{"id":114031,"date":"2020-03-19T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114031"},"modified":"2020-04-02T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:10:21","slug":"march-covid-president-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/19\/march-covid-president-report\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lassner highlights <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s efforts during worldwide crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_47049\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RL2294lkIbA?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"President Lassner highlights UH&#039;s efforts during worldwide crisis\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> provided an update to the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents on the university\u02bbs response to COVID-19 at the board\u02bbs monthly meeting held March 19, at Honolulu Community College. Lassner discussed <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s guiding principles when it comes to mission and personal safety as well as the move to online delivery of courses and allowing employees, who are able, to work remotely from home.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> is one of the great universities in this world,&rdquo; said Lassner during the report. &ldquo;We will not only survive, we will succeed and we will come out of this better than we were before. After this crisis we will be a very different place than we were before it. Our graduates will be the cornerstone of that new <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of the regents participated via teleconferencing as the board practiced the recommended government guidance regarding social distancing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/system-bachman-sm.jpg\" alt=\"University of Hawaii seal and Bachman Hall\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-106523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/system-bachman-sm.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/system-bachman-sm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/system-bachman-sm-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Lassner discussed <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s guiding principles when it comes to mission and personal safety, online education and work from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[1411,1418,394,1120,947,56],"class_list":["post-114031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-announcement","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114031"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115103,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031\/revisions\/115103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}