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Saturday, August 20, 2022 |
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Hawaii Community Colleges Ranked
By Selected News Articles @ 11:48 PM :: 1842 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... Hawaii's six community colleges vary in quality ....
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022 |
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Public Hearings re TMT All this Week
By Samuel Wilder King II @ 7:19 PM :: 2518 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... The National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun the TMT environmental impact statement process. Right now they are holding public hearings ....
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Sunday, August 7, 2022 |
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HSTA Forced to Stop Enrolling Hawaii Teachers in Illegal For-Profit Education Scheme
By Andrew Walden @ 12:45 AM :: 3447 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Higher Education, Labor
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... According the a July 18, 2022 letter from the US Department of Education, EGCC was illegally looting Pell Grant money to provide ‘free’ tuition ....
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Thursday, August 4, 2022 |
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Deconstruction of Maunakea telescope set to begin
By News Release @ 11:07 PM :: 2062 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... The deconstruction phase of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) on University of Hawaiʻi-managed lands on the summit of Maunakea is on track to begin before summer ends and be completed by the end of the year ....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022 |
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UH to Require COVID Masks for Fall Semester
By News Release @ 10:56 PM :: 1706 Views :: Higher Education, COVID-19
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... Masking continues to be required indoors in classrooms ....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022 |
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UH dashboard provides public, officials with Red Hill water crisis data
By News Release @ 7:56 AM :: 1946 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, Military
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... The method can be used to flag samples with trace concentrations of dissolved contaminants, as low as 10 parts per billion diesel fuel ....
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Thursday, July 28, 2022 |
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Confucius Institutes Rebrand to Circumvent U.S. Policy, Report Finds
By News Release @ 8:08 PM :: 3454 Views :: Ethics, World News, First Amendment, Higher Education
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... The University of Hawaii Manoa invited at least two CI staff to remain on campus ....
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 |
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Hawaii’s NASED -- Another sports venue that fails to generate promised revenue
By Selected News Articles @ 10:51 PM :: 2266 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Tourism
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... Decades of studies have shown that publicly financed stadiums, even those that include housing and retail projects, do not bring in enough money to offset public investments ....
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022 |
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National Science Foundation to Launch EIS Process for Mauna Kea Telescope
By News Release @ 6:02 PM :: 2332 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... We invite you to review this Draft CEP and provide any comments you may have by the end of the day on September 17, 2022 ....
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Friday, July 15, 2022 |
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We are one step closer to TMT!
By Samuel Wilder King II @ 9:57 PM :: 2740 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... The National Science Foundation will be starting the environmental review process for TMT on Mauna Kea on Tuesday next week ....
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Sunday, July 10, 2022 |
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UH Regents Evaluate Lassner, identify priorities for coming year
By News Release @ 3:15 PM :: 1499 Views :: Higher Education
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"... Enrollment decline at other UH campuses is not as steep as the national average ...."
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Sunday, July 10, 2022 |
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Can the State Tax Itself?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1817 Views :: Higher Education, Taxes
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... Tax Department wanted get a piece of the UH research grants ....
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022 |
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Why Panos Prevedouros Left Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:47 AM :: 3398 Views :: Higher Education, Rail, Cost of Living
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... The former chairman of the University of Hawaii’s civil engineering department says aloha ....
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 |
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HB2024: UH Outlines Mauna Kea Leases to be Abandoned
By News Release @ 7:41 AM :: 2384 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... HB2024 HD1 SD2 CD1 assumes that UH Real Property Agreements become property owned and controlled by the MKSOA by legislative directive ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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TMT Telescope Abandons Part of Building Permit
By News Release @ 10:38 AM :: 2660 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... DOH received a Notice of Cessation from the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) International Observatory for its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit ....
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Friday, May 27, 2022 |
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How COVID-19 Models Shaped Hawaii Lockdown Policy
By News Release @ 4:30 AM :: 1586 Views :: Higher Education, COVID-19
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... By 2021, the team relied on the locally tailored model developed by UH Mānoa Professor Monique Chyba ....
