Faculty Senate Chairs, representing six of the seven community college campuses, share their concerns about the direction of higher education in Hawaii, the role of the UH BOR and administration, and the need to address student needs for quality education. At the time of this posting the Faculty Senate at Honolulu CC was still deliberating whether to concur.

On October 15th, a number of student and faculty spoke eloquently about the impact on student learning and need to keep good faculty at UH. A message to the BOR that “you do not have your hand on the pulse” of students or faculty was sent with a request that the BOR do three things: In November, significant time should be set aside to listen to the UH community; the BOR should declare there will be no retrenchment; and the BOR and administration should lobby with faculty and students to restore UH funding to 07-08 levels. Click on the title to see UH Manoa Professor Jonathan Osorio’s remarks to the BOR.

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Manoa deadline for requests for waivers of minimum qualifcations is Friday, August 28, 2009. See Chancellor Dasenbrock's memo dated July 20, 2009.

UHPA Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, J. N. Musto, presented testimony to the UH Board of Regents on May 20, 2009.

In November 2008, UH General Counsel received a request from Pick-A-Prof to provide grade distributions for all formal courses at Manoa and Hilo taught during 2008. Pick-A-Prof is a fee for service online data base that markets grade information to assist students in selection of professors. The information sought included instructor name, number of students and the respective number of A’s, B’s. C’s etc. Recently UHPA was informed of this request through Hilo faculty members and the Manoa Faculty Senate. The use of this information could undermine the integrity of academic programs and instructional faculty through encouraging grade shopping and inappropriate assessments of faculty performance.

For the 2008-2009 cycle of faculty promotion and tenure, all waivers of Minimum Qualifications at Manoa must reach the Office of the Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs by August 29, 2008.

UHPA Director Ruth Horie (UHM-Hamilton Library) sent us this survey from the AAUW. We're passing it on to all those working women who read our News so their opinions can be added.

A "Futures of Higher Education" course will be offered this fall semester at UH-Manoa by Professors James Dator and Ray Yeh.

Vice President Morton will ask the Regents to accept changes to the CC Classification Plan at the November BOR meeting on Maui.