Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Minutes of January 5, 2009

Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Monday – Jan 05, 2009; Hawaiʻi Hall 208
Present: Crookes, Crosby, Hilgers, Keil, Ross, Tiles, Wakayama

3:00 SEC meeting

1) Approval of minutes of previous meeting.

2) Chair’s report

As both co-chairs of COA are unavailable to attend the COIA meeting in Tucson, Martha will ask Brian Cook about his availability to attend.

The Process Committee has made good progress and will meet with the Chancellor on Jan 6, 2009 to discuss the final report. The report has a detailed proposal concerning how departments will be evaluated from the bottom-up. Once the report has been presented to the Chancellor, a copy of the report will be released to the SEC.

The Budget Committee with meet on Jan 16 for the first time.

Law Classroom 2 is not available for Faculty Senate meetings. Architecture Auditorium will be used.

The most recent MET meeting raised the matter of current state of bargaining (seeking a declaration of impasse); MET discussion clarified this legal term.

The Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Peter Nicholson notified the national-level Conference on Intercollegiate Athletics (CoIA) that he was no longer the designated representative for UHM; he has been asked by CoIA that he be on their steering committee. SEC has no objection to this.

SEC will ask the FAR to summarize his report in an upcoming Faculty Senate meeting on March 18, at which time he will also introduce the Athletic Director.

David Chin has agreed to be the Faculty Senate parliamentarian. He will also continue to be on the VCAA search committee with agreement of SEC.

SEC will meet with one VCAA candidate on January 27, 2009 at 10:45a. Lei will send a reminder to all once she receives a confirmation from Joanne Clarke.

3.         Committee Reports

CoR has not yet produced a report on the status of PBRC “reorg”. This will be sought immediately (Keil). No other meetings within the last month.

4.         Organization & Reporting Lines of Assessment Office

A joint ad-hoc administration-faculty committee is in the process of being set up to work on this matter. SEC will be directing CFS to find 4 faculty representatives for this committee. A memo will be drafted by Graham as a response to Peter Quigley’s December 18, 2008 memo about the constitution and charge for the Ad Hoc Committee. Klaus will be responding to the organizational structure proposed by Monica Stitt-Bergh.

5.         Report on Academic Progress of UHM Student Athletes

It was recommended that a summary of the report be presented to the full Senate prior to the March meeting as proposed earlier.

6.         ACCFSC Governance Proposal

SEC is responding to a proposal from the ACCFSC Governance Task Force (Barbara Leonard) to make the ACCFSC have some status by which it could be regarded as a body that the UH System can meaningfully have consultation with, consistent with shared governance under WASC guidelines, etc. The body may be a useful channel of communication, but cannot be the primary institution of shared governance at the System level. A detailed response will be sent.

Other Matters:

In preparation for next week’s standing appointment with VCR&GE Ostrander, feedback from CAB and COR will be solicited. Klaus will contact Ross Christensen and Patrick Henry for these reports and will also invite these chairs to the standing appointment on January 12, 2009 at 2:00p in Hawaii 208.

Meeting adjourned 5:15 pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Graham Crookes