Issues: 2012-13

#37.12: Student Athletic Fee

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "CAB is tertiary onthis and awaits action by primary and secondary committees." Neither the Committee on Student Affairs or the Committee on Athletics issued Fall 2012 updates.
• 8/2012: Senate Executive Committee added carryover issue to 2012-13 issues index and referred it to the Committee on Student Affairs, Committee on Athletics, and Committee on Administration and Budget review
• 4/30/2012: ASUH requested Senate to defer action on issue until Fall 2012 since it is currently in the process of surveying students
• 8/20/2012: Senate Executive Committee updated charge
• 7/26/2011: 2011-12 Senate Executive Committee charge:
  The Senate should have an accounting of how student athletic fees are spent and the impact of the mandatory $50 student athletic on student attendance at games. For example, how many students are taking advantage of the “free” tickets to UH football games? Is there an increase in student use of athletic department facilities? Should student fees cover the athletics deficit? Do non-athlete students support the Student Athletics Fee? Committee on Student Affairs is asked to lead a joint working group with Committee on Athletics and Committee on Administration and Budget that continues to examine these issues and report to the Senate.
• Research
  • 8/26/2012: Historical Summary
    (compiled by Kaiulani Kauahi, Senate Research Assistant)

#1.13: Faculty Input in Budget Process & Transparency of Budget

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "CAB noted a concern about the lack of faculty input on the budgetary process in CAB's October 15, 2012 memornadum to the SEC Chair regarding President Greenwood's actions. The reality is that until the administration involves faculty and includes faculty recommendations in the budget process, the Senate may be unable to act. Further aciton is pending by CAB."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Administration and Budget for review; a description is provided below:
  Review of overall budget process to ensure faculty input on budget issues including allocation of undergraduate tuition funds to the College / Departments that generate them analogous to research training and revolving funds (RTRF).
• Research
  • 8/26/2012: Prior Senate Actions re: Senate Fiscal Involvement
    (compiled by Kaiulani Kauahi, Senate Research Assistant)

#2.13: Examination of Process for Facilities Decisions & Faculty Input on those decisions

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "CAB has raised concerns with VCAFO and has asked in a previous Senate that Policy M3.101 Manoa Reorganization Process be amended to include faculty senate consultation when facilities are to be closed."
• 8/6/2012: Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Administration and Budget for review.

#3.13: Disproportional Increase in Administration and Administrative Staff and Salaries

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "CAB is investigating this issue; has requested current salaries and is working with the Administration to get comparable CUPA statistics for other benchmark institutions. Work continues on this issue."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Administration and Budget for review; a description is provided below:
  Review should include assistant and associate administrative positions as well as APTs and RCUH positions and the rapid increase in salaries at higher administrative levels, to discern the overall impact on efficiency and effectiveness.

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, CAB has not considered this issue.
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Administration and Budget for review.
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  • 5/7/2008: Resolution to Ensure Transparency, Equity, Inclusivity and Accountability in Administrative Searches and Hiring
    (Passed: 34 in favor; 1 opposed)

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "CAB awaits response from CPM on this issue and will place it on the agenda for the January 10, 2013 CAB meeting." According to the Committee on Professional Matters' Fall 2012 Report, "CPM has obtained data from Kathy Cutshaw’s office of types of positions and teaching loads. CPM recommends that CAB and SEC should address the issue of the proportion of the budget devoted to instructional faculty. We will be continuing this conversation in the Spring with CAB."
  
