Date: May 8, 2003

To: Provost Mark Silliman

From: Accreditation Implementation Committee on

Campus Council Constituencies & Shared Governance

James West, Secretary & Acting Chair (Dale Hood the Chair retired 12-31-2002)
Derrick Uyeda James Goodman

Terry Richter Dottie Sunio

Cindy Martin Cliff Togo

Ralph Toyama David Donaldson

Andy Rossi

Subject: Completion of Mission, Recommended Shared Governance & Final Report of the Committee

The committee’s final report is attached. We have also attached the Shared Governance Policy and Principles of Shared Governance both approved by the Faculty Senate on November 27, 2002 and by the Campus Council on March 6, 2003. This completes the work of the AIC on Campus Council Constituencies and Shared Governance. Your signature will establish the attached Shared Governance Policy and Principles as the Shared Governance Policy of Leeward Community College.

The policy was developed in response to the accreditation team’s recommendation relating to governance issues. It was observed that the college lacked a written shared governance policy. The committee developed a proposed policy with widespread input from all campus constituencies as well as the Faculty Senate. The committee met many times over the last two years. The campus community was given many opportunities for input including several open forums. The reports and the governance documents were discussed and approved by both the Faculty Senate and the Campus Council.

The committee also addressed the issue of the relationship of the Campus Council and the Faculty Senate. The committee’s report contains a clear description of the Campus Council Constituencies, as well as the relationship between the Campus Council and the Faculty Senate on various types of issues. The most prominent concern of a minority of Senators and assumedly other members of the community is that the Campus Council seems to usurp the Faculty Senate in setting budgetary policies of the college. The majority believed this is not an issue. However, the committee recommends that the college establish a record of the congruence and or divergence of recommendations made on budgetary decisions, which would show the Faculty Senate recommendations, the Campus Council’s recommendations and the actual priorities implemented.