{"id":135668,"date":"2021-02-18T11:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=135668"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:11:47","slug":"president-report-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/18\/president-report-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s report: vaccination efforts, fall outlook, federal stimulus update"},"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_61915\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCQGS_YgiFs?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=\"Â鶹´«Ã½President\u2019s report: vaccination efforts, fall outlook, federal stimulus update\"  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>The COVID-19 pandemic dominated University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>\u2019s February 2021 report to the Board of Regents at the board\u2019s February 18 meeting. Lassner discussed the ongoing response to the pandemic, the status of federal stimulus funds and the efforts to vaccinate the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> community.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are focused on employees who need to spend time on campus and are at highest risk,&rdquo; said Lassner. &ldquo;We have already helped to vaccinate over 1,500 of our <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> &#699;ohana on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> alone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lassner also provided an update for the fall 2021 semester.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>COVID-19 response update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=12s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Get Vaccinated <abbr>UH<\/abbr>! (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=46s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Outlook for fall 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=3m28s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 federal stimulus update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=5m19s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Post-pandemic planning continues (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=7m19s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Spring semester enrollment (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=9m28s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Extramural funding, philanthropic giving up (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=11m30s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>New lead for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> real estate assets (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=12m20s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Aloha and mahalo <strong>Kim Hashiro<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCQGS_YgiFs?t=13m9s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During his update on the new Director of Strategic Development and Partnership, who will be responsible for managing <abbr>UH<\/abbr> real estate assets, Lassner mentioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/18\/uh-executive-salaries-restored\/\">salary restoration of executive-managerial employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/presidents-report\/\">View previous reports to the board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-covid-vaccination.jpg\" alt=\"Get Vaccinated Â鶹´«Ã½logo\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-133903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-covid-vaccination.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-covid-vaccination-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-covid-vaccination-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lassner discussed the ongoing response to the pandemic, the status of federal stimulus funds and the efforts to vaccinate the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[1411,1469,1416,61,62,63,64,65,394,1120,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-135668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-get-vaccinated-uh","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","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\/135668","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=135668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135686,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135668\/revisions\/135686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}