Thank you madam chair. This month was highly active across the entire system
with hurricane lane bearing down on us during the first week of classes.
Followed not very far apart by Olivia visiting us so the great news is that we
had some trees down and things like that but there was no damage to any campus
and no harm to any individuals on any of our campuses. The second piece of good
news is that it gave us a real opportunity to exercise with the current
leadership team and communication team how we work together across our campuses
and across the system and I will say what became evident and a number of us
were on calls with the governor and the mayors and the statewide emergency
managers is the extent to which our decision-making about how in particular
we handle things like campus closures interacts with the other major players
in the state. As an example if one entity sends its workers home then all the
other entities think their employers don't care about them unless they're
sent home also. When the DOE sends their kids home it has impact on parents who
have to look out for kids who are workers in all of the state county and
university. The DOE has a challenge because their schools are designated as
shelters in many places so in some situations they actually have to close
schools to get ready for the schools to flip over to be shelters. So when people
wonder why we take a while to make a decision what I will say is I think we
made all of our closure decisions in a fairly coordinated manner and in a
timely manner for those who were impacted and fortunately it gave people
time to prepare at home. I will also say this is an area I used to be responsible
for and I'm happily no longer and it's actually in better shape than I left it.
So thank you Vice President Gouveia wherever you are but also everybody. The
calls with the Chancellor's and their leadership and with Dan and the
communications team I think really paid off in terms of us sending out
consistent messages. The other amazing thing about this was the emergence of
our newest faculty superstar how many of you saw Allison Nugent explaining
hurricanes to the public? I'm just curious.
Yeah this is I had a meeting with the Senate President about something else
and he commented on her on TV and it wasn't just that he was amazed at what
he had done what she had done. She stayed on the air for five or six hours
explaining in layman's term what was going on. He said he was sitting in a
restaurant having breakfast and the people at the next table were talking
about that UH faculty member who was explaining this stuff for the first time
in language they could understand. It's one of the things we don't often
appreciate that our our faculty across the system are doing for the community.
So I don't read horoscopes every day but I will acknowledge that I am a Virgo
so that means my birthday is around this time much more notably however Regent
Emeritus Chuck G. we celebrated his 85th birthday with a sustainable tourism
forum on campus and a fundraising dinner for the Tim School and it was a
wonderful event and thanks to those of you who were able to join and I will
just say it is clear there is life after work Chuck looks happy and heil.
And we also celebrated the 90th birthday of Ryuzo Yanagimachi
some of you will remember Yana. Probably the first UH scientist
to make the front page of the Honolulu papers for his green mice and he did
amazing things he's been the heart and soul of our Institute for biogenesis
research for 50 years. He actually retired in 2004 and unlike Chuck he
comes to the office every day and we celebrated his birthday with a forum
seminar with international scientists coming together to celebrate his work
and where it has led and we are also of course launching a fundraising campaign
to support that Institute if anyone's interested we have a $500,000 target for
a Yanagimachi endowment. A couple other birthdays of projects one was the 25th
anniversary of our multi-ethnic cohort study at the Cancer Center. Some of you
may have seen that in the paper last weekend. Since 1993 we have been
collecting data starting with about two hundred and fifteen thousand individuals
in Hawaii in California it is the longest-running such study that looks
into lifestyle practices and risk by ethnic groups to understand incidents of
cancer and risk factors across diet, smoking, alcohol, meat cooking, physical
activity, hormones etc. These long-term studies are one of the ways
that we truly understand population impact. That study is one of
our largest ongoing research studies probably in the top five along with a
project reagent Bal had some involvement with the Maui high performance computing
center, is still going on is our biggest single project.
