Fwd: [GSO-ASSEMBLY]: [Fwd: [GSO-EC] [Fwd: URGENT - proposed UH bill hurting our budgets]]
Sharain Naylor
Friends,
I've been away for the break, so I'm not sure about the level of awareness about this bill. I do hope to see everyone THIS MONDAY, 3/29, 7 pm in the State Capitol Room 308 about the NEW $59 million cut proposed by the would come from UH:
SB2695, HD1 (http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/SB2695_HD1_PROPOSED_.htm)
Please spread the word.
Sharain S Naylor
Political Science, GSO Rep.
Cynthia Franklin
thanks for this notification. this is an outrage--a raiding of university-generated funds. and these are not cuts we can withstand.
we need to turn out in big #s for this and get our students mobilized.
we also should meet--ideas on a time and place?
cindy
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Cynthia Franklin
Professor, Department of English
Co-Editor, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
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> From: Jeffrey Rich <jr...@ifa.hawaii.edu>
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:21 am
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> All-
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> Our caucus rep has passed this on to me to pass on to the
> Assembly.
> Given the current funding situation in the UH system it is
> unfortunate
> to see the possibility of any more money associated with UH
> being pulled
> away, including RTRF, from which VC Ostrander has provided
> $20,000 this
> year and last year for G&A funds.
>
> This is quite short notice, but not too late to provide
> testimony.
> Please let your constituent departments know.
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> Aloha,
> Jeff
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeffrey Rich <jr...@IfA.Hawaii.Edu>
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:21 am
> Subject: [GSO-EC] [Fwd: URGENT - proposed UH bill hurting our budgets]
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> This seems worth alerting the assembly about, since the proposed
> numbers
> seem like large chunks of money.
>
> -Jeff
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Karen Lee <kare...@hawaii.edu>
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:21 am
> Subject: URGENT - proposed UH bill hurting our budgets
> To: 'UHSC Listserv' <student...@lists.hawaii.edu>
> Cc: 'Stephanie Kim' <scs...@hawaii.edu>
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> Dear Caucus Members (and especially to Student Government Presidents, who should let your constituents know): > > Last night the State House of Representatives called a hearing for this Monday night at 7 pm for SB2695, HD1 (http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/SB2695_HD1_PROPOSED_.htm). This draft would impact our budgets severely, as it calls for sweeping $20 million of UH’s tuition and fees (from the Tuition and Fees Special Fund) as well as $10 million from our research fund (from the Research and Training Revolving Fund), amongst other non-general funds from UH and other state agencies. Of the proposed $96 million to take from the various state agencies, $59 million would come from UH. > > This bill is of concern because of the magnitude of the cuts ON TOP of the $100 million that the Governor and Legislature have already cut us for the next fiscal year. In particular, the proposed $20 million cut from the Tuition and Fees Special Fund could impact the volume and quality of student services, number of classes/sections to offer, amount of financial aid and scholarships to students, library hours, etc. We are very worried about the severe impact of these cuts on our services to students. > > I am urging all of you to take note and to submit testimony by tomorrow (Sunday) at 7 pm as to how it would impact you as students. You submit testimony at this website: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony/ and type in SB2695 at the top. Then, you can cut and paste in your testimony. > > PLEASE submit testimony, emphasizing your own story (why you entered UH, the amount of aid you got, the benefit of a college education, etc.) and if possible, you might want to consider testifying yourselves. The hearing will be THIS MONDAY, 3/29, 7 pm in the State Capitol Room 308. If you need help or want to run anything by me, feel free to e-mail to me. If you plan to attend the hearing, let me know too. > > Thanks, everyone! > Karen > > Karen C. Lee > Associate Vice President for Student Affairs > University of Hawaii > 2444 Dole Street, Bachman 207 > Honolulu, HI 96822 > |
Cynthia Franklin
Hi--
Anyone who wants to carpool to tonight's 7 pm meeting at the State Capitol in room 308 to protest SB2695, HD1
(http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/SB2695_HD1_PROPOSED_.htm)
can meet at 6:30 either at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies (and look for Jon Osorio) or at Faculty Housing in Manoa (I'll be there looking for others going to the meeting).
Also, here is the address for us to contact our representatives--http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/house/members/members.asp
And here is the website to submit testimony: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony/ Type in SB2695 at the top.
I hope to see many of you tonight, and please forward this message widely.
Cindy
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Vernadette Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Chair
American Studies Department
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ken Kipnis
kkI am Ken Kipnis and I teach ethics in Manoa's Department of Philosophy. I came here 30 years ago excited at the prospect of working in a place that did not have a majority population, where the task of sustaining a multicultural community, a multicultural university, is everybody's business.We philosophers sometimes pay more attention to the big picture than we do to details, so here is my big picture. Though we who call Hawaii our home are blessed with amazingly rich diversities, there are hundreds of intricate worlds that lie beyond what we can readily see and experience, worlds that can challenge our minds, our values, our grounded expectations, even our imaginations. If Hawaii is our home, Manoa's departments and programs, its colleges and faculties, its libraries and laboratories, its professors and graduate assistants, are its windows. Like any fine university, Manoa offers opportunities to stretch our skills and our understanding as far as humanly possible, to stand on the shoulders of giants, to see as deeply as the accumulated achievements of our species will allow. And then to see even further.But Manoa is our only doctoral-level research university. Though there are others in the United States, the next closest one is more than 2000 miles away. And so, for many who share this island home, to go to a university is to become a student on this campus.My own department, philosophy, used to have an African-American scholar whose specialty was social and political philosophy. He had done landmark work on rectification and reparations; the duties that flow from wrongdoings between peoples. Rodney Roberts left about 5 years ago and was not replaced. One small window in our home, boarded up.Universities begin to die when the institution shuts down whole academic programs. Though we have let our lecturers go and have chosen not to replace scholars who leave, the Board of Regents has yet to declare that a state of financial exigency exists and the administration has yet to unveil any plan to retrench. The headlines suggest that we are at that tipping point, that we are about to begin a debate on how to get on with the dirty business of cannibalizing higher education in Hawaii. As tuitions rise and programs fall by the wayside, we would be abandoning our historical commitment to equality of opportunity in higher education, sentencing Manoa to the death of a thousand cuts.We are not standing on the shore, awaiting a hurricane that is coming this way, threatening the very integrity of our community. What threatens us is not a natural calamity. What destroyed Gartley Hall – what has destroyed it as decisively as any earthquake -- is years of official neglect. What threatens Manoa, and the community that is our home, are the actions and the omissions of politicians and political appointees, men and women --- our neighbors -- who now need to be reminded that political power comes with political responsibility. Reminded that the students and the faculty and the communities who have stakes in this awesome institution will not stand by and watch its budget plundered, its programs killed, its windows, our windows, Hawaii's windows, boarded up.
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