Some basics about our Fall 2005 Program:

• Live in Hale Aloha Towers on dorm floors reserved for you
• Join an innovative “think tank”
• Take General Education courses, linked together by a creative research project
• Get to know your instructors
• Enjoy a learning center lounge reserved especially for RAP students
• 1st 25 qualified freshmen accepted
• must be accepted to UH & pay $100 tuition deposit
• apply to Housing by May 1st
• apply to RAP by May 31st

Our History:

The Rainbow Advantage Program is a tightly woven learning community based on the coordinated studies model. Students are actively engaged in their education and participate in a variety of approaches to learning. Education in this program is seen as the process of open-ended inquiry and students are challenged to view learning as the development and building of connections. Therefore, the focus is on collaborative teaching strategies, cooperative learning techniques, a wide use of technology and a variety of links to the wider community.

In order to produce life-long learners, the teacher as bearer of knowledge image is replaced by the collaborative teacher/learner model, allowing for the kind of environment which encourages the students to be creative, original thinkers, and continually analyzing and evaluating their own learning. Emphasis is placed on acquiring communication, critical thinking and research skills. 

A liberal education helps students acquire an integrated base of knowledge, develop communication skills, enhance higher-order thinking skills, become acquainted with methods of inquiry, examine personal values and social mores, foster an awareness of other cultures, gain self-knowledge, and achieve lasting intellectual and cultural interest. The Rainbow Advantage Program attempts to prepare students for productive careers, fulfilling personal lives, enlightened citizenship, and life-long learning.