{"id":13153,"date":"2012-10-03T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=13153"},"modified":"2012-10-02T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:29:42","slug":"breaking-those-college-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/breaking-those-college-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Those College Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The King William Charles Lunalilo Scholars are in the house \u2014 in their first year at Kapiolani Community College, that is, thanks to a grant from the Kaneta Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The 21 students have academic potential but were selected especially because of the barriers that have kept them from entering any college programs, such as being single parents, or having financial and personal problems. They will be supported in the new program by faculty, staff and peer mentors, as well as supplemental funding from KCC\u2019s financial aid program, according to Mona Lee, vice chancellor for student affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to change students\u2019 lives through the Lunalilo Scholars Program,\u201d she said, noting the focus for the first year will be on persistence. The students also went through a summer bridge course on campus before entering the \u201cfirst-year experience\u201d phase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIf it hadn\u2019t been for this program,\u201d said a 2001 Kaimuki High graduate, \u201cI would probably still be working my part-time retail job, which will not let me move closer to a career.\u201d the student also is a single parent who\u2019s juggled many schedules to make it all work out. \u201cI am very thankful for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaneta Foundation co-founder Lester Kaneta, with his wife Marian, said they\u2019re pleased to be part of the Scholars Project to help reverse the direction of those who don\u2019t have the family backing for college. \u201cThey are told that they lack the funding, or that they are not smart enough, or that they just don\u2019t have what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Still other Lunalilo Scholars already have declared a new optimism and confidence in their future \u2014 one aims to be a radiologist, and another said: \u201cI hope to one day become a physician specializing in either geriatrics or oncology and be someone my family and friends can be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more on how to support KCC, call 734-9570.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King William Charles Lunalilo Scholars are in the house \u2014 in their first year at Kapiolani Community College, that..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east","category-east-oahu-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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