{"id":26065,"date":"2014-07-14T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=26065"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:33:36","slug":"kapiolani-cc-awarded-mentorlinks-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/14\/kapiolani-cc-awarded-mentorlinks-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"<span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> awarded MentorLinks grant"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_2195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2195\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gnrc.campus.kapiolanicc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gnrc.campus.kapiolanicc.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gnrc.campus.kapiolanicc-260x164.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> has been selected as one of the ten winning &ldquo;mentee&rdquo; colleges in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacc.nche.edu\/Pages\/default.aspx\">American Association of Community Colleges<\/a>&#8217; (<abbr>AACC<\/abbr>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacc.nche.edu\/Resources\/aaccprograms\/mentorlinks\/Pages\/default.aspx\">MentorLinks<\/a>: Advancing Technological Education program, which is part of a national initiative supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\">National Science Foundation<\/a>. The MentorLinks grant is for the period of October 1, 2014 through October 31, 2016, in the amount of $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am very pleased and honored that the <abbr>AACC<\/abbr> review panel selected <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> to work on this important program that is designed to benefit <abbr>AACC<\/abbr> members,&rdquo; said Chancellor <strong>Leon Richards<\/strong>. &ldquo;In today&#8217;s rapidly changing technology field, it is critical that we support technician education and mentorships.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Team building, effective partnerships and good communication are among the key factors that will make this program successful. <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> project staff will attend the MentorLinks project planning meeting and Advancing Technological Education principle investigators&#8217;s conference in Washington, D.C., October 21&#8211;24, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> has been selected as 1 of 10 winning &ldquo;mentee&rdquo; colleges in the <abbr>AACC<\/abbr> MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-26065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-kapiolani-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065","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=26065"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150810,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions\/150810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}