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General Information

The Board of Regents established Outreach College on June 1, 1998, by the consolidation of two formerly separate units: the College of Continuing Education and Community Service and the Office of Summer Session. Outreach College programs include credit and noncredit courses, concerts, lectures, and educational experiences designed for special groups. Programs and courses are offered both on and off campus. Outreach College is the administrative unit charged with coordinating and administering distance learning programs of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, including programs delivered to university centers situated on neighbor islands. 

Mission

Outreach College provides:

1. Opportunities for adult nontraditional and part-time college students to pursue degrees and certificates, and acts as an advocate for nontraditional learners; 
2. Programs to help professionals keep abreast of their fields, advance in their careers, or explore new career fields;
3. Programs for lifelong learning, including education for citizenship responsibility, cultural enrichment, personal growth;
4. Consultative services that help solve community, state, national, and international problems;
5. Opportunities for both degree and non-degree students to advance towards degrees by studying on campus during the summer and other extra-sessional periods. Such periods provide unique opportunities for full devotion in such study areas as archaeological and historic preservation field work; and 
6. Cultural and arts programs across the state with an emphasis on underserved communities. 

Affiliations

Outreach College is affiliated with the University Continuing Education Association, the Association of University Summer Sessions, the North American Association of Summer Sessions, the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators, Western Alliance of Arts Administrators, and Association of Performing Arts Presenters. 

Degrees and Certificates

Outreach College is a non-degree granting academic unit, and delivers, in collaboration with the faculties and colleges, credit courses that may apply towards UH Manoa degrees. Summer Sessions offer courses in the day as well as evening, primarily to serve degree students at UH Manoa, but are open to UH system campus students, qualified visitors from the state and abroad, and select high school students.

Distance Learning

Sakamaki C-403
2530 Dole St. 
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8547
Fax: (808) 956-3364
Web: www.aln.hawaii.edu
www.hawaii.edu/dl

The distance delivery of Manoa non-credit and credit courses is coordinated by Outreach College. Over two dozen certificates and baccalaureate and master's degrees from Manoa colleges of education, liberal studies, information and computer sciences, business administration, and nursing are offered.

Courses are delivered using cable television, interactive television, Web-based asynchronous learning, or faculty traveling to other sites. Outreach College and the Department of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) inaugurated a completely on-line (Web-based) MS degree in ICS, supported by a Sloan Foundation grant in fall 2000. See the Web sites for details.

Advising 

Student Services
Krauss Hall 101
2500 Dole Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7221; (800) 862-6628
Fax: (808) 956-3752
E-mail: advise@outreach.hawaii.edu
Web: www.outreach.hawaii.edu

Office of Student Services provides support services to non-degree undergraduate or post-baccalaureate students, visiting and other students who enroll in courses delivered through Outreach College, including the summer sessions. Services include orientation for evening programs; advisement on University admissions procedures and policies, general University policies, degree programs, course selection, and UH system offerings; and enrollment and registration for courses delivered by Outreach College. To meet the needs of working adults, advising services are available by appointment in the evening and on Saturday. New students are encouraged to attend an orientation and to see an advisor for general information about University offerings, policies, and procedures, as well as for assistance in selecting appropriate courses.

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