Candidate for UH presidency withdraws - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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“We are disappointed with his decision,” Al Landon, chairmanj of the board of regents, said in a prepared The withdrawalof Jones, who is senior vice presidentt for system academic administration for the University of Minnesotsa in Minneapolis, leaves M.R.C. Greenwood, an administrator with the Universit yof California-Davis, as the sole remainint candidate. The regents are scheduled to meet this week to discussathe situation, Landon said. The two finalists had been namef in April to replace UH PresidentDavid McClain, whoses term ends July 31.
Greenwood is at the UC-Daviw campus as director of the Foods for Healthj Initiative and a professor of nutrition and internal She was chancellorat UC’s Santa Cruz campus for eighft years, before being named provost of the UC 10-campus systemj in 2004. She resigned from the provost positio in 2005 and moved to Davis when the universitu investigated a conflict of interest in the promotion of her friencd atSanta Cruz.