Higher Education

...Nainoa Thompson: University of Hawai‘i is the most important navigator....

If it were not for the brave souls who decided to collect information from the wind, stars, weather, and ocean currents, what we know as Native Hawaiians may have not arrived here in Hawaii....

“Our study shows...it takes very little warming for conditions to turn deadly in the tropics.”

At $10,670, the average in-state tuition and fees are by no means the highest in the nation. However, the cost of necessities is higher here than in any other state....

...progress report on efforts at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to improve student recruitment and retention....

...for 4 years from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2021....

...more opportunities for local high school students to use Maunakea Observatories for their innovative research projects....

The DOI allegedly removed from this sentence: “Global climate change drives sea-level rise, increasing the frequency of coastal flooding.”

...UH plans King Tides “citizen science” project -- submitting photos online....

...“The terrible people are coming out of the woodwork to tell me how awful (‘racist’ and ‘sexist’) I am for writing this post,” she laments....

Kalbert Young, UH vice president for budget and finance and chief financial officer, shares his analysis of the 2017 legislative session....

...To perpetuate the legacy (Railroad) of the late U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye....

Multiple procurement violations underlie a secret $435,000 contract between the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and a company owned by UH Law Professor Kamana Beamer.....

...people would lean in close and whisper quietly if we were about GMOs....

...June 13, 2017....

The Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation will honor the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Office of Maunakea Management (OMKM) for its outstanding preservation efforts of Maunakea....

'Maunakea World Park' Advanced by Hawaii Mayor Kim at ILOA Galaxy Forum Kona....

Much of the university’s request is not included in either the House or Senate version of the budget....

On October 31st, 2016, the TIO Board of Directors selected the ‘Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos’ (ORM), in La Palma, on the Canary Islands (Spain) as the alternate site for TMT....

...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....

UH’s probationary period has been reduced from three years to two and will now end in December 2017....

...for 5‐year appointments, beginning July 1, 2017, subject to confirmation by the Hawai‘i State Senate....

With so many bathrooms -- will UH administrators be dispatched to comb the streets of Chinatown for recruits? 

Rather than reopen the search, University of Hawaiʻi President David Lassner is recommending that he continue to serve as interim UH Mānoa chancellor for two more years....

...What color is your golden parachute?....

Maunakea Scholars is an innovative program designed to bring Hawaiʻi’s young, aspiring astronomers into the observatory community by competitively allocating observing time on Maunakea’s world-class telescopes....

Do you remember all the ‘concern’ expressed by UH Admin in 2011 when The Obama banned Iraqis?  No?  Me neither....

Please leave feedback through the executive search website....

Generally, the higher the level of education one attains, the more income potential grows and the lower chances of unemployment become....

Rape is a felony.  If you have been raped, call the police—not a University administrator....

Ekins-Coward worked for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute....

...faculty need to make arrangements with their chair or dean for absence....

Robel was (allegedly) originally identified as a finalist (but not publicly identified) and invited to campus at the same time as finalists John V. White and Sonny Ramaswamy, (who were identified as the only two finalists) but was unable to accept the invitation at that time.  (Whatever that means.)....

“I see Maunakea as a special place that allows us to understand and study our origins....”

RELATED: University of Hawaii: Report Trump Voters to Campus Police....

Wait Until You Hear What This Ad Hoc Committee Can Do In Secret....

...an 84 percent increase from 2010 to 2016....

Feedback on the candidates can be sent through the executive search website....

...one of the 10 best law schools in the country in terms of starting salaries that exceed the debt that law graduates carry....

...(You will be arrested on Trumped-up charges.)....

...“He said it will likely be located in Hawaii or the Canary Islands.’....

...Community members will be trained to act as citizen scientists to 'Snap the Shore, See the Future'....

The TMT International Observatory Board of Governors met last week to discuss the progress of TMT in Hawaii and to consider potential alternate sites....

The finalists will be participating in a final round of interviews on the Mānoa campus, November 14 and 15 and November 21 and 22, respectively....

...remediation rates (retaking high-school-level coursework) among students attending the University of Hawaii System are down 8 points in math and 6 points in English in three years....

...the writer described the location of where the Professor’s wife liked to bike, terrorizing her enough to become afraid of staying home alone. They even went to Craigslist....

By a 3-2 majority the court affirmed the state land board’s decision in 2012 to grant a permit to build the Telescope....