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Professional Matters and Committee on Administration and Budget for review; a description is provided below:
  Examine if increase in non-tenure track faculty & the lack of promotion prospects for them (specifically S v. G fund designations).
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  • 3/16/2011: Final Report on Proposed Amendments to Criteria for Tenure and Promotion of Faculty
    (Passed: unanimous)
  • 12/8/2010: Second Report Regarding Proposed Amendments to Criteria for Tenure and Promotion of UHM
    (Passed: unanimous)
  • 11/15/2007: Resolution to Accept Policy on Tenure on Initial Appointment with Modifications
    (Passed with modifications)
    

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "CAB noted our concern in our initial memo to the SEC regarding President Greenwood actions and lack of consultation with faculty."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Administration and Budget for review.
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  • 3/15/2006: Resolution to Move the System Administration off the Manoa Campus
    (Passed: 32 in favor; 5 against)
  • 2/15/2006: Resolution on Need for Adequate Capacity at Manoa and the Right Distribution of Functions Between System and Manoa
    (Passed: unanimous)
  • 11/17/2004: MFS CAB Report on the UH Manoa and UH System Reorganization Plans
    (Passed: unknown)
  • 11/20/2002: Consultation on the Proposed UH System Reorganization
    (Passed: 39 in favor; 3 opposed)

#8.13: Re-engineering Administrative Procedures

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "based upon the survey of CAB members, this issue was not a high priority and we elected to not take this on."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Administration and Budget for review; a description is provided below:
  Including streamlining procedures and reviewing fiscal procedures, the Kuali system, paperwork requirements and keyless door entry for off-hours office access, and improved purchasing procedures.

#9.13: Governance of Interdisciplinary Programs

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Acadmic Policy and Planning's Fall 2012 Report, "Two CAPP members (Sammons and Sherstyuk) are working on this."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning for review.

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Acadmic Policy and Planning's Fall 2012 Report, the issue is in abeyance because CAPP is understrength right now.
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning for review; a description is provided below:
  Review process for allocating faculty course credits.

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Acadmic Policy and Planning's Fall 2012 Report, "One CAPP member (Le) and a former CAPP member (Roberts) are working on this."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning for review; a description is provided below:
  Examine admissions policy, are minimum standards being upheld, are weak students gaining access through CC transfers, etc.; Change minimum required GPA for CC students transferring early to Manoa from 2.0 to 2.5 ; 2004 Resolution on Admissions (Follow-Up from Chair's meeting); Require 4 years of high school math for undergraduate admission; Memo from former Committee on Research and Graduate Education Chair Senate Executive Committee re: high school math requirements (4/11/2012)
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  • 5/2/2012: Resolution on Proposal Regarding PhD Program Admissions
    (Passed: 36 in favor; 21 against)
  • 5/5/2004: Draft Resolution on Admission Standards
    (Unknown)
  • 4/21/2004: Resolution on ACT/SAT Exams
    
  • (Passed: 43 in favor; 2 opposed)
  • 1/22/2003: Resolution Relating to Admissions Criteria for Home-Schooled Applicants
    (Passed: 39 in favor)
  • 9/26/2001: Resolution Relating to Suspension of Differential Grade Limitations for Transfer of Credits
    (Passed: 39 in favor; 3 against)
  • 9/20/2000: Proposed Relating to the Adopting of Freshman Admissions Requirements for "Home Schooled" Applicants
    (Passed: unanimous)
  • 9/20/2000: Resolution Relating to the Calculations of a Transfer Grade Point Average Exclusively for the Purpose of Admitting Transfer Students to the Manoa Campus (not programs)
    (Passed: unanimous)
  • 9/20/2000: Resolution Relating to the Suspension of Differential Admission Requirements on First-Time, First-Year Students
    (Passed: unanimous)
  • 3/19/1998: Resolution on Admissions
    (Passed: unknown)

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Acadmic Policy and Planning's Fall 2012 Report, "Two CAPP members (Di and Saffery) are working on this. They have consulted with people who know the most about UHM-Forms 1 & 2."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning for review; a description is provided below:
  Streamlining UHM-1 & UHM-2 Procedures.

