Manoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes of January 30, 2006
Bley-Vroman presided, with SEC members Kent, Lampe, Staff and Tiles
present
Minutes for January 23 were approved with amendments.
The Chair reported
- On the status of the Chancellor Search Committee. (Changes in views
about what constitutes "reporting to the Chancellor" have altered some
options for appointments to the committee. The SEC reviewed its
choices and advised the Chair on how to proceed.)
- On his conversation with President McClain.
- On the meeting held with the University-Community Partnership. (The
Partnership will meet less frequently. It continues to operate in a
state of confusion, thinking of itself as partnering Manoa while
holding conversations exclusively with System officials, in particular
the President.)
Committee Reports
- It was reported that the CFS has closed nominations in the
special election for the SEC. It is hoped that the new
electronic voting procedures will permit a more expeditious
election for the Senate (for AY 2006-7), as nominations should
have begun by now, were we still relying on traditional
technologies.
- CAPP met with the VCAA and learned that courses taken out of
the catalogue because they have not been taught in the past
four years will be consigned to an electronic limbo, from
which they may be resurrected without having to go through the
review process to which new courses are normally subjected.
The Banner system is now able to implement the University's
policy regarding repeated courses.
- GEC is undertaking an initiative regarding cooperation over,
and articulation of, Hawaiian-Asian-Pacific Focus Courses.
- Members of the CPM met with members of the SEC on Friday and
worked out agreed wording for the resolution on non-permanent
U.S. resident faculty.
- There was a discussion of how to get CoR or possibly CPM
started on formulating a proprietary research policy.
- The CSA will revisit the campus alcohol policy
- The Chair presented the draft of a model resolution regarding the
appointment of a Vice-President for Student Affairs. Improvements were
suggested to the model and it was agreed to refer the question to CSA
and CAB. There was a discussion of how best to press for an
examination of the relationship between The University (meaning Manoa)
and the System.
In new business it was decided to ask Tom Schroeder to present
Manoa's disaster preparedness policy to the Faculty Congress and to
invite Wayne Iwaoka to discuss preparedness for a Flu pandemic.
The meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m.
J Tiles