How we can make our campuses and organizations more sustainable while lowering operating costs and generating new revenue

1. THE MODERN DAY CAMPUS AHUPA’A
HAWAIIAN SENSE OF PLACE

2. Jonathan K. Wong

3. AA, 1998 - Liberal Arts with Honors, HCC
BA, 1999 - Communication with Distinction,
UHM
MBA, 2007 - Entrepreneurship, Shidler
College of Business, UHM
M.Ed, - 2010 - Educational Technology,
Online Teaching and Learning, UHM
MPA, 2013 - Educational Leadership, UHM

4. Retired University of Hawai’i community
college instructor / advisor (15 years)!
CEO of The Pono Way, LLC!
Author / Blogger / Professional Speaker /
Sustainability Advocate / Success Coach /
Business Consultant

5. nvi. Cooperation, joint action; group of people
working together; community food patch;
to work together, cooperate. Lit., many hands.
ho’olau.lima To get to cooperate.
!
H A W A I I D I C T I O N A R Y - E L B E R T A N D P U K U I
Laulima

6. Develop more experiential, problem-based,
service-based and cultural-based learning
opportunities
Put learning and students first
Run more efficiently - work together
as a SYSTEM to achieve cost savings
Pay ourselves first not outsiders
Make use of our excess capacity
PRIMARY CONCEPTS

7. The Hawaiian land system
that ran from the mountain to
the sea where irrigation
channels fed into kalo
fields and other gardens
which all fed into fishponds
down at the shoreline.

8. THE LAND WAS SUSTAINABLE
The Hawaiian land system
that ran from the
the
channels
fields
which all fed into fishponds
down at the shoreline.

9. W A S T E D L A N D S P A C E
THE WEAKNESS & OPPORTUNITY
L O T S O F
O N O U R C A M P U S E S

10. Kalo Cultivation
Medicinal Plant Cultivation
Organic Food Cultivation

11. Service Learning
!
Place-Based Learning
Cultural-Based Learning
!
Agricultural Studies
!
Hawaiian Studies - Mahi’ai, La’au Lapa’u
!
Business Education
!
Culinary Education
WISDOM OF THE PAST FOR LESSONS OF TODAY

12. Hawaiian Studies (All 7 campuses)
!
Business Education
(Hawai‘i CC, Kapi‘olani CC, Kaua‘i CC, Leeward CC, Maui)
!
Culinary Studies
(Hawai‘i CC, Kapi‘olani CC, Leeward CC, Maui)
!
Health Education
(Hawai‘i CC, Kapi‘olani CC, Kauai CC, Maui)
!
Agriculture Studies
OUR PROGRAMS

13. SERVICE, PLACE-BASED, CULTURAL-BASED LEARNING
Service Learning opportunities
RIGHT ON CAMPUS
Place-Based Learning make students feel more
connected to your campus
!
Honor, practice and perpetuate our host culture

14. FOOD PRODUCTION
CULTIVATION - MARKETING - SALES
(HWST / Ag Studies) - Business Education
Revenue Generating
Opportunities for the UHCCs:
!
Farmer‘s Markets
Wholesale food to the DOE
Wholesale of food to the
restaurant and hotel industry

15. FOOD SERVICE
CULTIVATION - Culinary / Cafeteria
(HWST / Ag Studies) - Culinary or Auxiliary
We become our own vendor
!
Lowers operating costs of
our culinary programs and
auxiliary services

16. HEALTH ED
CULTIVATION - HEALTH/PHARM
(HWST / Ag Studies) - Nursing/Health Sciences
We can expand our HWST program
to teach la‘au lapa‘au
!
We can potentially expand our
health sciences to include programs
of medicinal or organic healing

17. New research and technology
transfer to monetize
!
We can potentially develop
and patent new medicines
STEM
(HWST / Ag Studies) - WATER ENGINEERING
OR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
Benefits

18. SUMMARY
Increase our Hawaiian sense of place
!
New experiential learning
opportunities for students
!
More efficient fiscal operation
!
Potential to patent undergraduate
research
!
New streams of revenue for the
University

19. TRANSLATION Unite to move forward
!
EXPLANATION By working together we make progress. This saying
would be especially applicable to the Hawaiians on
their canoes where each paddler would have to pull
the paddles together on command in order to
make the canoe move forward quickly forward.
SUMMARY
‘Olelo No’eau
Pupukahi i holomua

20. TRANSLATION Paddle together, bail, paddle; paddle, bail;
paddle towards the land
!
EXPLANATION If everybody works together the work will be done
quickly. On inter-island trips, the two most important
tools besides the sail were the paddles and the bailer.
In heavy seas, the water would wash over the boat
and so one or more natives would be constant bailing.
Others would be paddling together on command to
reach their destination in the shortest time.
E lauhoe mai na wa'a;
i ke ka, i ka hoe; i ka hoe,
i ke ka; pae aku i ka 'āina
SUMMARY

21. JONATHAN WONG
Mahalo!
theponoway@gmail.com

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