May 10, 2021
This message was sent by University of Hawaiʻi Professional Assembly leadership to its members on May 7, 2021.
As a faculty member of the University of Hawaiʻi system, you play a key and significant role in supporting our state’s economic recovery. Unfortunately, our legislators, particularly those in the Senate, do not see you in this way.
After having to endure a tumultuous year of on-again/off-again threats of furloughs, layoffs and pay cuts from Gov. David Ige, we find ourselves back in a tenuous situation, only this time the problem stems from actions by legislators in the Senate.