{"id":78054,"date":"2018-04-19T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T00:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=78054"},"modified":"2019-03-27T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:11:29","slug":"president-april-2018-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/19\/president-april-2018-report\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s April 2018 highlights and updates"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X1zP8o0bZmY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/david-lassner\/\"><strong>David Lassner<\/strong><\/a> made his report to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\">Board of Regents<\/a> at their meeting on April 19, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Debt Free College proposal by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=28s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/17\/last-dollar-scholarships-fulfill-promise\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise bill still alive<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=3m30s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/08\/molokai-mckinley-fafsa-cash-for-college\/\">Way to go <span aria-label=\"Molokai\">Moloka&#699;i<\/span> High! Cash for College Challenge <\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=4m52s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/10\/mau-royal-college-of-physicians\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine&#8217;s <strong>Marjorie Mau<\/strong> honored<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=5m44s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>EB-5 loan to build <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> campus is paid (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=7m16s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/29\/kelvin-ro-1m-for-culinary-institute-of-the-pacific\/\">Kelvin Ro\u2019s $1<abbr title=\"million\">M<\/abbr> donation for Culinary Institute of the Pacific<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=9m32s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Design-build team selected for $32<abbr title=\"million\">M<\/abbr> <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Creative Media facility (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=11m37s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Make the Ala Wai Awesome Design Challenge inspires (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=13m39s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/19\/uh-nominees-for-governors-awards-recognized\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> nominees for Governor\u2019s Awards for Distinguished Service<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1zP8o0bZmY?t=15m51s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78093\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/west-oahu-acm-render.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/west-oahu-acm-render.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/west-oahu-acm-render-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of the exterior of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Academy for Creative Media facility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/presidents-report\/\">View previous reports to the board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights include debt free college proposal, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Promise bill, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> nominees for Governor&#8217;s awards and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[112,184,181,306,31,394,1120,698,71,947,59,56],"class_list":["post-78054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-academy-for-creative-media","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-institute-of-the-pacific","tag-hawaii-p-20","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78054","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=78054"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80681,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78054\/revisions\/80681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}