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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 |
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Draft rules for Maunakea lands moving towards formal public hearing process
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 6906 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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The community is strongly encouraged to participate in the public hearing process....
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 |
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Getting out of Gridlock: Should UH Start Later?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 12:20 PM :: 5768 Views :: Honolulu County, Higher Education
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...if UH started school at 9 a.m. instead of 7:30, 5,000 cars could be eliminated from the morning rush....
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016 |
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Wakai and Belatti named UH Manoa 2016 Legislators in Residence
By News Release @ 10:27 PM :: 5299 Views :: Higher Education
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...LIR is designed to provide opportunities for dialogue and collaboration between policymakers and the academic community....
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Sunday, September 25, 2016 |
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UH Manoa Celebrates Day Muslims Tricked Hawaii Legislature into Honoring Islam on September 11th
By Andrew Walden @ 10:20 PM :: 8023 Views :: Higher Education, Religion
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In 2009, Muslims tricked the Hawaii Legislature into celebrating 'Islam Day' on September 24--which is September 11 in the old Julian calendar. Seven years later, UH Manoa professors are still feeling the thrill ....
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 |
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Dishonesty is Unsustainable
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:20 AM :: 7862 Views :: Higher Education, GMOs
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...there is hope....
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016 |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016 |
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Hawaii Student Loan Debt Ranked by College
By News Release @ 12:11 PM :: 5640 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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Hawaii Average Student Debt Per Borrower: $23,574 -- 44th in USA....
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Sunday, September 11, 2016 |
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Ethics? UH Dean Endorses American Samoa Congressional Candidate on UH Letterhead
By Andrew Walden @ 11:01 PM :: 9955 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Higher Education, Politicians
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“Hawaii Revised Statutes section 84-13, the 'Fair Treatment' section of the State Ethics Code, prohibits the use of state resources for political campaign purposes.”
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016 |
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Nominations Open: Four Seats UH Board of Regents
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 5530 Views :: Higher Education
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Nominations are now being accepted for a Hawai‘i County seat (for immediate appointment due to the resignation of Regent Barry Mizuno) and for one (1) At Large seat; one (1) City and County of Honolulu seat; and one (1) Kaua‘i County seat for five-year terms, beginning July 1, 2017....
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Friday, September 2, 2016 |
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UHWO Chancellor Candidates follow Usual Pattern
By News Release @ 8:42 PM :: 6087 Views :: Higher Education
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... the Eco, the Outsider, and the Old Boy. Which faction will gain ascendancy? There's a Golden Parachute in it for the winner ....
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Monday, August 29, 2016 |
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Hawaii Public College Tuition Up 136% More than Average Household Income
By Selected News Articles @ 11:09 PM :: 5314 Views :: Higher Education
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Public colleges play a special role in making higher education affordable, but in recent years, soaring tuition is pushing that dream out of reach....
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 |
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E-W Center Names New President
By News Release @ 12:23 AM :: 4685 Views :: Higher Education
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The appointment of Dr. Vuylsteke concludes a year-long search involving several hundred potential candidates....
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016 |
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Calling All Cronies: UH Has $50K to Give You
By News Release @ 6:53 PM :: 7094 Views :: Higher Education, Tax Credits
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Do you have acting skills? Can you pretend to be a Tech Entrepreneur? UH has some money to give you....
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Thursday, August 18, 2016 |
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Regents approve Lassner as UH Manoa interim chancellor
By News Release @ 11:58 PM :: 4873 Views :: Higher Education
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The search for the next UH Mānoa chancellor began after Lassner fired Apple to satisfy Carbone--who then quit ....
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Friday, August 12, 2016 |
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Two Years After Ousting Apple, Lassner forced to Appoint Himself UH Manoa Chancellor
By News Release @ 3:47 AM :: 6144 Views :: Higher Education
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Flashback 2014: Did Attack on Carbone's $300K 'Assistant' Precipitate Removal of UHM Chancellor?
