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Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Minutes of September 29, 2008

Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Monday – September 29, 2008; Hawaiʻi Hall 208
Present: Wakayama, Crookes, Hilgers, Ross, Keil, Tiles, Crosby
(secty Mitsutani)

3:00 SEC meeting

1. Minutes of previous meeting were approved.

2. Discussion of Faculty Senate (Sept 17) minutes.

3. Chair's Report:

(a) CAPP has now been fully populated.

(b) There is a Task Force on “formula funding” of the UH System that reports to UH President McClain on budgetary problems, chaired by Senator Norman Sakamoto (Chair of Senate Committee on Education), ViceChair John Morton, Vice President for Community Colleges, total members: Rose Tseng, Chancellor, UHH, Gene Awakuni, UHWO, and Virginia Hinshaw, UHM.

SEC discussed the topic that this committee is supposed to address, and associated implications.

(c) Ostrander response to SEC’s letter expressing concern about URC changes. This again suggests the continuing importance of requesting concrete written proposals from administrators shortly after they present informal oral accounts of possible actions they might take.

3. Agenda for October 15, 2008 Faculty Congress:

SEC discussed agenda items for the faculty congress.

4. Agenda for October 15, 2008 Faculty Senate:

SEC discussed agenda items for the faculty senate, including matters related to the UH presidential search. Resolutions must be posted by the Monday prior to Senate meetings.

5. Agenda items for VCAA standing appointment with SEC, October 6^th:

Apparently all matters relating to WASC have been turned over to VCAA program officer Myrtle Yamada.

SEC discussed continuing aspects of the TIM proposal. SEC has drafted a memo to the VCAA expressing concerns over the lack of consultation with Faculty Senate in a spirit of shared governance. SEC also thinks the lack of consultation is not equivalent to correct internal review for anything like what WASC calls “substantive program changes”. 

5. Letter to SEC Chair Keil from Prof. Susan Hippensteele (Women’s Studies Program):

SEC reviewed aspects of policy concerning likely future Faculty Senate guidance concerning faculty participation in administration. Keil will draft a response to Prof. Hippensteele. 

6. GEC topics:

GEC requirements were considered; the discussion will be continued at a subsequent meeting.

7. Old report on an organized research center:

VCRGE promised previous SEC a report that has not yet surfaced; Ross will ask him for it.

8. Tiles & Ross will draft a memo to be sent to Pat Cooper and Brian Taylor of SOEST concerning A&S core requirements and SOEST’s concerns with them, suggesting that this matter is not really an SEC concern. [modify this language in final draft of minutes if this is not quite correct]. The need to be clear about whether communication with SEC members constitutes a formal proposal to SEC was emphasized.

Respectfully submitted,
Graham Crookes

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