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FacFAQs: Sabbatical Policy vs. Contract

Realizing she may never get timely information from her campus Human Resources office, Nora, a 9-month Instructional faculty member at ‘Āhinahina Community College, has decided to start researching Sabbatical information online herself. She noticed a discrepancy between policy and the UHPA faculty contract. She discovers that Policy A9.400 states that faculty must return to service at UH for one year, with item 6 stating that "Employees who fail to return to service subsequent to a sabbatical leave or who do not complete [...]

2015-03-24T17:50:47-10:00March 24, 2015|Academic, Commentary, FacFAQs, Newsletter, System Policy|
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Faculty Op-Ed: Political Inaction No Longer a Luxury

By Karla Hayashi Political activism was probably not the reason why most of us earned our degrees and found our place here at one of the University of Hawai‘i campuses. We got here initially because of our passion for our academic discipline, desire to share that passion with students in the classroom, and opportunities to engage in research and other professional activities which we believed would benefit our students, campuses, community, and profession. Now more than ever, however, we also need to [...]

2015-03-31T06:44:11-10:00March 18, 2015|Commentary, Frontpage, Newsletter, Opinion, Political|
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Faculty Op-Ed: A Hard Knocks Education

By Robert Cooney, PhD As a young research professor, working within a university research unit in which faculty were fairly judged by their accomplishments and potential, I could not understand why in the world faculty needed a union. After all, didn’t academics believe in truth and honor above all else? Why would one even need a contract in such circumstances? Over the last 30 years I have learned and discovered a lot concerning the role of vitamins in health, epidemiology of cancer, [...]

2015-02-27T09:43:15-10:00February 25, 2015|Commentary, Frontpage, Newsletter, Opinion, university of hawaii at manoa|
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FacFAQs

Ken Tanaka* works for DaBest Community College as an Assistant Professor. After skimming through "Salaries" section of the ratified Tentative Agreement slated to begin on July 1, 2015, Ken is upset. Having been hired in 1994, Ken was only able to negotiate the minimum salary, and currently makes $60,000 a year. Now the new hire his department receives next year will be entitled to Ken's current salary as a base rate of pay! With all the service Ken has put in, how [...]

2014-12-26T17:21:32-10:00October 6, 2014|Commentary, FacFAQs, Financial, Opinion|
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Science’s Sexual Assault Problem

A. Hope Jahren, a faculty member at UH makes the point that in encouraging girls to go into science we ignore the downsides that women in science frequently experience. "They need to know that daring to act upon their dreams of science can be both a beautiful and a dangerous thing." Read the article

2014-09-24T12:28:21-10:00September 24, 2014|Commentary|
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