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 |
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India Parliament: War-Torn Kashmir is Approved as Site for Thirty Meter Telescope
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 9365 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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Indian scientists leading this project, led by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, visited the region and have completed measurements of Atmospheric turbulence....
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 |
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UH community colleges most affordable in the nation
By News Release @ 4:52 AM :: 4924 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...but don't worry, UH Administrators are doing everything they can to change this....
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016 |
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Attorney: OHA Chair Secretly Supports Telescope
By Video @ 5:40 PM :: 7228 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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Attorney Claims OHA Trustee Robert Lindsey Supports Building The Thirty Meter Telescope Atop Mauna Kea....
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Friday, August 5, 2016 |
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UH Law Prof: White Milk is Racist Food Oppression
By Selected News Articles @ 10:18 PM :: 6549 Views :: Agriculture, Higher Education
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...“food oppression is a difficult concept for many to embrace because of the powerful rhetoric regarding personal choice that is endemic in the United States”....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Latest Poll on Hawaii Island Shows 2-1 Margin in Support for TMT Construction
By News Release @ 2:15 PM :: 7546 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...support for TMT’s construction is split among Hawaiians/part Hawaiians on Hawaii Island, with 46 percent of those polled in support of the project and 45 percent opposed....
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Saturday, July 23, 2016 |
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UH Law Grads Average $55K Debt
By News Release @ 10:55 PM :: 4619 Views :: Higher Education
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Average debt for 2015 UH Law School graduates who took out loans to pay for their legal education was $54,988....
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Friday, July 22, 2016 |
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Golden Parachutes are Expensive -- Massive tuition increases approved by UH regents
By News Release @ 3:38 AM :: 3994 Views :: Higher Education
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UH leadership claimed that the money raised through the increase will only be used for projects that modernize student spaces, classrooms and laboratories....
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016 |
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Report: $10K ‘Affordability Gap’ for Hawaii College Students
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 6206 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education, Cost of Living
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Between low wages and high net prices, no state can claim that the average four-year college is affordable for low-income students....
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Friday, July 8, 2016 |
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Leaving Hawaii: Decision on New Site for Thirty Meter Telescope set for ‘Early 2017’
By Selected News Articles @ 5:27 PM :: 8896 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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New locations that are being considered include Baja California in Mexico, the Canary Islands and Chile, as well as locations in India and China....
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Thursday, July 7, 2016 |
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Report on UH lab explosion reveals deep, systemic safety failures
By Selected News Articles @ 5:38 PM :: 4531 Views :: Higher Education
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“Serious deficiencies in the institution’s approach to laboratory safety, [especially the] lack of a culture of safety.”
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Thursday, July 7, 2016 |
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HB2772: UH Rape Policy Now Written into State Law
By News Release @ 5:28 PM :: 5462 Views :: Higher Education, Law Enforcement
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In April, UH expanded is sexual harassment policies with a new Executive Policy on Consensual Relationships....
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Friday, July 1, 2016 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Clarifies Appeals Clock
By Robert Thomas @ 4:47 PM :: 6427 Views :: Higher Education, Judiciary
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...the Hawaii Supreme Court clarified a point of appellate procedure that has been unnecessarily vague -- and therefore dangerous -- for a while....
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Friday, June 24, 2016 |
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Oppression of Education
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:54 AM :: 9541 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA, GMOs
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...it’s clear who the real oppressors are....
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Thursday, June 16, 2016 |
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UH launches whistleblower hotline
By News Release @ 5:24 AM :: 5356 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education
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...to confidentially report violations of laws, rules, regulations and UH policies....
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Friday, June 10, 2016 |
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Office of Maunakea Management: 16 Years of Stewardship
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 6846 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, OHA
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Recent news making events have detracted from the great strides in the management of Maunakea....
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Saturday, June 4, 2016 |
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Telescope: Nobody can remove all fears of reversal
By Robert Thomas @ 7:39 PM :: 9628 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...the late request by the University to remove Judge Amano ... out of a fear that retaining her might be overturned on appeal, invites the Board to subvert its own independent judgment....
