Bill Text: HI HR21 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Resolution 21 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Urging The Administration Of The University Of Hawaii At Manoa To Adopt An Equitable And Formula-based Budgeting Model That More Accurately Reflects The Number Of Student Semester Hours Taught And More Satisfactorily Meets The Needs Of Faculty.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-15 - Referred to HED, FIN, referral sheet 20 [HR21 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2017-HR21-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	21
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

urging the ADMINISTRATION OF THE university of hawaii at manoa to adopt an equitable and formula-based budgeting model that more accurately reflects the number of student semester hours taught and more satisfactorily meets the needs of faculty.

WHEREAS, the Colleges of Arts and Sciences of the University of Hawaii at Manoa teach 55 percent of total student semester hours at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, enroll 42 percent of students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and employ 48 percent of faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; and

WHEREAS, however, the Colleges of Arts and Sciences receive only 18 percent of the combined tuition and general funds allocated to the University of Hawaii at Manoa; and

WHEREAS, fiscal cuts over multiple years have led to a substantial number of faculty positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa remaining unfilled, thereby seriously eroding the ability of instructional units to recruit, hire, and retain faculty of the highest caliber, maintain research and publication standards, and replace worn-out equipment; and

WHEREAS, these fiscal cuts have led to a long-term decline in faculty morale at the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, which threatens to undermine the core mission of the University of Hawaii itself; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2017, that the administration of the University of Hawaii at Manoa is urged to adopt an equitable and formula-based budgeting model that more accurately reflects the number of student semester hours taught and more satisfactorily meets the needs of faculty; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this budgeting model be rooted in the presumption that the amount of funding allocated to a given college or school at the University of Hawaii at Manoa should be based on the number of students served by that particular college or school, as reflected by factors such as the number of student semester hours taught, the number of students enrolled, and the number of faculty employed to teach students; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii, President of the University of Hawaii, and Interim Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.