  {"id":158866,"date":"2022-05-10T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=158866"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T20:39:27","slug":"us-sec-of-education-kapiolani-cc-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/10\/us-sec-of-education-kapiolani-cc-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sec. of Education to address Kapi\u02bbolani <abbr>CC<\/abbr> graduates"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-campus-aerial-gnrc.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial shot of Kapiolani C C with Diamond Head in the background\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-158882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-campus-aerial-gnrc.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-campus-aerial-gnrc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-campus-aerial-gnrc-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very special guest speaker will address <a href=\"http:\/\/kapiolani.hawaii.edu\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> graduates at commencement ceremonies on May 13. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has sent them a video message, in which he reflects on the resilience and accomplishments of the students and shares words of inspiration and encouragement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158881\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-commencement-cardona-m-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Miguel Cardona\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-158881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-commencement-cardona-m-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-commencement-cardona-m-104x130.jpg 104w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kapiolani-commencement-cardona-m.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Cardona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> students, you are graduating at a time of possibility and opportunity for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> and for our country as we recover from the pandemic,&rdquo; Cardona said. &ldquo;We\u2019ve never needed your skills and talents more. And your degree from <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> will allow you to catch lightning, to take your passions and apply them to worthy pursuits, to make your communities and our country light up, even stronger.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commencement.hawaii.edu\/kapiolani\/2022\/\">The video is viewable on the college\u2019s Graduate Pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Graduate Pages are also a way to virtually communicate and convey messages of well wishes to the graduates of summer 2021, fall 2021 and spring 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This commencement, approximately 250 of more than 400 of the college\u2019s graduates will participate in a walk-through ceremony.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/commencement\/\">More highlights from the commencement ceremonies and our amazing graduates<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The walk-through <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/hawaii.edu\/kcc-commencement\/\">Commencement Celebration<\/a> will include a processional, name reading, scroll presentation, conferral of degree and tassel turn. Lei zones and photo spots will be available around the Great Lawn and other outdoor areas of the campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has words of inspiration for <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> graduates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[234,63,71],"class_list":["post-158866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-commencement","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158866","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=158866"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159564,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158866\/revisions\/159564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}