**Title III Part A**

**Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Program**

**Fiscal Year 2006 Project Abstracts for Development and Renovation**

**[P031W060002 - University of Hawaii -- Honolulu Community
College]{.underline}**

Honolulu Community College (HCC) is one of seven community colleges in
the 10-campus University of Hawai'i System, the only public system of
higher education in the State of Hawaii. Honolulu Community College
offers liberal arts with a two-year transferable Associate of Arts
degree, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science, Associate in
Technical Studies degrees and certificates in 20 plus
technical-occupational areas.

In fall 2005, 21.2 percent of the total student enrollment was comprised
of students of Native Hawaiian ancestry, the second largest ethnic group
on campus. As part of the college's long-standing commitment to serve
Native Hawaiian students, the funding of this Title III application will
enable the college to improve services provided to the students and
strengthen our capacity to provide curriculum that incorporates Hawaiian
values and culture.

The project is requesting a total of \$2,458,294 to develop curriculum
in Hawaii Ocean Studies, Hawai\`i music industry, and learning
communities to support the students' first year experience in college.
It is expected the college will accomplish the following over the next
five years:

-   Expansion of the Marine Education Training Center's curriculum to
    include seafaring, navigation, construction and maintenance of
    traditional Polynesian vessels;

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-   Construction of a traditional voyaging canoe as a classroom
    laboratory;

-   Creation of an on-line digital library of the Polynesian Voyaging
    Society's Archives;

-   Develop new curriculum in recording arts training for music of
    Hawai\`i;

-   Enhance curriculum to include eight Learning Community Course
    Clusters;

-   Creation of two technology integrated classrooms to support
    learning; and

-   Development of student tracking system.

These efforts will lead to improving the academic success of Native
Hawaiian students as demonstrated by their grades, persistence,
graduation, and university transfer.

###### [P031W060001 -- Chaminade University of Honolulu]{.underline}

Chaminade University of Honolulu is a four-year independent, private,
co-educational university in the liberal arts tradition. It is
affiliated with the Catholic church and accredited by the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges. The main campus is located in
Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, with eight off-campus locations
serving military personnel and civilians who reside in remote island
areas. Chaminade University is committed to a broad liberal education
for its students because such an education provides the foundation for
lifelong personal growth, a foundation for a career, and the background
which will allow students to rise to leadership positions in their
chosen professional fields and in their communities. With its location
in the Pacific Rim, the essential mission of the university is to cater
to those students who are Pacific Islanders with a special emphasis for
the Native Hawaiian students.

Chaminade offers undergraduate degrees with a choice of twenty-three
majors grouped in the following five departments: Business and
Professional Studies, Behavioral Sciences, Education, Humanities and
Fine Arts, and Natural Sciences and Math. Further, Chaminade University
has six master's degrees: Business, Education, Criminal Justice
Administration, Counseling Psychology, Pastoral Theology/Pastoral
Leadership, and beginning in the fall of 2006, Forensic Science. There
are 82 full-time faculty members and 49 part time faculty members in the
undergraduate day program. The student to teacher ratio is 10:97.

Chaminade serves approximately 1100 full-time day students, and 1,810
part-time, full-time, and graduate students. In the day undergraduate
program, approximately 70 percent of the student body at Chaminade is
female. Sixty-three percent of the student body is of the Asian or
Pacific Islander ethnicity. Forty-three percent of the student body
lives in Hawaii with 37 percent moving to the university from the
mainland and 14 percent coming from United States Pacific Territories.
The average age of the students in the day undergraduate program at
Chaminade University is 21.8 years. Clearly, Chaminade University is a
melting pot of cultures from around the world.

**[Grant Activity: Renovation of Laboratory Facilities]{.underline}**

This activity supports the key academic objective in the Comprehensive
Development Plan. The project focuses on this one activity designed to
improve the academic success of students by: (1) renovating two
laboratories in Henry Hall (our principal classroom building) which are
primarily used for biology and chemistry classes, as well as their
associated support spaces; (2) increasing by 50 percent the number of
Native Hawaiian students who major in Biology or Forensic Sciences; and
(3) bringing the laboratories in Henry Hall into compliance with
Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements and
Environmental Protection Agency standards. The project creates
improvements in facilities that support Chaminade's most popular majors,
and an area wherein a major increase in Native Hawaiian graduation rates
is targeted in Chaminade's strategic plan. The outcome will be increased
in enrollments and in the sciences, especially for Native Hawaiian
students who comprise 13 percent of the total student body.

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###### [P031W060003 -- The University of Hawaii at Hilo]{.underline}

The University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo) is located on the island of
Hawaii, the southern most and the largest island in the Hawaiian
archipelago. It is the only public four-year, Native Hawaiian-Serving
Institution on the island and is part of the University of Hawaii's
10-campus, statewide system. It primarily serves residents of the island
and students from around the State of Hawaii, the United States
mainland, and from many other nations, especially from Asia and the
Pacific islands. Enrollment in fall 2005 consisted of 3,422 students
with more than half of the students being low-income, first-generation
college students, and/or students with disabilities. Native Hawaiian
comprised 16 percent of the total student population. The campus'
operating budget for fiscal year 2006 is \$21,920,835.

