“I Am Mystified”
UHPA Executive Director JN Musto comments on the selection of an interim president for the University of Hawaii. What do you think? Comment on our YouTube video!
UHPA Executive Director JN Musto comments on the selection of an interim president for the University of Hawaii. What do you think? Comment on our YouTube video!
Pride At Work Hawai'i is proud to support this upcoming event on July 27th and encourages our local labor community to do the same. We are hopeful that, by recognizing a Hawai'i union for its leadership around issues of LGBT equality and inclusiveness, this award will inspire all of Hawai'i's working people -- LGBT and non-LGBT to continue the fight for social and economic justice.
As a way to support the University of Hawaii system during a difficult economic period, in 2009 UHPA members agreed to a temporary pay reduction, with an agreement from the UH administration and the Board of Regents that the amount would be restored over time.
UHPA Exec Director Dr. J.N. Musto suggests that each chancellor become a de facto president for his or her campus, with greater discretion over campus budgets and operations. The university-wide president would instead be the Board of Regents’ CEO and multi-campus chancellor with oversight of the campus presidents.
M.R.C. Greenwood's alleged next job will be earning nearly $300k/yr as a tenured professor at the UH School of Medicine. UHPA Exec Director Dr. J.N. Musto was interviewed for this KHON story.
The UHPA Board of Directors is awarding scholarships to two UHPA women members to attend the 32nd Annual Summer Institute for Union Women, which is held this year from June 25-29 at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Senator Schatz's staff has notified UHPA of a harmful budget proposal by the Obama administration to consolidate all STEM funding into three agencies NSF, Department of Education, and the Smithsonian. This consolidation is creating uncertainty with the status of existing long term grants and contracts along with lack of clarity in the transfer of responsibility for existing funds.