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Bulletin No. 22

Date/Time sent: 10/12/2020 8:00 am

E ala! E alu! E kuilima!
Awaken! Come together! Join hands!

Our campus is engaged in a rigorous, multi-level approach to defining cost efficiency strategic tactics (FY 21-24) based on data/evidence. To provide up-to-date information and opportunity for campus feedback a web-page is being developed, Pueo Planning Process: Responsible Stewardship. It will go LIVE on Tuesday, October 6. Here we provide information that include: Criterion, Budget Process, Analysis, Calendar of Activities, Budget Resources, and a Feedback loop.

As a reminder, campus leadership is using the Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) tool to facilitate conversation and decision making. This requires a good amount of data, which include information collected at all campus conversations to support decisions about cost efficiencies and future investments. Where are we now in the process? Campus leadership participated in a budget retreat on Saturday, October 10, and defined five cost efficiency strategies that align with our Strategic Action plan. We will begin planning and implementation of these strategies this FY 2021. Over the next week, six campus conversations will be hosted to present and gather feedback on these strategies.

Here is our Work In-Progress Calendar of Activities:

  • September 2020: Campus Conversations (4 campus-wide, 10 individual and focus groups, 60-plus individual contributions = an estimated 140 participants).
  • September 25 – 30: Continued collection of campus feedback and analysis (clustering strategic tactics)

  • September 29 – October 9: Campus leadership engages in MCDA process, discussion, and analysis of potential strategic tactics

  • October 10: Campus leadership retreat to define DRAFT I of 3-year Tactical Plan (FY21, 22, and 24) with placeholders for FY 25-28.

  • Week of October 12: Campus Discussions and Feedback on cost efficiency strategies to begin FY 21 that will have both short-term and long-term impacts

  • Tuesday, Oct. 13, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

  • Wednesday, Oct. 14, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

  • Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

  • Friday, Oct. 16, 10 – 11 a.m.

  • Friday, Oct. 16, 1 – 2 p.m., ASUHWO/Students ONLY

  • Monday, Oct. 19, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Please RSVP your attendance by noon on the prior day of your selected campus conversation to uhwochan@hawaii.edu.

  • After the final round of campus conversations: October 19-30: Campus leadership revise and refine to generate DRAFT of 4-year Tactical Plan (FY21, 22, 23, 24) to present to UH-System/BOR.

Any questions please contact Chancellor Benham (uhwochan@hawaii.edu) or Dr. Walter Kahumoku, III (wk@hawaii.edu).