  {"id":76515,"date":"2018-03-21T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=76515"},"modified":"2019-08-27T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T00:36:06","slug":"american-savings-bank-endowment-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/21\/american-savings-bank-endowment-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"American Savings Bank builds on scholarship endowment with $65,000 gift"},"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_76516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76516\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/system-foundation-asb-scholarship.jpg\" alt=\"Four people holding an American Savings Bank check\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/system-foundation-asb-scholarship.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/system-foundation-asb-scholarship-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Rich Wacker, Michelle Bartell, Laurie Komatsu and Donna Vuchinich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Building on its longtime support of education in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asbhawaii.com\/\">American Savings Bank<\/a> (<abbr>ASB<\/abbr>) has donated $65,000 to the American Savings Bank Endowed Scholarship Fund. The company established this scholarship at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> in 1978. Over the last 40 years, this scholarship has been awarded 55 times.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This contribution to our scholarship fund enables us to help even more students achieve their dreams of higher education in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo; said <abbr>ASB<\/abbr> President and <abbr title=\"Chief Executive Officer\">CEO<\/abbr> Rich Wacker. &ldquo;We are proud to increase our endowment with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>, which ultimately supports a stronger workforce for our state.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>ASB<\/abbr> Endowed Scholarship supports full-time undergraduate students enrolled at any of the 10 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> campuses with a minimum <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr> of 3.0 and in need of financial assistance. Preference is given to students from <abbr>ASB<\/abbr>\u2019s &ldquo;Bank for Education &#699;Ohana Schools.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a> President and <abbr title=\"Chief Executive Officer\">CEO<\/abbr> <strong>Donna Vuchinich<\/strong> said, &ldquo;We are tremendously grateful to <abbr>ASB<\/abbr> for all the impactful ways they support our university and our students statewide. From scholarships to program support, <abbr>ASB<\/abbr> is helping to ensure that our students receive a high quality, relevant education that prepares them for our dynamic workforce. Mahalo!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarships.uhfoundation.org\/scholarships\/scholarship_detail.aspx?acct=12052704\">Learn more about the scholarship at the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>ASB<\/abbr> established the scholarship at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> in 1978 and has awarded it to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> students 55 times in the last 40 years.<\/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":[572,319,947],"class_list":["post-76515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76515","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=76515"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102056,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76515\/revisions\/102056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}