{"id":212502,"date":"2025-03-20T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=212502"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:44:10","slug":"presidents-march-2025-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/20\/presidents-march-2025-report\/","title":{"rendered":"President Hensel provides updates on federal policy, upholds <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s values"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_20332\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hlMD6JNd86g?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"President Hensel provides updates on federal policy, upholds UH\u2019s values\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President Wendy Hensel provided an update on the most recent federal policy changes, and outlined how <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> is responding, at the March 20 Board of Regents monthly meeting held at Windward Community College.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wendy_Hensel_forum_panel-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Wendy Hensel and panel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-212265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wendy_Hensel_forum_panel-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wendy_Hensel_forum_panel-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wendy_Hensel_forum_panel.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hensel gave an overview of the actions and the impacts on the executive orders by the White House. Her presentation was based on her systemwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/14\/hensel-federal-policies-major-challenges\/\">forum presentation on March 14<\/a> with updates that have happened since that time.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Action Forum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q6qqbsFsW84\">President Hensel forum presentation<\/a> VIDEO<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RuIbcMCIKgI\">Forum Q&#38;A<\/a> VIDEO<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1cwMhN0zlwMrKSCMPCR-v_07POYPYnnVon16mp-JGEDg\/edit#slide=id.g340ada30859_0_0\">President Hensel forum slide presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She emphasized that there have been no changes to services for students because of the executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>Hensel also highlighted several positive news items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/uh-search-committee-next-ad\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics director search launched<\/a> &#8212; (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hlMD6JNd86g?t=17m52s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/12\/qs-rankings-by-subject-2025\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa ranks high in <abbr>QS<\/abbr> World Ranking by subject<\/a> &#8212; (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hlMD6JNd86g?t=18m23s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/11\/uh-joins-national-effort-to-support-students-basic-needs\/\">Basic needs grant awarded to UH<\/a> &#8212; (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hlMD6JNd86g?t=19m09s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Giving Day is coming up on April 9<\/a> &#8212; (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hlMD6JNd86g?t=19m15s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/18\/wahine-wbit-face-unlv\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> W&#257;hine basketball team earns postseason spot<\/a> &#8212; (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hlMD6JNd86g?t=19m36s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> President Wendy Hensel provided an update on the most recent federal policy changes, and outlined how <abbr>UH<\/abbr> is responding, at the March 20 Board of Regents monthly meeting.<\/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":[72,1674,61,62,63,64,65,1638,394,1120,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,1664,66],"class_list":["post-212502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-board-of-regents","tag-executive-orders","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-president","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","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\/212502","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=212502"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214153,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212502\/revisions\/214153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}