We have achieved our successes to date through the excellence of our faculty and staff, and it’s because of this excellence that we will achieve our goal to become the best performing integrated system of higher education in the country.

So it was a pleasure to recognize some of our outstanding employees systemwide during today’s awards convocation at Kennedy Theatre on the Mānoa campus. We were particularly pleased to have Lt. Gov. Schatz and Congresswoman Hanabusa join us in this annual celebration of excellence and commitment. You can learn more about the honorees on the awards pages, or read my remarks or watch them, below.