  {"id":157814,"date":"2022-04-19T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T23:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=157814"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T23:23:34","slug":"uhf-scholarship-celebration-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/19\/uhf-scholarship-celebration-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students meet donors at first in-person event since COVID-19"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_157771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157771\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UHF_group_students.jpg\" alt=\"Âé¶¹´«Ã½scholarship recipients\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UHF_group_students.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UHF_group_students-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UHF_group_students-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> students who attended the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation Scholarship Celebration in 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nearly 300 scholarship donors and their student recipients came together on April 18, for the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Foundation<\/a> Scholarship Celebration since the COVID-19 pandemic halted gatherings two years ago. The luncheon was held at the newly renovated Campus Center Ballroom at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UH_foundation_scholarship_celebration-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"scholarship celebration\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-157816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UH_foundation_scholarship_celebration-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UH_foundation_scholarship_celebration-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UH_foundation_scholarship_celebration.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students had the opportunity to meet and thank the donors whose scholarship gifts have helped to support their educational goals. Donors were excited to hear firsthand about the impact their giving has on students\u2019 lives and futures.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our students amaze us every day with their curiosity, intellectual capacity, perseverance and commitment to humanity,&rdquo; <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> said. &ldquo;We couldn\u2019t help our students fulfill their passion to move <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> forward without our many donors who demonstrate through their scholarship support how much they care about educating the next generation of leaders for our islands.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 6,887 donors made gifts totaling $48.5 million to support student aid and scholarships for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students statewide.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are so excited to celebrate our incredible students who have been so resilient and our amazing donors whose generosity funds these academic journeys,&rdquo; said <strong>Tim Dolan<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> vice president of advancement and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation <abbr>CEO<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The first permanently endowed scholarship was created at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation in 1976 to benefit students attending <abbr>UH<\/abbr>. Since then, providing access to higher education through private gifts has become a tradition. Today, the foundation manages more than 2,000 student aid accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how you can contribute to the education of students at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campuses at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\">UHFoundation.org\/give<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 300 scholarship donors and their student recipients came together on April 18 for the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation Scholarship Celebration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[572,660,319,947],"class_list":["post-157814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157814","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=157814"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157886,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157814\/revisions\/157886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}