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A push by Republican lawmakers across the U.S. to ban DEI programs at public universities would have disastrous effects in Hawaii.

The 13-12 vote came the same day the Legislature approved hundreds of bills, including one paying for the growing costs of the Maui fires.

The full Senate is set to vote on Alapaki Nahale-a’s reappointment this week. The future of the university is at stake, the faculty union says.

In spite of a Senate panel’s rejection, Alapaki Nahale-a wants to push ahead with his nomination “for our university and our state.”

The fate of Alapaki Nahale-a is now in the hands of the full Senate, barring a withdrawal of the gubernatorial nomination.

The program had been halted in July due to having too many bodies for too few surgical trainees.

A new major would create an undergraduate program in education studies that would license elementary school teachers.

The state will retain a 20% ownership interest in the interisland network, which will compete with Hawaiian Telcom.

The Board of Education has not amended its student-publication policy to incorporate full student press freedom in accordance with a new law.

Ethnicity impacts whether students from different Indigenous and ethnic groups are admitted to the UH system, whether they graduate and their future employment.