Apple’s new salary will be 3 times higher than chemistry colleagues

MANOA, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Fired University of Hawaii Manoa Chancellor Tom Apple will be reassigned to a tenured faculty post that would pay him nearly three times as much as the average professor in UHs chemistry department, but its unclear whether he will stay at the university.

"I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm in one of those places where this is a shock, so I haven't really thought about what the future is," Apple told Hawaii News Now Thursday, a day after he was handed a termination notice by UH President David Lassner.

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Apple's settlement with UH will pay him $100,000 and reassigns him to a tenured full professor position in UH's chemistry department , where he will be the highest-paid professor by far, earning $299,000 a year, while the average pay of the other 11 chemistry professors is roughly $108,000 annually.

Asked if he will return to the classroom, his answer was not clear.

"I love teaching chemistry, Apple said. As you know, I taught it last spring. I taught some quantum mechanics and magnetic resonance and I love teaching, I absolutely love it, but I don't know. I don't know what the future holds."

U-H's settlement with Apple allows him to spend four months during the fall preparing to teach in the spring semester and he would have significant flexibility during that time should he seek other employment, as he indicated to UH President David Lassner, the settlement offer Apple accepted from UH said.

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Apple's new salary will be 3 times higher than chemistry colleagues