Report Title:

UH; Appropriations for Faculty Positions in Agriculture

Description:

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to enable the department of natural resources and environmental management of the University of Hawaii college of tropical agriculture and human resources to hire faculty with expertise in resource management and conservation.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1064

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

Relating to the university of hawaii.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to enable the department of natural resources and environmental management of the University of Hawaii college of tropical agriculture and human resources to hire faculty with expertise in resource management and conservation.

The current academic programs of the department of natural resources and environmental management were introduced in 2002. These programs emphasize the science and management of renewable and non-renewable resources and the relationship of these disciplines to environmental quality. The department offers two academic tracks: resource management and conservation and in resource development and policy.

The academic programs of the department of natural resources and environmental management are popular with students and are growing fast. Student enrollment has tripled in only two years. In addition, the department of natural resources and environmental management offers courses that attract an average of five hundred non-majors per year. This influx of students has created a heavy workload for department faculty.

Hiring additional faculty would allow the department of natural resources and environmental management to meet the demands that growth in student enrollment places on its academic programs. The faculty will have instructional responsibilities and will conduct research assessing the factors and processes that lead to the degradation of resources and agricultural ecosystems (especially soil and water resources), employing scientific approaches to quantitatively predict these resource-degrading factors and processes using appropriate indicators, and applying science-based technologies to ensure sustainable land use.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006, and the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, to fund faculty with expertise in resource management and conservation in the department of natural resources and environmental management, college of tropical agriculture and human resources, University of Hawaii; provided that this appropriation shall be added to the base budget of the University of Hawaii.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

INTRODUCED BY:

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