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The UH Hilo Faculty Congress speaks for the faculty on academic policy matters concerning more than one unit. The UH Board of Regents recognizes that "The faculty has primary responsibility for such fundamental academic areas as curriculum content, subject matter, and methods of instruction and research. On these matters the power of review and concurrence or final decision lodged in the Board of Regents or delegated to administrative officers should be exercised adversely only in exceptional circumstances and for reasons communicated to the faculty."-- Section 1-10 Regents' Policy on Faculty Involvement in Academic Decision Making and Academic Policy Development

Motions Passed by Faculty Congress and Status of Administrative Approval

2012-2013 Meeting Schedula, Agendas, and Minutes

Meeting Date	Agenda and Minutes	Executive Summaries
9/21/2012 3:00-5:00pm K 127	Agenda Minutes	Approval of standing committee members was postponed until the October meeting. No motions were passed.
10/19/2012 3:00-5:00pm K 127	Agenda Minutes	--Cam Muir gave a presentation on sustainability (http://hilo.hawaii.edu/sustainability/). --Dan Brown gave a presentation on Research Oppurtunities. --Tom DeWitt gave a presentation on how he can help faculty provide Applied Learning Expereinces for their students. --Michael Shintaku was selected as Congress Vice Chair. --Adam Pack's motion to form an ad hoc committee for publicizing faculty achievements was passed unanimously. --Standing Committees were approved.
11/16/2012 3:00-5:00pm K 127	Agenda Minutes	--Jim Juvik presented a 2006 CAS Senate Motion asking that UCB be named after Patsy Mink that was ignored at the administrative level, and asked that Congress re-introduce the issue. Jim'a background information on the biography of this CAS motion can be found here. --Chancellor Straney and a team of outside consultants from PBR HAWAII & Associates, Inc. and Design Partners, Inc. all presented on a long-range plan based on a projection of 7,000 students, and another at 15,000 students. --Jean Ippolito presented a CAS Senate report that can be found here.
12/14/2012 3:00-5:00pm K 127	Draft Minutes Agenda	--The following motion was passed to adopt the modified Leeward Community College policy and procedures for dis-enrolling students who have failed to satisfy the prerequisite during early registration and remain enrolled in a sequential course: “The Registrar’s Office will perform an administrative disenrollment of any student who has failed a prerequisite for a course for which the student is preregistered in a subsequent semester.” --Jean Ippolito indicated in her CAS Senate report that Social Sciences Division Chair Chris Frueh presented results of a survey to the CAS senate indicating that 76% of Social Sciences faculty felt administration’s performance was “poor,” and that 44% of Social Sciences faculty will be going on the job market within the next three years. --Michael Shintaku was elected Congress Chair for Spring 2013. --A motion to support the motion passed by the November 17, 2006 CAS Senate to name UCB after the late Congress Representative Patsy Mink was passed unanimously.
1/18/2013 3:00-5:00pm	Agenda Minutes
2/15/2013 3:00-5:00pm	Agenda Minutes	--A faculty survey revealed an overwhelming preference for the change to a MW/TR schedule. Full results are available here. --A motion regarding the credit hour policy was given a first reading, and is available here. --The Faculty Forum on Research Funding will be held on March 8th from 3:00 to 5:00.
3/15/2013 3:00-5:00pm	Agenda Draft Minutes	--Proposed amendments to Congress Bylaws. --APC made a motion to adopt these Program Review Guidelines. --APC made a motion to establish a Program Review Standing Committee. --A motion was made to adopt MW/TR schedules, which can be found here. --A motion to require minimum SAT scores for admission was put under discussion.
4/19/2013 3:00-5:00pm	Agenda Draft Minutes	--A motion to accept GE outcomes as Institutional Learning Outcomes was passed. --A motion to accept the new PR guidlines, linked five lines above, was passed. --A motion to establish a Program Review Standing Committee, linked five lines above, was passed. --A motion to adopt a MW/TR schedule was passed as ammended.
5/10/2013 3:00-5:00pm	Agenda Draft Minutes	--A motion to accept the the final version of the ammendments to Congress Bylaws passed.

