{"id":34337,"date":"2015-05-04T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=34337"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:13:20","slug":"makana-aloha-foundation-funds-largest-scholarship-at-uh-maui-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/04\/makana-aloha-foundation-funds-largest-scholarship-at-uh-maui-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary scholarship from Makana Aloha is largest ever at Maui College"},"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_34342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34342\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/maui-burks-j.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/maui-burks-j.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/maui-burks-j.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/maui-burks-j-260x162.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makana Aloha Foundation President Jami Burks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/maui-culinary.png\" alt=\"Maui Culinary Academy logo\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makanaalohafoundation.org\/\">Makana Aloha Foundation<\/a> has made a $10,000 gift to fund a scholarship for a full-time student pursuing an Associate of Arts degree in the Culinary Arts program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Maui College<\/a>. The award funds four semesters of tuition and fees, and will be awarded all at one time. It is the largest scholarship gift at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College.<\/p>\n<p>Jami Burks, president of the Makana Aloha Foundation said, &ldquo;The Makana Aloha Foundation wanted to make an immediate and profound impact in the life of a culinary student.&rdquo; Burks continued, &ldquo;We decided to establish this two-year scholarship so that a talented culinary student can focus on school and successfully graduate without financial concerns. We are humbled to be able to provide the support students need to achieve their goals and dreams.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College Chancellor <strong>Lui Hokoana<\/strong> said, &ldquo;Many students receive funding for their first year of school but not the subsequent ones, creating barriers to on-time graduation. We are most grateful to the Makana Aloha Foundation for its generous and thoughtful support. This scholarship will make a big difference in the life of the scholarship recipient.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Makana Aloha Foundation makes $10,000 gift for a student pursuing a culinary arts degree at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College.<\/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":[184,344,572,71,60],"class_list":["post-34337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-culinary","tag-maui-culinary-academy","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-community-colleges","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\/34337","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=34337"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147903,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34337\/revisions\/147903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}