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## Activity 1 - (\$347,875 for one year) Expand the Center for Leadership and Cultural Studies

Expand the Center for Leadership and Cultural Studies by renovating an
existing UH Hilo facility to support two Title III Development Grant
activities. The activities are to develop and improve academic
curriculum and to establish a faculty and staff multicultural
development program. The center will increase the amount of space
available for classrooms and meeting spaces to develop and teach new and
revised courses, student discussion groups related to new and revised
courses, peer tutoring and mentoring, faculty and staff multicultural
training, workshops, colloquia, and research; and for community cultural
experts to teach students and train faculty and staff on cultural
traditions and knowledge. Key goals are to increase faculty
incorporation of multicultural perspectives in curricula and support
services, increase educational resource materials, improve collaboration
with community and cultural resources, and increase Native Hawaiian
student success and retention.

###### [P031W060004 -- University of Hawai'i --- Kapi'olani Community College]{.underline}

Kapiolani Community College (the College), one of ten public colleges in
the University of Hawaii system, provides extensive, high quality
liberal arts and 21st century career programs. From 1988 to 2005, the
College experienced solid growth in headcount enrollment from 5,372 to
7,289 diverse, multi-ethnic students. As an Association of American
Colleges and University Quality Education Consortium member, the College
is nationally recognized for creating a coherent and high quality
academic environment that connects and reinforces learning across
classroom, campus, community, and cyberspace.

In the last decade, however, Hawaii has experienced flat economic growth
and the College has been unable to secure funds to renovate and upgrade
science facilities and improve related curricula and pedagogy. During
this decade Hawaii has also witnessed an exodus of young people in
search of more meaningful and higher paying jobs in the other 49
American states. At a time when Hawaiian culture is revitalizing its
language, values, and traditions, Native Hawaiian college students are
also aspiring to more meaningful and higher-paying 21st Century careers
that can enhance the quality of life for them and their families in
this, their island home.

Currently, Hawaiian students comprise 10.8 percent of the student
population, and the majority of these students are in Arts and
Humanities and Hospitality Education. The College, through a two-year
planning process, in part funded by the National Science Foundation, has
determined that it will need to reshape its physical infrastructure to
improve student services, active and collaborative learning, and
faculty-student interaction, and to promote greater academic challenge
and student effort. By renovating the Science facilities and improving
both curriculum and pedagogy, the College will attract, retain, and
graduate a greater number of Native Hawaiian and other underrepresented
students in Life, Physical, and Health Sciences, where there are and
will continue to be more meaningful and higher-paying careers in the
state.

In this proposed project, the college seeks \$757,748 for a one-year
renovation of existing physical science space consisting of four
lecture/laboratory rooms (107, 201, 218 and 219) in the Kokio science
building to incorporate distance learning technology and interactive
media to provide a comprehensive pre-engineering program to students at
the College, on Oahu, and to our neighbor island students. The proposed
renovations will enable the Math/Science departments to better deliver
current and technology integrated Science curricula, best practice
pedagogies, and peer supports for enhanced Native Hawaiian student
success in 2lst Century careers in STEM fields.

###### [P031N060002 -- Prince William Sound Community College]{.underline}

An Alaska Native Serving institution, Prince William Sound Community
College (PWSCC) is a rural, public, regionally accredited, comprehensive

community college serving over 1400 students per

semester, located in historic Valdez, Alaska. PWSCC has its main campus
in Valdez and two Extension Centers in Cordova and Glennallen/Copper
Basin. Many parts of its service area are isolated from PWSCC sites as a
result of extreme weather and the lack of road access.

Significantly, Alaska Native/American Indian

students at PWSCC have doubled in the last 10

years---from 11 percent to 21 percent.

In order to serve the needs of this population and to

address problems related to lack of access to health care programs,
substandard lab facilities, and a flat revenue base, PWSCC proposes a
single activity to develop a high-demand associate degree nursing
program, over five years, deliverable to rural and Native American
populations through traditional on-campus instruction and using distance
learning technology.

