The Hawaiian Homes Commission is ending its college scholarship program, according to a request filed with the State Procurement Office.
The scholarship program, which has been administered by the Hawaii Community Foundation for at least eight years, will be terminated as soon as the remaining $140,000 is spent. Of that amount, $126,000 will be available to distribute to scholarship program applicants. The scholarships cover tuition, fees, books, supplies, and cost of living allowances.
The most recent annual report of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (2011) has this brief item regarding the scholarships:
The Hawaiian Homes Commission Scholarship Program (HHCS) made awards to 93 eligible students enrolled full-time in post-high school educational institutions with demonstrated financial need and/or academic excellence. In FY 2011, the HHCS average award was $1,747.
I didn’t find any indication of the scholarship program termination on the DHHL web site.
It is worth noting that DHHL finally started making Hawaiian Homes Commission minutes available online in September 2011, but many minutes have not been posted for every meeting, and the most recent set of minutes is for a meeting on February 21, 2012. So far, I haven’t found minutes where termination of the scholarship program was discussed. Maybe someone in the know will point me in the right direction.
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I had no idea that DHHL was awarding college scholarships. That’s an absurd way for DHHL to be spending money. DHHL has complained for many years that it lacks money to carry out its primary mission of providing homestead and pastoral leases; and they have repeatedly sued the State of Hawaii (i.e., you and me) demanding more money for that purpose. Shame on them for diverting money to give college scholarships. For those who like the idea of racially exclusive scholarships, that’s the kuleana of Kamehameha Schools, OHA, Queen Liliuokalani Children’s Trust, the Hawaiian Civic Clubs, et. al.
Sure, you want to keep those natives in their place. No education equals probably more state prison inmates to be shipped to the mainland.
I recall Prince Kuhio wanted to rehabilitate native Hawaiians. Seems education is as important to that goal as bricks and mortar.
Hugh Clark — Looks like you missed my point. I clearly did not say there should be no scholarships, only that DHHL should not be the agency handing them out; and I names other agencies that are supposed to be doing scholarships.
But since you raise the accusation that I “want to keep those natives in their place” I’ll turn that back onto you.
DHHL keeps them in their place by giving leases but prohibiting fee-simple ownership, which would allow growth of personal wealth and ability to pass the house to spouse, children or grandchildren who don’t have enough of the magic blood to qualify under DHHL rules. I guess you like that?
And then there are all those hundreds of racial entitlement programs that make Hawaiians dependent on government rather than self-reliant, thus increasing the political power of bureaucrats and making ordinary Hawaiians subservient to them like serfs were to their lords in the Middle Ages. Lefties love those programs. But I say “Power to the people.” Down with today’s ali’i, the government bureaucrat 1%. Up with the maka’ainana, recently called the 99%.