UH presented over 400 pages of budgeted documents. UHPA has provided two exhibits that may be of interest to our faculty members; Table 13 anticipated hires for 2016 and Table 14 personnel who left the University from July 1, 2014 - November 30, 2015. The entire UH budget can be reviewed here.
On December 21, UHPA filed a prohibited practice charge with the Hawaii Labor Relations Board charging Natural Science Interim Dean Kumashiro with unilaterally and improperly canceling agreements contained within letters of hire and supplemental terms of service for department chairs. This is an important case to protect the rights of faculty in advancing the ability of UHPA to bargain and enforce letters of hire and the conditions set forth within. A promise broken In the case of Dr. Kevin Bennett, UH Manoa [...]
The Office of U.S. Senator Brian Schatz would like to notify you about the following federal grant opportunities. For more information, click the link below each listing, visit GRANTS.GOV, or call the Program Management Office at 1-800-518-4726. Arts and Humanities National Archives and Records Administration Project/Program: State Board Programming Grants Description: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seek proposals that strengthen the nation’s archival network through activities undertaken by state historical records advisory boards (SHRABs). The purpose of this grant program is to [...]
Thanks to the input and concerns of UHPA members and board members and the cooperation of the UH Office of Human Resources, we have published tenure and promotion activity from 2010-2015. "Making this data available online is consistent with UHPA's values of publishing objective data" said Kristeen Hanselman, Executive Director of UHPA, "in our pursuit of making UH a better place to teach, research and serve the community". UHPA plans to update this data on an annual basis. Review Tenure and Promotion [...]
Guest post by Rosiana (Nani) L. Azman, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Hawai'i Maui College I am a teacher. Technically, I'm an Associate Professor of Psychology, and by training, I am an educational psychologist; but if you ask me what I do, my response will most likely be that I am a teacher. I believe in facilitating learning. I do not enjoy professing my supposedly superior knowledge in a subject at students. I believe in interacting with them to help them to learn [...]
In a memo issued in March 2013, NASA grant-awarded faculty were surprised to see Hawai'i classified with "foreign destinations" for the purposes of travel approval. Despite a correction issued a year later in March 2014, lower-level NASA officials continued to restrict approval, asserting to Hawai'i faculty that their travel monies were non-domestic. After hearing from concerned faculty, Senator Schatz wrote to NASA Administrators in an effort to bring awareness to the difficulties which state researchers frequently face; namely, that it can be [...]
By David Duffy, UHPA President. UH has as one of its goals increasing the representation of Native Hawaiians or Kānaka Maoli as faculty in the university They can serve as role models and add to the breadth of opinions and expertise within disciplines and across campuses. How is this best done? UH could grow its own, supporting Kānaka Maoli through college, and grad school, but this would be slow If such students don’t spend time in other institutions as post docs and [...]
By David Duffy, UHPA President. In most businesses, it is elementary that a motivated work force is a productive one Motivations can be financial, social or even minatory. Businesses pay well and reward performance with bonuses, pay raises and corner offices. Medals and promotion are the currencies of the military. Unfortunately too many universities seem to be completely gormless when it comes to motivation and reward, beyond tenure and promotion. I’d like to suggest some simple things that can work to motivate [...]
The UH Maui College Academic Senate honored UHPA Executive Director JN Musto at the May 2, 2015 Board of Directors meeting. Dr. Nani Azman presented him with a framed and signed resolution recounting his many victories in support of University of Hawai‘i faculty as he negotiated contracts and battled budget cuts across four decades. The UHMC senate felt the excellence of Dr. Musto’s leadership and wisdom in his thirty-five years of service warranted a formal accolade. UHMC faculty wish Dr. Musto a [...]
Congratulations to UHPA Director and UHH Assoc. Professor Norman Arancon and UHPA Faculty Representative and UHMC Instructor Melissa Kirkendall for winning the Regents' Medals for Excellence in Teaching! "It is indeed quite an honor and a blessing to have been recognized this way. I have learned so much from everyone. ", said Arancon Additional congratulations to all of the other recipients of the Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching, the Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research, and the Davis Award for Excellence [...]
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