{"id":153318,"date":"2021-12-16T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=153318"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T23:57:49","slug":"presidents-report-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/16\/presidents-report-december-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s report: COVID-19 update, state budget and Red Hill water crisis"},"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_97317\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wqn2rH-XRxw?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=\"糖心Vlog官方 President\u2019s December 2021 report: COVID-19 update, state budget and Red Hill water crisis\"  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>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> delivered his monthly report to the Board of Regents on December 16. Lassner started with the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic as <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> campuses prepare to reopen in January 2022. He called on students and employees to get vaccinated, get the COVID-19 booster and to continue practicing COVID-19 prevention efforts, including wearing face masks and avoiding crowds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_120142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120142\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/leeward-online-sawai-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"hotel employees\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/leeward-online-sawai-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/leeward-online-sawai-1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/leeward-online-sawai-1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Sawai, center, one of the Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> online degree cohort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lassner also provided updates on the status of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> priorities in the proposed state budget for the 2022 legislative session and a successful Leeward Community College accelerated online degree program. He also explained <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s role in the ongoing response to the Red Hill water crisis. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>COVID-19 update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Wqn2rH-XRxw?t=0s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>State budget update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Wqn2rH-XRxw?t=3m43s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Red Hill water crisis (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Wqn2rH-XRxw?t=8m20s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> online degree program success (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Wqn2rH-XRxw?t=14m45s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Happy Holidays!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/presidents-report\/\">See previous president&#8217;s reports to the Board of Regents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153181\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/west-oahu-fall-2021-commencement-13.jpg\" alt=\"U H W O graduate and volunteer\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/west-oahu-fall-2021-commencement-13.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/west-oahu-fall-2021-commencement-13-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/west-oahu-fall-2021-commencement-13-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer assists a graduate at the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Fall 2021 Commencement on December 11, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President David Lassner provided an update on <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s continuing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, budget, Red Hill and more.<\/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":[1411,65,394,1120,947,56],"class_list":["post-153318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-uh-system","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\/153318","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=153318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153323,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153318\/revisions\/153323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}