I drove my mother, Helen Yonge Lind, up to University of Hawaii Foundation offices on the Manoa campus yesterday morning where she signed the final paperwork to establish a small scholarship fund to support nontraditional students in the UH system. There was a time when she wanted to go back to school and couldn’t afford [...]
Back on July 12, I noted that UH Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw had not yet filed the annual gift disclosure required by the state ethics law. The disclosure statement was due on June 30. Hinshaw’s statement was eventually received, signed at dated July 14, two weeks after the filing deadline. It was submitted via email [...]
Remember those free season tickets to UH athletic events that top level university administrators and members of the Board of Regents disclosed to the State Ethics Commission? The issue of free tickets came up in a 1996 Advisory Opinion issued by the commission, and guess what? Those perks may violate provisions of the state’s ethics [...]
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Someone gained unauthorized access to a computer at Honolulu Community College’s Pacific Avaiation Training Center on Monday, February 1, 2010, according to a report submitted to the legislature on March 16. Several days later, on Thursday, Feb. 4, the FBI was notified of the incident. Two weeks later, it was discovered that the compromised computer [...]
Did you notice yesterday’s dueling UH stories? A Star-Bulletin story warned that the planned West Oahu campus faces a rapidly approaching funding hurdle. Ms. Meda is quoted regarding UH faculty concerns that this diversion funds for creation of a major new campus on Oahu comes as the Manoa campus, and the rest of the system, [...]
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The state and University of Hawaii have blown opportunities to reach a contract settlement with the faculty union several times since preliminary talks started nearly two years ago, according to the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, the faculty union. In one glaring example, the union and the UH Board of Regents both agreed in late [...]
The University of Hawaii Board of Regents may have violated the state’s Sunshine Law by secretly discussing and approving then-President David McClain’s plan to declare that the university is facing a financial emergency. The board’s action reportly took place during an executive session which excluded the public. McClain’s declaration of fiscal exigency, issued July 28, [...]
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Here are a few more bits of data concerning what is increasingly seen as administrative “bloat” at the University of Hawaii. First, keep in mind that the number of faculty hasn’t grown since the early 1990s. In 1994, according to one count, there were 20,041 students at UHM. This grew to 20,169 in 2008, a [...]
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