The University of Hawaii will have four new top-level positions and a Council of Chancellors with the adoption of a controversial administration reorganization plan. UH regents OK new
administrative posts
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The UH Board of Regents unanimously approved the plan yesterday in a special meeting.
Meetings have been held for several weeks to resolve concerns by the Manoa Faculty Senate, UH Professional Assembly and student representatives who opposed the plan because they were not consulted.
The Hawaii Government Employees Association also raised questions about some features of the plan.
The Board of Regents' action on the reorganization was deferred from a November meeting to allow for discussions with the protesting groups. They recommended amendments that were part of the plan approved yesterday.
New offices are being established for a chief of staff, vice president for research, vice president for international education and vice president for student affairs.
The office of the senior vice president and chancellor for community colleges has been eliminated and a Council of Chancellors (community college provosts) created to report to the UH president.
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Institute for Astronomy director, was appointed to replace Edward Laws as interim vice chancellor for research and graduate education. He also will continue as IFA director.
Laws, an oceanographer, will return to the School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology.
Carolyn Tanaka, vice president for public affairs for McNeil Wilson Communications Inc. since 1995, was appointed as associate vice president for external affairs and university relations.
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