I. Approval of minutes

October 6, 2006 minutes were approved as posted.

II. Chancellor's Report (G. Awakuni)

• Thanks to all who worked on the GEN ED requirements. A special thanks to Lynn Hodgson.
• getting things done for Nov. meeting.
• 100 new freshmen for 2007.
• The marketing of UHWO will commence with the new campus
• Visiting professor position for Prof. Dean Algadado of UH-Manoa who will be teaching a course in Filipino culture. Dean will also be helping grant funding and donor support (Center for Public Service.
• Center for public service…Grant funding and donor support. Dean will be helping.
• Temporary hire for Public affairs director (UHWO).

III. Vice Chancellor's Report (S. Sylvester)

• Thank you to Melinda Wood for getting the paperwork done for the four year program to be sent to the Board of Regents and also Cliff Togo for their fine work.
• The summer schedule is due.
• The Dept. Chairs are working on the Fall 2007 schedule.
• Service learning grant has been funded.
• The Title Three grant report for December is coming out.
• Searches by the committee in progress for Education, Literature, Psychology, and Accounting.
• The Program Development process is a complicated one but will go through the Faculty Senate first.

IV. Committee Reports

1. Academic Affairs and Resources (Stan Orr)
   • E. Flower presented information on Turnitin (the Counter-plagiarism service). The AARC approved the use of Tutrnitin at UHWO and recommend the following resolutions to the Faculty Senate:

     1. The Faculty Senate endorses the use of Turnitin at UH West O'ahu.
     AARC Resolution 1 was discussed and approved by all present with the exception of one abstention.

     2. The syllabus template will be amended to include the folowing paragraphs:

     Use of Turnitin:

     UH West O'ahu has a license agreement with iParadigms, LLC for the use of their plagiarism prevention and detection service popularly known as Turnitin. Faculty may use Turnitin when reading and grading your assignments. By taking a course where Turnitin is used, you agree that your assigned work may be submitted to and screened by Turnitin. Turnitin rates work on originality based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from both current and archived instances of the internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals. Turnitin does not make make a determination if plagiarism has taken place. It makes an assessment of the submission's originality and reports that to the course instructor. These Originality Reports are tools to help your teacher locate potential sources of plagiarism in submitted papers.

     All papers submitted to Turnitin become part of Turnitin's reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. Use of Turnitin is subject to the Usage Policy as posted on the Turnitin.com web site.

     AARC Resolution 2 was discussed and approved by all present.

     3. Faculty who use Turnitin must attend a UH West Oahu sponsored or endorsed Turnitin training session.

     AARC Resolution 3 was likewise discussed and approved by all present. …Training will be provided on the use of Turnitin on Friday Nov 17 and Friday Dec. 1 at the computer lab.

   • Travel Fund and Seed Money Grant Requests: The Committee reports that there were 5 travel fund requests received which, if all are funded, will exceed the cap for Fall allocations by $316.78, thereby reducing the funds available in the Spring by that amount. The Committee nevertheless recommended that all the requests received be funded as follows:

     Travel Fund:	Amount
     Joyce Chinen	$1500.00
     Richard Castillo:	$1500.00
     Eric Flower:	$500.00
     Stan Orr:	$782.00
     Lisa Rosenlee:	$1034.78
     Total:	$5316.78
     Seed Money Grants:
     Gary Helfand:	$1477.00
     Ross Prizzia	$1500.00
     Total:	$2977.00

     This AARC recommendation was approved by the consensus.

    

