{"id":183659,"date":"2023-09-19T08:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=183659"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:16:04","slug":"uh-lahainaluna-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/19\/uh-lahainaluna-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> offers full scholarships to Lahainaluna High School Class of 2024"},"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_183662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183662\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/David_Lassner_lahainaluna.jpg\" alt=\"David Lassner meets with Lahainaluna students\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-183662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/David_Lassner_lahainaluna.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/David_Lassner_lahainaluna-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/David_Lassner_lahainaluna-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Â鶹´«Ã½President David Lassner delivers news of a scholarship for all Lahainaluna High School Class of 2024 students.  Photo by: Hawai\u02bbi State Department of Education<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is offering full scholarships to every Lahainaluna; High School (<abbr>LHS<\/abbr>) senior that will cover tuition, fees, books and supplies for full-time and part-time students at any of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 10 campuses. This initial commitment to the Lahainaluna; Class of 2024 is for one academic year while Â鶹´«Ã½seeks external or internal funding to extend these scholarships for a full two or four years of college, depending on the campus the student attends.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: October 20, 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/20\/uh-lahainaluna-scholarship-extended\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> scholarship offer to Lahainaluna High seniors extended to two or four years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Lahainaluna senior class, about 190 students total, was notified about the scholarships at a class assembly on Monday, September 18, at the school\u2019s temporary location at <span aria-label=\"Kulanihakoi\">K&#363;lanih&#257;ko&#699;i<\/span> High School in Kihei. <abbr>LHS<\/abbr> was forced to relocate to <span aria-label=\"Kulanihakoi\">K&#363;lanih&#257;ko&#699;i<\/span> following the deadly August 8 wildfire that destroyed most of Lahaina town.  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_183661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183661\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lahainaluna_students-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Lahainaluna students\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-183661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lahainaluna_students-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lahainaluna_students-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lahainaluna_students.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: Hawai\u02bbi State Department of Education<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We are deeply grateful to the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for providing our seniors with the opportunity to pursue higher education without having to worry about tuition and other costs. This means so much to our <span aria-label=\"ohana,\">&#699;ohana,<\/span> and we look forward to our Lunas taking advantage of <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s generous support,&rdquo; Lahainaluna Principal Richard Carosso said.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> for the announcement were President David Lassner, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College Chancellor Lui Hokoana, Vice Chancellor Kulamanu Ishihara, and Dean Laura Nagle as well as Maui Regents Lauren Akitake and Ernest Wilson. Deputy Superintendent Tammi Chun of the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Department of Education also attended.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The seniors of Lahainaluna High School faced COVID in their freshman year, and now they and their families face unimaginable challenges around loss of <span aria-label=\"ohana,\">&#699;ohana,<\/span> homes, jobs and personal treasures,&rdquo; said Lassner. &ldquo;We are extending these scholarship offers to create at least one bright spot for these students and their families, to help them see a path forward to a better future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\">More on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/10\/how-to-help-maui-ohana-affected-by-wildfires\/\">help Maui <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/maui-wildfires\/\">Maui wildfires<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since many <abbr>LHS<\/abbr> students moved or made alternate educational plans, the scholarship offer is available to every student who was enrolled as a senior at <abbr>LHS<\/abbr> on August 7, 2023 regardless of where they are enrolled for this academic year. The university will work closely with the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Department of Education and <abbr>LHS<\/abbr> to make the process of receiving the scholarship as easy as possible for students and their families. More details will be provided in the coming weeks including contact information for assistance, a webpage with Frequently Asked Questions and other resources.<\/p>\n<p>This scholarship program is in addition to the extensive support <abbr>UH<\/abbr> is already providing to all current <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students from Maui who were impacted by the fires. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> is also looking at how to support future Maui graduates who were impacted by the fires in their higher education journeys.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The hearts of all of us at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> go out to all who have suffered through this disaster,&rdquo; said Lassner. &ldquo;We know the hurt will never be gone. But we hope this small bit of assistance will help address one concern for students and their families.&rdquo; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> looks to support survivors of the Maui wildfires by providing scholarships to Lahainaluna High School Class of 2024 students.<\/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":[61,62,63,64,65,1597,572,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-183659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-maui-wildfires","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","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\/183659","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=183659"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189150,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183659\/revisions\/189150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}