A recent study on the cost of higher education was based on flawed data and faulty comparisons, resulting in “a less than positive impression of the University of Hawai?i at Ma?noa and its faculty,” according to a resolution to be considered by Manoa faculty senate this afternoon. The resolution, presented by the Senate executive committee, [...]
Interesting things keep turning up in my mother’s small stash of old papers inherited from Professor Carey D. Miller. This time is a short history of the beginnings of the home economics department of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of Hawaii, soon to become the College of Hawaii, and later the University of [...]
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Opponents of the recent decision by the board of the faculty union board’s decision to end its affiliation with the National Education Association are organizing on several fronts to reverse the decision. • A petition is being circulated calling for the board “to rescind the vote to disaffiliate from NEA. The petition begins: “We want [...]
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When nutritionist Carey D. Miller was first invited to join the University of Hawaii faculty as an assistant professor, the invitation came via a Western Union Telegraph directly from UH President Arthur Dean. The telegram, sent on April 1, 1922, was short and direct. MRS CHENEY AND DR NORGAN SUGGEST YOU TO TAKE CHARGE DOMESTIC [...]
Tags: Arthur L. Dean·Carey D. Miller·Helen Yonge Lind·University of Hawaii
Last week’s announcement of the University of Hawaii’s cancellation of plans for a major new bio lab has quickly triggered infighting within the UH administration over how to utilize the millions of dollars previously set aside for the project. University officials are still scrambling to determine how much is left from $15 million in state [...]
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The University of Hawaii’s top lawyer appeared before the State Ethics Commission last week to ask the commission to review and approve policies adopted last year governing allocation of free tickets to UH athletic events. Darolyn Lendio, UH vice-president for legal affairs and general counsel, said the school has adopted tough new policies to limit [...]
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Here’s another small “find” found in a folder of papers my mother saved years ago following the death of her longtime friend and former mentor, University of Hawaii Professor Carey D. Miller in 1985. It’s a June 21, 1924 letter to Miller from Dr. Lillian Storms, describing her travel to Dunedin in New Zealand’s South [...]
Ka Leo, the UH Manoa campus newspaper, has two stories this week worth noting. A column by an anonymous author (“Witnessing violence? An HPD arrest“) recounts an incident in which he (I’m presuming a “he” based on the story) saw a young man running from police and tackled and held him until the police caught [...]
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