  {"id":165242,"date":"2022-09-15T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T22:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=165242"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T22:48:32","slug":"september-presidents-report-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/september-presidents-report-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"September president&#8217;s report: masking, strategic plan, tenure and enrollment updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_15605\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qudoOqXbtPQ?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"September president\u2019s report: masking, strategic plan, tenure and enrollment updates\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> explained the reasoning behind the lifting of the remaining face masks requirements on <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> campuses and announced that overall enrollment is slightly down across the system in his monthly report at the September 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/\">Board of Regents<\/a> meeting at Windward Community College. <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> announced on September 9 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/09\/masks-no-longer-required-after-sept-16\/\">face masks will no longer be required in educational spaces<\/a> as of September 17.<\/p>\n<p>Lassner provided an update on the Strategic Plan&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/12\/uh-strategic-plan-draft-public-review\/\">the first draft of the plan is available for public comment<\/a> with four town hall meetings scheduled in September and October. He also shared information on <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> projects that are addressing the Red Hill drinking water crisis, and a $4.7-million anonymous gift to the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-social-sciences-mask-wearing-study-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"face masks\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-132864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-social-sciences-mask-wearing-study-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-social-sciences-mask-wearing-study-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-social-sciences-mask-wearing-study.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remaining mask requirements lifted (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=17s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 updates (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=1m42s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Strategic Plan progress (classification project) (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=2m7s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Tenure Task Force update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=3m15s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fall enrollment update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=4m32s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Extramural funding up 3.7% (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=8m\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> projects addressing Red Hill drinking water crisis (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=8m42s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>$4.7-million anonymous gift to Indigenous center (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=12m54s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope event (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=14m24s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Island Conference of Leaders event (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qudoOqXbtPQ?t=16m31s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/presidents-report\/\">See previous president&#8217;s reports to the Board of Regents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights also include extramural funding, a $4.7 million gift for the Indigenous center and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> projects that address the Red Hill water crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[1411,962,61,62,63,64,65,394,1120,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-165242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-enrollment","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165265,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165242\/revisions\/165265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}