{"id":27331,"date":"2014-09-08T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T23:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=27331"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:50:43","slug":"uh-west-oahu-risk-management-and-insurance-program-receives-11000-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/08\/uh-west-oahu-risk-management-and-insurance-program-receives-11000-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O\u02bbahu<\/span> risk management and insurance program receives $11,000 donation"},"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 id=\"attachment_16502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16502\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/west-oahu-campus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/west-oahu-campus.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/west-oahu-campus-260x145.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2013West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiunderwriters.org\/index.php\">Underwriters Association of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> donated $11,375 to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> risk management and insurance certificate program at the organization&#8217;s annual charitable golf tournament on July 25 at the Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Platinum sponsor participating insurance companies and agencies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atlas Insurance Agency<\/li>\n<li><abbr>DTRIC<\/abbr> Insurance Group<\/li>\n<li>First Insurance Company of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, Ltd.<\/li>\n<li><abbr>GEOVERA<\/abbr><\/li>\n<li><abbr>HEMIC<\/abbr><\/li>\n<li>Hawaiian Insurance and Guaranty Co.<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Independent Insurance Agents Association<\/li>\n<li>Island Insurance Co.<\/li>\n<li><abbr>RPS<\/abbr>\/Triad<\/li>\n<li>Zephyr Insurance Co.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These companies and other gold and silver level sponsors donated $10,000 from the tournament and an additional $1,375 from its post-tournament banquet activities. The donation will be used for student scholarships and program development. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees-and-certificates\/certificates\/\">risk management and insurance certificate program<\/a> at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> provides training for risk management, personal and commercial insurance professionals and prepares students for licensure examination.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are truly grateful for the continued support from the Underwriters Association of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> that allows <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> to offer scholarships to our risk management and insurance students,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Chancellor <strong>Rockne Freitas<\/strong>. &ldquo;As the only University in the state to offer a risk management and insurance certificate program, together with our insurance industry partners, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> prepares students to pursue insurance careers that are in high demand locally and nationally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6713\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> news release<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Underwriters Association of Hawaii donated $11,375 to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> risk management and insurance certificate 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":[458,59],"class_list":["post-27331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-risk-management-and-insurance","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27331","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=27331"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150619,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27331\/revisions\/150619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}