<\/p>\n

“The Mānoa Academy has been a pioneering effort to create new and exciting possibilities for our haumāna to be exposed to a college-level experience,” said KS<\/abbr> Kapālama Interim Poʻo<\/span> Kula (Head of School) Debbie Lindsey. “Thanks to the creative planning of Dr. Denise Konan’s team and our Summer School Program Director Kela Park’s promotion and support, we were able to institute the M\u0101noa Academy, a partnership of learning, to increase our students’ educational, as well as post-secondary, experiences. I must also credit our previous Poʻo<\/span> Kula, Earl Kim, for his vision and commitment in championing this project to our campus.”<\/p>\n

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2016 Kamehameha Schools Mānoa Academy students and instructors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Strong partnerships for future success<\/h2>\n

The academy is part of the Hui Hoʻomaikaʻi<\/span> partnership between Kamehameha Schools and UH<\/abbr>, aimed at increasing Hawaiian student success at the post-secondary level. All fees and tuition for this initial semester was paid for by Kamehameha Schools. Participating early college students who successfully completed the courses in the academy also had a chance to gain early admittance to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n