{"id":173234,"date":"2023-02-27T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T01:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=173234"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:18:52","slug":"chancellor-karen-lee-honolulu-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/27\/chancellor-karen-lee-honolulu-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor Karen Lee wants to work with industry at Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>"},"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-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_95074\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VQq17L7nZX0?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Chancellor Karen Lee wants to work with industry at Honolulu CC\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> Chancellor <strong>Karen Lee<\/strong> wants to blur the lines between academia and industry, such that both employers and students feel welcome on campus and confident that workforce needs for well-paying jobs are being met.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/honolulu-lee-karen-video-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Karen lee\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-173281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/honolulu-lee-karen-video-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/honolulu-lee-karen-video-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/honolulu-lee-karen-video.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would really like that synergy to continue and to thrive,&rdquo; Lee said. &ldquo;I would love to invite all employers to join our industry boards. Our advisory boards are essential to our faculty doing a good job in teaching our students for the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lee became the chancellor of Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> in December, after serving in an interim role for three years. She presided over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/22\/honolulu-cc-100th-celebration\/\">100th anniversary<\/a> of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>\u2019s oldest community college in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>She began her career at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> in 2001 at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa as the undergraduate coordinator at the Shidler College of Business. Lee also served as executive director of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> P&#8211;20 Partnerships for Education, and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> associate vice president for student affairs and executive assistant to the president.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Honolulu C C campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-68034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/honolulu-campus-gnrc.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enrollment at Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> is up 3.8% this spring, compared to last spring. According to Lee, Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> is a place with strong student support and strong teaching in diverse programs that range from trades and construction, cybersecurity, fashion technology, aeronautical maintenance and the liberal arts, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Success looks like a place where a student can dream and realize their dreams, and a place where faculty feel like they&#8217;re contributing to those dreams,&rdquo; Lee said. &ldquo;We encourage all students&#8212;young and old, male and female, out of high school, in high school&#8212;to come to Honolulu Community College.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Karen Lee welcomes both students and employers to Honolulu Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[876,19,749,533,62,404,71,56],"class_list":["post-173234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-aeronautical-maintenance","tag-construction","tag-cybersecurity","tag-fashion-technology-program","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-music-and-entertainment-learning-experience","tag-uh-community-colleges","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\/173234","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=173234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173463,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173234\/revisions\/173463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}