{"id":2753,"date":"2026-03-03T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/?post_type=announcements&#038;p=2753"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:47:08","slug":"january-2026-mfs-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"announcements","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/announcements\/january-2026-mfs-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2026 MFS Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"im\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Aloha e Faculty Colleagues,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have the privilege to be your chair of the M\u0101noa Faculty Senate this year. This has been a very busy year of change with a new President and changeover of M\u0101noa administration as well. Your Senate Executive Committee, along with the 70 senators of the MFS have been hard at work keeping the faculty\u00a0voice involved\u00a0in major decisions that affect M\u0101noa and the System.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The executive committee is pleased to share this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1O1f91v1D470jSbnDAqqkkpZSQoCYeSet\/view?usp=drive_link\">brief faculty newsletter<\/a><\/strong> with you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please feel free to contact us with any concerns (<a href=\"mailto:mfschair@hawaii.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mfschair@hawaii.edu<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:uhmfs@hawaii.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uhmfs@hawaii.edu<\/a>) and please watch out for the next round of Faculty\u00a0Senate elections coming up this month.\u00a0 We need your voice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mahalo,<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Marguerite A. Butler<\/p>\n<div><i>Chair, M\u0101noa Faculty Senate<\/i><\/div>\n<div>University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa<\/div>\n<div>Hawaii Hall 208, 2500 Campus Road, Honolulu HI 96822<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha e Faculty Colleagues, I have the privilege to be your chair of the M\u0101noa Faculty Senate this year. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"template":"","class_list":["post-2753","announcements","type-announcements","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcements\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcements"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/announcements"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcements\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcements\/2753\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/uhmfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}