麻豆传媒

The project grant, “Hānai a ulu: Feed and Grow— Nurturing student parents and STEM at Windward Community College,” will enhance student success through two major projects:

1. Student Parent Center development which seeks to strengthen student parents’ success. This project will create a Student Parent Center to include a student parent counselor, textbook library and a Hawaiian immersion childcare center for infants and toddlers. This project will address a gap both in the windward community, where infant and toddler care facilities are scarce, and at Windward Community College—the only community college in 麻豆传媒 lacking a childcare center.
2. STEM facility renovation and curricular improvement. With a goal to increase student participation and success in STEM programs at Windward Community College, this project will renovate outdoor, indoor and virtual learning environments. It will provide enhanced technology, data access and opportunities for laboratory experience focusing on the needs of Native Hawaiian students— 42 percent of the college’s student population is Native Hawaiian.

These services are vital at this time, as Windward Community College has increased the number of STEM based degrees and certificates including the associate in science degree in natural science and a certificate of achievement in agripharmatech, which incorporates classes on Native Hawaiian botany and plant use.

Years of awards and amount:

Year 1: 10/01/2014-09/30/2015 ?$1,997,067
Year 2: 10/01/2015-09/30/2016 ?$1,999,057
Year 3: 10/01/2016-09/30/2017 ?$1,999,270
Year 4: 10/01/2017-09/30/2018 ?$1,989,018
Year 5: 10/01/2018-09/30/2019 ?$1,917,212