{"id":174355,"date":"2023-03-17T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T22:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=174355"},"modified":"2023-03-17T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T22:23:36","slug":"uh-manoa-athletics-independent-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/17\/uh-manoa-athletics-independent-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent report: UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics response to concerns ‘appropriate and timely’"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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An independent assessment of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Athletics Department<\/a> relating to student-athlete welfare, communications and concerns has been completed and is on the UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents (BOR<\/abbr>) March 23 meeting agenda<\/a> for discussion and possible action. The report was commissioned by the BOR<\/abbr><\/a> in August 2022.<\/p>\n

College Sports Solutions (CSS<\/abbr>), a Georgia-based consulting firm that specializes in collegiate athletics, was hired by the BOR<\/abbr> to review allegations made regarding climate and behaviors within the UH<\/abbr> football program. The allegations were raised during a January 7, 2022 public informational briefing by the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Senate Committees on Ways and Means and Higher Education.<\/p>\n

CSS<\/abbr> interviewed more than two dozen individuals and collected hundreds of pages of documents during its investigation. The report includes a detailed timeline (pages 11 to 14) that starts when the concerns were first raised by a football student-athlete and outlines the escalating response by the university until the Senate briefing.<\/p>\n

In response to the questions posed by the BOR<\/abbr> (pages 15 to 21), among others, CSS<\/abbr> made the following findings:<\/p>\n