www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu
Hi! I'm Louise Pagotto proud to be the
Chancellor at Kapiʻolani Community College.
When I came to Kapiʻolani in fall of 1989
as a teacher
I knew that this campus had something
special, I could feel it.
I could feel that the faculty and staff
cared deeply about teaching and learning
about supporting students to their
success
and today over 30 years later I still
know that that is true
and you can see it in our motto Kulia I Ka Nuʻu
Strive For The Highest. Aloha.
Hi everyone on behalf of Kapiʻolani
Community College's
Kuilei Outreach Program we want to
thank you for this
opportunity to share what Kapʻiolani
Community College
has to offer. Kapiʻolani Community College
named after Queen Julia Kapiʻolani
and is one of 10 colleges under the
University of Hawaiʻi System.
We are one of seven community
colleges within the University of Hawaiʻi System.
We are located across from Lēʻahi, which
is commonly known as Diamond Head.
Everything we do at the College is
guided by our Vision,
Mission, and Values.
Aloha everyone!
Welcome to Kapiʻolani Community College!
So my name is Youxin Zhang
and I am one of the Instructional
Designers here.
I've been working on my PhD degree from
the Department of
Learning Design and Technology at UH Mānoa.
So i started my position
at KCC this past January and I've been
working
here for almost eight months. I love
KCC just because
Kapiʻolani Community College is a
fantastic working environment
that supports our valuable employees and
rewards excellence honesty mutual
respect and fairness and most
importantly
we have the best faculty staff and
students here. So they all foster a
climate that makes it a pleasure
to come to work every day so I hope to
see you join us soon and mahalo.
We have approximately 6 000
students
every semester approximately
i would say about 1200 students are
admitted
each year and they range from first-time
freshmen to transfer students
of the 6000 we have approximately 1200
students
who are out of state a combination of
being out of state or
out of country which is pretty amazing.
The average age of our students is 25
and for our class size, and this goes for
both in-person and online, is no larger than
35.
For our math and writing courses
we still like to keep those numbers
small. Again it doesn't matter if it's
online or in person, those class sizes
are still small so that way the
instructor gets to know their students
and the students get to know their
instructors. I love working here because
the staff and the faculty
really have a lot of care for students
and put in so much hard
a lot of hard work i've seen it i've
also done it myself. And so
I'm really humbled and grateful to be
around a group of people who really
care about the students that come here
and care about each other.
I really love that Kapiʻolani offers a
lot of resources and support for
students to succeed.
I love working at Kapiʻolani Community
College because of the learning
environment
that we've worked so hard in creating
with a high standard of academic
achievement along with
a great sense of family always welcoming
and just wanting to support one another
to reach our highest potential
um for our students and for our
instructors and faculty alike.
There are so many opportunities at
Kapiʻolani Community College
ranging from non-credit programs
short-term certificates, associate
degrees,
and opportunities to transfer.
Within the Community College experience
students can get involved with service
learning, 
community service, research projects,
even projects around sustainability.
Students are surrounded by amazing
support as well.
In the classroom they are with high
quality instructors. They come from
all over the globe with a wealth of
experiences
and they're bringing those experiences
into the classroom.
In addition to that students can expect
to receive
support ranging from counseling that
includes academic advising,
career counseling, job placement,
and also mental health. Again they're
just surrounded by people who want to
support them
along their academic journey. In addition
to that
we have tutoring for all subjects and
they can receive 24 hour a day seven day
a week tutoring support
through a program called tutor.com. This
is in addition
to all the other tutorial support that
we have
across the campus through various
programs. Let's dive into the cost.
Right now tuition for Hawaiʻi residents
is $131 per credit
so if you're looking at a full time load
of about 12 credits per semester
you're looking at about little over
three thousand dollars per year
for a full-time semester for two
semesters.
Students will at times take more than 12
credits which is perfectly fine
but again we charge by the credit so
again it's $131
per credit for Hawaiʻi residents. In
addition to the tuition costs, there are
fees like student activity fees
publications
in addition to that there are textbook
costs that could range
anywhere up to about $200.
But also keep in mind we also have
financial aid available
so i strongly encourage students and
families
to go through studentaid.gov to apply
for financial aid. Kapiʻolani Community
College's school code
is 001613.   Hi this is Jeri Enokawa, I'm
the Registrar.
I've been at Kapiʻolani for 18 years
and I got my MBA and my BSB from Hawaiʻi Pacific University.
The reason why I love working at KCC is
because I work with the most awesomest
people and i'm excited to see what the future
holds for KCC.
And let's just go!
Let's do this, bye! The application
process
for Kapiʻolani Community College includes
submitting an application
online through apply.hawaii.edu.
Next, it would be great again to apply
for financial aid through studentaid.gov
again our school code is 001613.
Another very important step is to submit
health documents,
and that includes MMR, TB risk assessment
or a TB shot record that is recent
within the past year,
Tdap and varicella. In order to determine
where students start in math and writing
we need to see
some kind of placement test assessment
and i'll cover that in a little
bit. So iI would like to share that
submitting an application
submitting your financial aid submitting
your placement test scores
also submitting your health documents is
all
free and so in this initial stages of
applying to Kapiʻolani Community College
there are no fees to it the only time
there's any kind of charge
is when students are registering for
courses and that's when tuition is
assessed
and fees need to be paid. After students
have submitted
all the required documents they will
then be invited to attend
our New Student Orientation (NSO). This process
is
required but please know that at the
New Student Orientation
students will receive assistance with
the registration
of their semester courses. Okay let's
talk about the placement test.
