The Māori Centre Te Huka Mātauraka – your home away from home – provides academic, cultural, clinical, and social support throughout your entire University of Otago journey, living our tikaka and taha Māori ensuring our tauira (students) feel the aroha (love and care) and tautoko (support, guidance, and advocacy) starting from pre-enrolment and continuing until graduation for tauira of iwi descent.
The Māori Centre offers:
- A highly recommended academic programme that can significantly lift your academic success
- Impactful and effective counselling and mental health support with Māori practitioners
- Transition support from high school to University so everything makes sense
- Assistance with scholarship and grant applications
- A tauira mentoring programme based on the tuakana-teina model that makes the difference
- Locals and residential college tauira have their own kaituitui (co-ordinator) connecting them to the Maōri Centre
- Events such as pōwhiri for first-year tauira, Turāka Hou | Māori Orientation, Māori pre-graduation ceremonies, Kia Ita summer school programme, plus much more that celebrates your success and gives opportunity for connection
We are all about the whakawhānaukataka (connection and family), aroha, and tautoko. The Māori Centre is here to help Māori students feel at home, supported, and cared for while academically achieving their goals and dreams.