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Friday, June 3, 2016 |
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Telescope: BLNR Sticks With Judge Amano
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 9361 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...the Board unanimously denied a motion to disqualify retired Hilo judge Riki May Amano as the hearing officer in the case....
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016 |
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To Satisfy Protesters, UH Begins Decommissioning Three Perfectly Good Telescopes
By News Release @ 5:18 PM :: 7791 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... UH time has consistently been oversubscribed on all observatories ....
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Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
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Regents to Vote on New UH Cancer Center Director
By News Release @ 3:53 AM :: 5576 Views :: Health Care, Higher Education
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“He can be instrumental in our efforts to keep the UH Cancer Center NCI-designated"
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Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
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PUEO Hawaiians Support Telescope
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 8842 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...to dispel the myth that all Native Hawaiians oppose the project....
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Sunday, May 15, 2016 |
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Telescope to Avoid "Death By A Thousand Days?"
By Robert Thomas @ 3:42 PM :: 9016 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, Judiciary, OHA
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"Why not just send it straight to the justices, if they are going to decide it eventually?”
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Thursday, May 12, 2016 |
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Act 48: Enviro Disputes Go Directly to Supreme Court
By News Release @ 4:46 PM :: 7944 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, Judiciary, OHA
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...contested case hearings before the commissions on Water Resource Management, Land Use, Public Utilities, the Hawai‘i Community Development Authority and cases involving conservation districts, to be directly appealed to the Hawai‘i Supreme Court....
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 |
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BYUH One of 20 Best Education Schools in US
By News Release @ 2:02 PM :: 5781 Views :: Education K-12, Higher Education
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...The 2016 National College Education Program Rankings have been released by ToBecomeATeacher.org....
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Saturday, May 7, 2016 |
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BLNR Refuses to Replace Telescope Hearing Officer
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 7582 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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All seven members of BLNR directed retired Hawai‘i island Judge Riki May Amano to proceed as the contested case hearing officer....
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 |
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Report: Hawaii Among Best in College Affordability
By News Release @ 6:32 PM :: 6012 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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College Affordability Diagnosis shows that higher education has gone from expensive to unaffordable for most American families....
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Friday, April 22, 2016 |
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UH Budget Request Rejected by House, Senate Drafts
By News Release @ 3:18 PM :: 4187 Views :: Higher Education
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...much of the university’s request is not accommodated in either the House or Senate version of the budget....
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016 |
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Auditor: At First Only Hawai’i Free Press Noticed our Mauna Kea Report
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 10:07 PM :: 5531 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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Suddenly, our findings, conclusions, and recommendations became important reference material for both sides of the debate....
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016 |
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Hawaii Featured in 2016 Congressional Pig Book
By News Release @ 3:13 PM :: 7172 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Higher Education
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The East-West Center in Hawaii received a $5.9 million earmark....
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016 |
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UH Professors Banned from Sex with Students
By News Release @ 3:34 AM :: 4193 Views :: Higher Education
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...favoritism and abuse of trust and power could lead to sexual harassment....
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Saturday, April 2, 2016 |
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DLNR Finally Gets Around to Appointing Mauna Kea Hearing Officer
By News Release @ 4:08 AM :: 6956 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...retired Hawaii island circuit court judge Riki May Amano (Ret.) has been selected as the hearings officer to conduct the Mauna Kea contested case hearing....
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016 |
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Photos: Hate-Fueled Attack on Mauna Kea Radio Telescope
By Andrew Walden @ 2:42 PM :: 8885 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...The suspect gained entry by ramming our gates then used his vehicle to ram our outer steel doors multiple times and proceed to beat on our inner doors....
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 |
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Tuition up 136%: UH Manoa Ranks #1 in USA—and Administration Wants More
By Selected News Articles @ 2:57 PM :: 6369 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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Startclass examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics to find the public schools with the highest tuition increases over the past 10 years....
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 |
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 |
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State Hands IT Systems to New UH Tech Center
By News Release @ 2:38 PM :: 5825 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Higher Education
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Lassner noted that “The state has had IT facilities challenges for years...."
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