Comments on: Proposed modest tuition increases to fund needed maintenance

By: Man Minchew

Man Minchew — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 10:43:21 +0000

In 1997, the state paid 70 percent of the funding for tuition. This year the state contribution is 42 percent.

By: Douglas KY Wong

Douglas KY Wong — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 22:06:04 +0000

It is amazing how many admin positions there are and how much some of them make. No wonder Gov. Ige says what he says. Need to consolidate positions and pay according to responsibility.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 03:26:16 +0000

If your going to increase the tuition at least lower the textbook costs….

By: Christa H

Christa H — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 02:59:00 +0000

In reply to Leo. That is how spin works. Students at �鶹��ýare just a number and a resource to extract dollars from. Shame on the �鶹��ýadministrators, and you wonder why the reputation of �鶹��ýis going downhill so fast in our community.

By: �鶹��ýNews staff

�鶹��ýNews staff — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 02:47:09 +0000

In reply to Leo. As noted in the article, "The proposed schedule covers the period from the 2017–18 through the 2019–20 academic years with annual increases ranging from zero to 2 percent."

By: C Lynn

C Lynn — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 02:10:25 +0000

The �鶹��ýFacilities are State facilities, and deferred maintenance should be paid for by the State! The State Legislature has repeatedly cut funding to �鶹��ýin the past few years, and so it is the State that needs to step up, and pay for these needed repairs and maintenance expenses–not the students! I have two daughters attending �鶹��ýManoa, and I can tell you that it is struggle enough to make their monthly tuition/room/board/fee payments as it is…any increase will be impossible…and to repair buildings, is really untenable. I completely fail to see why this selective tax to repair �鶹��ýfacilities should be burdened only by the students/parents of UH!

By: Kaia

Kaia — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:04:49 +0000

The cost of education is already too high. A lot of students are struggling to pay for tuition now and this will be the final nail in the coffin for some of them. You are crushing dreams and defeating the purpose of education.

A decent institute wouldn’t push their students into debt. They would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment; it is a PUBLIC good.

Don’t let the students suffer for the inadequacies in the administration.

I wonder how much your salaries are?

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:59:14 +0000

I like how they say tuition increases of 2% or less when the tuition increase for resident undergraduates at uh manoa from current to 2016-2017 is a 5.1% increase. Do they think we can’t see a 500$ difference on 10,000$ and see that is not 2%?

By: Bob smith

Bob smith — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:56:49 +0000

Rise tuition, as a UHM current student I can say for what? The spend the money on more useless things? This campus unlike many campuses on mainland does not have a police department,it’s simply “public safety” in other words mall cops. Yet they spent about 100k on new Dodge Chargers for what? To chase moped thief’s? All they ever do when a situation is out of their control is call HPD. Even my Junior college had its own Police Department. How it is that this UNIVERSITY does not, but still spends OUR tuition on such equipment that can’t even be utilized properly by “public safety”. Secondly the food establishment’s on campus, want to make more money instead of increasing tuition for department heads to get the pay raise they always complain about. How about you keep the food establishment’s open past 2 pm! It’s incredible how we have 11 chain location on campus out of those 11 two are open late and by late i mean past two but not till 5.Really? Only thing open till about ten is Starbucks. That’s unheard of, and quite a joke when you go to a university on mainland that has not only establishment’s but the Cafeteria is open late. Furthermore everything on campus is closed on weekends!? Like how do you expect to make any revenue open what 8-2 M-F closed weekends? And then they cafe has 10-1 5-7:30 hours. I’m not sure this border understands that THIS SCHOOL HAS OUT OF STATE STUDENT’S. NOT ALL OF USE ARE FROM HERE WE DON’T HAVE THE LUXURY OF GOING HOME ON WEEKENDS! There is very little food establishment’s walking distance from campus and they encourage eating that cafe food “sponsored by sedexo” but they keep everything closed. How about you stop worrying about how to squeeze money out of the students to get your self a pay raise,and start figuring our priorities. Maybe propose to the state for i don’t know a tax increase. I mean just an idea or idk keep food services on campus open passed two pm, i don’t maybe they they are open later who know’s you might see some income and then oh look at that they make money and since they are on campus you can you know maybe raise the rent to be on your campus. Would you look at that. Economics and strategizing,and more job hours actually helps who would of ever guessed.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:56:49 +0000

In reply to �鶹��ýNews. Apologies from a man who is a paid to be the voice of the �鶹��ýadmin. I am afraid Dan is just a spin doctor trying to make the �鶹��ýadmin look good and dig himself out of a hole with that apology. His comments really do show �鶹��ýadmin in their true colors though.