Higher Education

Hawaii's bid for it got a $5,000 donation from the global law and lobbying firm Skadden Arps....

Board of Regents has identified Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner as Interim President of the university and will vote on the appointment at a special board meeting July 30....

M.R.C. Greenwood will earn a little less than $25,000 a month after she resigns as University of Hawaii president...

There were no other modifications to the existing $44.7-million contract except for its duration....

For this list, we looked at six pieces of criteria....

Terry Lock has accepted a position with the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education....

There are currently nine youths between the ages of 13-17 in the Wrap Hawai‘i pilot program....

the National Council on Teacher Quality 2013 Teacher Prep Review has bad news for Hawaii Universities' Schools of Education....

...If substantiated, Senator Mercado Kim must be held accountable....

...inflation-adjusted income for recent college graduates actually declined between 2000 and 2011....

the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-2012 to more than $440,000 a year....

New A.D. Ben Jay is flipping and flopping on his decision to install the “Warriors” as U.H.’s official nickname....

...students requiring remedial classes dropped to 31 percent in English and remained at 36 percent for math....

...state flagship universities are a waste of time and resources for many students....

... African American college-enrollment increased by 24 percent ....

In spite of all the alarm over rising costs and excessive borrowing for college, one person is confident that college will be far less expensive in just a few years....

Gov. Neil Abercrombie today announced the nominations of Eugene Bal III, Barry T. Mizuno, and Randolph A. Moore to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. The nominations are subject to state Senate confirmation....

The Commission is deeply concerned about press accounts of the attempts of individuals within the government to demand specific personnel actions ... legislation has recently been introduced that could interfere with the University's ability to manage its own affairs....

Richardson Law School ranked 80th among the nation’s 144 best law schools compared with 106th a year ago....

Students using Army Tuition Assistance (TA) must register in GoArmyEd before NOON Hawaii Standard Time (HST) Friday, March 8 at which time it will be suspended....

UH boosted its annual bite on students 108%....

... he only selects his friends from a pool of hundreds of qualified Architects and Engineers in Honolulu ....

...the Regents Candidate Advisory Council (RCAC) delivered to Governor Neil Abercrombie's office a list of candidates for the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents....

In light of these trends, some states like Texas, Florida and Wisconsin are considering the $10,000 college degree....

Opening enrollment for the University of Hawai‘i System for the spring 2013 semester stands at 55,373 students, a slight decline of 1,303 students, or 2.3 percent, compared to spring 2012....

...a survey through which we could measure the military-friendly policies enacted at each school....

Overall, the $1.40 billion of education-related expenditures attributable to UHM generated $2.45 billion in local business sales, $735 million in employee earnings, $131 million in state tax revenues, and slightly under 20,000 jobs in Hawai‘i in FY2012....

...it will administer college and career readiness assessments to all middle and high school students statewide in grades 8, 9, 10 and 11 beginning next spring....

...Such a framework is necessary to preserve the availability of federal student aid funding under Title IV of the HEA....

...thank you for your support and patience as we continue to process all the confusion of the past few months....

“Ben Jay brings an extensive background in management and financial experience from big-time college athletics, has numerous valuable contacts, and possesses the vision, leadership skills, passion and integrity to take UH Athletics to the next level."

The UH BoR and Greenwood reviewed the findings of the Senate Special Committee regarding the oversight, accountability, and transparency of the operational and financial management of the university and agree with its recommendations calling for greater transparency and accountability (two out of three ain't bad).... 

It took three months for UHSC to stop Ing from misrepresenting himself but after Ing was threatened with expulsion from UH, he capitulated....

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana

The University of Hawaii continues to publish groundbreaking discoveries from their mesothelioma research efforts. But does the precarious state of our American research universities put mesothelioma research in jeopardy?

"...a source of opinions and authority that is ultimately answerable to the Chinese Communist Party and which is not subject to scholarly review...."