Present: Dan Tressler, Faye Vowell, Julie Miller, Jasmine Fallstich, Jerry Harmon, Chris Casey, Christie Miller, Duane Elms, Donna Rees, Katherine Woodard, Chris Farren, Tony Macias, John Counts, Rick Johnson, Julie Morales
Jasmine Fallstich has been named as a voting member of the CHE.
The first Student Senate meeting was held last night. A number of key positions
were filled. Others are still pending.
Student Senate is organizing a Meet the Athlete Night on Sept 2. A promotion
blitz will begin next week; they are targeting primarily elementary and middle
schools students.
Jasmine Fallstich and Jeremy Rutherford will be on the Board of the Sirolli
Institute.
The Library is giving BI sessions to student success students.
The Library is still searching for two positions: library secretary and multi
media technician.
The Library and IT submitted proposals for the CHE IT process.
Library faculty and staff will present four sessions at the Assessment Convocation.
The President reminded us all that the campus will close so that all employees
including the Extended University campuses.
Rick Johnson suggested that we need to look at the overall relationship between
and among Extended University and SC campuses. We are doing some things but
more could be done.
Maria Dominguez is planning a Diversity Day Celebration on Tuesday, 19 October
in conjunction with the Forest Service. Faculty, Staff and students are invited
to participate.
The equipment request process will begin this week in Academic Affairs.
Academic Council will meet for the first time this year on Thursday.
Faye Vowell shared the handouts from her presentation at the Faculty Haven and
the demographics of students at all the WNMU campuses from last fall. (See Attached)
The first in-service for Academic Support advisors will take place on Friday
from 12 noon to 1:00 pm.
The Faculty Haven held in Penny Park this year had good participation.
CUP priorities for next year include the following: (1) full formula funding,
(+$28 million); (2) a 4% in salary increases, (3) hold the line on the tuition,
(4). inflationary adjustments. A second set of priorities for non recurring
money in addition to capital projects (renovation of Juan Chacon for WNMU) include
the request to fully fund the Building Repair and Replacement (BRR) formula
for 2 years (we are funded usually at 40% of need); this would amount to$2.4
million; a request to fully fund for one year equipment (over $500,000), and
inflation funding for libraries.
Rick Johnson delivered to the President a summary of evaluations for administrators
last spring.
Rick Johnson mentioned faculty concern about the lack of a budget for items
less than $1000.
A meeting of the NM Faculty Senate Presidents will be held in September.
First Faculty Senate meeting will be next Tuesday.
The endowed professorship and professional development funding raising is in
full swing. The Foundation is selling the program to alums, faculty, staff,
and community. A new brochure was created and will be distributed liberally.
The Foundation is wrapping up scholarship offerings for the fall semester. The
emergency student loan program is alive and week ($3,500 in emergency book loans
has been given out this semester).
The University Concert Series will use our piano in the FACT again this year.
The Foundation is making good progress on the implementation of the software
program with the assistance of Kathryn Elms.
Enrollment report: in SC we are 37 students behind in finalized numbers compared
to last year’s figures. We have begun telemarketing the students who are
enrolled but not yet finalized. Enrollment is a moving target.
The residence halls are at the highest percentage occupancy in the last 5 years.
Al Ribeau was hired as the new recruiter. He comes to us from California and
is bilingual in Spanish and English.
Sharon Clark was hired for the Health Center. She will start in October; in
the meantime we have contracted with someone to provide services to students.
We have cancelled the MTV contract for the cafeteria.
Fund raiser in town this week is the Billy Casper Golf Tournament.
We are in discussion about Discover Program (career exploration) contract.
The Web PMT is starting work.
All online courses will be credited to the SC campus this year. This confuses
to some extent the numbers for SC.
The BIA contract for the third year is being discussed. Kids test scores at
the target schools we are working with have improved. This is Elaine Jordan's
project.
Teach for America used our facilities for a 106 person meeting including local
dignitaries to celebrate the collaboration between Gallup McKinley schools,
WNMU and TFA.
Donna Rees met with Humanities faculty on Friday to discuss mediated instruction.
