{"id":74745,"date":"2018-02-09T10:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=74745"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:21:14","slug":"stopped-out-student-returns-to-maui-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/09\/stopped-out-student-returns-to-maui-college\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stopped out&#8221; student returns to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College thanks to re-enrollment initiative"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SHyvXJKVEFg?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/maui-return-to-maui-macadangdang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/maui-return-to-maui-macadangdang-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Kalaheo Macadangdang\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-74759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/maui-return-to-maui-macadangdang-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/maui-return-to-maui-macadangdang-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/maui-return-to-maui-macadangdang.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kalaheo Macadangdang<\/strong> is finishing something he started in 2011, the year he graduated from Baldwin High School on Maui. He is pursuing an associate degree in liberal arts at <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Maui College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I decided to take a break from school, which was supposed to be a semester, ended up being a year and a half,&rdquo; said Macadangdang. He was only three credits shy of earning his degree but life happened. Macadangdang began working at Hawaiian Airlines in 2013 where he is now a flight attendant. One day in December 2017, he got a postcard from <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I got this awesome offer to come back to school and they offered the first class for free,&rdquo; said Macadangdang.<\/p>\n<p>That offer is part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community Colleges<\/a> pilot project targeting &ldquo;stopped out&rdquo; students&#8212;former students who have earned some college credit but no degree. Macadangdang was one of 969 stopped out students identified from <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s seven community colleges. They had been out of school for two years or less and had already earned at least one semester\u2019s worth of credits.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We emailed, we sent out postcards, we did phone calls,&rdquo; said <strong>Kyla Wayas<\/strong>, a <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui academic counselor. Macadangdang was one of 150 stopped out students who decided to return and who received their first three-credit class for free.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more about the program in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/18\/degree-completion-campaign-planning\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> targeting thousands of former students with degree completion campaign<\/a>, January 18, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;There was no hesitation,&rdquo; said Macadangdang. &ldquo;I was looking forward to trying to get back to school. I did not know exactly when, but this was a big pusher.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They just needed that little nudge, okay, I have this opportunity, I should take advantage of it and come back to college,&rdquo; added Wayas.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of stopped out students in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8212;about 95,000 between the ages 25 and 44, according to state statistics from 2016. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> is planning a campaign to target about 34,000 of its stopped out students in a multi-year effort to get them to come back and complete their degrees. A community college graduate is estimated to make a half million dollars more over their lifetime compared to high school graduate. That increases to a million more over a lifetime, for a graduate with a four year degree.<\/p>\n<p>As for Macadangdang, he\u2019s only just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have about a year and a half to finish my bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> and I eventually plan to be a pilot for Hawaiian Airlines,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalaheo Macadangdang decided to pursue his associate degree at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College after receiving a postcard from the college encouraging him to return.<\/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":[340,71,60,947,56],"class_list":["post-74745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-hawaii-graduation-initiative","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","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\/74745","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=74745"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92997,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74745\/revisions\/92997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}