TransPacific Hawaii College
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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. The closure was decided as the administrators of the College concluded that the institutional structure of the College detains 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.
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
.
The land, which was approx. 40000 square feet (3,716.1 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.
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
junior college
Junior college
The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...
located in Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...
, 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. The closure was decided as the administrators of the College concluded that the institutional structure of the College detains from responding the financial concerns raised by its accreditation agency, Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges is part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges , one of six regional accrediting organizations in the United States. The ACCJC accredits private and public colleges that provide students two-year education programs and...
of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. The Western Association of...
.
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
Kansai Gaidai University
, almost always abbreviated Kansai Gaidai , is located in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. It is a private university focusing on foreign language studies. Kansai is the proper name of the large region where it is located, which includes the cities of Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. Gaidai is a contraction of...
.
Alumni in need of academic documents shall contact the Center for International Education.
The College conferred solely the Associate in Liberal Arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
Degrees.
The typical enrollment of the College was 250, all international students mainly coming from Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, and Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
.
Campus
The campus of the College was located in a residential community of Aina Haina district.The land, which was approx. 40000 square feet (3,716.1 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.