The following email went out to University of Hawaii faculty and staff yesterday.
I wonder what this says about campus working conditions?
Have these seminars been offered in other state departments? Just wondering.
From: UHM Human Resources Office
Subject: Stress Seminar filled
Date: March 15, 2012 4:44:52 PM HST
To: announce@hawaii.eduAloha e all,
Thank you very much for your overwhelming interest in our Stress Mastery seminar. Unfortunately, we have reached the capacity for this seminar and have had to close this seminar.
Because of this awesome response, we are looking to schedule another session, possibly in Fall 2012. Please be on the lookout for further notices from our office.
Once again, Mahalo for all your support of our workshops and seminars!
Mahalo,
Curtis Zane
Human Resources Specialist
Manoa Human Resources Office
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I wouldn’t read too much into it. It could mean many things such as employees are taking advantage of the HR opportunity given to them to get training.
WHAT? SOLD OUT? SOLD OUT? THAT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!!!! I CAN”T TAKE IT. SOLD OUT? THE PRESSURE, I CAN’T HANDLE THIS PRESSURE!!!!!
Yet one more example of UH selling out. Big surprise!
See UHPA’s endorsements of Mufi Hanneman and Ed Case for other recent examples!
A similarly well-attended lecture at Orvis Auditorium at the University of Hawaii- Manoa campus was filled to such sold-out capacity just last Tuesday night at 6.
President M R C Greenwood introduced a one hour lecture by the Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz (see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz), former chair of Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and author of the 2010 book “Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy.” It was spot on. Even the Governor and his wife were there.
Absolutely every seat in Orvis was filled, and, as if to accentuate a trending new popularity of UH lectures, as well as the spirit of American innovation as one theme of this lecture, the entire stage behind the speaker became spontaneous seating for an overflow crowd of at least another hundred.
Garfield,
My local sensibility prompts me to disagree slightly with a minor point in your presentation. Professor Stiglitz explicitly said if the lecture had been held on his home campus of Columbia, the extra crowd would have been kicked out of the room. He complimented HAWAII, not America, for taking an innovative approach to the problem by allowing the extra 60 (or so) people to huddle on the stage.
Forgive me for displacing your American chauvinism with my Hawaii chauvinism. But I think my interpretation has the backing of Dr. Stiglitz.