  {"id":17074,"date":"2013-05-29T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=17074"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T00:03:25","slug":"uh-campus-coming-to-west-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/29\/uh-campus-coming-to-west-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> campus coming to West <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MrwgwKMec18\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>P\u0101lamanui, the planned Kona campus of <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Community College<\/a>, has taken a giant step towards becoming a reality. A k\u012bpaepae <span aria-label=\"eli\">\u02bbeli<\/span> honua, or groundbreaking ceremony for the new campus, was held in May 2013. Welcome news considering P\u0101lamanui was first conceived of more than two decades ago, and had been in the planning stages since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are graduating from planning to doing,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> System<\/a> President <strong>M.R.C. Greenwood<\/strong>. \u201cAnd that is a very important beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> is the only major geographic region and population center in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> without a permanent higher education facility. That will change in 2015 when the first phase of P\u0101lamanui is scheduled for completion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community colleges open the doors for our <span aria-label=\"kamalii\">kamali\u02bbi<\/span>, our children, for haumana, our students to dream,\u201d said <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> County Mayor Billy Kenoi.<\/p>\n<p>The state-of-the-art, energy-independent campus is expected to serve as a model for other state projects.<\/p>\n<p>The $25 million first phase includes a structure with 24,000 square feet of classrooms, science labs, learning kitchens, library, learning commons area and a large photovoltaic system.<\/p>\n<p>It fits in perfectly with <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Community College\u2019s mission of E <span aria-label=\"Imi\">\u02bbImi<\/span> Pono, or seeking excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the same spirit that will guide us into the future and the endless possibilities this new campus will provide,\u201d said <b>Noreen Yamane<\/b>, chancellor of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking ceremony prepared the land in a traditional Hawaiian way, and included H\u0101nai <span aria-label=\"Awa\">\u02bbAwa<\/span>, feeding <span aria-label=\"awa\">\u02bbawa<\/span> to the land; Kanu I\u02bba, burying fish; Kanu <span aria-label=\"Laau\">L\u0101\u02bbau<\/span>, planting <span aria-label=\"Laau\">L\u0101\u02bbau<\/span>; and hula, with a mele or song for the spirit of the land, ocean and sky.<\/p>\n<p>Then with <span aria-label=\"o o\">\u014d\u02bb\u014d<\/span>, or digging sticks, in hand; state, county and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> dignitaries dug into the earth, marking the start of the creation of a new home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pledge all that we have, all that we are, to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>\u2019s and its future,\u201d said Governor Neil Abercrombie. \u201cP\u0101lamanui, is the future of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A groundbreaking ceremony was held for P&#257;lamanui, the planned Kona campus of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[61,435],"class_list":["post-17074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-palamanui","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074","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=17074"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174297,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074\/revisions\/174297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}