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For Immediate Release:	July 16, 1999
Contact: Cheryl Ernst, 808 956-5941, ernst@hawaii.edu

JULY MEETING SUMMARY UH Regents terminate program, celebrate record research year Fiscal realities were at play as the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents today voted to terminate the drafting technology program at Leeward Community College, effective Dec. 31, 1999, and give the UH Manoa Athletics Department a higher range within which to set prices for basketball tickets. In recommending closure of the Leeward program, Chancellor for Community Colleges Joyce Tsunoda commended her faculty for "making the hard decision." The drafting program is a strong program with a good faculty and terrific curriculum, but the economy's impact on the construction industry has resulted in declining job opportunities and enrollment, and declining University resources means the Community Colleges can no longer maintain the program at two O'ahu campuses, she said. The associate and certificate credentials in drafting will be consolidated at Honolulu Community College, which houses other construction trades. The decision on basketball tickets allows the UHM athletics department to set prices for men's basketball tickets for lower level seating between $10 and $25. The price range for upper level seats remains at the $3­$15 range previously applied to all seats. In other business, regents re-elected Donald Kim and Clyde Kodani to serve as chair and vice chair of the board for the coming year. Kim, a UH alumnus, is chair and chief executive officer of the R. M. Towill Corporation engineering firm. He is also president/director of Kilohana Corporation, co-founder and chair of Keahole Associates and founder and chair of the Korean firm, AMKOR A&E, Inc. Kodani is president of Kodani & Associates, a Kaua'i civil engineering consulting firm. He holds degrees from the University of the Pacific and University of California, Berkeley, and is active in professional and charitable organizations. The board also appointed two interim deans-Roderick Jacobs, chair of the UH Manoa English as a second language department and professor of linguistics, as interim dean of the UHM College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, and Jerry Johnson, assistant to the dean for arts and sciences at UH Hilo, as UHH interim dean of arts and sciences.

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