  {"id":169557,"date":"2022-11-23T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=169557"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T01:03:28","slug":"karen-lee-appointed-honolulu-cc-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/23\/karen-lee-appointed-honolulu-cc-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Lee recommended to be next Honolulu Community College chancellor"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_169572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169572\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/honolulu-lee-k-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/honolulu-lee-k-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/honolulu-lee-k-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/honolulu-lee-k-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Vice President for Community Colleges <strong>Erika Lacro<\/strong> has recommended the appointment of <strong>Karen Lee<\/strong> as the next chancellor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>. The effective date of the appointment is December 2, 2022. Currently, Lee leads Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> in Honolulu, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> as the interim chancellor after serving as the vice chancellor for academic affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dr. Karen Lee\u2019s leadership will enable Honolulu Community College\u2019s continued pursuit to achieve excellence as an innovative and premier career and technical training community college in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo; Lacro said. During her extensive career at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>, including at Honolulu Community College and the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> System, Lee has strived continuously to inspire faculty, staff and students to pursue and excel as they navigate their journey to realize their goals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Honolulu C C campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-68034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lee began her 21-year career at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> in 2001 at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa as the undergraduate coordinator at the Shidler College of Business. Lee then served in the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System as associate vice president and executive director of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> P&#8211;20 Partnerships for Education, associate vice president for student affairs and executive assistant to the president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am excited and honored to be offered the position of chancellor at Honolulu Community College. Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> is such a special college with incredible faculty, staff and students, and with unique and high-performing programs engaged in the community and various industries. I look forward to our continued partnership!&#8221; said Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has more than 29 years of higher education experience beginning as assistant dean of admissions and admission counselor at Colgate University, followed by assistant dean of students and senior assistant director at Columbia University. Lee holds a doctorate of education in education leadership administration from the University of Southern California, and master of arts in higher education administration and bachelor of arts in mathematics from Columbia University, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s role in education extends to the community beyond the campus as she currently serves on the advisory board for the Center for Tomorrow\u2019s Leaders and Mayor Rick Blangiardi Senior Advisory Group. She has raised and managed more than $85 million in grants to support and promote higher education in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effective date of the appointment is December 2, 2022.<\/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":[691,626,62,71],"class_list":["post-169557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-administration","tag-executive-search","tag-honolulu-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\/169557","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=169557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169578,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169557\/revisions\/169578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}