{"id":29871,"date":"2014-12-02T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=29871"},"modified":"2021-10-18T16:55:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:55:58","slug":"uh-president-lassner-joins-president-obama-at-white-house-college-opportunity-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/02\/uh-president-lassner-joins-president-obama-at-white-house-college-opportunity-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President Lassner joins President Obama at White House College Opportunity Summit"},"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_29874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29874\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lassner-d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lassner-d.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lassner-d-173x260.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Lassner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, December 4 University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> will join President Barack Obama, the First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House College Opportunity Summit.<\/p>\n<p>The summit will bring together colleges and universities, business leaders, nonprofits and others that are committed to supporting more college opportunities for students across the country.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s summit will focus on building sustainable collaborations in communities with strong K&#8211;12 and higher education partnerships to encourage students to attend college, and to support colleges that work together to dramatically improve college completion, especially for first generation, low-income and underrepresented students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am excited to be invited to another White House Summit. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/hawaiigradinitiative\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Graduation Initiative<\/a> is one of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System&#8217;s major strategic priorities and this will be a wonderful opportunity to share <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s progress and plans and to learn about best practices from around the country,&rdquo; said Lassner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner joins President Barack Obama at the White House College Opportunity Summit.<\/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":[691,340,947],"class_list":["post-29871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-administration","tag-hawaii-graduation-initiative","tag-uh-system","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29871","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=29871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149972,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29871\/revisions\/149972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}