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Connecting campuses CAITLIN K ELLY Associate News Editor In addition to the thousands of incoming freshmen at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa every year are an almost equal number of transfer students. The Ka‘ie‘ie Program, a dual-admission dualenrollment agreement established in 2007 with Kapi‘olani Community College, is expanding to cater to this growing demographic. “The anticipation is the amount of transfers coming into the campus is going to keep growing. So having ways to deal with that incoming population and to increase their success here on campus becomes absolutely critical to us,” said Assistant Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Ronald Cambra.
D E D I C AT E D A DV I S E R UH Mānoa Chancellor Tom Apple and KCC Chancellor Leon Richards signed an agreement that would allot more resources to the partnership that helps students transfer smoothly and graduate with a bachelor’s degree in four years. A transfer academic adviser will be stationed mainly at KCC, but will have their tenure based at UH Mānoa; the process to select this adviser is already underway. There are also plans to include a designated office for the Ka‘ie‘ie Program. “[The transfer academic adviser will be] working right on site, pri-
marily with the advisers from KCC, to give them some assistance with how to identify courses that are part of our four-year academic plans,” Cambra explained.
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BRIDGING SCHOOLS Because there are a large amount of transfer students at KCC, the program is being opened to them as well. “Many of our students at Kapi‘olani Community College get their academic start here and move on to UH Mānoa to complete their baccalaureate studies, and they do very well,” Richards said in a press release. Students are eligible to participate as long as they meet the admissions requirements for UH Mānoa. Services available include advising from a student’s major department, early registration when transferring to UH Mānoa and access to resources from both campuses. “We’ve seen much success with this program since it was initially established and we’ve committed now to enhancing the program based on the lessons that we’ve learned,” Apple said in a press release. Ideally, the program will expand to include all of the community colleges in the UH system. “It’s critical to understand that this is not just one agreement and we’re done,” Cambra explained. “This is not an end to itself, this is just the fi rst step to assisting more transfer students coming to campus and succeeding.”
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