  {"id":55553,"date":"2017-01-27T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T02:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=55553"},"modified":"2020-03-09T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T23:08:23","slug":"lani-kailua-outdoor-circle-presents-environmental-studies-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/lani-kailua-outdoor-circle-presents-environmental-studies-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle presents environmental studies scholarship"},"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_55556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55556\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wcc-lani-kailuaoutdoorcircle-scholarship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wcc-lani-kailuaoutdoorcircle-scholarship.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wcc-lani-kailuaoutdoorcircle-scholarship-260x149.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scholarship check is presented to Chancellor Dykstra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanikailuaoutdoorcircle.org\/\">Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle<\/a> (LKOC) awarded $6,000 to fund environmental studies scholarships at <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a>. The scholarships will be awarded during the 2017&#8211;2018 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1993, the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle has funded more than 50 scholarships for students studying agriculture and environmental studies at Windward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55557\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wcc-lani-kailuaoutdoorcircle-scholarship-sign.jpg\" alt=\"L K O C president Diane Harding signs ceremonial check\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wcc-lani-kailuaoutdoorcircle-scholarship-sign.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wcc-lani-kailuaoutdoorcircle-scholarship-sign-260x242.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>LKOC<\/abbr> president Diane Harding signs ceremonial check<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;As part of our educational outreach, all of us at <abbr>LKOC<\/abbr> have been proud to\u00a0provide these scholarships to the next generation of stewards of our aina,&rdquo; said Diane Harding, Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle president. &ldquo;We look forward to helping students at Windward Community College be successful in their college studies. They will be the future for keeping our islands clean, green and beautiful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our students are fortunate to have donors step forward and offer financial help,&rdquo; said Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Chancellor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/people\/doug_dykstra\/\">Doug Dykstra<\/a><\/strong>. &ldquo;We have many students struggling to pay for tuition, books and fees, so every scholarship gift is critically important to both student success and persistence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the sustainable agriculture certificate and eligibility for the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle scholarship, please contact <strong><a href=\"mailto:orkrupp@hawaii.edu\">Dave Krupp<\/a><\/strong> at (808) 236-9121.<\/p>\n<p>To learn how you can support students and programs at Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, contact <strong><a href=\"mailto:KC.Collins@ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½Foundation.org\">KC Collins<\/a><\/strong>, at (808) 956-3458.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Bonnie Beatson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle\">LKOC<\/abbr> has funded more than 50 scholarships for students studying agriculture and environmental studies at Windward <abbr title=Community College\">CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[758,572,71,66],"class_list":["post-55553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-environmental-science","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55553","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=55553"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112912,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55553\/revisions\/112912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}