Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Minutes of December 1, 2008

Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Monday – Dec 1, 2008; Hawai'i Hall 208

Present: Crookes, Crosby, Hilgers, Keil, Ross, Tiles, Wakayama
Absent:

3:00 SEC meeting

1) Minutes of previous meeting were approved (with one minor change).

2) Chair’s report/ topics for Faculty Senate agenda

(a) A proposal for the administrative relocation of Study Abroad from AVCAA to directly reporting to the OVCAA has been made by CAPP directly to the Interim VCAA (and not to the AVCAA for Undergraduate Education, nor to “International Programs”). This needs to be brought to the whole Faculty Senate.

(b) Process Committee priorities

A statement of priorities will be placed before the Faculty Senate. The URL for this will be emailed to senate members.

(c ) Establishment of an ethics committee

Committee on Faculty Service was to make suggestions for faculty to serve on this committee. The status of this action was not clear; Crosby will follow up.

(d) Committee on Athletics

By-law changes will require the Chair of the Faculty Senate (and as before, the Faculty Athletic Representative) to attend the national Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (CoIA) meeting on athletics.

(e) Executive Search Process document

SEC has sent a letter to the Chancellor specifying, following discussion between the Chancellor and the SEC, the processes to be used in upcoming major searches. This has been substantially agreed to by the Chancellor. The final version will need Faculty Senate approval (by way of a motion).

Other topics for the Faculty Senate agenda were reviewed. SEC may call for reports from the standing committees. Committee on Research has not yet completed its report on the proposed reorganization of the PBRC.

4:00 Meeting with Interim VCAA

(a) The VCAA provided information (and a handout) concerning the search for a faculty release-time position for Director Manoa Assessment Office. The search seems to be well underway (finally).

(b) The status of  a request for Student Learning Outcomes on UHM-1 and UHM-2 forms (for establishment of new or modification of existing courses), and its relationship to WASC regulations, or “criteria for review”.

UHM-1 forms are approved by the Program and Curriculum Committee (PCC), which is administered out of the VCAA’s office but is staffed by faculty (mostly). VC Quigley denied that because the PCC is in the OVCAA thereby he would control approval of UHM-1 forms.

He referred to “CFRs” in which, he says, WASC specifies a culture of inquiry by way of including SLOs at the level of courses.

An extensive discussion ensued that will further inform the Senate’s consideration of this matter at the full Faculty Senate meeting coming up.

Meeting adjourned 5:00 pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Graham Crookes

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