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UH Journalism Students Are Back On The Legislative Beat Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

UH Journalism Students Are Back On The Legislative Beat

University of Hawaii students are getting on the job training by reporting on the Legislature.

Jonathan Okamura: UH Ethnic Studies Keeps Correcting Rosy Versions Of Hawaii’s Past Courtesy of Jonathan Okamura

Jonathan Okamura: UH Ethnic Studies Keeps Correcting Rosy Versions Of Hawaii’s Past

Faculty at the small department are publishing books on subjects that range from Hawaii to far afield challenging injustice and inequality.

University of Hawaii Budget Request Faces Backlash From Senators David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

University of Hawaii Budget Request Faces Backlash From Senators

About $120 million is needed to repair student housing stock, UH leaders said. But some senators questioned the timing of the request.

Oregon Says Aloha To 2024 UH Football Season Opener In Hawaii Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2014

Oregon Says Aloha To 2024 UH Football Season Opener In Hawaii

The University of Hawaii’s athletic director previously told Civil Beat that the game was in doubt, underscoring the need for a venue to replace Aloha Stadium

University Of Hawaii Athletics Needs Your Money To Survive. Here’s How College Sports Finances Are Changing Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2014

University Of Hawaii Athletics Needs Your Money To Survive. Here’s How College Sports Finances Are Changing

UH’s lack of the big revenue seen by other college athletic programs is hampering its ability to compete, especially in the high-finance sport of football.

Jonathan Okamura: UH Can Learn From University Presidents’ Responses At Congressional Hearing Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Jonathan Okamura: UH Can Learn From University Presidents’ Responses At Congressional Hearing

The implementation of a policy banning race-based hate speech would provide clear guidelines.

Jonathan Okamura: UH Needs To Bar Race-Based Hate Speech Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Jonathan Okamura: UH Needs To Bar Race-Based Hate Speech

The university’s focus on discrimination fails to address the question of members of the community expressing racist statements.

Danny De Gracia: UH Rises Above Charged Middle East Rhetoric To Protect Students Danny de Gracia/Civil Beat/2023

Danny De Gracia: UH Rises Above Charged Middle East Rhetoric To Protect Students

As campuses across the U.S. erupt in controversy, the University of Hawaii takes a different tack.

Chad Blair: This Group Of UH Experts Has Become A One-Stop Shop For Policy Analyses Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

Chad Blair: This Group Of UH Experts Has Become A One-Stop Shop For Policy Analyses

UHERO is expanding its role in advising the larger Hawaii community on pressing issues.

UH President David Lassner Will Retire Next Year David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023

UH President David Lassner Will Retire Next Year

He has run the University of Hawaii since 2013, an institution he first began working at in 1977.