Context Matters: Improving Schooling for Native Hawaiian Children Special Issue: Partnering for Equity

“We Need Community”: Assessing the Impact of Faculty, Advising, Campus Social Life, and Racial Formation on the Transfer Student Experience at a Diverse Island Campus

“…This process of subjugation included the exclusion of the Hawaiian language from all state institutions and the removal of indigenous ways of learning from educational institutions (Mantle-Bromley et al 2003). Efforts have been made to overcome the discriminatory actions against Hawaiian language and cultural practices within Hawaiian educational institutions (Beyer 2012; Mantle-Bromley et al 2003), yet educational systems do still privilege western educational practices that conform to mainland educational systems. The ongoing effort to address past injustices within educational settings and the wider context is an important mitigating factor within the transfer student experience in Hawaii.…”

“…The research dealing with how the experiences of students in Hawaii are affected by these racial ethnic categories is thin but developing. From existing research, we have well developed analysis that highlights the ways in which these racial/ethnic categories experience unequal access to educational institutions within the state (Okamura 2008; Mantle-Bromley et al 2003), but less is known about how these identities impact experiences within higher educational settings. Through an exploratory survey of students at a flagship university in Hawaii, Darrah and Mossakowski (2017) found that having a local identity was tied to lower levels of psychological distress.…”