STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3248

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 119

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 119 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA TO FUND AND FILL THE VACANT AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES FACULTY TENURE LINE POSITION AT THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the University of Hawaii at Manoa to fund and fill the vacant African American Studies faculty tenure line position at the College of Social Sciences of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, NuWayve Unlimited, and two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that there is concern that the African American Studies faculty tenure line position at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has remained vacant since 2013.  Filling this position will promote diversity at the University to the benefit of its students and faculty.

     Your Committee further finds that the University is taking steps to fill the vacant African American Studies faculty tenure line position, which may be accomplished prior to the end of this Regular Session.  Your Committee has requested that the University report its progress on filling the vacant position to your Committee on Ways and Means should it decide to hear this measure.  Your Committee therefore recommends that this measure move forward for further consideration.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 119 and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair