  {"id":81435,"date":"2018-06-26T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=81435"},"modified":"2019-03-29T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:11:55","slug":"suzette-robinson-leeward-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/26\/suzette-robinson-leeward-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzette Robinson takes the helm of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s third largest campus"},"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_81437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81437\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/leeward-robinson-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/leeward-robinson-s.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/leeward-robinson-s-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzette Robinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On July 1, <strong>Suzette Robinson<\/strong> begins her tenure as interim chancellor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a>. After consultations with campus governance groups, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Vice President for Community Colleges <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/john-morton\/\"><strong>John Morton<\/strong><\/a> selected Robinson to serve in the interim position. The search for the permanent chancellor will begin in the fall semester, with the intent of making a decision by late spring 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, Robinson has been the director of academic programs for the <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges<\/a> system office. In this position, she worked in collaboration with the vice chancellors of academic affairs for the seven community colleges on efforts such as online tutoring, job placement services and the early alert program. She provided leadership with initiatives aligned with Achieving the Dream (a national program to help more community college students succeed), the Student Success Pathways Initiative and career and technical education.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her work in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges, Robinson served as <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College<\/a> vice chancellor for academic affairs, assistant dean of instruction, director of continuing education, chair of the Language Arts Division and director of the learning center.<\/p>\n<p>She earned her <abbr title=\"bachelor of education\">BEd<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"master of education\">MEd<\/abbr> in curriculum and instruction from <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson succeeds Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Chancellor <strong>Manny Cabral<\/strong>, who is retiring. Cabral had served as chancellor since 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1, Suzette Robinson begins her tenure as interim chancellor at Leeward Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[691,65,71],"class_list":["post-81435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-administration","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81435","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=81435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93705,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81435\/revisions\/93705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}