Manoa Rep. Isaac Choy, who introduced a bill this year to allow legislators to take full time jobs at the University of Hawaii while retaining their legislative posts, is scheduled to hold a short town hall meeting on the UH Manoa campus on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 16. The meeting is open to all UH faculty as well as the general public.
For more information on HB1556, refer to my post here on Thursday.
Choy, currently chairman of the House Committee on Higher Education, will make his appearance during the Manoa Faculty Congress Meeting on on Wednesday, March 16th from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the Architecture Auditorium (ARCH 205).
UH Director of Athletics David Matlin is tentatively scheduled to provide an update on M?noa Athletics.
Both Choy and Matllin will finish with a Q & A conversation, according to an announcement of the meeting by the UH Manoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee.
During the 2015 session, Choy introduced a bill that would have resulted in the elimination of many UH language programs and a quarter of all BA programs. Luckily, the measure, HB555, died in committee.
Discover more from i L i n d
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
“Whisky Tango Foxtrot” (I wanna tee-shirt!), the current filmfeatures Tina Fey as real-life Kim Baker as a network news imbed providing Arwa Damon quality reportage from Afghanistan war zones. In her third year amidst a massive explosion, War and Peace waiting to be encapsulated, she is spot on the complex scene in full gear – and on her phone the network is telling her there is no satellite up link because of budget cuts, due to a nationwide erosion of viewer interest, for a multitude of causes.
State of Hawaii Representative Isaac Choy has been reflecting the furiously familiar link paralleling this collapse of the news industry (see ilind, March 7) with these vicious market-force attacks on academia.
If you are a battle-hungry academic imbed at UH Manoa paying your way through college your friendly members of the Hawaii legislature need to budget just as relentlessly as you need to. Not just starve to death – but having only 9 people show up to major in German? All involved, not just Representative Choy, need to discuss and prepare appropriate budgeting.
Given what happened on Saturday, if Matlin is in the room the only topic the media will focus on is MARCH MADNESS. Bread and circus.
In addition to putting pressure on UH to hire sitting legislators, Rep Choy introduced a bill this year that would likely destroy all the Organized Research Units at Manoa (HB1625). He is also believed to be the proponent and author of the machinations in the House Budget Bill (HB1700) that would apparently cut $45m from the UH Manoa research enterprise.
Should be interesting to see how his I Mua Manoa friends leading the Manoa Faculty Senate treat him Wednesday. Probably better than Matlin.