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Volu me 105 Issue 56
Strategic Plan Town hall Meeting yields low student turnout
voice on campus.” Hippensteele said, “officially we have to go through student government...when student government doesn’t respond, we get no students.” She added, “I had this student who was... talking about all these issues in Arts and Sciences. And I said to her, you call your student government, and tell them you want to be on (the SPWG) committee, because...they didn’t give us anybody.” Hippensteele encouraged ASUH to “send out a call to all the students on who wants to participate,” and also added that “ when we get their (ASUH’s) participation, it’s fantastic.” ASUH was unavilable for comment.
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Virginia Hinshaw addresses students and faculty members about the university’s financial crisis on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 at the Hemenway Hall Theatre. PATRICK TR AN Staff Writer It’s fi nals season and the last thing on students’ minds is the university’s strategic plan. Consequently, last Friday only two students joined the University of Hawai‘i Strategic Planning Work Group (SPWG) to review the 20112015 Strategic Plan. James Bradshaw, psychology major, was one of the students who attended the meeting. “(I) think there’s no community involvement, there’s no incentive for community involvement,” said Bradshaw. Despite announcing the meeting to the university community via e-mail, Bradshaw compared it to “putting a billboard on the side of a freeway, you’re just going to drive right by it.”
Susan Hippensteele, chair of the UH Manoa Faculty Senate and SPWG representative, said, “ We worked ver y hard to get ASUH reps involved in the planning initially. We simply didn’t even get a response. We included the president of ASUH in ever y e -mail announcement. The president of ASUH was informed throughout, and is still on the e -mail list. In that way ASUH was still engaged. ( The) GSO (Graduate Student Organization) sent a rep who was...ver y much a part of the entire planning process.” Hippensteele also commented on the strategic planning groups. “We had students in the focus groups and on writing teams...(a good mixture of) undergraduate and graduate students,” she said.
UH Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw agreed. “(Undergraduates and graduates have) been involved to this point, and they’ll continue to be involved... we want to have them engaged in these activities. So we try to include them in a number of different formats so we stay connected with them,” she said. Hippensteele emphasized the student response to the Strategic Planning surveys sent out to university stakeholders between Aug. 23 to Sept. 12, stating that, “I think about 30 percent of stakeholder participants who were surveyed were students... we had a really good student response in that regard.” Chancellor Hinshaw emphasized that the plan would help to “increase of the value of
(students’) degrees over time... Many of you will be members of the community. (Thus) having a strong research university like this is key to allow the economic success, the job opportunities. Research is what creates the jobs of tomorrow. So if you want those jobs out in the future, that’s what those come from.” Bradshaw criticized the plan, however, recommending that the SPWG, “clarify what your goals are... (if) you make broad strokes with (goals) that are implied, I don’t think they’ll last.” Bradshaw also encouraged students to weigh in. “This is your school. Your voice...Go out, fi nd student leaders, and drag them here. Like the ASUH president, people who have, you know, some kind of authority, some kind of
The UH strategic plan outlines the general objectives for the university from the period of 2012-2015. The strategic plan has four general goals that include: A Transformative Teaching and Learning Environment, A Global, Leading Research University, An Engaged University, and Faciliting Excellence. A full draft of the plan can be found here: https://sites. google.com/a/hawaii.edu/ uhm-plan/draft-plan H OW C A N S T U D E N T S G E T I N VO LV E D? Students are encouraged to email feedback and suggestions to UHM-ASKSP@ lists.hawaii.edu.