The multi-ethnic cohort has been over 150 million over that 25 years and
lastly the last birthday I want to mention is the station Aloha
and the Hawaii ocean time series that celebrated 30 years started in 1988. We
have been collecting data in the ocean initially, manually and now through a
cabled observatory it now has become one of the best sampled places in the oceans
anywhere in the world with an understanding of how the ocean has been
responding to climate change across temperature acidification and a variety
of this is run by our Center for Microbial Oceanography
Research and Education. So they've also been looking at the
microbiome of the ocean over this period of time. These long-running projects
really give insights into the world around us and people in ways that you
can't achieve with a single spot study. I won't say much about enrollment
the census date is next week but the remarks I made last week have so far
held almost flat as a system Mānoa up. Kauaʻi Community College is our superstar
this year. Had a rough year the year before but still we will celebrate a
very large percentage increase and even though it's a very small campus it
actually has right now the largest numeric increase in headcount students.
So congratulations Helen and team for getting out there and reaching students.
Mānoa is also still looking up which would be the first increase in seven
years for UH Mānoa our largest campus. Part of that is our diversity and we
celebrated that and yet another study where the University of Hawaii as a
system is by far the most diverse public higher education system in the country
and we put out a press release with many of our campuses at the top of their
categories as well everybody's in the top 10 across the country within their
their sector. Much of that is reaching out to students
who wouldn't otherwise come to college and that's how we succeed we talked in
fact I remember a conversation in this room
some years back talking about financial aid in the FAFSA the infamous FAFSA form
and wondering why every student doesn't fill it out. I think region Tecopa wanted
us to make it mandatory so that's a challenge for us but we've launched an
effort in partnership with the DOE and with Hawaii p20. We have a cash for
college program to get high schools to participate. Superintendant Kishimoto
sent this out in her regular email blast to encourage all of the schools and
everyone in the DOE to participate. We're putting together a dashboard to
show how every high school in the state is doing over time. I will say our
highest performing high school which won a contest last year was Molokaʻi High. So
it is not necessarily the usual suspects and it shows that we can impact through
that our behavior. Waiakea is also a pretty high performer as well it's in
the top 5 along with Roosevelt, Kalani and McKinley. The data is pretty clear on
this though. Right now only about 60% of our high school students are filling it
out. The DOE has set a target of 70 percent for this year and getting to 90
percent by 2020. We're leaving, the number we've seen so far, about $11 million
on the table in federal financial aid, but FAFSA's opened up a
lot of other aid as well. 9 out of 10 students who enrolled in a UH
campus and completed a FAFSA got federal aid, so it is incredibly effective, and
those students are more likely to go to college as well. Another aspect of
diversity that I want to mention is free speech and diversity of viewpoints. We've
had a pretty easy time here in Hawaii with the free speech battles that have
been taking place in higher education across the country
we've had incidents and episodes most of which we have not publicized this week
we probably will be having some publicity we have a couple of very
high-profile Trump surrogate supporters who are brought to Honolulu by the
Republican Party and are being sponsored on campus by student groups and we do
have student republicans young Americans for freedom etc we are protecting their
right to present these speakers it's part of what we do we have also had
events on free speech we have within our law school faculty people with strongly
opposing viewpoints about the importance of protecting free speech and where that
begins to where one person's free speech is another person's hate speech that
creates is perceived to create an unsafe environment and those are the dialogues
that are raging around the country and I'm happy to have our faculty also
engaged in bringing those positions clear here as well
leeward Community College we've talked a lot about cyber infrastructure I don't
know if you saw the signs in the breakfast room this morning about
cybersecurity as well but leeward Community College was just recognized as
an NSA center of academic excellence among two-year institutions joining
Honolulu Community College West Oahu is a four-year center of academic
excellence and you H Manoa as a center of academic excellence for research
cyber security is hot both for students and for jobs and finally let me close
with a couple comments about the UAH Foundation and you
a report from Donna with the fourth-quarter financial report for the
last fiscal year as I think all of you know she has announced her retirement I
am working closely with you h foundation leadership and region sullivan is also
on the search committee for selection of a new CEO for the foundation that
process is underway we have interviewed semi-finalists and we'll be bringing
finalists to town next week for some quiet meetings with the search committee
and some other stakeholders and we are also working on updating the Memorandum
of Understanding as was discussed in the permitted interaction group discussion
last week
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