TransPacific Hawaii College

TransPacific Hawaii College was a private junior college located in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. It was founded in 1977 and was initially known as the Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College, and the name was changed to TransPacific Hawaii College in 1998. The College closed its operation at the end of December 2008.[1] The closure was decided as the administrators of the College concluded that the institutional structure of the College detains them from responding the financial concerns raised by its accreditation agency, Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

The college was initially accredited on January 1, 1985 and the accreditation remained till the closure of the college (According to the accreditation agency, the accreditation was terminated affective on April 3, 2009 on which day the college was no longer existent).

Students' academic records are now kept by the Kansai Gaidai University. Alumni in need of academic documents shall contact the Center for International Education, which runs the University's Asian Studies Program.

The College conferred solely the Associate in Liberal Arts Degrees. The typical enrollment of the College was 250, all international students mainly coming from Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Campus

The campus of the College was located in a residential community of Aina Haina district. The land, which was approx. 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2), faced the eastern coast line of the island. There was a complex of four main buildings and it houses twenty classrooms, administrative offices, professors' offices, three computer labs, one learning resource lab, a student service center, and a library. There was beautiful ocean and mountain around TransPacific Hawaii College.

References

  1. ↑ "TransPacific Hawaii College – Announcement of Closure". transpacific.org. Retrieved October 29, 2010.

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