In response to a UH Classroom Committee recommendation, UH engaged a classroom consultant who was charged with undertaking a functional survey of our classrooms. The Provost will distribute these funds to the colleges based on demonstrated need for additional course sections. These guidelines ensure that departments hiring new faculty members will make a good faith effort to fill these positions with qualified minority and female applicants. The guidelines also require that positions be tracked by the Provost's Office using the Affirmative Action Plan for FY00, which designates certain categories of positions as underutilized. The Office of Academic Affairs has adopted the goals of the 1999-2000 Affirmative Action Plan for staff hires.
Results are pending.
These allocations supplement funds that have been used in FY 1999 for these purposes. Upgrades in terms of sound systems, data projectors, and blackboards are being made in the 20 largest general-purpose classrooms on campus. In response to the classroom consultant's report, monthly walk-throughs of classrooms will take place to identify maintenance needs.