CSS prepares students to become leaders in public and private enterprises while embracing campus leadership’s priorities. They include recognizing the specialness of a place embued with Native Hawaiian values; encouraging scholarship by emphasizing internships and service learning approaches to learning; facilitating research strengths that can solve societal challenges locally, nationally and abroad; and protecting our island home by building a sustainable and stronger environment reflecting the specialness of Hawaiʻi’s people and ʻāina.
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Serve as a Native Hawaiian place of learning and an Indigenous-serving institution.
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Empower transformational student success through world-class instruction and mentoring.
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Leverage research strengths and unique expertise to address urgent societal challenges.
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Build a sustainable, resilient environment that reflects our island home and its values.