{"id":162841,"date":"2022-08-02T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T01:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=162841"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T01:59:35","slug":"hawaii-promise-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/hawaii-promise-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Free tuition, books, fees for eligible <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College students"},"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_10409\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EG9c3bterx0?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=\"Hawai\u2018i Promise Scholarship\"  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 <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/hawaiipromise\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise Scholarship<\/a> continues to support University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges students\u2019 educational and career goals. The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise Scholarship provides free in-state tuition for qualified <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> community college<\/a> students who need financial help to pay for college.<\/p>\n<p>For eligible students, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise provides money from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> and the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> to cover education costs&#8212;such as tuition, fees and books&#8212;that are not met by other forms of financial aid. Close to $5 million was awarded last year (school year 2021&#8211;22) to more than 2,220 students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_162853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162853\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/uhcc-academic-scholarship-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Student being interviewed\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/uhcc-academic-scholarship-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/uhcc-academic-scholarship-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/uhcc-academic-scholarship.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-162853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela-Marie Gandule being interviewed by <abbr title=\"Hawaii\">HI<\/abbr> News Now on how the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise Scholarship has helped her achieve her educational goals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;This scholarship has helped me lessen the stress on getting a degree,&rdquo; said <strong>Angela-Marie Gandule<\/strong>, a current student at Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>. &ldquo;The majority of problems of people deciding to go to college is financial. The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise Scholarship helps students, including me, achieve that goal of attending college, and possibly attaining a degree in a major I love.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In order to be considered for the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise Scholarship this fall, students need to be a <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> resident and qualify for in-state tuition. Students must also complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/tuition\/financial-aid\/\"><abbr>FAFSA<\/abbr><\/a>. They will then be notified by their campus if they are eligible for the scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>For more information go to <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/promise\">hawaii.edu\/promise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;By <strong>Lesli Yogi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/hawaii-promise\/\">More <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories on the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise Scholarship<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges awarded almost $5 million in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise scholarships last year.<\/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":[61,1216,62,63,64,65,572,71,60,947,56,66],"class_list":["post-162841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaii-promise","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","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\/162841","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=162841"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162904,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162841\/revisions\/162904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}