Now remember Kapiʻolani Community
College is an
open door admissions institution. What
this placement test does
is determine where students begin in
math and writing.
And so it's not a pass fail process it's
just a placement the list. On the screen
provides a list of
all the options that we use to determine
how to place students in writing and
math.
We acknowledge that the placement test
process can seem very overwhelming
so if there are any questions please do
not hesitate to contact us (kuilei@hawaii.edu)
and we'll walk through each step with
you. Aloha, my name is Stan Fichtman. I'm
the SEG Program Manager here at
Kapiʻolani Community College.
I got both my Master's and my Bachelor's
degree over
at the University of Hawaiʻi and i have
been here now for six years.
This is a great place to work. People
here are absolutely awesome
and I cherish every day that i come here.
Aloha.
At Kapiʻolani Community College
again students can earn
short-term certificates or associate
degrees
that is offered again at Kapiʻolani
Community College.
What many of our students have done is
after completing certain amount of
college-level credits
and or completing their Associate's
degree have continued on to complete
their
Bachelor's degree. And so they may have
transferred to
any of the local colleges even colleges
on the continent.
If we look at the graphic real fast
after students complete their bachelor's
degree
they can then move on to complete their
graduate studies if they decide to do so.
Aloha my name is Kimberly Iwao and I'm
an instructor at Kapiʻolani
Community College in the Legal Education
Program.
I received a Bachelor's of Education in
Secondary Education and English
from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
and a Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA
School of Law.
I love working at KCC because the
students are passionate about
learning and the faculty and staff are
amazing at what they do.
At Kapiʻolani Community College it's
important to share that we have both
select and non-select degree programs.
So non-select degree programs such as
Culinary Arts as an example
you can apply directly into the program
and you can start taking classes
from day one. Select programs are very
different. You need to complete
certain prerequisites before being
officially admitted into that particular
program.
I'll use our Nursing Program as an
example.
So students interested in our Nursing
Program would apply to
Kapiʻolani Community College
as a Liberal Arts student. While as a
Liberal Arts student
they will be taking the prerequisite
courses
for our Nursing Program and let's say
best case scenario they meet all the
course requirements and they have all
the required test scores,
that's when they can apply to our
Nursing Program
and when they are accepted that is when
their major officially changes
to Nursing. My name is Karen Boyer and
I'm a proud faculty member at Kapiʻolani
Community College's Nursing Department
for it's either 30 well it's been 30
years.
I'm a Creighton University graduate and
then University of the Philippines for
my Master's.
I also have a post masters from UH Mānoa
as a nurse practitioner. I love working
with students and
I have a passion for Nursing
education and Kapiʻolani Community College
is an amazing
setting for students right out of high
school or throughout their careers as well.
Please please join us for an
excellent education at Kapiʻolani Community College.  Thank you.
We also have very exciting
opportunities
in the area of non-credit. Now this is
separate from our credit program
in that they are short-term and they're
billed differently. And so they may not
qualify for federal financial aid
however there might be
scholarship opportunities within each
program.
We have students who pursue this
non-credit option
while working towards their Associate
even Bachelor's degree. Some students are
pursuing this non-credit option
while in high school and there are
others who are pursuing it
right after they graduate from high
school. And this provides an opportunity
for them to earn
higher wages at a very young age again
while they're pursuing
their Associates or Bachelor's degree.
Hi, my name is Brandon Marc Higa
and I'm working as a Director of
Resource Development at Kapiʻolani
Community College.
I love where I work because I get to
work with faculty who are excited about
innovating and trying new things and
it's really neat to see it
come together. I got my Bachelor's and my
Master's degree at the University of
Southern California
in Los Angeles. More recently I just
completed law school at the University
of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
and was really happy to come back home
and have that opportunity to study here.
I really encourage all of you to think
about going to school at KCC because
we have staff and faculty who are really
dedicated to providing a good
student experience for you. There's a lot
of opportunities and especially when the
campus is open again.
You might think of things like study
abroad and
other things that might excite you.
The option many of our students pursue
is the opportunity to transfer to
complete their Bachelor's degree.
We are an accredited institution meaning
our credits go places.
So we have partnerships with our local
colleges but we also have students who
transfer outside the state as well.
Again it's always the receiving
institution that has the final say
of how our credits will transfer into
those colleges.
But as a side note we have students who
started off at Kapiʻolani Community College
and went on to institutions like Cornell,
Northwestern,
 Oregon State, Stanford, and Yale
just to name a few.
When you take a look at the screen I did
share some Spring
2020 stats on a number of our students
have gone into the University of Hawaiʻi
to complete their Bachelor's degree.
This is to highlight the number of
students who started off at
Kapiʻolani Community College
and continued on at the other University
of Hawaiʻi campuses
to complete their Bachelor's degree.
Thanks so much for spending time with us
and we hope to see you on our campus
real soon. Please take care.