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Acadmic Policy and Planning's Fall 2012 Report, "Cengiz and Sherstyuk will represent CAPP." According to the Committee on Professional Matters' Fall 2012 Report, "In looking at this issue, CPM advised SEC that CPM should not be the lead on this assessment issue and that it should be CAPP. Co Chair Ken Kipnis has had discussions with Carolyn Stephenson regarding this issue. CPM will not be working on this issue this academic year, but is willing to review statements and discussion of other committees." According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "As CAB is tertiary on this issue and there may be other committees better suited to address it, CAB has elected to not address this issue."
• 12/11/2012: The Senate Executive Committee responded to the Committee on Professional Matter's Fall 2012 Report by assigning the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning as the lead committee for the value of assessment issue.
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Professional Matters, Committee on Academic Policy and Planning, Committee on Administration and Budget and Manoa Assessment Committee for review; a description is provided below:
  Examine the general value of assessment, including impact on faculty and on teaching, the administrative demand for greater assessment and accountability, provisions for funding resources, value of institutional learning objectives, and feedback from internal assessment reviews in light of heavy faculty workloads.
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  • 1/21/2009: Resolution to Approve a Proposal to Establish a Committee on Assessment as a Permanent Committee of the MFS
    (Passed; 1 opposed. Introduced on 12/10/2998 - no quorum for vote)
  • 2/21/2007: Motion to Approve Assessment Task Force Proposal in Principle
    (Vote unknown)
  • 9/20/2000: CAPP Resolution on Assessment
    (Passed; unanimous)

*Committee on Academic Policy and Planning

Committee on Professional Matters
(deferred)

Committee on Administration and Budget
(declined)

Manoa Assessment Committee

• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Student Affairs and Committee on Athletics for review; a description is provided below:
  Honest discussion of the role of academics in student-athletes' lives.
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  • 4/18/2012: Motion to Endorse Committee on Athletic's Spring 2012 Report
    (Senate voted separately on each item)
  • 5/2/2007: Resolution on Reporting the Academic Performance of Manoa’s Student Athletes
    (Passed; unanimous)
  • 4/21/2004: Resolution on Nutrition Education for UHM Students
    (Passed; unanimous)
  • 10/15/2003: Resolution on Nutrition Education for Student Athletes, and on Prevention and Treatment for Student-Athletes with Eating Disorders
    (Withdrawn)

• According to the Committee on Adminsitration and Budget's Fall 2012 Report, "while this issue is of concern to some members of CAB, it did not rise to sufficient priority to be considered by the committee."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Administration and Budget for review; a description is provided below:
  Review athletics funding including high cost of athletic Committee on Athletics, self sufficiency for athletics, a possible reduction in athletics expenditures, and whether athletics funding should be a priority as compared to academic funding.

• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the General Education Committee for review; a description is provided below:
  Consider establishing a working group to review how information literacy is being taught across the curriculum. Review as a subset of general education elements the five pillars that WASC has been considering that require us to establish and demonstrate proficiency in written communication, oral communication, quantitative skills, critical thinking, information literacy.

• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the General Education Committee for review; a description is provided below:
  Review the Foundational-Symbolic Reasoning Requirement including the alternatives of emphasizing quantitative skills v. symbolic reasoning.
• Research
  • General Education Committee 2011-12 Annual Report
    

#19.13: Relationship between Graduate Council & Committee on Research & Graduate Education

• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Research and Graduate Education for review; a description is provided below:
  Review possible duplication of duties between Committee on Research and Graduate Education & Graduate Council, including criteria for referring graduate program reviews from Grad Council to Committee on Research and Graduate Education, faculty control of graduate degree programs, and strengthening and evaluating graduate programs.
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  11/11/2011: Resolution on the Formation of the Committee on Research and Graduate Education (CORGE)
  (Passed; 263 in support; 21 opposed; 45 abstentions)
  

• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Research and Graduate Education for review; a description is provided below:
  Status of plans to change deposit process for dissertations and theses.

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Acadmic Policy and Planning's Fall 2012 Report, "Two CAPP members (Le and Wong) are working on this. They have consulted with members of the Council of Academic Advisors"
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Student Affairs and the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning for review; a description is provided below:
  Examine academic advising; who decides on exceptions on rules; examine relationship of advising to 15-to-Finish and Do-it-in-4 programs; improve advising.

• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Professional Matters' Fall 2012 Report, "CPM recommends that DPC criteria of the department be used to determine tenure. The decision of tenure rests at that of the department, not at that of administration."
• 8/6/2012: Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Professional Matters for review; a description is provided below:
  Relationship of administrative appointments to academic tenure, and the role of faculty in determining the departmental tenure.
• Research
  • Office of the VC for Academic Affairs provided Listing of Action Memos Requesting Tenure Upon Appointment from 2009-2012 at Senate Executive Committee's request

#56.12: WASC Communication Report

• 8/20/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue as follow-up.
• 11/17/2011: VC for Academic Affairs request for Senate consultation & WASC report

*Senate Executive Committee

#54.12: Memo & report from Grade Replacement Policy Task Force

• 8/20/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue as follow-up item for the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning
• 2/15/2012: Motion to Amend Grade Replacement Policy approved by Senate
• 11/07/2011: Senate Executive Committee referred memo and report to Committee on Academic Policy and Planning
• 11/03/2011: VC for Academic Affairs request for Senate consultation & report
  • Grade Replacement Policy (Passed by the MFS in May 2011)

#11.13: Campus Navy ROTC

• 4/17/2013: Senate voted 30:25 in favor of the Resolution Relating to the Establishment of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa at the May Senate Meeting.
• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Acadmic Policy and Planning's Fall 2012 Report, "Two CAPP members (Ertekin and Sammons) are working on this. They have consulted with the commanders of the two ROTC detachments currently on campus and with the administrator who oversees them (Cambra)."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from request from Eric Lindgren and referred it to the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning for review; a description is provided below:
  Request to reconsider Resolution Relating to the proposal for a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Senate voted to reject in October 2002)
• 6/2013: Eric Lindgren, Oahu resident, e-mailed Senate Executive Committee to request status and reconsideration of Navy ROTC issue: "I am writing in regard to a vote the Faculty Senate took in 2002 which recommended the establishment of a Naval ROTC program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Do you happen to know where the recommendation would have been sent once the Senate approved it? This morning, I was in contact with the Navy's office which handles applications for new ROTC units. They have no record of UH ever having submitted an application which would have been the formal notice to the Navy that UH was interested in hosting a NROTC Unit. If you are not the right person to speak with about this matter, please point me in the right direction." (6/14) "Do you know if there has been any motion to reconsider as all of the dissenting comments have been overcome by recent events (Don't ask, don't tell, and the War in Iraq)? The only outlyers that I notice are the questions as to how military science course credit fits into a students curriculum and physical space consideration." (6/23)
• Prior Senate Action(s)
  • 10/16/2002: Resolution Relating to the proposal for a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (Failed: 10 in favor; 19 against)

• 3/20/2013: Senate voted 37:3 in favor of the Resolution on Diversity at the March Senate Meeting
• 12/2012: According to the Committee on Professional Matters' Fall 2012 Report, "We support diversity hiring. We have discussed this issue and feel it is an issue of qualification of the individual. If the individual is qualified, then there should be no need for additional discussion. A statement is forthcoming in early Spring."
• 8/6/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue from input provided in faculty feedback survey and referred it to the Committee on Professional Matters for review; a description is provided below:
  Review Diversifying the Faculty [including Indigenous Native Hawaiians]: A Guidebook for Search Committees Checklist of Best Practices

#49.12: Registration Waitlisting

• 1/7/2012: Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs indicated that there were no reported issues with Fall 2012 registration waitlisting and no current plans to modify the registration waitlisting process further.
• 8/20/2012: 2012-13 Senate Executive Committee added issue as follow-up item for the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning
• 11/1/2011: Senate Executive Committee referred to Committee on Academic Policy and Planning
• 10/13/2011: VC for Academic Affairs memorandum

*Committee on Administration and Budget

Senate Executive Committee