Bill Text: HI HR104 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii at Manoa

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-31 - (H) The committees on CUA recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Wooley, Hanohano, Jordan, C. Lee, Mizuno, Morikawa; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Pine. [HR104 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-HR104-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	104
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the board of regents to establish a master's degree program in ethnic studies IN the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, which began in 1970 as an experimental two-year program, observed its fortieth anniversary in 2010; and

 

     WHEREAS, the program became a department in 1995, offering a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies; and

 

     WHEREAS, the ethnic studies faculty has made substantial contributions to scholarship on native Hawaiians and other island ethnic groups, as well as the society and culture of Hawaii; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Ethnic Studies Department has achieved national recognition for its research and publications on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Ethnic Studies Department has attained an international reputation for the work of its faculty in increasing awareness of the ongoing devastating effects of racial and ethnic conflicts and in opposing racism and discrimination in all forms; and

 

     WHEREAS, the ethnic studies faculty maintains a research and teaching philosophy that emphasizes praxis, the application of scholarship to the complex issues of our local communities to improve the quality of life for Hawaii's people; and

 

     WHEREAS, the ethnic studies faculty serve on graduate thesis and dissertation committees in a variety of academic departments at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Ethnic Studies Department emphasizes civic engagement and service learning in its pedagogical philosophy, which contributes to the building of leadership qualities in its majors; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Ethnic Studies Department has a unique curriculum, which provides students with interdisciplinary analyses of social problems, issues, and policies that have an impact on peoples who have been affected by racism and discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity in national, transnational, and global contexts, with a particular emphasis in Hawaii, the Pacific, and the continental United States; and

 

     WHEREAS, it is critical to train students in ethnic studies theories and methodologies at the graduate level to prepare them to conduct research and studies about multi-ethnic, diverse communities that can be critical to policy makers; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Hawaii has had and continues to have numerous requests for a master's program from University of Hawaii and mainland students; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2011, that the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii is requested to establish a master's degree program in ethnic studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii is requested to submit a status report on the steps that it has taken ensure the establishment, by the fall semester of 2013, of the master's degree program, to the Legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2012; 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, the President of the University of Hawaii, the Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Dean of the College of the Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the

Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

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University of Hawaii at Manoa