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May 2011
Faculty Senate Motion to Revise Faculty Classifications at UH-Manoa
(Background and Supporting material)
BACKGROUND:
The University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH-Manoa) has the distinction of being designated a Carnegie I Major
Research University, in addition to its more historic role as the Land Grant University for the state of Hawaii,
and more recent designations as a Sea Grant and Space Grant University. Faculty at UH-Manoa, like faculty at
all other Major Research Universities, have a responsibility for carrying out the combined duties of I
(Instruction), R (Research) and S (Service), both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
UH-Manoa is unique among its peers in its practice of hiring faculty into somewhat rigid "single-function"
appointments (e.g. I - Instructional, R - Research, S - Specialist), as opposed to the accepted practice of making
"Faculty" professorial appointments, where the "Professorial Faculty" are expected to carry out all three
functions (Instruction, Research, Service), weighted according to the accepted practices of the department/unit
into which they are hired, and agreed upon as part of their terms of employment.
The current distributions of UH-Manoa faculty appointments by type and location, for both tenure-track and
non-tenure-track faculty, are given in the attached Tables. The “duties and responsibilities” of faculty in each
of these classifications can be found in Chapter 9 (Personnel) Section 9-2 (Classification Plans and
Compensation Schedules) of the UH Board of Regents (BOR) policy manual. On the tenure-track, I-faculty are
found in nearly all disciplines, while 90% of R-faculty are clustered into 4 programs (SOEST, CTHAR, IFA
and Cancer Center,) . A-faculty (Agents) are found only in CTAHR, and 85% of B-faculty (Library) are in the
Library. S-faculty (Specialists) are widespread across all departments/units, but 50% are located in just 3 units
(CTHAR, Education, Student Affairs). J-faculty (Law) and M-faculty (Medicine) are, as expected, confined to
the Professional Schools of Law and Medicine, respectively. The distributions for non-tenure-track faculty are
similar, but with a lower overall percentage of I-faculty (21% vs. 68%) and a more widespread distribution of
R-faculty across academic units.
The history and rationale for the adoption of different classifications of faculty appointment at UH-Manoa
(I,R,S, in particular), is both hard to trace and often difficult to understand. More importantly, it is
understandably at odds with current expectations for the UH-Manoa Faculty. The current BOR description for
the Instructional (I) classification includes the open ended phrase “... and to perform related tasks as assigned”,
without making specific mention of the Research and Service duties that are the hallmark of Faculty duties at
Universities with strong graduate and undergraduate programs. Conversely, the current BOR descriptions for
Research and Specialist faculty make no mention of Instructional duties, which nearly all R faculty and many S
faculty at UH-Manoa are, in practice, expected to carry out as part of UH-Manoa’s mandate to offer strong
programs of research and graduate education, and to incorporate a meaningful research experience into
undergraduate education.
Many departments/units have had to adopt the practice of using combined appointments -- often referred to as
"split appointments" -- to properly reflect the duties expected of their faculty. Others tailor their appointment
offers to include "additional duties" (e.g. "will teach and provide service to the university and community, as
required", for faculty hired as "R"), in order to reflect the performance measures expected of their Faculty.
It is also important to note that the professional schools of Law and Medicine have already adopted a combined
Instruction+Research+Service role for their Law Faculty and Medical Faculty, respectively, by explicitly
incorporating all three functions in their hiring guidelines as well as in their Board of Regents descriptions of
their "Faculty". This can and should be a model for all other departments/units.
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RECOMMENDATION FOR CHANGE:
We recommend that the faculty and administration at UH-Manoa work toward eliminating the separate I,R,S
(and where appropriate A and L) faculty classifications in favor of a more appropriate, single "Professorial
Faculty" classification, which recognizes the combined Instruction/Research/Service duties of all UH-Manoa
faculty who are involved with undergraduate and graduate teaching and research education.
All unit Tenure and Promotion guidelines across all campuses should be revised to include all 3 areas under
which Faculty can organize their activities: Instruction, Research, and Service. The relevant criteria for each
category, along with the expected standards, would be defined in the Faculty members home department/unit
Tenure and Promotion Guidelines, after seeking and obtaining approval of both their campus Chancellor and
UHPA.
BENEFIT:
Adoption of a single Professorial (or Professional) Faculty "PF" classification would remove the implied
barriers between the different duties (Instruction, Research, Service) that are, in practice, expected to be carried
out by all faculty at UH-Manoa. This change would also help resolve current inequities within departments (or
units) where faculty can, in practice, opt out of one or more of their normal faculty duties due to the rigid
classification imposed at time of hire.
Attachments:
1. UH-Manoa Tenure-Track Faculty by Classification and Locus of Tenure (1p, .pdf)
2. UH-Manoa Non-Tenure-Track Faculty by Classification and Location (1p, .pdf)
Attachment 1:
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May 2011
Tenure-Track Faculty Distribution (Headcount)
by Faculty Classification (9/11 mo) & Locus of Tenure
Jan, 2011
Locus of Tenure
Academic Personnel
Architecture
Arts & Humanities
Arts & Sciences Deans
Business
Cancer Center
Chancellor's Office
CRDG
CTAHR
Education
Engineering
Graduate Education
Hawaiian Knowledge
IFA
Industrial Relations Center
International & Exchange
Lab Animal Service
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Library
LLL
Medicine
Natural Science
Nursing
Outreach College
PBRC
Public Health
Social Science
Social Work
SOEST
SONDH
SPAS
SSRI
Student Affairs
TIM
Undergraduate Education
Water Resources
Total
9 mo. 55.7%
11 mo. 44.3%
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Library
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Medical Research Specialist
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