HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

177

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SUBMIT A REPORT WITH INFORMATION REGARDING THE SALARIES OF UH-MANOA EXECUTIVES, MANAGEMENT, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, the objectives of the University of Hawaii (UH) System 2002-2010 Strategic Plan include:

 

     (1)  Excelling in basic and applied research for the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge;

 

     (2)  Supporting Hawaii’s economy by building partnerships within the UH system and with other public and private educational, governmental, and business institutions; and

 

     (3)  Creating a culture of excellence within the UH system by recruiting, rewarding, and empowering top-performing faculty;

 

and

 

     WHEREAS, the strategic imperatives of the UH-Manoa 2002-2010 Strategic Plan include:

 

     (1)  Serving as an innovator and a conduit for new technologies and their applications in society;

 

     (2)  Setting high standards for retention, post-tenure review, and merit pay;

 

     (3)  Encouraging research that benefits and involves the local community; and

 

     (4)  Supporting research initiatives where UH-Manoa is uniquely positioned to excel;

and

 

     WHEREAS, the UH 2003-2009 faculty contract states that "the existence of salary differentials among faculty in a given discipline must be clearly attributable to academic credentials, rank, experience, years of service, and/or the individual’s academic and service accomplishments.  Inequitable differentials caused by other factors should be eliminated"; and

 

     WHEREAS, what seems to be a result of UH-Manoa’s need to attract world-class faculty, are the many reported instances at UH-Manoa of new hires earning salaries equal to or higher than faculty who have served the institution for decades, and years of salary stagnation for existing faculty; and

 

     WHEREAS, inequity between the salaries of top-performing faculty and other faculty in the same field but with similar or lesser academic credentials, rank, experience, years of service, research productivity, and teaching and service accomplishments, is contrary to UH's stated objectives, imperatives, and faculty contract; and

 

     WHEREAS, the requests for salary adjustments by some top-performing faculty have reportedly been denied due to a lack of funds and not due to a lack of merit of their requests, as there is clear evidence that their accomplishments are consistent with the strategic plans of the UH System and UH-Manoa; and

 

     WHEREAS, these salary inequities must be addressed to fairly compensate and reward the faculty who have spent decades building UH-Manoa into the internationally prominent institution it is today; and

 

     WHEREAS, faculty retention is especially critical as over 40 percent of UH-Manoa faculty become eligible for retirement in the next decade;

 

     WHEREAS, a report with information regarding UH-Manoa faculty salaries would help determine and remedy salary inequities, as well as how the salaries compare with the rest of the nation, and be a first step toward improving faculty morale and retention; now, therefore,


     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fourth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2007, the Senate concurring, that the President of the University of Hawaii is requested to submit a report, no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2008, with information regarding the salaries of UH-Manoa executives, management, faculty and administrators in the past five years, on a department-by-department basis, including:

 

     (1)  Salaries of current and new executive, management, faculty and administrative hires as categorized by years of service at UH, gender, and race and ethnicity;

 

     (2)  Overall salary schedule, by rank, of executives, management, faculty and administrators;

 

     (3)  Overall salary schedule, by rank, of comparable executives, management, faculty and administrators in other doctoral research universities throughout the nation;

 

and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the President of UH give immediate reconsideration to requests for salary adjustments and salary equity that were denied due to a lack of funds and not due to a lack of merit, from July 1, 2006, up to the passage of this Concurrent Resolution, and include in the report the actions taken that effectuate this request; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, President of the University of Hawaii, and the Executive Director of the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly.

 

 

 

Report Title: 

University of Hawaii at Manoa; Executives, Management, Faculty and Administrators Salaries (HCR177 HD1)