  {"id":25496,"date":"2014-06-24T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25496"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T22:20:40","slug":"honolulu-cc-recognized-as-hawaiis-best-four-years-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/06\/24\/honolulu-cc-recognized-as-hawaiis-best-four-years-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> recognized as <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s best four years in a row"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/star-advertiser-hi-best.jpg\" alt=\"star advertiser article recognizing Honolulu C C\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/star-advertiser-hi-best.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/star-advertiser-hi-best-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/star-advertiser-hi-best-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/star-advertiser-hi-best-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/honolulu-cc-1.jpg\" alt=\"Building at Honolulu Community College\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/honolulu-cc-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/honolulu-cc-1-260x195.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">For the fourth year in a row, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> was selected as the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiisbest.staradvertiser.com\/?p=companies#vocationalschool\">Best Vocational School<\/a> in the <em>Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiisbest.staradvertiser.com\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s Best People&#8217;s Choice Awards<\/a> released on Sunday, June 22.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Honolulu Community College is extremely grateful for this distinction. It is with great pride and responsibility that we continue to provide the highest level of quality instruction through our diverse liberal arts and career and technical programs,&rdquo; says <strong>Erika L. Lacro<\/strong>, chancellor of Honolulu Community College.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/\"><em>Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/em><\/a> readers were asked to write in their favorite in 144 categories. Multiple choice options were not provided. Each ballot required 25 categories filled to be deemed valid. Votes were calculated electronically to determine winners&#8212;no duplications were allowed, one vote per person, which were also tracked electronically.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiisbest.staradvertiser.com\/?p=companies#vocationalschool\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College places second for vocational schools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Honolulu Community College has been educating our state&#8217;s work force for more than 90 years. What started as a trade school has evolved to become a comprehensive institution of higher learning for 50 years now offering 24 programs, 27 degrees and 39 certificate options,&rdquo; said Lacro.<\/p>\n<p>Today, with more than 4,300 credit students and nearly 2,000 apprentice students, the main campus is a short distance from the heart of downtown Honolulu, occupying more than 20 acres on Dillingham Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The college also has instructional facilities near Honolulu International Airport, heavy equipment shops on K&#333;kea Street, Kalaeloa Airport and the Marine Education and Training Center at Sand Island.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Billie Lueder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/em> readers votes Honolulu Community College as Best Vocational School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-25496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-honolulu-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496","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=25496"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150870,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions\/150870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}