This week continues our campus meeting schedule (see below for details) and it’s the perfect chance for you to interact with UHPA Professional staff in a live Zoom environment.  Our campus meeting agenda includes: Federal Stimulus and State Budgets working through the State and UH Administration.Link to Campus by Campus ReportsDownload PDF of Detailed Campus Reports (see page 86)Link to Federal Stimulus Campus ReportsDetailed information on the events leading up to the decision to end retirement incentive negotiations.Current status of successor bargaining [...]

Editor’s note: Many faculty may know about the importance of tenure, but not many may fully realize the inherent value, principle, and standards tenure offers an institution and in this situation for the University of Hawai‘i and our state. This is the second in series on the importance of tenure to help UH faculty and the UH administration collaboratively work together in examining and determining best practices and to present recommendations to legislators before the start of the 2022 legislative session. Five [...]

(Editor's note: The following op-ed was submitted to the Star Advertiser and a version of it appeared in the 2/28 issue) By Liz Ho, and Wilbert Holck In trying times, it’s tempting to cut government spending. But eliminating or curtailing essential services has devastating impacts on the public. It may seem counterintuitive, but this is the time to invest in services that support the community to accelerate economic recovery. Most of us have not lived through a pandemic before, but this isn’t [...]