{"id":211817,"date":"2025-03-06T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=211817"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:28:26","slug":"hensel-open-forum-federal-policy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/06\/hensel-open-forum-federal-policy-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"President Hensel to host open forum on federal policy changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/system-gnrc-bachman-seal.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of Bachman hall with the U H seal\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-211826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/system-gnrc-bachman-seal.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/system-gnrc-bachman-seal-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/system-gnrc-bachman-seal-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President Wendy Hensel will host an open, live-streamed forum on Thursday, March 13, to discuss the impact of recent federal policy changes on higher education and the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> System\u2019s 10 campuses.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/14\/hensel-federal-policies-major-challenges\/\">Watch the livestream<\/a>, March 14, 2025<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p>The event will provide students, faculty and staff the opportunity to hear directly from Hensel, ask questions and share concerns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, March 13, 3 to 4:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Campus Center Ballroom<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/14\/hensel-federal-policies-major-challenges\/\">Watch the ivestream<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;With change comes uncertainty, and reasonable people will have different perspectives on the best way forward,&rdquo; said Hensel. &ldquo;As we navigate these evolving directives, it is essential that we engage in open, thoughtful dialogue about what these policy changes mean for our campuses, students, faculty and staff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The forum will be open to both in-person and virtual audiences, ensuring broad participation from across <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 10 campuses. Participants will be able to submit questions in advance. Information on how to submit questions will be shared prior to the forum.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the forum, the university has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/federal-updates\/\">Federal Policy Update Resource Page<\/a>, where students and employees can find the latest news, <abbr>FAQ<\/abbr>s, guidance and support services related to these policy changes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I look forward to this important conversation and hope you can join me in person or online,&rdquo; said Hensel. &ldquo;Mahalo nui loa for your partnership in moving the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> forward for our families and communities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hensel initially announced her plan to hold an open forum in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/28\/uh-president-reaffirming-values-eo-update\/\">February 28 message to the 10 campuses<\/a> where she also reaffirmed <abbr>UH<\/abbr> values and provided an update to the Executive Orders and directives by the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forum will be held on March 13, 3&#8211;4:30 p.m. at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Campus Center Ballroom.<\/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":[1674,61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,1664,66],"class_list":["post-211817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-executive-orders","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-hensel","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211817","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=211817"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212285,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211817\/revisions\/212285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}