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To teach our students the knowledge and skills to flourish in a multi-cultural world.

To nourish student creativity and imagination through an innovative arts and humanities education.

To inspire our students to respect and seek knowledge throughout their lives, and to apply what they learn to improve the human condition.

To empower our students and faculty to confront and solve challenges in a pluralistic century.

To study, produce and present academic research, creative scholarship, and works of art that illuminate and expand the human experience.

To contribute to the improvement of our State by producing responsible members of society through a solid arts and humanities education, and to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of Hawaii’s communities by extending the arts and humanities beyond the academy.

To advocate the centrality of arts and humanities as the foundation of a liberal arts education.

To cultivate the College of Arts and Humanities as a global center for study of Asia and the Pacific.

The college is dedicated to the principle that a liberal arts education is central to the university mission of meeting the challenges of life and society. The college, because of the geographical location of our university, is especially conscious of the present and future importance of Asian and Pacific regions and offers unique opportunities for the study of the histories, arts, philosophies, religions, cultures and peoples of these areas.

The College of Arts and Humanities, one of the four colleges of arts and sciences, serves over 11,000 students each semester in core, elective and major courses. About 1,600 students are majors seeking bachelor, master and doctoral degrees within 28 degree programs in nine departments. The college has 150 faculty, 50 lecturers, 80 graduate assistants, and over 40 support staff.