Academic and Institutional Support (AIS) Committee

Members (AY 2024-2025):

• Kelsie Aguillera (FS Chair)
• Kelli Brandvold
• Donald Ching
• Darci Francis
• Anika Gearhart-Edwards
• Michael Scully
• Heather Takamatsu
• Patrick Leddy (Co-chair)
• Ralph Toyama (Co-chair)
• Marcela Bator

BYLAWS

ARTICLE V. Standing Committees
SECTION 2. Academic Support and Institutional Support Committee

A. Functions

1. Review and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning policies and procedures on academic and institutional support services to faculty, staff, and students.
2. Consult with members of the Administration as needed.

B. Membership

1. Membership includes appointed faculty members who shall be voting members.

Mission

The Mission of the Assessment Committee is to:

1. Facilitate: Work with the Administration and the Office of Planning, Policy, and Assessment (OPPA) to facilitate the assessment process and establish a culture of assessment.
2. Communicate: Review and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate on policies and procedures relating to assessment.

For Leeward Community College’s current policy on assessment, please read Policy L5.210.

Membership (AY 2024-2025)

1. Petersen Gross (fall chair)
2. Donald Carreira Ching (spring chair)
3. Summer Barrett
4. Cara Chang
5. Keala Chock
6. Erin Thompson
7. Jayne Bopp

Meeting Dates

The Assessment Committee will meet on the following Wednesdays from 9 – 10 am:

• September 11 
• October 2 
• November 6
• December 4

Completing Course Assessment

Instructors, please submit course learning outcome (CLO) assessments on Anthology. For instructions on how to complete and submit your course assessments, please view the Course Assessment Worksheet. To view the current course assessment progress, please view the Course Assessment Progress Sheet. If you have questions about course assessment, please email Petersen Gross, Faculty Senate Assessment Committee Chair.

Members

• Ashley Biddle (co-chair)
• Anika Gearhart-Edwards (co-chair)
• Alyssa MacDonald
• Lexer Chou
• Junie Hayashi
• Gholam Khaleghi
• Summer Barrett

Bylaws

ARTICLE V. Standing Committees

SECTION 3. Budget and Planning Committee

A. Functions

1. Consult with and advise the Administration on matters relating to projected budgets and current expenditure plans.
2. Consult with and advise the Administration on matters relating to future plans for programs, personnel, facilities, and equipment.
3. Work with the Administration to establish goals and monitor progress toward their attainment.
4. Review and make recommendation to the Senate concerning policy relating to campus resource allocation and use.
5. Review and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate on the Campus Institutional Priorities (IP).

B. Membership

1. Membership includes appointed faculty members who shall be voting members

View the Curriculum Committee website for listings of the committee’s membership, responsibilities and contacts, along with detailed information and guides to create or modifiy curriculum outlines.

Members (AY 2024 – 2025)

• Secretary: Nikki Manuel
• Curriculum Support Coordinator: Luca Preziati
• Academic Services: Allan Nebrija, Natalie Wahl
• Arts and Humanities: Phil Jung, John “Kalei” Laimana
• Business: Evelyn Wong, Marie “Kinu” Silva
• Language Arts: Donald Carreira Ching, Ann Inoshita, Kelly Kennedy
• Math and Sciences: Michael Bauer, Jennifer McFatridge, Igor Niktin
• Social Sciences: Marie McKenzie, Celina Herrera
• Student Services: Amy Amper, LeeAnn Egan, Jean StarRue-Pe“ahi
• Professional Arts and Technology: Rober Oshita, Curtis Furumoto
• Waianae Moku: Darwin Bohnet

Functions

1. Serve as the primary voice of the faculty senate in matters of Distance Education on the Leeward CC campus;
2. Help promote the development of distance education courses to ensure that their content and design are appropriate to the medium;
3. Develop and recommend policies and procedures that provide technical and academic support to ensure distance learner success;
4. Develop and recommend policies and procedures that provide technical and academic support for faculty who teach distance education courses;
5. Develop and recommend best practices for distance education teaching;
6. Develop outcome assessment measures that describe and evaluate the success of the distance education program and provide the data on which future recommendations can be made, and
7. Review facilities and equipment needs periodically, and make appropriate recommendations.
8. Membership:
   1. The Committee Chair is a Faculty Senator appointed in accordance with Bylaws;
   2. Members should be faculty with experience teaching a DE course;
   3. At least one non-faculty member (e.g. APT, Administration, etc) that is involved in the Leeward CC DE program

(Reference: University of Hawaii – Leeward Community College Faculty Senate Charter and Bylaws, Article IV, Standing Committees, Section 10. Distance Education Committee)

Membership (Academic Year 2024-2025)

• Archer, Lu’ukia
• Barnett, Franalyn
• Chang, Cara (chair)
• Eligio, Jeff
• Gearhart-Edwards, Anika (Vice Chair)
• Hayashi, Junie
• Hirata, Brent
• Inake, Rachael
• Jovenal, Dianne Joy
• Lum Ho, Lauren
• Meyer, Edward
• Wong, Evelyn
• Moses, Tasha

Meeting Dates

The Distance Education committee will meet on the following Tuesdays from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm via Zoom: 

• September 17, 2024
• October 22, 2024
• November 19, 2024
• January 21, 2025
• February 18, 2025
• March 25, 2025
• April 15, 2025

Members (AY 2024-2025)

• Reina Ojiri (co-chair)
• Michael Cawdery (co-chair)
• Matthew Egami
• Alyssa MacDonald
• Igor Nikitin

The Senate Faculty is made up of 22 elected members. 11 senators are elected each year to serve a two-year term. All faculty in rank C-2 or higher are eligible to be nominated for the general election. Elections are made accessible to all faculty in rank C-2 or higher and all lecturers teaching 8 credits or more at Leeward Community College.

