The largest school of indigenous studies in the nation will be created at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa with the UH Board of Regents' approval of the Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge.

A new dean will oversee the new school, which will consist of three existing units — the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, which is currently in the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies; Kawaihuelani Hawaiian Language Program, currently in the Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature in the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature; and Ka Papa Lo'i o Kanewai, which is currently located administratively within the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies.