  {"id":13213,"date":"2013-01-18T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T03:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=13213"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:27:21","slug":"enrollment-jumps-at-uh-west-oahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/18\/enrollment-jumps-at-uh-west-oahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrollment jumps at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O\u02bbahu<\/span>"},"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><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTpKFDnLSs8\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Enrollment at University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">쮸떴눈첵<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> experienced a significant increase in the spring 2013 semester&#8212;a 21 percent jump compared to spring 2012. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The numbers just keep going,&rdquo; said <strong>Linda Johnsrud<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s executive vice president for academic affairs\/provost. &ldquo;They are on their way to probably 3,000 which was the aim for that campus in the short run. It will be bigger than that in the long run.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> now has 344 more students for a total enrollment of 1,937. The college&#8217;s new campus opened in the fall of 2012. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We knew eight years ago that the growth was all out towards Ewa, <span aria-label=\"Waianae\">Wai&#699;anae<\/span>, North Shore, and we simply weren&#8217;t serving those geographical areas as we should have and now we have a campus to do that,&rdquo; said Johnsrud. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, enrollment across the 10 campuses of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> system is down by 2.3 percent. University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">쮸떴눈첵<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s enrollment is at 19,073, a decrease of less than half percent. The number of students attending <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s seven community colleges fell by 4.6 percent, from 31,925 students to 30,462. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think we could attribute that to the uptick in the economy,&rdquo; explained Johnsrud. &ldquo;Students came in, they got the short-term training for what they needed and they&#8217;re back out in the workforce.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">쮸떴눈첵<\/span> Community College in Hilo saw the biggest drop, a 9 percent decrease. <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College had the only increase out of the community colleges, a 3 percent gain. Overall, there are more than 55,000 students enrolled at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s 10 campuses and that does not include the 15,000 registrations in non-credit programs. <\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=5517\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> news release<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> and <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> enrollments increase; other campuses experience slight decreases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","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=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152547,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions\/152547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}