{"id":162181,"date":"2022-07-19T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T01:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=162181"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T20:58:17","slug":"uh-west-oahu-accredited-for-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/19\/uh-west-oahu-accredited-for-8-years\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu accredited for 8 years"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>–West Oʻahu<\/span><\/a> has been reaffirmed for eight years of accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC<\/abbr>) Senior College and University Commission. The accreditation process is a marker of institutional quality, and accreditation is required by the U.S. Department of Education for students to be able to access federal financial assistance, including student loans.<\/p>\n

“Much mahalo to our faculty, staff and students who worked collaboratively to develop our report and host the WASC<\/abbr> Senior College and University Commission campus visit team,” UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> Chancellor Maenette Benham<\/strong> said. “The commendations acknowledge our good work, and the recommendations will strengthen UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> in our efforts to foster excellence in teaching, learning and service to our communities.”<\/p>\n

More information on the reaffirmation process, including key documents and the steering committee and writing team members can be found on the UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> 2022 Accreditation Reaffirmation<\/a> webpage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reaffirmation of UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>\u2019s accreditation continues student access to financial aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[683,59],"class_list":["post-162181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-accreditation","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162181","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=162181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162247,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162181\/revisions\/162247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}