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The Congress and its Senate acts for the faculty on all academic policy matters of Mānoa-wide concern, such as budget planning and implementation policy; student-faculty relations; evaluation of faculty and campus academic administrators; professional ethics matters; and other academic policy subjects referred to the Senate by the Mānoa Provost or the University of Hawai‘i president.

The University of Hawai‘i Faculty Senate as such was created by the Board of Regents’ amending their bylaws on May 17, 1962.  Prior to this date, faculty had participated in the governance of the University of Hawai‘i but had done so in bodies which were not exclusively faculty in makeup and in which the faculty did not have the power to institute sessions. Early faculty participation in governance began in September of the first year of college-level instruction, 1908, and has continued with minor interruptions since that beginning.

For a more detailed history of the faculty involvement in governance at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, see Cartwright, “History of the Evolution of Faculty Participation in Governance of the University of Hawai’i, 1908 – 1962.”

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Faculty Congress is composed of all UH Mānoa faculty members. The Senate acts and represents the Congress on all matters not referred directly to Congress, and the Senate Executive Committee (SEC) may act for the Senate, as provided in the bylaws. The Senate consists of 10 Senate Committees and other non-Senate committees that review and refer policy matters to the SEC, Senate, and Congress.