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022 |
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UH Board of Regents approves updated Maunakea Comprehensive Management Plan
By News Release @ 3:44 AM :: 2255 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... “The University of Hawaiʻi would still be responsible to care for Maunakea under that bill until 2028,” said Lassner, noting that the measure could still be vetoed ....
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022 |
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2022 UH Legislative Recap: Key takeaways, budget breakdown
By News Release @ 3:10 AM :: 1467 Views :: Higher Education
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... state support to increase the seating capacity at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex was NOT included in the budget ....
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022 |
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Who has the most Student Debt? -- 16 Hawaii Towns Ranked
By Selected News Articles @ 5:40 PM :: 1547 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... 2022’s Cities with the Most & Least Student Debt ....
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Thursday, May 5, 2022 |
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UH to Pause Work on Mauna Kea Master Lease
By News Release @ 6:55 PM :: 2317 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... HB2024 CD1 makes it clear that the new Authority will be responsible for deciding if there will be more or less astronomy on Maunakea than the nine observatories allowed under the current UH Master Plan ....
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Thursday, May 5, 2022 |
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DLNR: Mauna Kea Bill Dangerous, Unconstitutional
By News Release @ 6:44 PM :: 2216 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... HB2024 CD1 leaves significant gaps that could result in worse management of Mauna Kea’s natural and cultural resources ....
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Thursday, May 5, 2022 |
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UH Survey: Gender Based Violence Hysteria Eases Slightly
By News Release @ 5:08 PM :: 1641 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education, Law Enforcement
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... Gender-based violence and harassment prevalence has decreased since the previous survey across all categories ....
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022 |
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OHA Trustees Reject Maunakea Bill
By Selected News Articles @ 3:29 AM :: 2401 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... an appraisal must be taken to set the commercial value of the lease and to ensure that the lease rent is set to ensure the highest return to the State and to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs ....
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 |
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Full Text: Conference Committee Issues Proposed Draft to Create Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority
By News Release @ 5:43 AM :: 2505 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... This afternoon, the legislative conference committee on House Bill (HB) 2024, Relating to Mauna Kea, issued a proposed conference draft (CD 1) ....
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 |
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UHERO: Astronomy impact on Hawaiʻi even greater with ‘spillover’ effects
By UHERO @ 5:23 PM :: 1850 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... The extent of astronomy’s economic impact on the state goes well beyond the standard economic measurements when “spillover” effects are included ....
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Sunday, April 10, 2022 |
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UHPA: UH Faculty Approve 14.35% Pay Hike
By News Release @ 6:24 PM :: 2160 Views :: Higher Education, Labor
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...Increases salaries by 14.35% compounded over the three years, not including the one-time 1% bonus--99.1% vote to approve....
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Thursday, March 31, 2022 |
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UH Faculty Senate Denounces Sen Donna Mercado Kim
By News Release @ 3:49 PM :: 2319 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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... Senator Kim pushed the elimination of a tenured faculty member’s position and introduced SB 3269 SD1, a bill that attempted to alter tenure and transfer managerial authority over the university from the Board of Regents to the legislature ....
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Thursday, March 31, 2022 |
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Ige Appoints Five to BoE and Two to BoR
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 1996 Views :: Education K-12, Higher Education
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... The appointments are subject to approval by the Senate ....
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022 |
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College enrollment down sharply
By News Release @ 4:28 AM :: 2017 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... public universities were hit the hardest with a 13.2 drop in new freshmen enrollment over the two-year pandemic period ....
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Monday, March 28, 2022 |
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UH Prof Named KSBE Trustee
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 1590 Views :: Higher Education
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... Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, interim assistant vice provost for faculty excellence and Department of Political Science professor, is the newest addition to the five-member Kamehameha Schools Board of Trustees ....
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Thursday, March 24, 2022 |
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Anti-Telescope Leaders Oppose HB2024 -- 'Bill does not provide any benefits'
By Andrew Walden @ 5:49 AM :: 2852 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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"...Thi$ Bill DOE$ NOT provide for any benefit$, or any procedure for $uch benefit$ to tran$fer to the beneficiarie$...." -- Anti-Telescope Protest Leaders
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 |
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Innovative States? Hawaii Ranks 40th
By Selected News Articles @ 9:54 PM :: 1835 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... knowledge and technology outputs are America’s particular strengths--but not Hawaii's ....
