{"id":62681,"date":"2017-07-24T11:24:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=62681"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T02:50:34","slug":"uhfcu-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/24\/uhfcu-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Federal Credit Union awards $10,000 in scholarships to local students"},"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\/2017\/07\/uhfcu-sholarship-program.jpg\" alt=\"U H F CU Banner\" width=\"620\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/uhfcu-sholarship-program.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/uhfcu-sholarship-program-260x98.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfcu.com\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Federal Credit Union<\/a> (UHFCU) has selected five local scholars to each receive $2,000 through its 2017&#8211;2018 Scholarship Program. Founded under the leadership of the <abbr>UHFCU<\/abbr> Board of Directors, the scholarship program establishes a lasting legacy&#8212;potentially benefiting generations of students as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> System<\/a> the credit union serves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2017-2018 scholarship winners and their schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexander Lum<\/strong>&#8212;Incoming freshman at <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Utu<\/strong>&#8212;Incoming freshman at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christina Kaleiwahea<\/strong>&#8212;Continuing undergraduate at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dianne Raquiz<\/strong>&#8212;Continuing undergraduate at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pearlena Stone<\/strong>&#8212;Continuing undergraduate at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;It is inspiring to see the quality and amount of talented, driven and deserving young people who apply for our scholarships each year. It&#8217;s been a tremendous challenge for our scholarship committee to select our recipients from a pool of such outstanding students,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii Federal Credit Union\">UHFCU<\/abbr> President and <abbr title=\"Chief Executive Officer\">CEO<\/abbr> <strong>Jeanine Morse<\/strong>. &ldquo;<abbr>UHFCU<\/abbr> was founded upon the legacy and critical importance of the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> System education as well as giving back to our members and the local community. We&#8217;re pleased to award these scholarships to such deserving and outstanding recipients as they pursue their academic goals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>More about the <abbr>UHFCU<\/abbr> scholarship<\/h2>\n<p><abbr>UHFCU<\/abbr>&#8217;s Scholarship Program requires that applicants are <abbr>UHFCU<\/abbr> members or family members thereof. Scholarships were available for incoming freshmen as well as continuing college students of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System. Applicants were scored based on financial need, academic achievement, leadership and community service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on financial need, academic achievement, leadership and community services, five local scholars will each receive a $2,000 scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":62686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[572,660,9,59,1009],"class_list":["post-62681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-university-of-hawaii-federal-credit-union","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/uhfcu-sholarship-program.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681","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=62681"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92261,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681\/revisions\/92261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}