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UHPA Legislative Action Center Launches

Go to the Legislative Action Center Now Aloha! The 2015 legislative session is now in full swing, and UHPA is diligently monitoring bills to advance the interests of University of Hawaii faculty and to quash any legislation that is harmful to faculty and other public employees. With 3,000 bills now being reviewed by Hawaii’s legislators, monitoring bills can be a daunting task. Fortunately, not all of them pertain to UH faculty, and as in all legislative sessions, most will fall by [...]

2018-05-21T15:02:34-10:00February 4, 2015|Legislative, Newsletter|

FacFAQs: Implementing DPC Changes in 2015-2017 Agreement

Marla is the department chair in the Psychology department at Lehua U, and just noticed that in the new 2015 to 2017 contract that there is a change in Article X for the department personnel committee procedures. The change states that now DPC members must be at or higher in rank than the applicant, which throws a bit of a monkey wrench in the current panel, specifically in regards to promotions. She mentioned this to the DC of Math who informed her [...]

2015-01-22T14:35:09-10:00January 22, 2015|Academic, FacFAQs, Frontpage, Newsletter|

Wrongfully Fired University of Hawaii-West Oahu Professor Gets Her Job Back

NEWS RELEASE Date:         January 8, 2015 Contact:   Kris Hanselman  (808) 593-2157 Historic Landmark Arbitration Has National Implications for Faculty Union Agreements Download the Arbitration Decision PDF Monique Mironesco, Ph.D., an associate professor of political science at University of Hawaii-West Oahu (UHWO) for the past decade, is happy to resume teaching this semester, thanks to the intervention of the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly (UHPA), the faculty union, and her colleagues, both UHWO faculty and administrators. Mironesco’s successful career would have come [...]

2018-05-21T15:02:35-10:00January 8, 2015|Frontpage, Newsletter, UHPA Organizational|

FacFAQs: Can I split up my sabbatical?

Marvin is an Associate Professor employed at UH Waimea on an 11-month appointment. He applied for and was granted a 4-month sabbatical leave during Fall 2014. After he returned from his sabbatical, he applied for another leave, this time for 2 months during Spring 2015. However, his fiscal officer, Jan is telling him that, "the clock starts over again," and that he should have requested the split time before taking the initial 4-month leave. Marvin is shocked! He reread the third paragraph [...]

2014-12-30T19:36:26-10:00December 26, 2014|FacFAQs, Frontpage, Newsletter|

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|

Try-all Tech Expectation Garners Eyerolls from Faculty

We've heard many promises about how using tech in the classroom will make things better, but the actual results are not always promising. Our favorite quote from this piece in the Hechinger Report, "Is technology actually making higher education less efficient?": “We’ve been hearing over the last four or five years that technology is going to reduce costs, increase quality and increase access,” said Diane Harley, director of the Higher Education in the Digital Age project at University of California, Berkeley." “I [...]

2014-12-19T15:54:43-10:00December 19, 2014|Academic, Frontpage, Newsletter|

UHPA Director Sets World Record

Congratulations to UHPA Director, Jennifer Small Griswold, Ph.D., and her husband Brett for setting a new Guinness World Record for longest time danced by a couple.  They danced the Argentine Tango for over 36 hours while simultaneously raising money for the National Federation of the Blind. Dr. Griswold is an Assistant Professor of Meteorology at UH Manoa. UPDATE:  Congratulations Jennifer and Brett on ANOTHER world record! The Griswolds did it again! This past Sunday (12/14/14) in the Honolulu Marathon, with a time [...]

2014-12-16T11:32:24-10:00December 8, 2014|BOD, Frontpage, Newsletter|
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