###### [P031N060001 -- University of Alaska Fairbanks - Aleutians]{.underline} 

## Activity 1. Renovation for Student Services: \$750,000 

Located in Interior Alaska in the city of Fairbanks, the University of
Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) was founded in 1922. Created in 1988,
Interior-Aleutians Campus (I-AC) is a decentralized branch campus of
UAF's College of Rural and Community Development (CRCD), formerly the
College of Rural Alaska that is responsible for its own administration
and budget. Interior-Aleutians Campus is a two-year public institution
with Federal minority status that serves a geographic area in the
Interior of the state that is the size of France, as well as communities
along the Aleutian Chain, encompassing over 200,000 square miles. Within
this enormous service area, I-AC delivers coursework to over 58 rural
communities using a system of six rural centers located in Tok,
Unalaska, McGrath, Nenana, Ft. Yukon, and Galena. Each rural center, in
turn, provides services to up to fourteen other villages, home to
Alaska's indigenous people. Interior-Aleutians Campus provides flexible,
non-traditional learning opportunities and scheduling to meet the needs
of rural students who rely on subsistence hunting, fishing and
gathering, while also contending with extremes of weather and other
challenges unique to life in rural Alaska. These needs are accommodated
through courses for credit, Associate (transferable to any four-year
program) and Certificate degrees. Interior-Aleutians Campus works hard
to meet the workforce development needs of the communities we serve by
offering technical, education and service preparation programs as well
as general studies and core courses. Coursework is provided using a
number of delivery modalities including classes offered locally in the
home communities of our students, through the nearest center, via
audio-conference, web-based, correspondence or by one to three-week
"learning intensives" either in Fairbanks or in individual communities.
Five hundred-twenty six students registered in spring of 2006 of which
56 percent were Alaska Natives. Students range in ages from high school
students enrolled in dual credit courses through the life span to
include senior citizens. The fiscal year 2006 operating budget was
\$3,248,633. Interior-Aleutians Campus Fairbanks office houses 25
faculty and staff that serve our rural students in the modalities
previously noted. Faculty to student ratio varies from 1:5 to 1:25.

The activity for which I-AC seeks funding is a one-year renovation
project for our Tok Center, which serves an area covering approximately
30,000 square miles situated in the Alaska range, experiencing extreme
winter temperatures as low as -70 F. This includes the Upper Tanana
(Athabascan) region of ten rural and remote villages plus an additional
five villages. As part of I-AC, the Tok Center provides courses as
described above. The Tok Center is the only provider of higher
educational and vocational training opportunities in their area and is
also the main site for local business and agency trainings, as well as
community workshops. Since 1988, the Tok Center has resided in a
building constructed in the mid-1960's for the purpose of housing Alaska
State Troopers in "efficiency apartment" style. The proposed renovation
project would address four integral work objectives: complete an
interior reconfiguration for more efficient classroom and student-use
space as well as improved accessibility; provide an air handling system
for the building; install a much needed replacement roof on the
building; and refinish the exterior of the building. This renovation
project will allow us to address long-term climate control problems,
expand our capacity to serve more students, as well as improving the
access to and quality of the learning environment.

###### [P031N060003 -- University of Alaska Fairbanks -- Kuskokwim Campus]{.underline}

The Kuskokwim Campus (KuC) in Bethel is the largest, semi-independent
extended campus in the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) system.
Kuskokwim Campus is a branch campus of UAF's College of Rural and
Community Development. A residential public institution with a Federal
Minority designation, the campus serves 46 remote Alaska Native villages
and 56 tribes in a nearly 58,000 square mile road less area the size of
Illinois. Kuskokwim Campus enrollment for fiscal year 2005 is 944; 25
percent male and 75 percent female. Enrollment is 65 percent Native
Alaskan; 16 percent under age 25 with an average age of 29. The faculty
student ratio is one to eight, with 18-filled faculty and four placed
faculty positions. The campus received a fiscal year 2006 state
appropriation of \$3,067,545.

**[Activity]{.underline}: Physical Plant Renovations to Reduce the
Number of Compliance, Safety, Fiscal and Well-Being Issues for Kuskokwim
Campus Students - Total Cost: \$750,000**

The five-year plan for Serving Alaska Native sudents (2004) is a
long-term, regional effort to increase recruitment, retention, and
matriculation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
students in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. This project will assist that
effort by providing safe and code-compliant buildings, classrooms,
doors, and surfaces that will be functional. An aging and neglected
physical plant with obvious interior and exterior wear and tear does not
convey a message of care and concern for students' well-being and
educational excellence. ". . . improvements at the Kuskokwim Campus must
keep pace with the campus planned expansion of . . . program
academics."*\--KuC 5-Year Plan.*

The one activity will be renovation of some of the most pressing areas
in need of renovation that have been identified in a Facilities
Assessment of KuC in 2004. This was done by Bezek ● Durst ● Seiser,
Architects and Planners of Anchorage, Alaska, with cost estimates
updated in June of 2006 by the UAF Facilities Services Department.

The activity includes:

-   Renovation of bathrooms in two main buildings that will bring them
    into ADA and code compliance.

-   Flooring and carpet removal and replacement that will bring floors
    up to an acceptable condition.

-   Wall repairs and paint that are needed in nearly every classroom to
    bring them to an acceptable condition.

-   Entries, doors, landing and hardware that are unsafe and
    noncompliant.

-   Exterior siding installation that will replace surfaces that are
    aging, have water/weather damage, and poor insulation. This will
    eliminate heat loss, hazardous snow, ice build up and conditions,
    and further damage to the interior of the building.

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