{"id":25259,"date":"2014-06-10T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25259"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:00:24","slug":"president-emerita-m-r-c-greenwood-announces-retirement-from-uh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/06\/10\/president-emerita-m-r-c-greenwood-announces-retirement-from-uh\/","title":{"rendered":"President Emerita M.R.C. Greenwood announces retirement from UH<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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UH<\/abbr> President Emerita M.R.C. Greenwood<\/strong> has advised the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> of her intent to complete her retirement from UH<\/abbr> effective June 30, 2014.<\/p>\n

Upon stepping down from the UH<\/abbr> presidency August 31, 2013, Greenwood went on leave without pay from her faculty position at the John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I deeply appreciated the university and the Board of Regents’<\/a> grant of a one year unpaid leave,” Greenwood commented. “However, after a period of rest and reflection, I have decided that I wish to pursue my writing and policy interests and that I prefer to remain on the mainland to do so.” She continued, “My years as the president of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> were full of rewarding projects and accomplishments, so kindly acknowledged by the board and many others. I will always remember my fine colleagues and hold Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in my heart. I wish only the best for the university.”<\/p>\n

Board of Regents Chair John Holzman<\/strong> highlighted the important work done across the state under Greenwood’s leadership. Holzman said, “During President Greenwood’s term we accommodated a 20 percent increase in enrollment under declining state support during the economic recession when the people of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> needed us most. At the same time, we built the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center<\/a> and, after 40 years of waiting, UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span><\/a>. We broke ground on long-need facilities at Pālamanui in West Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and collaborated for two of the most important telescopes in the world in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope.” <\/p>\n

David Lassner<\/strong>, who will succeed Greenwood as president of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, said, “President Greenwood led us in developing the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Graduation Initiative<\/a> to meet the needs of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for an educated citizenry and workforce, and the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Innovation Initiative<\/a> to build a new economic sector for the state, both of which remain on the regents’ agenda for the next president. While M.R.C. will not be with us in the islands, I know she will be looking after Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s interests in her continuing work at the national level.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> President Emerita M.R.C. Greenwood has advised the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> of her intent to complete her retirement from UH<\/abbr> effective June 30, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28,29],"tags":[394,947],"class_list":["post-25259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","category-people","tag-presidents-office","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t