Higher Education

For the third year in a row....

The Candidate Advisory Council (CAC) for the Board of Regents of the University of  Hawai’i has presented a list of candidates to Governor Neil Abercrombie to fill three City & County of Honolulu seats and one Student seat....

UHPA has taken a two-pronged approach to preserve faculty rights. In December 2013, the union filed a prohibited practice charge....

Hawaii P-­‐20 Council established a goal for 55 percent of Hawaii’s working age adults to have a two-­‐ or four-­‐year college degree by the year 2025....

House Bill No. 1200, House Draft 2, is not needed to comply with the Higher Education Act of 1965 and other flaws in the bill do not warrant its enactment....

...approved fees were charged for services before the services existed....

“I want my students to be effective public policy makers,” Lingle said....

...the earning differential between college and high school graduates fell 11 percent for men and 19.7 percent for women....

Over the last weeks there has been considerable public discourse about the Center.  Rather than looking backwards, we would like to share the specific steps we are now taking....

In lieu of paying tuition or fees, students would enter contracts to pay back the university a certain percentage of their income after graduation....

The FAA this week that the University of Alaska is one of several educational institutions selected to test drones, and Hawaii and Oregon are included in the university’s plan ....

News Release from University of Hawaiʻi Dec 18, 2013 (With explanatory notes added to enhance accuracy.)....

U.S. government that it is taking steps to improve the collection of health data for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders....

...the Black Knights from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point played the University of Hawaii Warriors, Saturday, Nov. 30....

He assumes one of the board’s Honolulu seats, an interim position until confirmed by the state Senate....

A UH systemwide task force to work on improving services for student veterans has been formed and held its organizational meeting on Friday, November 22....

• DATE: Friday, December 20, 2013
• TIME: 9:00 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 309 State Capitol

...rally in protest of the $250 million loss of state funds in 5 years which has resulted in tuition increases.... 

Abercrombie today announced the release of $83.9 million for capital improvement projects at University of Hawaii campuses....

• Peter S. Adler
• Jeffrey S. Portnoy
• Stanford B. C. Yuen

...anonymous 'Informal Advisory Opinions' which clearly refer to questions raised over the practice of giving UH Regents free athletic tickets....

Schoolland discusses the importance of economics education as a way to understand how the world works....

The three firms will be invited to make presentations to the committee within the next two weeks....

• DATE: Thursday, October 31, 2013
• TIME: 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.

...student veteran leaders representing chapters of Hawaiʻi Alliance of Student Veterans (HASV) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and Leeward Community College, testified in front of the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents in an effort to spark dialogue over the idea of amending tuition waiver regulations....

Nominations and self-nominations for task force members should be sent by email to president@Hawaii.edu....

The ultimate goal is identifying Hawaiʻi’s language needs and creating a robust, multilingual workforce to handle those needs....

Hawai‘i Pacific University is once again the state’s only university to appear on the Military Friendly Schools list...

Brian Minaai, associate vice president for Capitol Improvements since 2008, has been on paid leave for nearly eight months....

Hawai‘i Pacific University climbed 10 places in the top Regional Universities in the West in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2014,”....

Members of the Presidential Selection Committee are appearing at various community gatherings to solicit input....

The athletic department for the University of Hawaii will get a $13 million bailout....

This decrease comes after record-breaking enrollments in each of the last five years. Since 2007, enrollment has grown by 17 percent....

...a more radical form of liberalism emerged in the academy that sowed the seeds for the sexual revolution and multiculturalism....

...students promise to attend their classes, get good grades, check their UH email at least once a day, talk to instructors when having difficulty, meet with counselors when having academic or personal issues, and commit to making education a priority....

$178,250 in matching funds for a scholarship which would provide full tuition for a deserving student from Hawaii....

some final thoughts with you as I leave the leadership of the University of Hawaiʻi....

With enrollment at the historic level...university officials are crediting a new four-year guarantee....

...the government actually stands to make an enormous profit on the president's new federal student loan system -- a boondoggle paid for by hyper-inflated tuition costs and fueled by a government-sponsored predatory-lending program....

Instead of a dedicated library, welcoming mainly graduate students and professors, here are some other ways to honor our public leaders....

Recruitment Announcement From UH Regents Candidate Advisory Council....

Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan....

Dobelle spent “$8,000 for a four-night stay at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Bangkok; $883 from the upscale clothing store Louis Boston; $10,000 for tickets to shows at Tanglewood; more than $4,000 for limousine rides” and a total of $200,000....

"...swift action on the center was necessary since the senate will store papers for no longer than six months from the time the office is closed...."

Hawaii's bid for it got a $5,000 donation from the global law and lobbying firm Skadden Arps....