Meeting Date

Agenda and Minutes

Executive Summaries

9/21/2012

3:00-5:00pm

K 127

Meeting Date (K127)	Agenda and Minutes	Reports
April 23, 2010 3:00 - 5:00 pm	2009-2010 Congress finishes up business, 2010-2011 Congress is seated and holds elections for officers. Minutes	Elections results: Chair: Barbara Leonard Vice-Chair: Jean Ippolito Secretary: Brian Bays Curriculum Committee Chair: Jean Ippolito General Education Chair: Elizabeth Stacy Graduate Council Liason: Thank you Sevki for Chairing Congress these past two years! Thank you Keri for serving on Congress as Graduate Council Liason!
8/27/2010	Agenda Minutes	Motion Passed: To keep the wording in the current catalog prohibiting using certain graduate level courses for undergraduate credit until the academic policy review process has reviewed any changes to this policy.
9/24/2010	Agenda Minutes	Graduate Council Report 09-24-10 Student Death Protocol with Posthumous Degrees(Revised) Academic Policy Committee proposed revision of policy language to make it incumbent upon the department to recommend a degree posthumously. Motion Passed: The student’s academic department may recommend that the degree be awarded posthumously.” Motion Passed: “At the request of the relevant department faculty that graduate student teaching assistants be hired in high-enrollment general education courses to assist in evaluating writing and quantitative assignments.”
10/22/2010	Agenda Minutes	Motion Passed: Faculty Congress recommends that the Chancellor establish an Office of Ombudsman to act as a moderator and facilitator for intra-campus conflict resolution. Rationale: Faculty, staff and student disputes are not handled well at this campus and this creates tension on campus. Creating an Office of Ombudsman would help alleviate much of this tension. Motion Passed: To recommend that the language in the UHH catalog, course numbering system, be modified to: “Courses 600 and above cannot be used toward baccalaureate requirements.”
11/19/2010	Agenda Minutes	The General Education Implementation Team has been asked to report on implementation of new General Education Curriculum. Specifically, 1) Has the team worked out a way to allow students who enroll in the fall to take "any" certified General Education course during theirtime here at UHH, without limiting them to "only" those courses certified when they first select a major or if they choose to select the most current catalogue when they graduate? (This will help our students graduate in a more timely manner.) 2) Has the team come up with a plan to provide incentives to faculty and departments to offer more General Education courses? (e.g., provide TAs to large enrollment courses certified for Gen Ed.) 3) Has the team a plan in place to ensure that our incoming Freshmen are able to take Eng 100 in their first year at UHH? (Do we have enough sections and faculty to offer these sections?) Discussion on pre-built schedules for incoming freshmen. MOTION PASSED: Faculty Congress recommends that the EMIT Committee advise departments to pre-build incoming freshmen schedules on only the English and Math General Education requirements and those courses needed for the major.
12/10/2010	Agenda Minutes	Academic Policy Flowchart changes approved Program Review: Pharmaceutical Sciences – Ph.D. (Program Approved), Nursing – DNP (Program Approved), Pharmacy Studies – BA (Program Approved) ATP Programs Reviewed but not voted on: Physical Therapy – DPT (ATP) Teaching – MA (ATP) Clinical Psychopharmacology – MS (ATP) Agricultural Engineering – BS (ATP)
1/28/2011	Agenda Minutes
2/25/2011	Agenda Minutes	Responsible Conduct of Research Policy-DRAFT 2/1411 2010 revision contract renewal & tenure-Nov 2010 ACCFSC_Report_2_25_11 Proposed changes to academic calendar to 14 weeks Proposed changes to academic calendar to 15 weeks Proposed changes to academic calendar memo
3/18/2011	Agenda Minutes
4/15/2011	Agenda Minutes
5/6/2011	Agenda Minutes

UH Hilo Faculty Congress

Motions Passed by Faculty Congress and Status of Administrative Approval

2012-2013 Meeting Schedula, Agendas, and Minutes

2011-2012 Meeting Schedule, Agenda, and Minutes

2010-2011 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes

2009-2010 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes

2008-2009 Meeting Schedule and Minutes

2007-2008 Meeting Schedule and Minutes

2006-2007 Meeting Schedule and Minutes