Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Minutes of January 12, 2009

Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Monday – Jan 12, 2009; Hawaiʻi Hall 208
Present: Crookes, Crosby, Hilgers, Ross, Tiles, Wakayama
Absent (travelling, excused): Keil

3:00 SEC meeting

1) Approval of minutes of previous meeting.

2) Chair’s report

ACCFSC meeting of the past Thursday was attended by Keil and Ross. They expressed the SEC’s concerns to suggestions made on behalf of ACCFSC about the plausibility of ACCFSC being used as a stand-in for consultation with faculty across the entire system by the UH President.

The search firm and part of the search committee for the new UH President were at this meeting. Criteria for the position do not appear to be finalized and the search committee is inviting input. The search firm has indicated that the pool of candidates is likely to be small based on the state of other searches they are conducting.

President McClain addressed the ACCFSC and provided an analysis of how the projected 20% cut would manifest itself. Unassigned balances in e.g. RTRF, or funds accumulating for specific purposes, are seen as likely to be raided, separately on each distinct campus.

Community colleges are apparently concerned about SLOs possibly being used to evaluate faculty.

3.         COIA Attendance

Crosby will attend.

4.         Committee Reports

Committee on Faculty Service (CFS) is seeking faculty interested in evaluation to sit on one or other of two possible committees.

What appears to be a Chancellor’s task force is being formed to relate to international education with a charge to establish a strategic plan in this area. (SEC will ask the Chancellor for more details when it next meets with her.) CFS will seek interested faculty to add to this group.

CAPP: CAPP is finalizing a resolution to establish a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Academy of Creative Media for review by the Faculty Senate, however, the committee continues to have concerns about the intellectual property rights of their students as it relates to their projects. The transmittal memo to the SEC will provide the details of the concerns of the committee.

CAB: CAB met at length with VCRGE concerning the proposed PBRC reorganization. SEC now anticipates that the VC  will need to produce a formal written proposal, in line with BoR regulations concerning the process to be followed when a unit is reorganized. This would then be formally considered by CAB and CAPP.

Gen Ed: A memo on the articulation of General Education courses has been prepared by AVC for Undergraduate Education. In future UHM will accept the diversification designation of a course as specified by the sending campus .,

CSA is facing some difficulties in attendance/meeting times. SEC encourage the recruitment of non-senator faculty to attend meetings, and also considered the need to recruit candidates in the upcoming Fac Senate election.

5.         Organizational & Reporting Lines of Assessment Office (Response to Memo regarding Ad Hoc Committee)

SEC has responded to the memo about the establishment of an ad hoc committee to recommend the reporting lines and tenure process for the Assessment Office.

6.         Report on Academic Progress of UHM Student Athletes

            Invitation to Peter Nicholson to present findings to Faculty Senate - March 18, 2009 meeting. It was recommended that the COA meet with Dr. Nicholson to discuss the report prior to the presentation in March 2009.

7.         ACCFSC Governance Proposal

(see comments above under Chair’s report)

8.         Senate Elections

(discussion on this topic deferred to next week)

9.         Update on PBRC Reorg feedback from CAB and COR

(see comments above under Committee reports) The Chairs of CAB and COR will be invited to the January 26^th Standing Appointment with VCR&GE Ostrander.

10.       Finalize agenda for January 21st Faculty Senate Meeting    

Next meeting begins 2 pm (HH 208, Monday 26^th Jan.)

Meeting adjourned 5:15 pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Graham Crookes