UH examines 33 programs for consolidation or cuts - Hawaii News

wow even the marine option program. this university gets worse every day. the mainland goons of Mclain, Ostrander and Hinshaw have run it into the ground.

No forget Frazier too. He took down the Athletic Dpt. Too bad they gonna hire more idiots from the mainland to run the school.

Walking in Waikiki today I realized these fop tourists probably know as much about Hawaii as the finalists for UH president. Sad but true.

Typical Hawaiian mentality. Champagne taste & beer money! Now, we have only beer money left, it's time to TAX again!!!

About time. I am a UH grad of the 50s and watched with dismay as UH followed mantra of more and bigger is better. It is time to return to basics and review whether Manoa campus can sustain the size of enrollment in next years. It takes courage and wisdom tell applicants "only the best can attend."

Hey, who needs to study the classics. They only gave birth to haole philosophies and then science and then that stuff about evolution. Hawaiian studies got better stuff about evolution and how we all related to taro. We need more Lono to be more pono.

tell kids they got to finish in 5 years or they are pau on the taxpayer dime

these ten year party plans at resident rates should be stopped

i see many programs on the list that are vital to HI such as education and health; what i don't see is the one program we can surely do without -- the LAW SCHOOL! cut that first. we need more teachers and nurses, we don't need more lawyers.

Thank you for covering this story; it is an important one (did it slip under the radar of the Advertiser?). The danger in this kind of axe swinging is that it chops programs that are making/can make a big difference to the quality of the educational experience at the school. Question: Are the tenured faculty earning their keep, and will they get a raise in the current environment, while "temps," who are doing much worthwhile work, are given their walking papers?

Yes, time to trim, look at what serves the tax payers of Hawaii, not what is in the interested of long-time tenured faculty.

UH is doing what every good institution should be and that is cutting back and getting leaner. I wish they would rid themselves of their politcally handcuffed garbage like Hawaiian studies and teachings that do nothing except for those that teach it. Russian is even more relevant to learn since they have an impact on our global economy. I wish our local government would cut back some of the unnecessary wast like feeding and subsidizing people who can't afford to live here and belong in a lower cost state. We can then divert funds back to education for those who want to learn and improve themselves.

If UH was smart they would consolidate these programs into existing programs instead of cutting the whole program...

for example...marine biology and aquacuture sciences or marine biology and ocean engineering....and the list goes on.

They created certificates and degrees to create educational options....to create jobs. They also created higher paying jobs for people to think on how to run this University for our administrators who were hired in the first place to think.

I say we should get rid of those non-essential top paid administrators and divide those salaries to cover the programs and make those administrators think about what they are supposed to be doing.

They should also be discussing taking a 5-10% cut in their pays like all other businesses are doing.

The UH foundation is another story....
Here they are a non-profit and I do not see any effort from their admin to take a cut in pay to save jobs.....only to release employees to save theirs. Where is their compassion in these trying times?? They need to also start cutting
their salaries by 5-10% too.

Axing so many valuable programs is unnecessary. We are spending fortunes in upkeep on the dinasaur that is called UH Manoa. Merge most Undergraduate programs with the West Oahu 4 year program and the Community colleges. Build a new stadium out there. Keep most of the post graduate programs and East West Center at UH. Move the rest of National Marine Fisheries to their Salt Lake offices. Take a bulldozer to all the ratty, termite ridden, mildew infested, crumbling buildings that have sat there for the last 50 years, and let Manoa Valley return to some semblance of normal life. There's more than enough room out west for all that junk, and more. If a Second City is ever to make it as more than a fantasy, and if traffic congestion is ever to be eased in our lifetimes, locating a much larger percentage of students and faculty out west could help accomplish those goals.

Russian language should be kept at the least out of the list. UH's ONLY real undergrad strength is in offering many diverse languages. Why would you destroy that one quality that UH offers? These administrators need to get a clue.

Marine Option Programs can be supported by the commerical side of the economy but the secret of success is all of the propietary copyrighted stuff which, if turned into educational training, will greatly reduce the profit factor for its originator. The profit factor is what hinders the development of education, research & training.

Cut Hawaiian Studies wrote:

UH can save cash by cutting their "Hawaiian Studies" program (and firing Lily Dorton aka Lilikala Kamelehelaiwa for that matter too.)
Since they make stuff up, UH can put that c_ap under the "Fiction, Creative Writing and Story-telling" Department.

Alumni Pu'hi'o.

What you are talking about is the beginning of the end when you cut programs.

Its too bad UH has to cut these programs. Some appear to be somewhat useless and others have some real academic value. Unfortunately in the current fiscal environment, something's got to go and those with either little enrollment or of dubious academic value are vulnerable. I understand the professors' protests, but you hear the same thing from government bureaucrats- "if you cut my program, all kinds of bad things will happen." If we don't want to end up like California, these actions need to take place across the whole range of publicly funded institutions.

McClain has run the university into the ground. As an alum it is very sad.

A local raised leader would care more but McClain will just fly off back to the mainland like Dobelle while the UH is in ruin and its programs cut.

UH Money Trail Scandal:

$1.1 mil a year-Football coach McMackin

$2.2 mil-severance for ex prez Dobelle

$550,000 thous. a yr.-incoming prez +car,house,expense acct.

$363,024- Chancellor Hinshaw

$353,000- severance for ex Athletic Director Frazier

Are you kidding? They've been spending on these?
Master's in dance Plan B
Bachelor of Music -- Guitar degree
Certificate in Political Economy ( an oxymoron)
Ph.D. in policy studies (all our policy comes from the unions)
Serials Department, Library Services (really?)
Norway Exchange Programs
» Semester Abroad in Adelaide, Australia
» Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Study Abroad Program
» Summer Independent Self-Designed Study Abroad Program
» International Bridge Program
» Proposed travel industry management bachelor's in hospitality degree in Singapore

Except for the staff and small number of students in these programs -- I don't think will be missed.