  {"id":11966,"date":"2022-10-13T19:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T19:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:47:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T19:47:03","slug":"bama-pathway-graduate-lena-petko-featured-in-uh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/bama-pathway-graduate-lena-petko-featured-in-uh-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BAMA Pathway Graduate Lena Petko featured in 糖心视频 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/wp-content\/uploads\/BAM-Lena-Petko.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/wp-content\/uploads\/BAM-Lena-Petko.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/wp-content\/uploads\/BAM-Lena-Petko-872x491.jpeg 872w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/wp-content\/uploads\/BAM-Lena-Petko-480x270.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/wp-content\/uploads\/BAM-Lena-Petko-768x433.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of\u00a0<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi Second Language Studies<\/span> alumna Lena Petko, found her path to a master\u2019s degree, a new career, and an unexpected \u02bbohana through an accelerated Combined Bachelor\u2019s &amp; Master\u2019s Degree Pathway (BAMA Pathway) program.<\/p>\n<p>BAMA Pathway programs encourage high-performing 糖心视频M undergraduate students to commit to a master\u2019s program early and take graduate-level classes in their senior year. The program helped Lena go from testing the waters for a return to college to employment as an instructor with the 糖心视频M <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>\u00a0English Language Program (HELP).<\/p>\n<p>For more details on Lena&#8217;s story, please visit 糖心视频 News at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/11\/bam-accelerated-path-to-graduate-degree\/\">https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/11\/bam-accelerated-path-to-graduate-degree\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n&nbsp; University of\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi Second Language Studies alumna Lena Petko, found her path to a master\u2019s degree, a new career, and an unexpected \u02bbohana through an accelerated Combined Bachelor\u2019s &amp; Master\u2019s Degree Pathway (BAMA Pathway) program. BAMA Pathway programs encourage high-performing&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/bama-pathway-graduate-lena-petko-featured-in-uh-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;BAMA Pathway Graduate Lena Petko featured in 糖心视频 News&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/bama-pathway-graduate-lena-petko-featured-in-uh-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;BAMA Pathway Graduate Lena Petko featured in 糖心视频 News&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BAMA Pathway Graduate Lena Petko featured in 糖心视频 News - Department of Second Language Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/bama-pathway-graduate-lena-petko-featured-in-uh-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BAMA Pathway Graduate Lena Petko featured in 糖心视频 News - Department of Second Language Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; University of\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi Second Language Studies alumna Lena Petko, found her path to a master\u2019s degree, a new career, and an unexpected \u02bbohana through an accelerated Combined Bachelor\u2019s &amp; Master\u2019s Degree Pathway (BAMA Pathway) program. 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