{"id":26065,"date":"2014-07-14T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=26065"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:33:36","slug":"kapiolani-cc-awarded-mentorlinks-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/14\/kapiolani-cc-awarded-mentorlinks-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> awarded MentorLinks grant"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College<\/a> has been selected as one of the ten winning “mentee” colleges in the American Association of Community Colleges<\/a>’ (AACC<\/abbr>) MentorLinks<\/a>: Advancing Technological Education program, which is part of a national initiative supported by the National Science Foundation<\/a>. The MentorLinks grant is for the period of October 1, 2014 through October 31, 2016, in the amount of $20,000.<\/p>\n

“I am very pleased and honored that the AACC<\/abbr> review panel selected Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> to work on this important program that is designed to benefit AACC<\/abbr> members,” said Chancellor Leon Richards<\/strong>. “In today’s rapidly changing technology field, it is critical that we support technician education and mentorships.”<\/p>\n

Team building, effective partnerships and good communication are among the key factors that will make this program successful. Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> project staff will attend the MentorLinks project planning meeting and Advancing Technological Education principle investigators’s conference in Washington, D.C., October 21–24, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> has been selected as 1 of 10 winning “mentee” colleges in the AACC<\/abbr> MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education program.<\/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":[63],"class_list":["post-26065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-kapiolani-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t