{"id":2804,"date":"2015-07-30T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:01:01","slug":"kylie-kaeo-receives-ala-spectrum-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/kylie-kaeo-receives-ala-spectrum-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Ka\u02bbeo Receives ALA Spectrum Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2807\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kaeo001-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"kaeo001-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kaeo001-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kaeo001-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kaeo001-2.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Congratulations to LIS student Kylie Ka<em><strong>\u02bb<\/strong><\/em>eo on her 2015 ALA Spectrum Scholarship!<\/p>\n<p>ALA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2015\/07\/ala-awards-60-spectrum-scholarships-2015-2016\">official announcement<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A prestigious committee of ten jurors selected this year&#8217;s Spectrum Scholars based on their commitment to diversity, commitment to entering the library profession, demonstrated community outreach, academic ability and achievements and leadership potential.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spectrum recruits and provides scholarships to American Indian\/Alaska Native, Asian, Black\/African American, Hispanic\/Latino or Native Hawaiian\/Other Pacific Islander students to assist them with obtaining a graduate degree and leadership positions within the profession and our organization. The ALA Spectrum award aims &#8220;to increase the number of racially and ethnically diverse professionals in the field of library and information science to best position libraries at the core of today&#8217;s culturally diverse communities. To learn more about the Spectrum Scholarship Program, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/spectrum\">www.ala.org\/spectrum<\/a>. The application period for 2016-2017 Spectrum Scholarships will open in September 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to LIS student Kylie Ka\u02bbeo on her 2015 ALA Spectrum Scholarship! ALA&#8217;s official announcement states: A prestigious committee of ten jurors selected this year&#8217;s Spectrum Scholars based on their commitment to diversity, commitment to entering the library profession, demonstrated community outreach, academic ability and achievements and leadership potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,54,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congratulations","category-newsroom","category-scholarships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5151,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}