2. Curriculum Committee (R. Cordy)

   UH - WEST O'AHU CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT TO FACULTY SENATE NOVEMBER 3, 2006 MEETING Results of October 27, 2006 Curriculum Committee Meeting. APPROVED - 14 Proposals Public Administration - all 7 proposals approved. Modification of Degree Program, PubAdmin. - Deleting requirement for 2 upper division Social Science and 2 upper division Humanities courses, & replacing these from a specified list more relevant to PubAd students. (Initiator: Ross Prizzia & Gary Helfand). Add Course, PUBA 341 -- Statistics for Decision Making in PubAd. (Initiator: Michael Hallstone). Modification of Certificate, PubAdmin - Minor modifications. (Initiator: Kristina Guo). Delete Course, PUBA 478 - Epidemiology. (Initiator: Kristina Guo) Delete Course, PUBA 482 - Health Care in Cultural Context. (Initiator: Kristina Guo) Modification of Course, PUBA 301, Health Care Administration. Modify course description. (Initiator: Kristina Guo). Modification of Course, PUBA 446, Contemporary Issues in Health Care. Modify course description. (Initiator: Kristina Guo). Humanities - all 6 proposals approved. Delete Course, HIST 385 - Japanese in Hawai'i. Being altered and offered as part of a new course. (Initiator: Jayson Chun) Add Course, HIST 318 - Asian American History. (Initiator: Jayson Chun). Add Course, HIST 306 - History of Southeast Asia. (Initiator: Jayson Chun). Delete Course, PHIL304 - Perspectives on Human Nature. (Initiator: Lisa Rosenlee). Add Course, HPST 477 - Polynesian & Micronesian Mythology. (Initiator: Ross Cordy) Modification of Concentration - Hawaiian-Pacific Studies. Add HPST 477 to Oral Traditions Cluster. (Initiator: Ross Cordy) Social Sciences & Humanities - 1 item approved. Modification of Course - SSCI 491/HUM 491 - Community-based Education & Service Learning. Change in credits to "variable 1-3". (Initiator: J. Chinen). REVIEWED FOR COMMENTS: Articulation Agreement KCC & UHWO - Associate in Science - Paralegal Degree. (Initiator: Jean Osumi) Announcement to All Faculty: This academic year is a new UHWO catalog year. For upper division courses, if you want to make course changes/modifications, changes in concentration requirements, etc. LAST CHANCE = Curriculum Committee's November meeting (Nov. 17). This will enable drafting of the catalog in Spring 2007. SUBMIT PROPOSALS TO THE COMMITTEE CHAIR (R. CORDY) THE FRIDAY BEFORE THE MEETING, SO THE COMMITTEE HAS TIME TO REVIEW THEM.

   Based on the above report...

   • Discussion: Should all Committee recommendations come to faculty senate before going to the VCAA for signature?

   • Committee will look at the language and changes that needs to be made.

   • The Senate approved the Public Administration proposals.

   • The Senate approved the Humanities proposals.

   • The Senate approved the Social Sciences proposals.

   • General articulation. Explanation by J. Osumi and what it entails.
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3. Educational Effectiveness Committee (M. Delucchi)
   no report

4. General Education Ad Hoc Committee (L. Hodgson)

   Ad Hoc General Education Committee Nov 3, 2006, Report to Faculty Senate The committee met on October 24 and October 26, 2006, to examine the UH-Manoa General Education categories and hallmarks, which Faculty Senate has voted to adopt in principal. Committee membership, as established by Mark Hanson, Chair of the Fauclty Senate, includes Lynn Hodgson (Chair), Dan Boylan, Jayson Chun, Mary Heller, Ross Prizzia, Stefanie Wilson, Jean Osumi (UHWO Dean of Student Services), Steve Sylvester (UHWO VCAA), Louise Pagotto (Kapiolani CC, VCAA), and Nancy Buchanan (Leeward CC, Counseling and Advising). The committee found the UH-Manoa general education categories and hallmarks to be adaptable to UHWO and to our plans for lower division, with 2 exceptions. At UHM, two of the Focus areas (Contemporary Ethics and Oral Communications) are required to be met by upper division courses. The community colleges offer lower division ethics and oral communications courses, and a majority of students currently attending UHWO have taken at least one of these lower division courses. Therefore, the committee has decided not to adopt UH-Manoa's Contemporary Ethical Issues Hallmark #6, and the Oral Communication Hallmark #5, both of which say "The course will be numbered at the 300 or 400 level." We will maintain the flexibility of having these requirements satisfied by either lower or upper division courses. [Additional Notes: The Ethics and Oral Communication requirements might be met by a lower division course specifically designed for this purpose, or by any upper or lower division course which meets the hallmarks (such as our current Communication Skills for Administrators or Business Ethics). UHWO also needs this flexibility for purposes of staffing and scheduling.] The Committee agrees that UHWO needs a continuing committee to make decisions about which courses meet the hallmarks for each category. Therefore, the committee proposes the following motion for consideration by Faculty Senate: We move that the Faculty Senate grant authority to the General Education Committee to examine course descriptions about whether or not the courses meet the General Education requirements and hallmarks, and to report the results of those recommendations to the Faculty Senate and to the VCAA. * The next meeting of the General Education Committee will be Nov. 29, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Lynn M. Hodgson, Chair. *Revised version, as passed by the UHWO Faculty Senate.

   The Resolution introduced by this Committee was discussed, revised and approved by voice vote.

V. New Business

• The Chair will develop language for a resolution relating to Faculty Senate approval of Committee actions.

• W. Puette proposed the following Resolution to change quorum requirements for UHWO Faculty Senate meetings:

  We the faculty senate resove that the UH-West O'ahu Faculty Senate Charter be amended to reflect that the quorum for aproving resolutions be fifty percent of eligible faculty not on leave plus one additional faculty member.

  This resolution was approved unaimously.

VI. Adjournment

       Meeting was adjourned at 1:08 p.m.

        Respectfully submitted,

         Derrek Choy