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HONOLULU - UNIVERSITY

Honolulu University
1314 South King Street, Suite 623

Honolulu, Hawaii 96814

Phone: 808-955-7333

Toll-free: 888-665-1008

Fax: 808-946-3534

Email:  honouniv@lava.net

A Meaningful Higher Education Alternative for the Mature Learner.

Honolulu University offers alternative independent study paths leading to academic degrees.  Its programs are designed primarily for career professionals and other self-educated learners whose work and life experiences have given them knowledge and skills ordinarily taught in college degree programs.

    We, at Honolulu University, recognize that the educational needs of mid-career professionals and other mature learners are different from those of adolescents and young adults who are still preparing for careers and family and civic responsibilities.

Mature learners are more often seeking advancement in careers for which they are already trained and credentialed, or seeking to improve the quality of their lives through career changes or new uses of leisure time provided by retirement.

    As a result, they possess a wealth of knowledge and skills at the time of enrollment which young learners usually lack.  Most of this, however, has been acquired outside the classroom and has never been educationally credited or credentialed.

Because of this, we evaluate all prior learning and, where it can be satisfactorily documented or tested, grant Honolulu University credit for it.  This means that each learner enters the degree path at a point appropriate to his or her level of educational attainment.

    Further since the career and family responsibilities of mature learners are often incompatible with intensive on-campus classroom attendance, we utilize modern methods of distance learning to take education to the learner rather than requiring the learner to make on-campus attendance the center of his or her life.

In this way, busy adults can complete their remaining degree requirements through independent study at home or on the job at times, and on a flexible schedule, which they select rather than being required to meet rigid class schedules and instructor's pre-determined office hours.

    Honolulu University makes full use of modern communications technologies such as cell phones, voice mail, fax, E-mail and the Internet to bring quality education to its students under the mentoring of highly qualified professional educators and to facilitate student-mentor interaction.

In eliminating traditional campus and classroom facilities, it is able to pass on tremendous savings on tuition costs to its students.  In giving them credit for prior un-credited learning it also passes on tremendous savings in instructional time.  In this way, the busy adult can earn a needed college degree, representing quality education at an exceptionally low cost and in a much shorter time than would normally be required, for the corresponding degree earned through traditional on-campus study.

HONOLULU UNIVERSITY
provides:

• affordable quality education

• degrees through independent study

• worldwide admissions to all mature learners

• undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees

• credits for career and life learned experiences

• self-paced learning

• no campus or classroom attendance

• professional academic and career counseling

• combination degrees where appropriate

• interdisciplinary area majors

• in-service professional seminars

IN SUMMARY:

Honolulu University offers undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees, credit for career and life learning experiences, and allows the mature learner to control his/her own rate of learning at affordable costs without any classroom attendance.

With the growing need of adult learners for continuing education in our modern technological economy, Honolulu University was one of the first to recognize that distance learning can provide the answers to busy adult's need for continuing learning.  Founded almost fifteen years ago with worldwide headquarters in Honolulu, its leaders chose an interactive, independent study model for delivering quality education.

  This model has been successfully used in traditional schools such as Oxford, Cambridge, the University of London, and the University of South Africa, in some cases for over a hundred years. 

By recognizing that mature students, who have developed independent study skills, can successfully complete upper division and graduate work in a one-to-one mentoring relationship, with an experienced master teacher who had achieved leadership in his/her field, Honolulu University found the solution to liberating its students from the constraints of time, location, and tuition costs.

Since the teaching relationship is one on one, it can be conducted at times and in places that are of the student's choosing, rather than in classrooms at rigidly scheduled intervals. 

Since distant learning by phone, fax, E-mail, and postal service does not require a physical campus with multiple buildings and classrooms and high maintenance costs, the enormous costs of these facilities and services can be avoided and the savings passed on to the student in reduced tuition. 

As a result, Honolulu University can offer quality educational degree programs for a fifth, or less, of what the same programs would cost on a traditional college campus.

Source: http://www.honolulu-university.edu/

 

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