For more than a century, the University of Hawaiʻi has worked hard to make higher education accessible to all. Whether through one of the seven community college campuses or one of the three four-year campuses, UH is expanding its efforts to attract the most promising students, regardless of their financial circumstances.
As college costs continue to rise, the amount of private support for students must as well. Gifts to scholarships and student aid help us to retain our best and brightest and to provide access to a life-changing higher education experience for our students.
The story of the Helen Hites Scholarship is a love story. Nothing displays the power of love more poignantly than this family’s response to a terrible tragedy.
For each of the past 25 years, Fun Factory has helped fund a year’s study at a UH campus for 20 students. Meet two of the 500 recipients.
Jill Abbott so admired the strength and resilience of the single parents she taught at Kapi‘olani CC, she created a scholarship to help similar students.
