The Senate Executive Committee act on behalf of Senate and Congress to address all academic and physical development of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. This includes the allocation of financial resources, student enrollment, distribution of enrollment among programs and between upper-division and lower-division programs, direction of existing programs, academic effects of administrative organization, quality of scholarship and teaching, quality of research and service, and the relationships between University of Hawaii at Mānoa and other units of the University system.

The Senate Executive Committee series is comprised of mostly of minutes and agendas. This series includes reports, proposals, resolutions, memorandum, correspondence, magazine, newspaper articles, and other materials related to the SEC agenda. Other records includes materials from board members, materials for SEC elections, and other related documents.