They have agreed to offer additional ITV classes and Robert Welsh will offer
two online courses next semester.
Lat Thursday and Friday, Donna Rees attended WIA meetings in Las Cruces.Several
years ago WNMU received around $200,000 from the SW Workforce Development Board
to deliver courses to Deming and TorC. The money was used primarily to buy equipment.
We will keep the equipment as long as we continue to project. Donna Rees and
Tony Macias will discuss duplication of efforts in literacy projects; this is
a priority for WIA this year.
The Cabinet discussed briefly exploring branch campus status for Deming to qualify
for federal dollars.
Duane Elms (aka worm guy) discussed the difficulty in cleaning computers and
why it is taking so long to deal with the virus problem. It can take 2-3 hours
to clean each machine.
New computers ordered for Dell lab and new faculty are beginning come in.
Element K (online training) demos were done Friday and Monday by April Hanson.
If the GO bond passes, we will get additional $70,000 for the Mobile Media Classroom
project.
The first proof of the Alumni Bulletin has been received and returned to the
company that will produce it. Christy will look at final proofs Friday.
Alumni are responding to the guest speaker program at Homecoming.
On Nov 19, Western will play UNM in ABQ and the ABQ Alumni chapter will host
a gathering.
Harris Publishing is doing our new alumni directory. Updating of addresses is
great.
Work has started on the GO Bond campaign.
Next Wednesday Sepember 8, the community relations group will meet.
On Nov 18, the Prospectors will hold a Legislative Forum. Feb 10 is the date
that Prospectors will lobby in Santa Fe.
American Democracy Project (ADP) efforts are ongoing and exciting. Look for
more information about activities.
The football team won in 4 overtimes against Angelo State with a score of 23-20.
Volleyball also made a good showing. Cross country will run at UTEP soon
Monthly maintenance meeting will take place today.
Next Tuesday , the Coalition for Economic Project will meet; WNMU is fiscal
agent.
SOE had an organizational meeting the week before school started; the meeting
had two objectives: (1) to showcase the CDC programs in order to better integrate
SOE programs into CDC activities. Gallup is being included in grant opportunities
regarding early childhood. (2). to celebrate our successes including the following:
new hires,
results from Educational Benchmarking services in which we were ranked number
1 by students in the area of classroom management and number 4 in overall student
satisfaction with the program;
5th in the nation in numbers of Native American master’s degrees given,
TFA students ranked us highest of all sites in the nation.
Top NCATE rating,
comprehensive alternative licensure program,
the only graduate Navajo Bilingual program in the nation.
Roy Howard was named to the state Bilingual Education Advisory Committee.
SOE did not get the $5 million dollar Win For Children grant; we will exa,ome
the feedback and apply again.
Doctoral concept paper was unveiled at the SOE meeting. Needs assessment being
done by Bill Charland and Rich Yzenbaard.
Jerry Harmon discussed the operational plan for the NeTL project which was funded
by the legislature ($50,000) and CHE ($145,000). The President needs to have
a good notion of the deliverables when he goes to legislature to argue for support
for next year. This is a catalyst for looking at teacher licensure systematically.
A meeting on Web Support issues will take place soon.
School rankings came out yesterday; a number of our local schools are on probation.
The standards have been changed so it is hard to compare to performance last
year.
There may be repercussions due to the change of leadership in public schools
in Deming. The Deming public schools are experiencing financial difficulties,
and it could affect the number of staff able to take classes at WNMU
Dr. Harmon appears in front of the LFC in September.
The Dean of Education at ENMU has resigned; lots of NCATE issues.
James Ball has asked the Deans to come together to discuss decisions in regard
to teacher education.
The first meeting of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance will
be held today.
Works Program is almost finished hiring new staff.
Tony Macias is moving his office to Juan Chacon.
Applied Technology is having weekly department meetings. There will be a focus
on recruiting and faculty will travel with Admissions. Tony is also dealing
with concerns in regard to degree audit.
Tony Macias is trying to establish a CISCO academy.
Carmen Maynes is working on the Board meeting.
The next Cabinet meeting will be in two weeks.