Academic Senate
Minutes of the Meeting of 8/29/08
Present: Sandra Claveria, John Cole,
Kenoa Dela Cruz, Sherri Fujita, Mary Goya, Joyce Hamasaki (polycom), David Ikeda,
Kent Killam, Kathy Kotecki
(polycom), Osh Larish, Annie Maeda, Eric
Mecklenburg, Ellen Okuma (Chair), Kaleo Quintana, Jill Savage (recorder), Mai Wong.
1.
A quorum was
determined and the meeting was called to order at 1205 hours.
2.
The minutes of
4/25/2008 were reviewed and approved as distributed.
3.
Chair’s Report
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Chair
attended (polycom) ACCFSC meeting Aug 21. Unclear whether the Sept. ACCFSC
meeting will be hosted at HawCC or from UH Manoa following a change in the BOR
schedule. BOR will meet Sept. 19 at HawCC.
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Chair
and former Chair, Jill Savage, attended CCCFSC meeting Aug 22 at WCC.
o
Role
of CCCFSC. HawCC Senate to look at its
Charter and add a reference Chair’s duties to reflect role of Chair regarding
CCCFSC.
o
UHCC Strategic Plan. According to VP Morton,
UHCC SP will be presented to
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VP
Morton provided members of the CCCFSC with a good explanation of the campus
reserves. Each campus has a 4% discretionary cash reserve. Most campuses have
more than this. There is $8.6 million over the 4% reserves being set aside in
the UHCC’s. $1 million of this amount is untouchable. VP Morton is meeting with
the Chancellors and VC Admin today to go over how budgets might best be
determined among the UHCC’s, e.g. should funds for one campus be given to
another? What is the best use of the funds appropriated?
o
$500,000
will be restricted for UHCC’s out of the Governors budget for enrollment
growth.
o
Joanne
Itano, Director Academic Planning and Policy, announced system plan to support
discipline meetings; a system Math summit will be held sometime this semester.
Discussion followed regarding the need to address the critical needs areas as
referenced in the Second Decade report; such as the following disciplines:
chemistry, biology, physical sciences, history, computer science, English,
remedial.
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HawCC
AS Executive Committee: Current members
are Sherri Fujita (GSSS), Taupouri Tangaro (HUM), Annie Brown (BEAT), Trina
Nahm-Mijo (SSCI), Joyce Hamasaki (NURS), Eric Mecklenburg (ENG), and Jill
Savage (Math/Nat. Sci); currently lacking representation from HOST and ATE.
4 Standing and Other Committee Reports
a Ed Policy – Joyce Hamasaki: committee
will be revisiting the Academic Renewal Policy and the Class Attendance and No
Show Policy.
b Faculty Policy - Kathy Kotecki: committee will continue with the finishing
touches to the Faculty handbook and will seek help with inputting the final
version on the website.
c CRC
– Kent Killam: Haw CC curriculum website
is up and ready for use, no changes have been made to the proposal forms;
deadline for all proposals affecting the 2009/10 catalog is on or before Sept
26 – last Friday of the month; Curriculum Central may be ready for use in
Spring ’09; an A.S. degree proposal for Fire Science has been received and will
hopefully be presented to the Senate at its Sept meeting.
d Writing Intensive – No report.
5 Old Business
a Policy of Children of Students on
Campus: DOSS Arthurs is waiting for
response from UH Legal Counsel.
b Guidelines for handling a Disruptive
Student (draft) – Amendments made by Dean of Student Services, will be
considered and discussed further at Sept meeting; The original document was
adopted in November of 1994; it was unclear exactly what changes were being
proposed; Chair will seek clarification
from the DOSS.
6 New Business
a ACCJC followup report has been
submitted to VP Morton’s office and will possibly be presented to the BOR at
the Sept meeting.
b Executive Committee members –
previously discussed.
c Standing Committee membership: quite a few seats, especially HOST and CTE,
are vacant and need to be filled; responsibility rests with all as part of
shared governance.
7 For
the Good of the Order:
J. Cole – Laulima: a division member has expressed concern in an
email with JN Musto regarding the
need for compensation and overall institutional support for DE course development. UHPA: the employer has offered a
counter proposal to the UHPA
(John has a hardcopy) – among other
changes to the UHPA’s original, no
salary changes were included in the most recent counter proposal. Karla Hayashi (UHH) is chairing the UHPA’s
negotiating team.
J.
Savage − encourage new faculty members to attend the Senate meetings.
8 The meeting was adjourned at
1250hours.