STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1418

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 51

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 51 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I SYSTEM TO IDENTIFY ITS MOST IMPORTANT FOUNDATIONAL COURSES TO ENSURE THAT FOUNDATIONAL COURSES ARE NOT ADVERSELY IMPACTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I SYSTEM'S CURRENT BUDGET REDUCTIONS DURING A PERIOD OF INCREASED ENROLLMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the University of Hawaii System to identify its most important foundational courses to ensure that foundational courses are not adversely impacted by the current budget reductions during a period of increased enrollment.

 

     Prior to the hearing, your Committee circulated a Proposed S.D. 1, which urged the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents to:

 

     (1)  Convene a working group of students to develop and implement a modified process for the selection of the candidates for the student member of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents;

 

     (2)  Establish a process to ensure student involvement in the recruitment and evaluation of candidates for the student member of the Board of Regents prior to submission of the candidate pool to the Governor;

 

     (3)  Include in the working group representatives from each campus, the University of Hawaii Student Caucus, the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii, and other student organizations as may be appropriate; and

 

     (4)  Report its findings and recommendations to the 2010 Legislature.

 

     Testimony in support of this proposed measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii Student Caucus; Associated Students of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu Community College; Associated Students of Kapiolani Community College Student Congress; and three individuals.  The University of Hawaii Regents Candidate Advisory Council and two individuals submitted testimony in opposition.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee has amended this proposed measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending the title to read:  URGING THE REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP OF STUDENTS AND OTHER APPROPRIATE PARTIES TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A MODIFIED PROCESS FOR THE SELECTION OF THE CANDIDATES FOR THE STUDENT MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS;

 

     (2)  Deleting two WHEREAS clauses related to the length of the student member's term and diversity of the constituency;

 

     (3)  Amending the participants in the working group to include the University of Hawaii Student Caucus, the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs for the University of Hawaii System, student life staff advisors from the various campuses, and other appropriate parties; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 51, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 51, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

 

 

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JILL TOKUDA, Chair