Family and general resources for food, financial assistance, and education.
The Hawaiʻi Life in the Time of COVID-19 Project is designed to engage our Hawaiʻi communities in examining, articulating and sharing the impacts of COVID-19 upon our Hawaiʻi island ways of life, livelihoods, health, families, communities, education, values and outlooks for the future.
The University of Hawaii plans to return to some form of in-person classes this fall, after most of its nearly 50,000 students spent much of the spring semester learning online.
But what exactly those classes will look like, and how the 10-campus system will operate under new guidelines necessary to keep the coronavirus at bay remains to be seen.
If you have a federal student loan (such as a Direct or FFEL loan, which are held by the U.S. Department of Education), and are in active repayment, all of your payments are cancelled through September 30, 2020, and you will not accumulate interest during that time. Students should receive notification that their loan payments will be put on hold by April 11, 2020.
Ideas for families, resources on how to talk to your child about COVID-19, virtual field trips, education companies offering free subscriptions during school closures.
UHM President David Lassner made his report to the Board of Regents at their meeting on April 16, 2020. Highlights include:
- UH COVID-19 status and updates
- Student financial concerns
- Refund practices
- $2.2 trillion CARES Act
- UH finances in light of COVID-19 crisis
- Planning for the new future
- Mahalo UH ʻohana
Key funding for the Aloha State includes:
$1.25 billion to help fund state and county government response efforts;
$1.14 billion in estimated unemployment assistance;
$1.24 billion in estimated direct cash payments to Hawai‘i residents;
$130 million in estimated funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP);
$53 million to support local schools and colleges during the pandemic;
$11 million for Hawai‘i’s community health centers;
$8 million in Community Development Block Grants;