{"id":115492,"date":"2020-04-07T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=115492"},"modified":"2020-04-13T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:36:42","slug":"200k-urgent-student-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/07\/200k-urgent-student-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $200<abbr title=\"thousand\">K<\/abbr> awarded as students\u2019 needs grow"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-campus-gnrc-trees-676.jpg\" alt=\"Tree lined walkway\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-115245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-campus-gnrc-trees-676.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-campus-gnrc-trees-676-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-campus-gnrc-trees-676-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A week after access to a fund for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/31\/apply-uh-urgent-student-relief\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> students experiencing urgent financial distress<\/a> was opened, more than $200,000 has been awarded to more than 500 students. Work is continuing on all 10 campuses to process additional funding relief to even more students as the needs continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A big mahalo to the companies and individuals who have already stepped forward to begin to address the urgent needs of our University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> students across the state,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心视频<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>. &ldquo;We invite the community to help us to help our students with necessities such as food and shelter in these turbulent times, as they also strive to complete their studies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Applications to the <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> Urgent Student Relief Fund are due each Wednesday by 4 p.m. with notification by the following week.The Urgent Student Relief Fund is not a replacement for financial aid. Examples of unexpected financial hardships considered include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>costs encountered due to an unanticipated situation or emergency<\/li>\n<li>loss of employment or housing<\/li>\n<li>family emergencies<\/li>\n<li>natural disasters or pandemic<\/li>\n<li>food insecurity<\/li>\n<li>medical\/dental expenses<\/li>\n<li>changes to childcare or transportation needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/student-affairs\/urgent-student-relief-fund\/\">Applications and criteria can be found online<\/a>. Please contact your <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> campus directly with any questions.<\/p>\n<p>Donations to support the urgent needs of our <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/covid-19\">can be made to the <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is continuing on all 10 <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> campuses to process additional funding relief to even more students as the needs continue to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1411,1416,61,62,63,64,65,71,319,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-115492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","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\/115492","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=115492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115500,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115492\/revisions\/115500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}