Higher Education

...Panos Prevedouros joins Jay Fidell on Community Matters to discuss developments in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) plans on Mauna Kea....

...OHA Tricksters Are Hard At Work....

...Telescope: For OHA, it’s all About the Rent Money....

... See how it works when the police are allowed to do their job? ....

...data set ranges from average student debt to unemployment rate among the population aged 25 to 34 to share of students with past-due loan balances....

...the center was established by Congress in 1960 with no congressional hearings and over the State Department’s opposition....

...Hawaii among states with lowest median scores on college admissions test, study finds....

...BLNR Chair Suzanne Case set Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 to hear oral arguments in the Contested Case Hearing for the Thirty Meter Telescope....

... report analyzes the impact of international students on Hawaii’s economy ....

...We found that UH and DLNR have partially implemented four of the recommendations. Three recommendations remain open, and one is inapplicable at this time....

"...by keeping your job and your other unearned privileges, you are running a continued debt to marginalized people and you should always be seeking ways to pay us back....” -- UH Manoa Prof Piper Harron

...for its implementation of a Long-Term Historic Property Monitoring Plan for the University of HawaiʻiManagement Areas on Maunakea....

...Unless they are trannies.... 

...Since its founding on July 1, 1967, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has played a role in almost every significant astronomical discovery....

...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.)....