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                     HOUSE  CONCURRENT
                        RESOLUTION

SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND A
   MASTERS OF ARTS PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT
   MANOA CENTER FOR HAWAIIAN STUDIES.


 1       WHEREAS, the University of Hawai'i system (UH system), as
 2   the only State institution of higher education, has explicit
 3   responsibility to carry out the State of Hawai'i constitutional
 4   mandate which states that "the State shall provide for a
 5   Hawaiian education program consisting of language, culture and
 6   history in the public schools" as a suitable and essential
 7   means in furtherance of the Hawaiian education program; and
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 9       WHEREAS, the University of Hawai'i (UH) should take the
10   lead in researching, developing, and promoting a comprehensive
11   and integrated Hawaiian Studies program of instruction,
12   research, curriculum development, and community service shared
13   throughout the UH system by the Center for Hawaiian Studies
14   (Center) at UH Manoa; and
15   
16       WHEREAS, the UH cites Hawaiian Studies as a foremost
17   component of its Strategic Plan and supports an expanded role
18   for Hawaiian Studies; and
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20       WHEREAS, the UH, in its Strategic Plan, also proposes that
21   the University should take advantage of those programs which
22   have achieved or have potential to achieve national or
23   international prominence; and
24   
25       WHEREAS, the UH is the only place in the world where one
26   can study things Hawaiian; and
27   
28       WHEREAS, that fact alone establishes why Hawaiian Studies
29   will make the UH unique among all other universities and
30   colleges in the world; and
31   
32       WHEREAS, the UH should strive to strengthen its position as
33   one of the leading research institutions in the nation, Asia
34   and Pacific Basin; and
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36       WHEREAS, the UH, as the only public institution of higher
37   learning, should take the lead in the perpetuation of Hawaiian

 
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 1   culture, language and history through research, instruction,
 2   curriculum development in Hawaiian and English in order to
 3   better serve the community; and
 4   
 5       WHEREAS, the Ka'u: Hawaiian Studies Task Force Report of
 6   1986, recommended the establishment of a Research Institute,
 7   with a Director of Research, an Associate Director, Institute
 8   Staff, Research Projects, Library Center Repository and
 9   Publications at the Center; and
10   
11       WHEREAS, the UH at Manoa is a class one research university
12   and is the appropriate campus for graduate study and research;
13   and
14   
15       WHEREAS, the majority of primary source Hawaiian research
16   materials available for translation into English exist in
17   Honolulu in the Bishop Museum, Hawai'i State Archives, Mission
18   Houses Museum, and the Department of Land and Natural
19   Resources; and
20   
21       WHEREAS, in the past 13 years, the Center has created 19
22   new courses, never taught before at any university in the
23   world, including the first ever two semester course in
24   traditional navigation and non-instrument voyaging; and
25   
26       WHEREAS, curriculum development at the Center for Hawaiian
27   Studies Research Institute will focus on the creation of
28   bilingual curriculum materials in English and Hawaiian for the
29   teaching of Hawaiian language and culture; and
30   
31       WHEREAS, Hawaiian Studies research will include
32   multidisciplinary research in subjects such as navigation,
33   religion, geography, land tenure, resource management, visual
34   and performing arts, oral traditions, science, biomedicine,
35   astronomy, contemporary Hawaiian issues, ceded lands,
36   reconciliation and law; and
37   
38       WHEREAS, a majority of the 48,000 English speaking Hawaiian
39   children in the Department of Education (DOE) public school
40   system who have been identified as at-risk youth could greatly
41   benefit from identity empowerment, resulting from bilingual
42   curriculum development at the Center at the UH at Manoa; and
43   
44       WHEREAS, the DOE statewide Kupuna Program and Social
45   Studies components continually lack adequate curriculum in
46   English for teaching of things Hawaiian to the 187,302 English-
47   speaking children in the DOE public schools; and

 
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 1       WHEREAS, the Center for Hawaiian Studies Research Institute
 2   will provide training for students, pre-service teachers, and
 3   current teachers in the use of innovative new bilingual
 4   Hawaiian Studies curriculum materials; and
 5       WHEREAS, there is a demand from alumni of the Center in all
 6   aspects of research and post-graduate levels; and
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 8       WHEREAS, there is an abundance of federal funding to
 9   support a research institute and a graduate program at the
10   Center at UH-Manoa; now, therefore,
11   
12       BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
13   Twentieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session
14   of 2000, the Senate concurring, that this body supports the
15   establishment of a Hawaiian Studies Research Institute at the
16   UH at Manoa; and
17   
18       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of
19   the Twentieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular
20   Session of 2000, the Senate concurring, that this body also
21   unequivocally supports the establishment of a Master's of Arts
22   in Hawaiian Studies at the UH at Manoa; and
23   
24       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
25   Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor of the
26   State of Hawai'i, UH Board of Regents, and the President of the
27   UH.
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