{"id":4841,"date":"2025-09-08T21:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:37:23","slug":"cis-alumnus-john-morton-featured-in-the-honolulu-star-advertiser-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/cis-alumnus-john-morton-featured-in-the-honolulu-star-advertiser-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CIS alumnus John Morton featured in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"199\">The life and legacy of CIS alumnus John Morton (Ph.D. 1997), who died Aug. 15, 2025, at 78, were honored in the <em data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"197\">Honolulu Star-Advertiser.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"435\">The article highlights Morton\u2019s decades of leadership and service within Hawai\u2018i\u2019s community college system, where he expanded access to higher education and created opportunities for underrepresented communities across the islands.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"501\">His visionary work will continue to inspire the CIS community.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"581\">Read the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2025\/08\/31\/hawaii-news\/uh-leader-broadened-access-to-higher-education\/\">Â鶹´«Ã½leader broadened access to higher education<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"581\">And read more about Morton in the Â鶹´«Ã½News article honoring his impact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/in-memoriam-john-morton\/\">In memoriam: John Morton, visionary leader of Â鶹´«Ã½Community Colleges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life and legacy of CIS alumnus John Morton (Ph.D. 1997), who died Aug. 15, 2025, at 78, were honored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-news-events","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}