{"id":216040,"date":"2025-05-15T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=216040"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:35:19","slug":"may-president-report-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/15\/may-president-report-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s report: Federal update, athletic director search, commencement"},"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_28576\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vTqOLFmjR8?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\u2019s report: Federal update, athletic director search, commencement\"  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 to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents on the status of international students, impact of the recently issued federal executive orders and the number of terminated federal grants affecting <abbr>UH<\/abbr>. The update was part of her monthly report at the May 15 <abbr>BOR<\/abbr> meeting held at <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_215947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215947\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/west-oahu-spring-2025-commencement-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"U H West Oahu graduates\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-215947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/west-oahu-spring-2025-commencement-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/west-oahu-spring-2025-commencement-3-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/west-oahu-spring-2025-commencement-3.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> 2025 Annual Ceremony honored graduates on May 10, 2025 at the SimpliFi Arena at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hensel also shared the latest on the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics director search, highlighted the excitement of commencement season (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/commencement\/\">see inspiring graduate stories at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/a>) and recognized the remarkable achievements of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> spring semester sports teams.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International student update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=16s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Immigration enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=40s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Research update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=1m7s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Executive orders, federal actions (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=3m44s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Response and ongoing advocacy (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=5m44s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics Director search update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=7m38s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Commencement season (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=9m14s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Kudos to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> sports teams (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vTqOLFmjR8?t=10m14s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hensel shared the latest on international students, immigration enforcement and recognized the remarkable achievements of spring semester sports teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[1674,61,62,63,64,65,394,1120,71,14,151,9,550,60,947,59,56,1664,66],"class_list":["post-216040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-executive-orders","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","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\/216040","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=216040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216055,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216040\/revisions\/216055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}