University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Motto	"Ma luna a'e o na lahui a pau ke ola o ke kanaka" (Hawaiian)
Motto in English	"Above all nations is humanity"
Type	Public flagship Land-grant Sea-grant Space-grant
Established	1907
Endowment	$271.2 million (2016)
Chancellor	Robert Bley-Vroman
President	David Lassner
Students	20,435
Undergraduates	13,952
Postgraduates	6,483
Location	Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. 21°17′49″N 157°49′01″W / 21.297°N 157.817°W / 21.297; -157.817Coordinates: 21°17′49″N 157°49′01″W / 21.297°N 157.817°W / 21.297; -157.817
Campus	Urban, 320 acres (1.3 km2)
Colors	Green, White
Athletics	NCAA - National Collegiate Athletic Association, Division I Big West (most sports); MW, MPSF
Nickname	"Rainbow Warriors" (men) "Rainbow Wahine" (women)
Affiliations	University of Hawaiʻi system URA - Universities Research Association APLU - Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities ASAIHL - Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning APRU - Association of Pacific Rim Universities WASC - Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Website	manoa.hawaii.edu

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (also known as U.H. Mānoa, the University of Hawaiʻi, or simply U.H.) is a public co-educational research university as well as the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system. The school is located in Mānoa, an affluent neighborhood of Honolulu,Honolulu County, Hawaiʻi, United States, approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and one mile (1.6 km) from Ala Moana and Waikiki. The campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of Mānoa Valley. The John A. Burns School of Medicine, part of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, is located in Kaka'ako, adjacent to the Kaka'ako Waterfront Park. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges from the western mainland U.S. and is governed by the Hawaii State Legislature and a semi-autonomous board of regents, which in turn, hires a president to be administrator. This university campus also houses the main offices of the entire University of Hawaiʻi system.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was founded in 1907 as a land-grant college of agriculture and mechanical arts. A bill by Maui Representative William Coelho introduced into the Territorial Legislature March 1, 1907 and signed into law March 23rd by the Governor enabled construction to begin. In 1912 it was renamed the College of Hawaii and moved to its present location. William Kwai Fong Yap petitioned the Hawaii Territorial Legislature six years later for university status which led to another renaming finally to the University of Hawaii in 1920. This is also the founding year of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1931 the Territorial Normal and Training School was absorbed into the University, becoming the U.H. College of Education.