Regents approve facility for cyclists at KCC campus
Advertiser Staff
Life just got better for cyclists in the Wai'alae-Kahala area.
The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents has approved a bicycle staging area to be built at Kapi'olani Community College, to include restrooms, dressing stations, showers, lockers, bicycle racks and picnic tables.
The area will be a community facility that can be used by anyone who enjoys bicycling and will serve cyclists of all skill levels, including competitive and recreational cyclists.
Approval came at the regents' November monthly meeting at Kaua'i Community College.
In other business, the regents moved forcefully to tackle the nursing shortage in Hawai'i by authorizing the establishment of the Hawai'i State Center for Nursing within the UH-Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene.
The center would have four distinct missions, including developing a plan for implementing strategies to recruit and retain nurses.
It would also be asked to research, analyze and report data related to retention of Hawai'i's nursing workforce, as well as analyze trends in the nursing field.
The board also approved:
• Reorganization of the office of the chancellor at UH-West O'ahu to add a vice chancellor for academic affairs and to establish a campus institutional research function.
The school had been criticized by the accrediting agency in its last report for failing to have adequate staffing and planning in these areas, and this is an attempt to address those issues.
• Merging the six basic science departments at the UH-Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine into three basic science departments to ensure efficiency and improve research and teaching productivity.
• Hiring educational consultants The Implementation Group to develop larger-scale, nationally competitive grant proposals.
Other clients of the group include the University of Maryland-College Park, Temple University, the National Space Grant Alliance, Raytheon Systems Co., the University of Alaska and the University of New Mexico.
