{"id":20985,"date":"2013-11-13T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=20985"},"modified":"2020-07-09T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:50:31","slug":"shidler-luncheon-connects-donors-and-scholarship-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/13\/shidler-luncheon-connects-donors-and-scholarship-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Shidler luncheon connects donors and scholarship recipients"},"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><figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shidlercollegeofbusiness\/sets\/72157637326974943\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5533\/10681637655_9d4baf4ff3_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Smiling luncheon guests candid\" class \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shidlercollegeofbusiness\/sets\/72157637326974943\/\">View all the photos<\/a> from the 2013 Shidler Scholarship Luncheon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/scholarshipluncheon\/recipients\">See the full list<\/a> of scholarship recipients<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/scholarshipluncheon\/video\">Watch video<\/a> of the luncheon speakers<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Shidler College of Business<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> has awarded over $1 million in scholarships to more than 200 business students for the 2013-2014 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The college&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/scholarshipluncheon\">Scholarship Luncheon<\/a>, held on November 4, 2013, recognized donors for their commitment to education, and gave the donors and scholarship recipients an opportunity to connect.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s scholarship luncheon featured <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/scholarshipluncheon\/speakers\">guest speaker <strong>Eddie Flores Jr.<\/strong>, president of the L&amp;L restaurant chain<\/a>. Flores said he was amazed to see so many recipients of his scholarship. In 2007, Flores established a $1 million endowed scholarship at the Shidler College of Business. This year alone, Flores&#8217; scholarship helped 52 students from the <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/freshman-dap\">Shidler Freshman Direct Admit Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are extremely grateful to our alumni, the business community and friends of the college for establishing scholarships for our students,&rdquo; said Shidler Dean <strong>V. Vance Roley<\/strong>. &ldquo;With the cost of tuition and books, academic scholarships can make a world of difference in the lives of our students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Each academic year, full and partial scholarships are awarded to undergraduate and graduate business students based on academic achievement, financial need, specific area of concentration, community service and\/or other criteria established by the donors. <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/scholarshipluncheon\/recipients\">See the full list of the 2013-2014 scholarship recipients<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Video: Eddie Flores and other guest speakers at the Scholarship Luncheon<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/78669043\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shidler.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/07\/uh-manoa-shidler-college-of-business-awards-200-scholarships-totaling-over-1-million-for-2013-2014\">Shidler College of Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shidler College of Business has awarded over $1 million in scholarships to more than 200 business students for the 2013-2014 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[498,146,9],"class_list":["post-20985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-business","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985","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=20985"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122431,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions\/122431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}