Chair: Susan Hippensteele

Attending: Susan Hippensteele, Lei Wakayama, Jane Schoonmaker, Joel Cohn, Vili Hereniko, Stuart Donachie, David Bangert, Kapa Oliveira, Ari Eichelberger and Sarita Rai

Guest: John Butler

Excused: Maria Chun and MA Antonelli

The meeting opened at 3:08 with an approval of the minutes from the December 3^rd meeting.

Report on the recent Manoa Faculty Senate meeting. 

• The Campus Assessment Committee (CAC) was renamed the Manoa Assessment Committee (MAC), apparently to clarify what the committee would be representing, rather than what the committee would be doing.
• There was some confusion surrounding the SLO reso from CAPP—David Ross made a motion to refer the SLO resolution to the Campus Assessment Committee (before it was renamed), but others interpreted the motion as a motion to approve the resolution.  The motion passed, but since there was some confusion as to what was being passed, Lei suggested that we may want to challenge the minutes at the next MFS meeting to clarify the motion. 
• A reminder that MFS Standing Committees are put together in May after elections, so we might want to have a chair and a co-chair to cover the transition to fall?  Susan would draft a memo to the SEC.

Proposal for a Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship. John Butler, appearing at our request from the Shidler College of Business,  presented the latest proposal, which has been making the rounds for several years.  He answered questions including:

• Does the program allow articulation with other departments?  Yes.
• Any graduate student currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program may also enroll in the certificate courses.

The committee asked that some of the prerequisites be clarified, the draft proposal we had been viewing was already three years old—a later version offered this clarity.

eCAFE:  VCAA asked for cuts from OFDAS, who offered to eliminate CAFE in hard copy form.  However, eCAFE has presented serious problems to both professors and students, some of which are:

• Response rates, according to OFDAS, on eCAFE, were running at 20%, on average (hard copy runs closer to 75%);
• On the most recent round, ITS reports response rates of 54%.
• The electronic version asks students to log in to the system to complete evaluations during a certain window, so evals are not completed in class.
• No incentive offered to students to complete the evals (e.g. withhold grades).
• Still not clear whether this will be a system-wide issue or campus-specific.
• For professors putting together tenure packets, low response rates are problematic.

Memo to VCAA/SEC will be prepared and circulated

BS in Computer Science Engineering—Formalizing an existing focus of study by giving it a name.    Currently 100 students enrolled, so there is some confusion as to whether this is meant to replace an existing track.  Will invite department to meet with CAPP at a subsequent meeting. 

On to the Shared Governance Issue:

Chair drafted and circulated a memo and draft resolution via email to both CAPP and to members of the SEC as a departure point for discussion.  As to whether the documents served this purpose, the answer is an unqualified yes.

There has been some dithering as to whether this was a violation of procedure (should the SEC be the body to produce such a resolution), but Chair checked the by-laws and circulated them to the members of CAPP to indicate that this was not the case. 

What should CAPP do with these documents?  Two main discussion themes:

• First, the Chancellor has not articulateed exactly what the reorganization is intended to do.  The faculty have been asked for input, but this has been simultaneous to putting the pieces of the reorg plan into place leading to perceptions that the request for input was disingenuous as best.  There has been a call to cease and desist in the creation of a “superdean” position until the Chancellor is more forthcoming about her plans.  The resolution calls for more transparency for this reason.
• Second, the supporting memo references to the hiring of the new VCAA that are difficult to verify unless applicants come forward with grievances. Support was voiced to make sure that all stated reasons for no confidence can be verified in the final memo.

David Bangert moved that the memo on Shared Governance go to the SEC, and the motion was seconded and passed.

David also moved that the resolution be sent directly to the floor of the Manoa Faculty Senate at their next meeting, and the vote was deadlocked, 5/5.

He then moved that the resolution be sent to the SEC, and the motion was seconded and passed (7 yeas, 2 nays, 1 confused).

There was some discussion as to whether it should stay a resolution, because then it would eventually go all the way to the Board of Regents.

There was also general agreement (although no motion or vote) that if the resolution was not acted upon by SEC, CAPP has the right to take the resolution directly to the MFS at its next meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 pm.