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UHPA director and UHM Professor Brent Sipes in the News

Kudos go to Brent Sipes who was on camera in a KITV story "UH professors seeing red over greenhouses" and bringing visibility to a sad renovations project on the Pope greenhouse complex that has become ensnared in delays keeping them out of the facility for over five years now. We've started a thread on Facebook  on this story and invite you to join the conversation!

2015-05-28T16:10:55-10:00May 28, 2015|Academic, Campus Specific, Frontpage, Newsletter|

UHPA Hawai’i CC Faculty Ho’olaulea

By Joel Peralto, Accounting Professor It was the eve of the last academic senate meeting, and the HawCC faculty who came to the “Aloha JN Musto” and “Mahalo HawCC faculty” get-together at the Hilo Yacht Club on Friday, April 24th were in for a treat. UHPA hosted the 3-hour event, and Exec Committee member, Annie Brown, a Yacht Club member, graciously used her membership to sponsor the gathering. It was all made possible by former English instructor Misty Carmichael, now UHPA Assistant [...]

2015-04-28T11:19:28-10:00April 28, 2015|Campus Specific, Frontpage, Newsletter, Opinion|

Musto’s Road Show: Saying farewell to faculty after 35 years

By UHPA President David Duffy. It may have been Friday the thirteenth, but it was all good for the 80 faculty who showed up for the last stop on JN Musto’s farewell tour of the University system at Manoa Gardens. The drinks were free but the bar line was long, although the pupus and the conversations made the wait more palatable. At the end of the gathering, about 40 remaining faculty gathered to hear JN talk about his time with the [...]

Tenure Conversion Language Upheld in Historic Decision

The case of Dr. Mironesco comes out of UH-West Oahu and concerns a long term faculty member, who was generally funded but was not assigned to a tenure-track position count, thus not making her eligible for tenure.  The language we negotiated into our collective agreement (see Article XIII, Faculty Appointments Not Eligible for Tenure) has established the right of faculty members to tenure-track positions once they are available to the campus.  The administration would then have the burden of proof that the [...]

2015-01-21T16:19:52-10:00December 23, 2014|Campus Specific, Newsletter, UHPA Organizational|

UHPA Vice-President Sally Pestana instrumental in expanding iCAN program

Between 2011 and 2014, the UHCCs received fifty million dollars in four rounds of federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant funds through the U.S. Department of Labor.  The grants focus on all aspects of job creation -- including new workforce training program development, existing program enhancement, and job placement. For the past two years, UHPA Vice President Sally Pestana has been the grant coordinator for the first round of funds received by Kapiolani CC. One part of the [...]

2014-12-12T13:38:54-10:00December 12, 2014|Academic, Campus Specific, Frontpage|

UH West O‘ahu Assistant Professor Wins the UH Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching Award

Richard Jones is an assistant professor in elementary education at UH West O‘ahu and serves on the UHPA Board of Directors. A true believer that science is everywhere, he adapts and modifies numerous lessons, labs and activities to use local data, local geomorphology and local issues to which the students can directly relate. Prior to joining UH West O‘ahu, Jones was a science teacher in Montana and Kaua‘i. He also worked at the U.S. Department of Energy as an Albert Einstein Distinguished [...]

2014-09-18T08:55:41-10:00September 18, 2014|Academic, BOD, Campus Specific, Frontpage|
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