The Hawaiʻi Life in the Time of COVID-19 Project is designed to engage our Hawaiʻi communities in examining, articulating and sharing the impacts of COVID-19 upon our Hawaiʻi island ways of life, livelihoods, health, families, communities, education, values and outlooks for the future.
Would you like to participate in this project? We welcome your stories or reflections in any form. You can request to be interviewed or self-record your own audio or video oral history; share photos from your journal/diary entries or daily life; or submit poetry, mele, or other art you may be creating while staying at home and practicing social distancing.
We have designed this project so that our community can reflect upon, share, and document their experiences; acknowledge significant events; honor courageous acts and selfless sacrifices; and help to understand social and economic trends as they unfold.
It is important to document this island-wide and global health crisis in real time, track how to effectively and respectfully respond to it, map pathways of recovery, and project lessons on how to prepare and respond to future pandemics.
The Center for Oral History (COH) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is uniquely situated to provide an established and long-term platform for our Hawaiʻi families and communities to record their experiences living and working through this pandemic, drawing upon our cultural values and legacies.
The Hawaiʻi Life in the Time of COVID-19 Project is designed to engage our Hawaiʻi communities in examining, articulating and sharing the impacts of COVID-19 upon our Hawaiʻi island ways of life, livelihoods, health, families, communities, education, values and outlooks for the future.
Here is what housing emailed the residents on May 1st.
No Summer Housing
With the University moving to summer classes fully online for Summer Session 1 and Varied-Term, Student Housing Services will not be providing summer housing for the period May 26- July 5, 2020.
Please note that your spring semester housing contract ends at noon on Saturday, May 16, 2020. If you are unable to move out due to the reasons listed below, you may apply for an exemption to remain in campus housing until noon, June 14, 2020.
- International residents whose visas require they remain in the United States
- International residents unable to return to their home country due to COVID-19 restrictions.
- Residents with medical restrictions which prevent travel.
Documentation to support your request is required. Exemptions requests are NOT guaranteed to be approved.
To apply for extended housing, please complete the following link. To be considered, extension requests must be submitted by 4:30pm on Wednesday, May 6.
Additional conditions for extended housing:
- You will be required to move to a residence hall.
- You will be assessed a nightly rate of $23.25 for a room to yourself.
- Desk services will be limited.
- Meal service will not be available.
- You will be unable to host any guests in extended summer housing except those helping you move-in/out.
The University of Hawaii plans to return to some form of in-person classes this fall, after most of its nearly 50,000 students spent much of the spring semester learning online.
But what exactly those classes will look like, and how the 10-campus system will operate under new guidelines necessary to keep the coronavirus at bay remains to be seen.
COVID-19 updates from UHM administration
COVID-19 questions and answers from UHM students from the administration.
Student Housing page, including contact information and COVID-19 updates.