About UHMC
Living Values Statement
We Believe in Providing the Best Opportunities on Maui
UHMC is fully committed to enhancing the lives of all in our community by being a trusted leader in:
Student Centered Learning
We care for our students and promise to guide every milestone toward success.
Innovative Positive Change
Empathic learning of the world around us helps pursue interconnectivity with compassion, we are committed to being seekers of truth and change.
Environmental and Economic Sustainability
“We care for our students and promise to guide every milestone toward success.”
We dedicate ourselves to Student Success by cultivating a campus that celebrates mutual respect, open dialogue, critical thinking and our shared responsibility to safeguard Maui Nui, its people and values.
An Overview
UHMC began as Maui Vocational School in 1931. In 1958 the Department of Public Instruction authorized a name change to Maui Technical School to reflect an upgrade of education to a technical level. In 1964 the State Legislature enacted the Community College Act establishing a statewide community college system under the University of Hawai‘i. Maui Technical School was incorporated into this system on July 1, 1965.
In 1966 the UH Board of Regents authorized the College to confer the Associate in Arts and the Associate in Science degrees and approved a name change to Maui Community College. The first lower division transfer courses followed in September 1967.
In February 2010, the UH Board of Regents approved a name change to University of Hawai‘i Maui College to more accurately represent the college’s programs and services, which include baccalaureate programs. The College remains one of seven community colleges in the UH system, and the only college in Maui County.
Mission
The University of Hawai‘i Maui College inspires students to develop knowledge and skills in pursuit of academic, career, and personal goals in a supportive educational environment that emphasizes community engagement, life long learning, sustainable living, Native Hawaiian culture, and global understanding.
Vision
UH Maui College: We will prepare students to respond to emerging challenges in their lives, communities, and the world through compassion, leadership, problem-solving, and innovation.
Our Core Values
Aloha
Affection, compassion, sympathy, kindness, grace; to show kindness, mercy, charity.
Pono
Goodness, morality, excellence, prosperity, duty; righteous, right, virtuous, correct.
Kuleana
Right, privilege, concern, responsibility, reason, cause, function, justification.
Mālama
To take care of, tend, care for, preserve, protect, support, loyalty: care taker, keeper.
lōkahi
Unity, accord, unison, harmony; agreed, in unity.
mana‘olana
Hope, confidence, expectation; to hope.
Our Story
1931
Maui Vocational School was established
The College is an outgrowth of the Maui Vocational School established in 1931. In 1958 the Department of Public Instruction authorized the name change to Maui Technical School, denoting an upgrade of vocational education to a technical level.
Institutional Learning Outcomes
To qualify for graduation, students demonstrate the following abilities at a level of rigor appropriate for their degree:
- Apply essential skills and knowledge of a technical or academic field to perform tasks, address challenges, and solve problems
- Address social, environmental, or economic issues through work that exemplifies effective interaction in real-world situations
- Apply creativity and analytical thinking to convey ideas, address challenges, and seek solutions to problems
- Find, evaluate, and share information effectively and responsibly
- Solve problems utilizing mathematical models, methods, and effective quantitative reasoning
- Write and speak effectively to convey ideas that meet the needs of specific audiences and purposes
- Integrate multiple perspectives and a broad context of understanding to interpret problems, issues, and artifacts
