MINUTES
UH Hilo Faculty Congress Meeting
March 20, 2015
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Student Services Multipurpose Room
Attendance:
Julie Adrian, Roberta Barra, Michael Bitter, Iota Cabral, Kimberly Furumo, Norbert Furumo, Mary
Louise Haraguchi, Kekoa Harman, Jean Ippolito, Avis Masuda, Karen Pellegrin, Janet Ray, Michael
Shintaku, Vladi Skorikov, Kathleen Stacey
Absent: Alice Davis, Faith Mishina, Todd Shumway, Shih-Wu Sung, Mindy Alles
Others: Vice Chancellor Matt Platz; Vice Chancellor Marcia Sakai; Interim Vice Chancellor Gail
Makuakane-Lundin; Arthur Cunningham; Bruce Matthews, Emmeline de Pillis;
Called to order 3:00 p.m.
Introduced Karen Pellegrin, who is replacing Andre Bachman for College of Pharmacy.
Approval of minutes from the last meeting
Corrections or changes to minutes: none
Jan R moved to accept, Norbert seconded
14 yes/0 no/1 abstain – minutes approved.
Faculty Congress Chair Report
 Kim passed around memo from President Lassner regarding Single Level Transcript for
the UH System
 Letter on Five-Year Review (2.20.2015) – email from Chancellor and JN Musto
 Committee Chairs: provide report at May meeting to be posted on website; Jan Ray to
provide template.
 Congress Membership – Kim contact Division Chairs; new Congress to be seated at
May meeting.
Committee Reports and Vote to Approve Committee Membership
 Assessment Support, Seri Luangphinith (report posted on website).
 Academic Policy, James Beets – (no report)
 Student Success and Admissions, Faith Mishina (report posted on website)
 Budget Review, Roberta Barra (report posted on website)
 Curriculum Review, Norbert Furumo – completed committee work for year; search
for Curriculum Coordinator - forwarded selectee to VCAA.
 General Education, Michael Bitter (report posted on website)
 Program Review, Seri Luangphinith (report posted on website)
Ad Hoc Committee Reports
 Monthly Speaker Series, Emmeline de Pillis: CCECS picked up marketing efforts—
creating email list of attendees.
Other Committee with Faculty Congress Representation
 Prior Learning Assessment Committee, Faith Mishina (report posted on website)
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Student Success and Retention (previously EMIT), Faith Mishina – no report
Sustainability Committee, Shih-Wu Sung – no report
Parking Committee, Adam Pack – no report
Rose Tseng Lecture Series, Jan Ray
UNIV 101 Analysis Committee, Norbert Furumo
Liaison Reports
 Curriculum, Jean Ippolito: new program Spanish Language certificate; course mods
for KES; Performing Arts; 2015-16 catalog being updated with course modifications
before early registration; narratives will be updated in April; department info will be
collected from chairs and updated in May; paper catalog available by end of July.
 Professional Development, Jan Ray: new faculty brown bag on contract renewal;
another brown bag in May on CVs; Jan worked on program renewals. VCAA noted
dossier prep workshops in April;
 Distance Learning, Jan Ray –no report
 WASC, Seri Luangphinith – no report
 Graduate Council, Michael Shintaku:
o Grad Council voted on letting KHUOK – students oversees with masters have
provisional acceptance; will take GRE once they come to campus.
o APC Flowchart: description of Grad Council outdated
o No ‘next step’ after Chancellor approves.
Faculty Senate Chair Updates
 CAS, Jean Ippolito: revised by-laws posted on CAS Senate website.
 CAFNRM, Mike Shintaku: revamped curriculum in process-- by May; Dean’s
evaluation in progress.
 CoBE, Roberta Barra – ACSB Accreditation Team granted CoBE accreditation, but
have one-year to work on assessment of learning.
 KHUOK, Iota Cabral: Kekoa reported that KHUOK facilitated training on introductory
language learning with various community colleges.
 Pharmacy, Karen Pellegrin
 Library, Kathleen Stacey: Library is open during Spring Break.
Old Business:
Moved to next meeting in April – Jim Beets out of state.
 Academic Flowchart (Jim Beets)
 Academic Leadership Program and Bylaw changes (Jim Beets)
 Aviation Program (Norbert Furumo)
o Norbert motioned to have FC vote on Aviation Program; Jan R. seconded.
o Secret Ballot: Write ‘yes’, ‘no’, or ‘abstain’.
 Vote: 11 yes, 2 no, 1 abstain.
 Aviation Program passed.
New Business
 Faculty Forum on GE (Kim Furumo) – Monday, April 13, 2015 in UCB 127, 12:00 to
1:30 p.m.
o Kim to facilitate faculty-only forum
 Faculty viewpoint on GE
o Avis to take minutes
o Kim will send announcement on listserve; reps please inform faculty.
 UNIV 101
o Received lots of applications from instructors
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Committee met, more instructors than courses
Collecting materials for resources
Working on scheduling
Updates:
VC Platz:
 Received joint letter from Chancellor and JN Musto (UHPA)
 Faculty evaluation—by faculty according to criteria defined by faculty
 Professional development plan; not a punitive plan
 If faculty member deemed in need of support, VC will appoint committee
 Faculty who are up for five-year review (those that haven’t been reviewed in last five
years) will receive letter from VCAA; review to take place the following year--submit CV
to DPC; deadlines to be determined.
 Departments may need to develop guidelines to be approved by UHPA; workloads (e.g.,
teach three 3-credit practices)
VC Sakai: Budget:
 IF Senate agrees with House proposal approved—system will decide how much each
campus will be allocated.
 Implications for change in general fund allocation in fiscal year 2016
 Allocations may be determined by how well campus is doing.
 Honolulu Advertiser incorrectly reported budgets were cut.
 House budget on level with last year; cannot predict what Senate will do.
 Focus on increasing enrollments—increased revenues.
Jan R moved to adjourn; Norbert F seconded.
Meeting adjourned 4:35 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Avis Masuda
Congress Secretary
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