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RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - kalakoa - 07-03-2025
Just wait until "they" stop reporting the employment numbers and GDP.
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 07-03-2025
Remember how we needed more fish? And in order to do that Hawaii had to open protected waters to the corporations that (excuse me, they’re legally people) who may or may not be owned, flagged, or manned by Americans?
Well, it’s not enough. Now they want more, a lot more:
A new effort is now underway to open the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to commercial fishing, led by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, a regional U.S. agency based in Hawaii.
Totaling 583,0000 square miles, Papahanaumokuakea is the largest marine conservation area in the world and includes the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — a 1,300-mile stretch of islands, seamounts, banks and shoals. The area is home to more than 7,000 marine species, including those that are threatened or endangered, such as the Hawaiian green sea turtle and Hawaiian monk seal. The region also holds deep cultural significance to Native Hawaiians.
https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/northwestern-hawaii-islands-protections-fishing-20416243.php
“Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.” - Henry Ford
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 07-13-2025
“A real setback”
UH Hilo is losing more funding. The college has been a draw for students from other countries, American Samoa, and Federated States of Micronesia. UHH has a strong English as a second language program as well as awards for minority students who otherwise could not afford higher education. Much of the award money was provided for STEM students. The reason? “They are not in alignment with current priorities.”
What’s really current is the opposite of priority.
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation made an investment in the nation’s institutes of higher education to create a new generation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics discoverers.
The funds represent a loss of nearly $2.3 million during the next 5 years for the university.
“Termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current [National Science Foundation] priorities,” the foundation offered to justify zeroing out the program’s coffers.
https://bigislandnow.com/2025/07/13/real-setback-for-students-like-me-university-of-hawai%CA%BBi-at-hilo-stem-support-program-ends-with-loss-of-federal-funding/
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - Obie - 07-13-2025
This is from the article you linked to.
“Losing this program is a real setback for students like me,” said Shania Tamagyongfal, a Yapese student who earned her undergraduate degree in anthropology and master’s in heritage management at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation helped connect Tamagyongfal’s cultural identity to her scientific research.
“It gave me the confidence to lead, collaborate and pursue work that matters to my community,” she said.
So this young lady from Yap already has an undergraduate and a master's. Now she is in a STEM program.
Couldn't get a job with her original chosen path or is she going to be a professional student ??
Do you think this is the best use of a grant for a STEM program ?
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HiloJulie - 07-13-2025
God forbid that education be a good thing!
Judge Smails laid it out decades ago!
/S
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - MyManao - 07-13-2025
(07-13-2025, 08:07 PM)Obie Wrote: Do you think this is the best use of a grant for a STEM program ?
I don't know, but I am sure, positive, you're not qualified to judge.
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - randomq - 07-13-2025
I hate to say it but I agree with Obie on this one. How many in academia pursue navel gazing at the taxpayers' expense?
That said, I still think a more rational, informed method could be used to cut expenses, instead of just burning everything down and seeing what grows in the ashes. For every ten perpetual liberal arts students, there may be a few promising, hard working students that have just had their whole path to graduation and the actual job market destroyed.
And then of course, regardless of what the funding went towards, it's dollars no longer entering our economy. We may not be as propped up by government largess as some states, but how many of these programs can we lose before the loss causes a recession here in Hawaii? We may soon wish for the days when we had grants for the study of underwater basket weaving.
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 07-13-2025
Couldn't get a job with her original chosen path
There are a large number of people currently employed in positions for which they have no education, no experience, and worst of all no knowledge of the field in which they’re paid huge amounts of money to mismanage with no oversight. How’s that working out? Even those working in the area of disasters are a disaster.
So sure, let’s complain about students in Hilo, who want to further their education and eventually contribute to society, rather than be handed a position for which they are eminently unqualified.
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HiloJulie - 07-14-2025
The "winning" especially for the average Big Island and Hawaii resident, just continues.
Cheaper solar energy in Hawaii threatened by new federal law - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - MyManao - 07-14-2025
(07-13-2025, 08:27 PM)randomq Wrote: How many in academia pursue navel gazing at the taxpayers' expense?
Gee, I don't know.. but I get a sense you think you do. How many?