{"id":180701,"date":"2023-07-21T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=180701"},"modified":"2023-07-26T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:44:50","slug":"uh-hilo-kalei-rapoza-vice-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/21\/uh-hilo-kalei-rapoza-vice-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo appoints new vice chancellor for administrative affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Kalei<\/p>\n

Kalei Rapoza has been appointed University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> vice chancellor for administrative affairs. Rapoza\u2019s appointment was reviewed by the UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents<\/a> at their July 20 meeting and will go into effect July 21.<\/p>\n

Rapoza began his career at UH<\/abbr> Hilo as an associate director of human resources in 2013, and was appointed as director of human resources (2016–17), interim vice chancellor for administrative affairs (2017–22) and interim director of strategic initiatives and government affairs (2022–23).<\/p>\n

Throughout Rapoza\u2019s 10 years at UH<\/abbr> Hilo, he has dedicated many hours to his duties including chief liaison and representative for the chancellor and other senior officials to the university community, direct legislative issues and proposals and served as campus oversight for campus-level legal reviews.<\/p>\n

“We are indeed fortunate to have Kalei Rapoza join the senior leadership team as vice chancellor,” said UH<\/abbr> Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D<\/abbr>. Irwin. “His years of experience on campus and in the state will serve our campus well. I\u2019m excited to get to work with our new team.”<\/p>\n

Rapoza graduated from UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/a> with a bachelor of science degree in family resources and earned his juris doctor from UH<\/abbr> Mānoa\u2019s William S<\/abbr>. Richardson School of Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rapoza begins his appointment as the new UH<\/abbr> Hilo vice chancellor for administrative affairs on July 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[691,14],"class_list":["post-180701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-administration","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180701","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=180701"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180717,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180701\/revisions\/180717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}