{"id":23001,"date":"2014-03-03T15:38:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=23001"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:51:44","slug":"experience-day-showcases-uh-manoa-programs-and-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/03\/experience-day-showcases-uh-manoa-programs-and-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience day showcases <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa programs and services"},"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\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ThEwTVul9G0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> is ranked in the top 12 percent nationally for universities and colleges, according to the most recent annual rankings by <em>U.S. News and World Report<\/em> and the numbers are even higher when it comes to research. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right now we&#8217;re ranked 51st in the country among all universities, public and private,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Chancellor <strong>Tom Apple<\/strong>. &ldquo;And our international rankings are incredibly high, top 150 in the world, which puts us ahead of many prominent universities that people think about on the mainland. &rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23013\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/experience-manoa-day.jpg\" alt=\"people looking at display\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/experience-manoa-day.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/experience-manoa-day-260x187.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The M&#257;noa Experience shows prospective students and parents the programs and services the campus has to offer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite consistently placing high each year, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa is often underappreciated in its own state. So every spring semester, the university hosts the M&#257;noa Experience University Preview Day to showcase all it has to offer to prospective students, parents and the general public. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&#8217;s something here for every passion,&rdquo; said Apple. &ldquo;One of our major goals at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa is for students to find their passion.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>About 200 <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa programs and services are represented with displays, interactive activities and demonstrations, which are run by faculty, staff and students. It all happens on tree lined McCarthy Mall, located in the heart of the campus. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It seems like a lot of people are really excited about what they do and all the teachers are really excited with representing their different programs,&rdquo; said <strong>Elena Barbour<\/strong>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> student who attended the 2014 M&#257;noa Experience University Preview Day and is planning to transfer to <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It helps because the tents here, the programs here, kind of gets you ready, tells what to expect, what you want to learn,&rdquo; said Castle High School sophomore Trey Aho, who hopes to be accepted at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> when he graduates. <\/p>\n<p>There are also a variety of campus tours, presentations on subjects like applying for scholarships and the admissions office is open for prospective students to submit and check on applications. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I didn&#8217;t realize it was going to be such a big production. So I am kind of impressed by this set up and it gave me a different perspective of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>,&rdquo; said Trudy Sherlock, who took her daughter Jessica, a high school senior, to the 2014 event. <\/p>\n<p>The M&#257;noa Experience University Preview Day attracts more than a thousand people each year and most say they are surprised when the discover the wide variety of programs and services offered at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People ought to realize what a gem we have right here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and be very proud of the University of M&#257;noa,&rdquo; said Apple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M&#257;noa Experience University Preview Day highlights all <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa has to offer to prospective students, parents and the general public. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[9,56],"class_list":["post-23001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-uh-manoa","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\/23001","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=23001"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151296,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001\/revisions\/151296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}