{"id":167017,"date":"2022-10-14T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=167017"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T01:45:53","slug":"thompson-school-dean-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/14\/thompson-school-dean-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson School dean finalists announced, public presentations scheduled"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_167238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167238\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/manoa-thompson-dean-finalists.jpg\" alt=\"thompson school finalists\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/manoa-thompson-dean-finalists.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/manoa-thompson-dean-finalists-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/manoa-thompson-dean-finalists-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Ortega, Michael Spencer and Halaevalu Vakalahi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three finalists have been identified for the position of dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/thompson\">Thompson School of Social Work &#38; Public Health<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa. The finalists are each scheduled for in-person visits over a two-day period that include meetings with senior administrators, faculty, staff, students, internal and external constituents and a public presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Campus and community members, as well as the general public, are encouraged to attend the public presentations. <\/p>\n<p>The campus visits for the three candidates have been scheduled as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexander Ortega,<\/strong> visiting October 27&#8211;28, 2022<br \/>\nDirector, Center for Population Health and Community Impact<br \/>\nProfessor of Health Policy<br \/>\nDornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University<br \/>\nPublic Presentation: Thursday, October 27, 3:30&#8211;4:30 p.m., Crawford Hall 105\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Spencer<\/strong>, visiting November 1&#8211;2, 2022<br \/>\nAssociate Dean of Academic Affairs<br \/>\nPresidential Term Professor<br \/>\nUniversity of Washington School of Social Work<br \/>\nDirector, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Oceania Affairs<br \/>\nIndigenous Wellness Research Institute<br \/>\nPublic Presentation: Tuesday, November 1, 3:30&#8211;4:30 p.m., Crawford Hall 105\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Halaevalu Vakalahi<\/strong>, visiting November 3&#8211;4, 2022<br \/>\nDean and Professor<br \/>\nCollege of Health and Society<br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Pacific University<br \/>\nPublic Presentation: Thursday, November 3, 3:30&#8211;4:30 p.m., Crawford Hall 105\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;The search advisory committee did a terrific job in identifying these three finalists, and I would like to thank them for their time, hard work and commitment to the search process. We are excited to meet the candidates as we take these next steps toward identifying the next dean of the Thompson School of Social Work &#38; Public Health,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Provost <strong>Michael Bruno<\/strong>. &ldquo;As always, we encourage 糖心Vlog官方 faculty, staff, students and the public to come out and meet the candidates, and we look forward to receiving their feedback.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Following the visits and review of the feedback from the search advisory committee and others, Bruno will be making a recommendation on this appointment to <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the search process, including a list of the members of the search advisory committee, daily schedules and candidate biographies, <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/thompson\">see the search website<\/a>. Members of the community can provide feedback on the search through the link on this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus visits and public presentations for the three candidates have been scheduled.<\/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":[691,626,596,9],"class_list":["post-167017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-administration","tag-executive-search","tag-myron-b-thompson-school-of-social-work","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167017","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=167017"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167267,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167017\/revisions\/167267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}