{"id":11574,"date":"2018-10-15T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workable-level.flywheelsites.com\/?p=11574"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:51:16","slug":"lunalilo-scholars-program-hosts-second-annual-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/15\/lunalilo-scholars-program-hosts-second-annual-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunalilo Scholars Program Hosts Second Annual Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Katlin Cilliers<\/a> | Staff Writer<\/h5>\n

Shyanne Humel was one of the four\u00a0speakers who shared success stories\u00a0with the nearly 60 people gathered at the \u02bb\u014chi\u02bba\u00a0<\/strong>cafeteria last Thursday, Oct. 11. During the event, Kapi\u02bbolani Community College students, faculty and staff celebrated another year of the King William Charles Lunalilo Scholars program<\/a>, started and maintained by the Kaneta Foundation since 2012.<\/p>\n

Humel was part of the program’s first cohort in 2012. The support she received during her years as a scholar\u00a0from 2012 to 2017\u00a0inspired her to pursue a career in education. During her speech, she shared some of the benefits of being a participant in the program that transcend financial aid.<\/p>\n

“[The cohort] was extraordinary and loving,” she said. “It was that love that made me want to stay in education, and get a better education.”<\/p>\n

The 24-year old is currently a\u00a09th grade English teacher at Wai\u02bbanae High School, after having been a recipient of the scholarship to attend Kapi\u02bbolani Community College\u00a0and, later on, the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa, where she graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.<\/p>\n

Humel\u00a0went on to highlight the ripple effect of programs such as the Lunalilo scholarship in the community. In the same way she was told she had value by the program staff, peer mentors and the foundation when she struggled to believe it herself, she now strives to\u00a0show her students that there are people who care where they will end up.<\/p>\n

” … You, your presence, donations, scholarships, toward people that need support, it impacts everyone else,” Humel said. “And one day, it might be my student that your help is saving.”<\/p>\n

This year’s event included reviewing the program highlights, its current challenges, sharing success stories of previous alumni and peer mentors as well as honoring donors and stakeholders.\u00a0There were also opportunities for guests to network, mingle and talk story. People gathered for dinner before Louise Pagotto, KCC’s chancellor, opened the event.<\/p>\n

Pagotto started by referring to the upcoming accreditation procedures that UH community colleges are undergoing next week. To her, the valuable educational experiences of students serve as the backbone of the work the school does. Through students’ positive experiences in the UH system, they are able to go on and “transform their community.”<\/p>\n

She was then followed by LaVach\u00e9 Scanlan, the highly regarded program director who is seen by many scholars and peer mentors as the “program mom” due to her persistence and constant checking in on students to ensure they are following program requirements in order to make the most of their education.<\/p>\n

Scanlan provided attendees with program updates, an overview of the current numbers of first-year students who go on to pursue their studies compared with non-scholarship recipients in the UH system. She drew attention to figures surrounding Native\u00a0Hawaiian students: program recipients enroll and earn more credits than general populations. They also have higher GPA than non-recipients who are also Native Hawaiian.<\/p>\n

“Students are challenged, … but they find that perseverance to continue, and they’re doing things we never dreamed possible,” Scanlan said.<\/p>\n

The Lunalilo Scholars Program is strongly grounded in Hawaiian values such as community and aloha. Scholarship recipients are helped with money for tuition, fees, books and supplies, transportation, emergency grants, as well as academic and personal support in the form of tutoring and assessments. According to Lester Kaneta, the program founder, 29% of scholarship recipients enter the UH System within three years.<\/p>\n

In May 2017, the foundation, along with Kapi\u2018olani Community College staff, held its first celebratory dinner<\/a>.\u00a0By providing students who are unlikely to pursue higher education with scholarships, the program changes the reality \u2013 and the life stories \u2013 of students in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Katlin Cilliers | Staff Writer Shyanne Humel was one of the four\u00a0speakers who shared success stories\u00a0with the nearly 60 people gathered at the \u02bb\u014chi\u02bba\u00a0cafeteria last Thursday, Oct. 11. During the event, Kapi\u02bbolani Community College students, faculty and staff celebrated another year of the King William Charles Lunalilo Scholars program, started and maintained by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campusnews","category-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}