  {"id":33187,"date":"2015-04-01T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=33187"},"modified":"2021-09-22T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T01:53:21","slug":"oha-grants-award-to-uh-maui-college-liko-ae-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/oha-grants-award-to-uh-maui-college-liko-ae-program\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"Office of Hawaiian Affairs\">OHA<\/abbr> awards grant to <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College Liko A\u02bbe program"},"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\/2015\/04\/maui-liko-ae.jpg\" alt=\"two people making tapa\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maui-liko-ae.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maui-liko-ae-260x199.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oha.org\/\">Office of Hawaiian Affairs<\/a> granted the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Maui College&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.likoae.org\/\">Liko <span aria-label=\"Ae\">A&#699;e<\/span> Native Hawaiian Leadership Program<\/a> an award of $187,000. Funds will be used to support the program&#8217;s mission to provide scholarships and services to non-traditional Native Hawaiian students who aspire to attain a college degree throughout <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, Liko <span aria-label=\"Ae\">A&#699;e<\/span> has disbursed over 3,400 scholarship awards to Native Hawaiian students pursuing a diverse range of degree programs. Liko <span aria-label=\"Ae\">A&#699;e<\/span> also offers mentoring programs focused on community service projects and online community building.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We would like to mahalo The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and our community partners for their unwavering support of our program,&rdquo; said <strong>Kahealani Naeole<\/strong>, Liko <span aria-label=\"Ae\">A&#699;e<\/span>&#8217;s project director. &ldquo;With this funding we will be able to offer about 90-100 scholarships during the fall 2015 semester as well as wrap-around services to non-traditional Native Hawaiian students who aspire to attain higher education.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Liko <span aria-label=\"Ae\">A&#699;e<\/span>, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.likoae.org\/\">Liko <span aria-label=\"Ae\">A&#699;e<\/span> website<\/a> or contact Liko <span aria-label=\"Ae\">A&#699;e<\/span> via <a href=\"mailto:likoae@hawaii.edu\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>OHA<\/abbr> awards <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College&#8217;s Liko A&#699;e program $187,000 to support non-traditional Native Hawaiian students<\/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":[33,572,60],"class_list":["post-33187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaiian","tag-scholarship","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33187","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=33187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148497,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33187\/revisions\/148497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}