PART V. 
FINANCIAL STRUCTURE



 



A.  Budget Preparation and Administration



 



[§304A-2001]  Benchmarks; annual budget
requests; biennial reports.  (a)  The board of regents shall adopt
benchmarks to expand and develop the university to become a statewide campus
that provides Hawaii with a higher education system designed to meet the future
needs and demands of the citizens of the State and capitalize on the
university's unique resources and location to become an international
educational, research, and service center known both in the United States and
throughout the Pacific and Asian countries.  The benchmarks shall include but
not be limited to:



(1)  Expanding access to educational opportunity
throughout the State;



(2)  Striving for excellence in undergraduate
education;



(3)  Requiring the university to continue to gain
prominence in research and distance learning;



(4)  Revitalizing services to the State;



(5)  Enhancing the international role of the
university; and



(6)  Maintaining diversity by clarifying campus
missions and coordinating campus plans.



(b)  The board of regents shall apply these
benchmarks in the development of their annual budget request to the legislature
and adoption of tuition schedules.



(c)  The university shall conduct a periodic
review of all instruction, organized research, public service, academic
support, student services, and institutional support programs at each campus to
determine whether the programs are operating for the purposes originally
established and not inconsistent with the benchmarks adopted pursuant to
subsection (a).  The university shall submit a report of its findings to the
legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the legislature
in the second year of each fiscal biennium. [L 2006, c 75, pt of §2]