Kapi‘olani Awarded Five-Year Grants Promoting Native Hawaiian Student Success

Kapi‘olani Community College was selected to receive five-year grant awards for projects funded under the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNH) Title III Part F program. The U.S. Department of Education invited awardees to apply for up to $2.75 million (individual campus) and $3 million (consortium) to invest in the infrastructure of Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions.

These five-year awards will provide much needed funding to the campus to promote Native Hawaiian student success through fall of 2026. Two of Kapi‘olani’s Title III Part F projects were selected for funding (more details here):

• Kūlia: Advancing Indigenous Innovators, individual campus award, (Nāwa‘a Napoleon; Project Director: Kelli Goya)
• Creating an Ecology for Innovation: Transformative Funds Management Strategies through Shared Services Centers to Support Native Hawaiian Student Success, collaborative with Leeward Community College (Chancellors Louise Pagotto & Carlos Peñaloza, Project Directors: Brandon Marc Higa & Erin Matsuda)

Kapi‘olani maintains its record for the most Title III awards in the history of the campus through nine concurrent projects. Please learn more about our current and successfully completed Title III projects at the Title III website Abstracts page.

Related links:

• Next Generation of Title III Projects Embrace Cooperation