{"id":222246,"date":"2025-09-19T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=222246"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:54:30","slug":"presidents-report-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/19\/presidents-report-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Report: Federal cuts, enrollment gains, aviation techs"},"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_81604\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ruac1HhCEIQ?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=\"President\u2019s Report: Federal cuts, enrollment gains, aviation techs\"  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 lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> President Wendy Hensel updated the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Board of Regents (<abbr>BOR<\/abbr>) about major changes in federal funding and  increased student enrollment across the 10-campus system at the September 18 meeting at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_222332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222332\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/system-presidents-award-facilities-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Gabe Lee, Ivan Hartison, President Wendy Hensel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-222332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/system-presidents-award-facilities-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/system-presidents-award-facilities-130x73.jpeg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/system-presidents-award-facilities.jpeg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabe Lee, Ivan Hartison, Wendy Hensel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Hensel also provided an update on an expanded partnership between Hawaiian Airlines and Honolulu Community College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/08\/hawaiian-airlines-honolulu-cc-mtdp\/\">to train aviation maintenance technicians<\/a>. She also congratulated <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;inui\u0101kea<\/span> School of Hawaiian Knowledge and its role in hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/28\/free-events-hawaiian-history-month-2025\/\">a series of events for Hawaiian History Month<\/a> throughout Kepakemapa (September).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Department of Education announcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ruac1HhCEIQ?t=16s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fall 2025 enrollment update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ruac1HhCEIQ?t=4m16s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News highlights (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ruac1HhCEIQ?t=6m9s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/uh-presidents-award-honors-hartison\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance awardee Ivan Hartison<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ruac1HhCEIQ?t=8m37s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/uh-governors-awards-nominees-2025\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> nominees for governor\u2019s awards<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ruac1HhCEIQ?t=9m39s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hensel also presented the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President\u2019s Award for Excellence in building and grounds maintenance to Ivan Hartison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":222303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[72,61,62,63,64,65,1094,394,1120,911,698,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,1664,66],"class_list":["post-222246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-board-of-regents","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-presidents-maintenance-award","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-program-recognition","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-hensel","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/system-pres-message-2025-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222246","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=222246"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222394,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222246\/revisions\/222394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}