UHPA Members Notice of Annual Membership Meeting 2022

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UHPA MEMBERS

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly will hold its  48th Annual Membership Meeting via Zoom:  

Friday, April 22, 2022

11:30 a.m.1:00 p.m.

As an UHPA member you will be sent an invitation via email to join us for UHPA’s virtual Annual Meeting as we present UHPA’s new Board Members and annual reports. 

To attend the virtual zoom webinar, you must have a zoom account and register using the link provided via email. For security purposes, please be sure you register with your name and an email address UHPA has on file. Once you register, UHPA staff will verify names and email addresses. Only verified names and emails will be approved.  Once you are approved, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. 

You must register in advance by April 20, 2022 for this webinar.

The Zoom Webinar will be open at 11:25 a.m.  Be sure you are logged into your email account that you registered with when logging into the Zoom Webinar or else Zoom will not allow you access.

We hope you will join us! If you have any difficulty in registering, please contact UHPA Staff Member Kathy Yamashita.

UHPA Members Notice of Annual Membership Meeting

Please be informed that the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly will be holding its 45th Annual Membership Meeting at:

KAPIOLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE
KOPIKO BUILDING B
Rooms 127 and 128
4303 Diamond Head Road
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816

Friday, April 26, 2019
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

This content is made available to UHPA Members only via our Google Drive files. If you’re not a member, signup is quick and easy via our online form.

UHPA Annual Membership Meeting on April 29, 2016

Please be informed that the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly (UHPA) will be holding its 42nd Annual Membership Meeting at:

Honolulu Community College
Building 2, Room 214
874 Dillingham Blvd
Honolulu, HI  96817

on

Friday, April 29, 2016

from 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

See campus map

Do we really need cops at Regents meetings?

Dear Fellow Faculty,

I am writing to you my colleagues, the faculty of the University of Hawai‘i, to express my concern about the apparent increasing distance between the Board of Regents and the students, faculty, and taxpayers of the State of Hawai‘i. This letter is triggered by my attendance at the last meeting of the BOR committee on personnel chaired by Ms. Coralie Chun Matayoshi. There were two police present throughout the meeting. And the subsequent full Regents’ meeting again had two police present.  This seems to have become a policy.

I emailed the Chair of the Board of Regents to ask why a police presence was necessary.  He did not reply but the Secretary of the Board (Ms. Cynthia Quinn) did: “Dear Mr. Duffy, Chair Moore forwarded your inquiry to this office.  As you know, board meetings are public meetings.  Security is a required protocol for crowd control to ensure the safety of the public, which includes the regents, administration, faculty and students.  The board complies, and defers to security to determine how long and to what extent security will be provided at public meetings held on the University campuses.”

Is the board so fearful of the university community that it needs protection?  What exactly is the threat that requires that the police be present? Angry Hawaiians? Irrational faculty?  Dangerous students? Irate football fans? Or is the board just afraid of free speech? If anywhere is about free and frank speech, it is a university. Free speech can be loud and it can make us all uncomfortable but it is essential to the creation and dissemination of knowledge, which is what universities are all about. And I should note that faculty don’t require and probably never even imagined the need for a “required protocol for crowd control” in our classes, some of which have larger attendance than board meetings.

The university has big problems that need solutions. Some on the board think that standardizing university web page appearance and teaching equivalencies constitute solutions, but we can solve the big problems only when we know what we want the university to be.  This is going to require a conversation involving the Regents, faculty, students, parents, legislators and taxpayers.  This process may be uncomfortable and even heated at times, but it will not be facilitated by a mindset that needs protection from others in the conversation.

The Regents must take the lead in helping the university community to find common ground that can lead to solutions, but they won’t be able to lead until they are less worried about security and more about developing an environment where security is not a concern.

David Cameron Duffy
Professor and President
The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly

UHPA Presents the 2015-2016 Faculty Conversation

UHPA is currently organizing campus meetings for the month of September. These meetings will provide faculty the opportunity to have an open conversation with UHPA President David Duffy, UHPA Executive Director Kristeen Hanselman and UHPA Associate Executive Director Christian Fern.  Faculty thoughts and ideas will be shared using the data from the recent survey results. The date, time and location of each campus meeting is provided below. An Eventbrite invitation will be emailed to members on every campus.

September 14: UH Maui College – 3:15-4:15 pm in Ike Lea 144
September 16: Kapiolani CC – 12:15-1:30 pm in Ohia 118
September 17: Kauai CC – 3:00-4:00 pm in the Cafeteria
September 21: West Hawaii Campus (Palamanui) – 2:15-3:15 pm in A-107
September 22: UH Hilo – 9:00-10:00 am in UCB 127
September 22: Hawaii CC – 2:00-3:00 pm in Kaneikeao (Bldg 379, Room 1)
September 23: UH West Oahu – 1:30-2:30 pm in C208, Multi-Purpose Room
September 24: UH-Manoa – 12:00-1:00 pm in the Campus Center Executive Dining Room
September 24: UH-Manoa – 3:30-4:30 pm at JABSOM, MEB 304
September 28: UH-Manoa – 12:15-1:15 pm at Queen Liliuokalani Center for Student Services (QLCSS) #412
September 28: Honolulu CC – 3:15-4:15 pm in Building 2, Room 201
September 29: Leeward CC – 2:30-3:30 pm in GT 105
September 30: Windward – 3:30-4:30 pm in Hale Kuhina 115

UHPA Faculty Representative Forum – February 7, 2015

UHPA Faculty Representatives will assemble to hear Noriko Nakamura, President and CEO of Poppins Corporation and the Honorable David Ige at the Spring Faculty Forum scheduled on Saturday, February 7, 2015.  Noriko Nakamura is the leader in establishing quality childcare for working families in Japan.  She will be speaking on the Poppins experience and a vision for what can happen in Hawaii.

Governor Ige will also be speaking at the Forum and discussing his goals for the future of higher education and the challenges for the University of Hawaii.