University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin is pleased to announce the release of the campus’s 2024-2025 Annual Report.
“The 2024-25 academic year was transformational for the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo,” says Chancellor Irwin in her opening message in the report. “We launched a new integrated strategic plan and an enrollment management plan, we enrolled students in three new programs, and we had another successful grant year. The energy on campus reflected these important milestones, and I am grateful to our campus ʻohana for their many contributions to the success of our university.”
The report highlights student successes in and out of the classroom, new academic programs, the outstanding achievements of faculty and staff, research benefiting island communities and the environment, fundraising to support scholarships and programs, community outreach in myriad ways, alumni doing incredible work locally and beyond, and a campus infrastructure modernizing to support both a vibrant campus life and crucial workforce development.
The report also highlights the work being done to strengthen UH Hilo as a Hawaiian place of learning, reflecting Hawaiʻi, its people, history, cultures, and natural environment, embodying the concept of a Hawaiian university. More Native Hawaiians are in leadership roles, more programs and activities are increasing local and global community engagement to deveop “a Hawaiian sense of place” on campus, and the use of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) and culture is ever increasing though programs of study and informal learning.