UH Hilo Faculty Congress Meeting
Agenda for Nov. 20, 2015
New Student Service Multi-purpose Room
Approval of minutes from the last meeting (Oct. 16, 2015)
Faculty Congress Chair Report
• Executive Policy Proposal for Programs with Low Number of Degrees
• new Executive Policy Proposal for Consensual Relationships
Notes from meeting with UH System President David Lassner
• Title Nine training
• Performance based funding
Standing Committee Reports
 Assessment Support, Seri Luangphinith
 Academic Policy, James Beets
 Student Success Comm. and Academic Advising Task Force, Faith Mishina
 Long Range Budget and Academic Affairs Advisory Board, Roberta Barra
 Curriculum Review, Norbert Furumo
 General Education, Yumiko Ohara
 Program Review, Mitchell Anderson
Other Committee with Faculty Congress Representation
 Prior Learning Assessment Committee, Faith Mishina
 Sustainability Committee, Shih-Wu Sung
 UNIV 101 Analysis Committee, Norbert Furumo
Liaison Reports
 Curriculum Coordinator, Shelby Wong
 Professional Development, Jan Ray
 Distance Learning, Jan Ray
 WASC, Seri Luangphinith
 Grad Council, Tam Vu
 Research Council, Jim Beets
Faculty Senate Chair Updates
 CAS, Jean Ippolito
 CAFNRM, Maria Haws
 CoBE, Tam Vu
 KHUOK, Kekoa Harman
 Pharmacy, Karen Pellegrin
 Library, Mary Haraguchi
Old Business:
• Update on possible Student Withdrawal date change
• Update on Ad Hoc Faculty Development Committee
New Business:
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Motion to Revise the Graduate Programs Curriculum Pathway Flowchart notes to include written
acknowledgement by any relevant Units.
Whereas Units within UHH are offering multi-discipline degree programs.
Whereas the expertise of Colleges outside the Proposing Unit may forestall problems with various accreditation
entities and provide each college a chance to express an opinion on proposed graduate programs resident
in other colleges to help prevent unintentional problems.
Therefore, the Faculty Congress requests that the notes on the second page of the Curriculum Review Flowchart
include the following sentence after "College Curriculum Review Body" and under "Interdisciplinary Programs" (at
the end of the current paragraph): "Written acknowledgement from all impacted departments or colleges must be
included with new interdisciplinary program proposals and any major modifications."
• Motion to adopt Roberts Rules of Order for Motions
Whereas, the Faculty Congress has not adopted a version of Roberts Rules of Order for Motions for meetings,
Therefore, it is recommended that the Faculty Congress adopt the attached revision of the Robert's Rules of
Order for meetings and post on the Faculty Congress web site. (see attached)
• Motion for the Creation of a Campus-wide Task Force to Study the Reorganization of Academic Units at
UH Hilo
Whereas, historically, faculty members in Natural Sciences have made several unsuccessful attempts to reorganize
the College of Arts and Sciences due to its inequitable size when compared to other UH Hilo colleges.
Whereas, an opportunity has arisen to reorganize the College of Arts and Sciences, since the Dean will be stepping
down soon, and the VCAA has agreed to appoint an interim Dean who may serve for an extended period of time to
allow for a possible reorganization.
Whereas, the UH Hilo College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate recently conducted a survey to determine
faculty interest in creating a campus-wide task force to study the reorganization of academic units at UH Hilo, and
the results of that survey (attached) revealed that 72.97 percent of faculty respondents are in favor of creating a
campus-wide task force to study the reorganization of academic units at UH Hilo.
Whereas, the reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences has the potential to impact other academic units at
UH Hilo, such as the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management and the College of
Business and Economics, so a campus-wide task force is necessary.
Therefore, be it resolved that Faculty Congress create a campus-wide task force to study the reorganization of
academic units at UH Hilo.