Meeting Minutes
February 7, 2025

I. Opening Protocol

1. Mele Honouliuli – Jon Magnussen
2. Land Acknowledgement – Cathy Ikeda, General Education Committee

II. Approval of Faculty Senate Minutes

December 6, 2024 Faculty Senate Meeting – Approved

III. Administrative Reports

1. Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Administration (Vice-Chancellor David McDonald)
   1. OK to park in the “Residence Parking” signage area. Signs will be remove.
   2. Continue but be conservative about spending given the uncertainty
   3. Hawaii Legislature is now in session. Many informational briefings, some action on legislation, budget discussions are underway, but too early to project.
2. Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs (Leslie Opulau`oho)
   1. E Ala Pono
      1. First update completed. 40.1% courses / 45.7% instructors response rate.
      2. Progress Update #2 – March 3 – 12, 2025
   2. Commencement Updates:
      1. Application for Graduation due date is Friday, February 14
      2.  Student Speaker – Nominations Due Friday, February 21
      3. Student Speaker – Application Due Friday, February 28
   3. Career & Internship Fair X Careers in IT & Cyber Fair — Thursday, February 13, 2025, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, C-208; 46 Employers
3. Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs (Vice-Chancellor Harald Barkhoff)
   1. Check emails for the Presidentʻs message about policy changes regarding federal uncertainty, especially around DEI.
   2. Three sessions on the Academic Master Plan coming up (see email announcements from Camonia Graham-Tutt)

IV. ASUHWO Update (President Sydney Whitley)

1. Weekend we had Hopiliho (?) Conference, across conference
2. – Senators still fleshing out initiative
   1. Night Owl Nook – April 28 study session
   2.  CM Senator – improving communications around campus with a survey
   3. MNHS Senator – creating MCAT study group
   4. BUSA Senator – message boxes continue on campus
3. Recruitment at end of spring semester for next year
4. General Senate Meetings held 2nd and 4th Thursday at 5p

V. Faculty Senate Chair Report

1. ACCFSC – January 13 meeting
   1. President Hensel will join the next meeting
   2. Discussion of Grade Repeat Policy coming from System to ACCFSC; any materials that come out will be shared
   3. Ongoing systemwide discussion of General Education.
      1. Previous system request to revise GenEd was withdrawn.
      2. An independent caucus was formed from individual campuses. There was a meeting in December, and UHWO GenEd Chair Megan Ross, Michael Pak, English faculty, and Writing Program Administrator, and HPST faculty Kaliko Correa attended.
         1. Concern raised by Celia Bardwell-Jones, Co-Chair of ACCFSC, Professor at UHH: UH Hilo and UHWO has not been fully integrated in the GenEd Caucus, even though it is not an official ACCFSC group.
         2. FSC Orr working with GenEd Chair Megan Ross to keep track of UHWO participation.
         3. UHM is moving to make changes by April.
         4. Some concerning things regarding UHH and UHWO that are being tracked
   4. Faculty Senate is forming a Special Committee on Microcredentials with David San Jose and including Leslie Lopez, Osman Keshawrz, Robyn Tasaka. Committee needs more formation.

VI. UBAC Update (Sen. Thomas Scheiding and Aldayne Adlam)

1. Faculty Representative Adlam:
   1. Budget is on track for FY2025
   2. Concern towards mental health on campus, so positions being sought in that area
2. FSC Orr added: General call for prudence and conservatism with spending but stay on track

VII. Committee Reports

1. Academic Affairs and Planning – (Sen. Katie Landgraf)  – no vote
2. Budget and Resources – (Brenda Machosky) – no vote
3. Curriculum Committee –  (Sen. Carina Chernisky)
   1. Report includes all proposals approved recently.

   2. Faculty should review the information-only announcements and deadlines contained within the report.

   3. Report and its contents introduced: No debate. No objections. Adopted.
4. Distance Education – (Sen. Katherine Aumer)
   1. Approvals included in report.
   2. Committee agreed that late approvals could be approved by Chair Aumer.
   3. Report and its contents introduced: No debate. No objections. Adopted.
5. General Education– (Sen. Megan Ross)
   1. No meeting last month, but we did have some WI approvals.
   2. Deadline for proposals is 15 February 2025. Please try to meet this deadline.
   3. Attended informal General Education meeting. Mike Pak and Kaliko Correa have agreed to attend this group because there is a lot of focus on writing and HAP requirements. There is also something going on at UHM regarding Sustainability.
      1. UHWO is being included in these meetings. Scheduling is challenging because there are a lot of participants.
      2. They are asking for UHWO representative feedback
      3. UHWO is not beholden to making any changes; UHM is going ahead. Transfer is not really being considered. It is one-sided at this time at UHM.
   4. Report and its contents introduced: No debate. No objections. Adopted.
6. Program Review – (Sen.Joy Mahiko)
   1. Reviews on Schedule
      1. BS-NSCI – submitted to VCAA
      2. BA-CM 0 Submitted to VCAA
      3. SC-LBST – pending submissions to VCAA
      4. BAS – having a site visit on 2/13-14/2025
7. Sustainability – (Sen. Rouel Velasco)
   1. Welcomed a new student member from Aloha `Aina
   2. Monique agreed to serve as Vice-Chair for the semester with the support of the committee.
   3. Please consider Sustainability Focus for your courses. One time application. Talk to Committee members if interested.
   4. Working on a UHWO campus Sustainability Microsite. Please share anything related to this topic.
   5. UH System has a Sustainability Implementation Plan, so committee will be considering how UHWO fits into this plan.
   6. Earth Day – sustainability event, April 22 on campus.
8. Student Affairs – (Sen. Keʻalohi Perry) – no written report
   1. No meeting last month but continuing subcommittee projects of Modality Survey in partnership with ASUHWO and the academic forgiveness policy.,
9. Charter Review – (Sen. Monique Mironesco)
   1. Committee met with William Puette to better understand the constituency definition and committee is working on language after four new members have been added.
   2. Additional issues are cropping up
      1. language in the section on the work of the Academic and Affairs Committee, being given guidance by UHPA and contradictions with CBA
      2. lecturers who are eligible to serve as related to BU7 criteria (7 credits or more); looking at language of Chapter 89, related to this topic.
      3. See memorandum from SSCI Chair Orlando Garcia-Santiago that was submitted after the Charter Review Committee Report was submitted.
      4. Discussion.

         1. Clarification that CBA details process for developing procedures for tenure, promotion, and contract renewal, which are outside of the purview of Faculty Senate (Sen. Thomas Scheiding, UHPA Represenntative)

         2. Discussion of protocol of memorandums on faculty senate business being sent directly to administration simultaneously with faculty senate.
            1. Parliamentarian William Puette notes that the faculty senates exist because of an authority granted by the Board of Regents
            2. Parliamentarian notes that issues of faculty senate decorum has been brought to the attention of the Chancellor. Some issues may be larger than the faculty senate.
            3. Discussion of moving into executive session. This was not moved.
            4. Discussion of a point in the memo about the eligibility of lecturers. Email from Jim Kardash at UHPA that they do not determine who serves in a faculty senate. Further discussion of who qualifies for lecturer constitutentcy

VIII. Announcements, New Business

1. Announcement of visiting scholar from Slovakia, Jaroslav Kusnir, here for this week and next, courtesy of the Erasmus Institute of the European Union. Giving a talk on Postcolonial Studies in Hungary and Slovakia.

IX. Adjourned:

1:01 pm