A flyer being readied for distribution at the University of Hawaii’s Manoa Campus later today charges the UH administration with failing to be advocates for the system’s flagship campus.
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UH Manoa is being asked to eat 3/4ths of the budget cuts while consuming only ½ of the system’s costs. Why haven’t we heard a defense of Manoa from our leaders while this decision was being made?
The flyer notes that the state’s “final” contract offer will put UH at a distinct disadvantage in recruiting and retaining top teachers, scholars, and researchers.
The “last best offer” to the faculty will drop professors’ salaries to 17th of our 18 benchmark universities, and 38th of 50 state flagship campuses. What will happen to our ability to compete for the best and brightest in the country’s most expensive market?
It urges faculty and students to attend a teach-in on Wednesday, October 7.
Click on the flyer to see a full-size version.
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Finally–it’s about time somebody stood up for UH Manoa. Let’s face it–all the state fiefdoms are fighting tooth and nail to justify their own fiefdom’s budgets. meanwhile UH Manoa has been gutted with nary a word of protest.
Is it too much to hope someone will propose the obvious which is shutting down West Oahu Campus until state budgets can actually support this stupendous expansion?
Are there any studies that show universities and colleges go down or up in quality of teaching when salaries go down or up?
For example, did the University of Hawaii increase the quality of its professors as a result of the last collective bargaining agreement?
Oh pleeeze……studies to show that quality of teaching is attached to pay, are you kidding? The marketplace of education?
Uh, I’m not clear on what’s your point?
I am curious how many UH faculty play golf with legislators, go to $50 fund raisers or sign wave with them?
Not many I bet, but that is what beats any administrator traipsing downtown to testify.