The election period begins on the first Monday of November and ends on the following Monday by 4 pm. Elected senators will be acknowledged in a campus-wide publication no more than one week after the completion of the election. Newly elected senators will take office during the first regularly scheduled faculty senate meeting of the academic year following their election to office.

View Faculty Senate Elections Procedures (approved, 09-07-2022)

Bylaws

ARTICLE V. Standing Committees

SECTION 11. Elections Committee

A. Function

1. Review and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning policies and procedures relating to its electoral process.
2. Conduct the General Faculty Senate elections.
   1. Research and verify the number of Faculty and lecturers on the roll for eligibility at the beginning of the Fall Semester.
   2. Solicit eligible faculty members to run for the Faculty Senate.
   3. Advertise/distribute a list of candidates to all Faculty members as follows: three weeks prior to election week and twice prior to election week.
3. Conduct the Faculty Senate Executive Officers elections.

B. Membership

1. Membership also includes appointed faculty members who shall be voting members.

Members (AY 2024-2025)

• Donald Carreira Ching, Language Arts
• Jia Jia Garcia, Math and Sciences
• Christina Keaulana, Social Sciences
• Nicole Keim-Fortuno,Student Services
• Mellissa Moody, Business
• Reina Ojiri, Math and Sciences
• I-Chia Shih, Math and Sciences (chair)
• Danny Wyatt, Wai‛anae Mokue
• Irwin Yamamoto, Professional Arts and Technology

Bylaws

ARTICLE V. Standing Committees

SECTION 5. Faculty Committee

A. Functions

1. Monitor, review, and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning any aspect of faculty academic activities, including sabbatical leaves, travel, evaluation, committee assignments, criteria for faculty contract renewal, tenure, promotion, ethics, peer review and student evaluation of faculty.
2. Monitor, review, and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning policy relating to criteria for lecturer contract renewal, ethics, peer review and student evaluation of lecturer.
3. Provide for an overview of policies and procedures of concern to the Faculty.

B. Membership

1. Membership includes appointed faculty members who shall be voting members.

Members (AY 2024-2025)

• Bryson Padasdao (Curriculum Committee)
• Blake Hunrick (Counselor)
• Lu’ukia Archer (E Focus)
• Michele Mahi (Oral Communication)
• Marie McKenzie (Chair)
• Sandro Jube (Diversification)
• Cara Chang (Writing Intensive)
• Tracie Ku’uipo Losch (Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific)
• Jessica Choi (Arts and Humanities Division)

General Education Boards

The General Education Committee affirms the core designations that a course meets for the Leeward Community College AA core. There are six designation boards.  Each board works from agreed hallmarks to review core designation application.  A list of approved courses for each designation is maintained by the boards.

General Education Boards websites:

• Diversification Board
• Ethics Focus Board
• Foundations Board
• Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Issues (HAP) Focus Board
• Oral Communications Board
• WI Focus Board

Members

• Donald Carreira Ching
• Erika Molyneux  (chair)
• Reina Ojiri
• Christina Keaulana
• Sandro Jube
• William Labby
• Betty (Fa‘amaile) Ickes

Upcoming Hearing Announcements

HB 1609 Status

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

Requires the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to develop procedures for the full utilization of university facilities.  Requires the administration of the different UH campuses to collect and report data relating to facilities utilization.  Prohibits the UH board of regents from approving the construction of a new university building until a public hearing is held to discuss facility utilization and cost.

HB 1613 Status

RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

Grants tuition waivers to students at the community colleges who meet certain criteria.  Initiates the waiver program as a pilot project in a county with a population of less than 100,000.

Bylaws

ARTICLE V. Standing Committees

SECTION 6. Legislative Relations Committee

A. Functions

1. Monitor and report to the Faculty Senate on legislative issues that affect faculty (i.e., retirement, healthcare, tuition waivers, academic and curriculum matters, etc.) and the university system.

B. Stipulation: In performing this function, the Committee shall advise and cooperate with the College Administration to maintain productive relations with individual legislators and legislative committees. 8 Rev. 2016 C. Membership

1. Membership includes appointed faculty members who shall be voting members.

Members 

• Leon Florendo (co-chair)
• Franalyn Barnett (co-chair)
• Tawny Antonio
• Darci Francis
• Lexer Chou
• Grant Helgeson
• Jolyn Jardiolin
• Jean StavRue-Peʻahi
• Jay Chun (Leeward CC ASUH Rep)

NOTE: The chair of the Student Committee of the Senate will convene the Ad Hoc Academic Grievance Committee (AGC).

The Student Committee Chair asks the Academic Division Chairs for representatives for a “pool” at the beginning of the academic year.  If the Student Committee Chair is contacted regarding a grievance, then an Ad Hoc Academic Grievance Committee is selected from this “pool” by the Student Committee Chair plus 2 voting members assigned from the Student Government.  (Note:  Not all faculty in the pool will be selected.) The Student Committee Chair convenes the first meeting of this special committee; they will self-select a chair.  The Faculty Senate Student Committee Chair is not on the actual Ad Hoc committee, but can guide the SAG committee in following the SAG policy.  If there are two requests (from two different students), the FS Student Committee Chair will select another Ad Hoc Academic Grievance Committee from other faculty in the original “pool” created at the beginning of the year.  The Student Government will have to also select two representatives (could be the same or different students).

2020-21 Ad Hoc Academic Grievance Committee Volunteers