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 |
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Public feedback needed for update to Maunakea management plan
By News Release @ 5:19 AM :: 2685 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... The draft CMP Supplement does not propose projects or land uses. It must be approved by the UH Board of Regents (BOR) and then approved by the BLNR at public meetings to take effect ....
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Thursday, March 10, 2022 |
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UH Mānoa receives full 10-year accreditation
By News Release @ 10:00 AM :: 1450 Views :: Higher Education
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... The work toward accreditation began in 2017 and involved the new WASC process—Thematic Pathway for Reaffirmation.... UH Mānoa’s themes were Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, Transformational Student Success, and Academic Innovation and Engaged Learning.....
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022 |
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Mauna Kea: UH Seeks Cultural Practitioners for 'Cultural Impact Assessment'
By News Release @ 3:45 PM :: 2296 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... possible effects on cultural practices by future land authorizations ....
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Monday, February 21, 2022 |
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Record graduation rates at UH campuses across the state
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 1821 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education, COVID-19
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... University of Hawaiʻi campuses across the state achieved record highs in important graduation and retention metrics for the academic year 2020–21, the first full academic year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic ....
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022 |
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Maunakea telescope to be decommissioned this summer
By News Release @ 3:10 AM :: 2323 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... CSO is one of two Maunakea telescopes currently in the final stages of the decommissioning process, established in the Maunakea Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP). The UH Hilo Hōkū Kea Telescope is on track to be decommissioned in 2023 ....
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Sunday, January 30, 2022 |
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Astronomy Adds $221M to Hawaii Economy
By News Release @ 4:06 PM :: 4348 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... The total economic impact of $221 million, which also accounts for indirect and induced impacts, is nearly as much as farming statewide ....
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Thursday, January 27, 2022 |
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Monday, January 24, 2022 |
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UH Football Coach Selection Process Illegal?
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 2:00 AM :: 4363 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education
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... attorney Mike Green indicated in the Sunday paper, President Lassner and AD Matlin’s actions may cause legal jeopardy for the State of Hawaii ....
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Friday, January 21, 2022 |
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UH Regents approve new Maunakea Master Plan
By News Release @ 4:10 AM :: 5331 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... The plan’s strategies include broadening Native Hawaiian and community participation in planning and programming ....
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022 |
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Hundreds in Hawaii will get cut of Student Loan Settlement
By News Release @ 9:41 PM :: 1689 Views :: Higher Education
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... As part of the settlement, Hawai‘i will receive a total of $367,867 in restitution payments for 1,380 federal loan borrowers. Additionally, 196 Hawai‘i borrowers will receive a total of more than $4.3 million in private loan debt cancellation ....
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Saturday, January 15, 2022 |
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UH regents to consider new Maunakea Master Plan
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 2079 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... Board of Regents (BOR) will consider adopting the draft Master Plan for UH-managed lands on Maunakea at the BOR January 20, 2022 meeting ....
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Saturday, January 15, 2022 |
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No Buyout: Todd Graham resigns as University of Hawaii head football coach
By News Release @ 3:08 AM :: 1850 Views :: Higher Education
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... Graham resigned, so aside from normal reimbursements and compensation earned, no additional monies will be owed to the coach ....
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Friday, January 7, 2022 |
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Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 1848 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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... Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean—by colonizing plastic pollution ....
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021 |
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Many UH classes to move online for first two weeks of spring semester
By News Release @ 5:51 PM :: 1708 Views :: Higher Education, COVID-19
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... only courses that can be “effectively taught online” will be impacted ....
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021 |
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UH funding priorities included in Governor’s 2022 budget
By News Release @ 12:57 AM :: 1444 Views :: Higher Education
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... Ige’s supplemental executive budget for the 2022 legislative session includes most of the University of Hawaiʻi’s budget wish list ....
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Saturday, December 18, 2021 |
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