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The Faculty Senate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is considering a no-confidence vote on UH President M.R.C. Greenwood at its meeting Wednesday.
The discussion and possible vote comes a day before a UH Board of Regents meeting Thursday, where regents are scheduled to continue a closed-door discussion about Greenwood’s future.
The Faculty Senate motion to take a no-confidence vote was proposed last month by ethnic studies professor Noel Kent, who testified before the regents Friday that he believes Greenwood should be fired.
Wednesday’s meeting is scheduled for 3 p.m. in the Architecture Auditorium.
Greenwood has been under fire over her management of the university after the UH-Manoa athletic department lost $200,000 in an apparent Stevie Wonder concert scam. Two days of hearings by a Senate special committee raised questions about UH spending and about the reassignment of former athletic director Jim Donovan to a new job in the UH-Manoa chancellor’s office.
Greenwood’s supporters point to the development of the $1 billion Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea, the construction of the UH Cancer Research Center and a new community college campus in West Hawaii, and rising graduation rates as reasons for her to stay.