The
meeting was called to order by chair, Nina Buchanan at 2:05 PM.
Present
: Nina Buchanan, Bill Mautz, Helen Rogers, Robert Fox, Doug Mikkelson, Lincoln
Gotshalk, Pila Wilson, April Komenaka, Sabry Shehata, Barbara Heintz, David Miller,
Norm Stahl
Student
Members:
Ex
Officio: Rose Tseng, Christopher Lu, Keith Miser, Margaret Haig
The
Minutes of the meetings of 5/8/02 and 9/20/02 were approved.
1.
Pila
Wilson reported that the GE committee met. Sandra Wagner-Wright will co-chair the committee, and the
committee is requesting she be given a course load reduction for her
service. The committee requests that
Karlen Suga be made a student member.
The committee also would like to recruit a member from the College of
Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management, and it was reported
that Mike Shintaku is willing to serve.
A
motion was made and approved to approve the GE committee appointments of
Wagner-Wright, Suga, and Shintaku.
2.
A motion was made to appoint Norm Stahl to the Library Advisory Committee in
addition to the roster of Library Advisory Committee Members: Bruce Matthews,
Hiapo Perreira, Chris Keller, Susan Brown, Cam Muir, Barbara Leonard, and Helen
Rogers.
The
Motion was approved.
2.
The
Congress was asked by VC Chris Lu to appoint a chair to the Student Grievance
Committee. Rick Castberg has been
nominated.
The
motion was approved.
It
was noted by April Komenaka that Keith Miser is revising the grievance policy
for this committee.
3.
Nina
Buchanan has received a request from the librarian that new programs file a
library resources impact statement. The
request was referred to the Academic Policy Committee which is formulating new
general policy for new programs.
4.
Draft Strategic Plan Committee report.
In order that the UHH strategic plan mesh with the systemwide
plan’s schedule, the committee has been
charged to extend the plan from 5 to 8 years duration (2002-2010).
A
motion was made and approved to extend the date on the plan to 2010.
5.
Nina Buchanan reported on the All Campus Council. She requested that issues to be brought before the Council be
transmitted to her.
The
President’s Council for Plans and Priorities is undertaking a systemwide
reorganization. Proposed is that all
community colleges and universities have a chancellor who serves on a council
of chancellors. The effect of this is a
council of 7 CC chancellors and 3 univ. chancellors. This structure has the effect of diminishing the relative
importance of the larger units and in the case of UHH, further distancing the
university from the president’s office.
It was noted that this amounts to a “Balkanization” of the University of
Hawaii.
Bob
Fox moved that the congress should request via the All Campus Council a meeting
with President Dobelle at UHH to discuss the implications of the proposed
systemwide structure.
The
motion passed unanimously
Another
topic requested to be raised at the All Campus Council is a request that the
budget be developed in concert with the Strategic Plan. Nina Buchanan reported that systemwide
budgeting is using details of goals from the strategic plan for systemwide
development. Bob Fox stated that there
is no process for faculty to participate in the major program changes that are
then passed on for budgeting. Chris Lu
responded that the goal development underwent a detailed and open process: in
March, 2002 he issued a request for new programs; and in April he met in deans
meetings to prepare the divisions for new program changes that would go into
the strategic plan. There were 2 more
followup meetings where they were discussed: the Chancellor’s Council and
another dean’s meeting of divisions chairs.
Chris said he did not prioritize the changes because there was no basis
for making the priority, but that the UH System subsequently forced UHH to
prioritize.
6.
Bob Fox requested on behalf of the Budget Committee that the administration
make the budget process start earlier.
The Quality of Faculty Worklife at UH Survey results are in and will be posted on the web.
The
meeting was adjourned at 3:20 p.m.
William
Mautz
UHH
Congress, Vice Chair