Wildly popular last year and returning again for 2015 is UHPA's Special Halloween Weekend at Disney's Aulani Resort. We've negotiated extremely good rates this year and invite all UHPA Members to take advantage of this great offer. Deadline for reservations has been extended to Oct 16, 2014 so make your reservations now! More details including how to make a reservation
Monthly Op-Ed post by UHPA President David Duffy The University Regents hire and fire the President and have “jurisdiction over the internal structure, management and operation of the university.” The President is the executive officer and the Regents operate through him and he in turn is responsible for the various chancellors who are responsible for individual campuses. Regents are selected by the Governor from a list of candidates suggested by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council and then approved by the State Senate. The [...]
As a way to honor J.N. Musto, our Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, who retired on August 31, 2015, UHPA has established the Dr. J.N. Musto Endowed Scholarship Fund through the University of Hawaii Foundation. The fund will provide tuition support for eligible students entering the University of Hawaii System and plan to major in liberal arts. “It’s our way to encourage broad-based, critical thinking and to support the next generation of leaders,” said Kris Hanselman, who succeeds Dr. Musto as Executive [...]
Last year UHPA members enjoyed an exclusive offer of discounted rates at the Aulani Resort that featured special Halloween events, great for the whole family. By popular demand, we're repeating that offer year so save the date with reservation info to come!
Stop Flu at School, Hawaii’s school-located vaccination program, is an innovative partnership between the State of Hawaii Departments of Health and Education, the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, and Hawaii Catholic Schools. This program is endorsed by the Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Hawaii Association of Family Practitioners. The Stop Flu at School program aims to improve the health of Hawaii’s keiki, families, and kupuna by preventing the spread of influenza (flu) through vaccination. Through the Stop [...]
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 [...]
UHPA has requested that the Hawaii Labor Relations Board address the employer's unilaterial implementation of wages through the UHCC Consortium, an entity that is not regulated by the employer. A number of UH administrators are on the Board of the Consortium and are agents of the University. The payment of wages through an external mechanism evades the employers bargaining obligations. It also denies UHPA income as allowed by law for dues deductions. Employees may have also have been deprived of ERS contributions [...]
If you are planning to retire this year, please refer to the schedule for individual counseling/filing sessions on the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) website under Members Retirement Planning http://ers.ehawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Oahu-Fall-20151.pdf. Employees wanting to request an individual counseling session on O‘ahu should call ERS at 586-1735, as the individual counseling sessions are filling up fast. A registration form is also available on the last page of the ERS Counseling Appointments for Employees Retiring schedule. On the form, please enter the last 4-digits of your [...]
By David Duffy, UHPA President The creation and transmission of knowledge have been the traditional products of higher education. Learning and scholarship acquired through study are acknowledged by the awarding of a degree. Students are not taught a particular trade. They are taught to think for themselves, to write and to speak in ways that convince others, to understand what they read, to learn how to learn, and to continue to educate themselves, wherever life takes them. But more recently, other views [...]
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