Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Committee advances bill to create UH graduate‑outcomes dashboard, flags funding and data access concerns
Summary
House Bill 1320 would require the University of Hawaii to collect and publish consolidated graduate‑outcome data and requests funding for staff and visualization capacity; the committee passed the bill to Ways and Means with a delayed effective date and asked that concerns about funding and data access be noted in the report.
The Senate Committee on Higher Education on March 11 voted to advance House Bill 1320, which would require the University of Hawaii system to collect, analyze and publicly report graduate‑outcome data via a consolidated dashboard. The committee amended the committee report to note concerns about funding and data access and set the defective effective date to July 31, 2050 before referring the bill to Ways and Means because it contains appropriations.
Deborah Halbert, vice president for academic strategy at the University of Hawaii, told the committee the university "stand[s] on our written testimony" and that the intent of the…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
