17 September, 201
PRAC September Report
Submitted by Mitchell Anderson, Chair
Proposed Committee Membership
Executive Committee
Mitchell Anderson, Chair, Seri Luangphinith, Doug Mikkleson
Full Committee
2014-15
Ag
CHEM
AJ
Poly Sci
Armando Ortega
Kevin Hopkins
Norbert Furumo
Katherine Young
Todd Belt
2015-16
Art
English
MARE
Jonathan Goebel
Kirsten Molligaard
Jason Adolf
2016-17
Econ
Physics & Astr
Sociology
Kinesiology
Geology
CS
Keisuke Nakao
Marianne Takamiya
Alton Okinaka
Lincoln Gotshalk
Steve Lundblad
Michele Ebersol
Keith Edwards
2017-18
Jap Studies
Geography
M. A. TCEBS
Anth
Math
Comm
Masa Honda
Jonathan Price
Don Price
Peter Mills
Brian Wissman
Miike Yoshitaka
M.A. Education
Programs Completed PR (2014 – 2015)
 Chemistry
 Administration of Justice
 Political Science
 Ph.D. Hawaiian Language Culture Revitalization (not sure about this one)
 Ag
Programs Currently in PR (2015 – 2016)
 Art
 English
 History
 Marine Science
 Computer Science (May be moved to the following year. They were not informed in a
timely manner when the cycle changed from 7 to 5 years.)
Programs Scheduled for PR Next Year (2016 – 2017)
 Economics
 Physics
 Sociology
 Kinesiology
 Geology
 M.Ed. Education (they have their own accreditation)
 CS
Programs Scheduled for PR the Following Year (2017 – 2018)
 Japanese Studies
 Geography
 Natural Science
 Environmental Studies
 Biology
 M.A. TCBES
 Anthropology
 M.A. Cultural Heritage
New Business:
The Executive Committee met and discussed the goals for the year: See attached.
Meeting with Physics/Astronomy
The Executive Committee met with Physics and Astronomy to provide them with an overview of
the PR process as described in the PRAC Handbook. They will begin their self-study in the
Spring.
Communications
The Chair sent communications to:
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The programs who underwent PR last year. In particular, we reminded them to contact
us to discuss their pending MOUs. The Executive Committee will meet with POLS next
week for this purpose. AJ is awaiting the results of that meeting to determine if they also
need to meet with us. Ag contacted us, but has yet to set a meeting. No word from
CHEM regarding their external reviewer report or the MOU.
Deans Hirokawa and Mathews to remind them of the need to move forward on the
MOUs.
The entire faculty, informing them of the new PR schedule that came out of the VCAA’s
office in response to the system move from a 7-year to 5-year PR cycle.
Those programs currently going through PR. MARE has already had their external
reviewer visit and will forward that report when they get it. HIST is still working on their
report and in identifying their external reviewer. ENG is working to schedule their
external reviewer visit in January. No word from ART.
Those programs coming up for review in the next two years, to invite them to sit on the
PRAC general membership committee. As noted above, we already met with Astronomy/
Physics in this regard.