Present: Chris Farren, Donna Rees, Duane Elms, Christie Miller, Julie Miller, Chris Casey, Tony Macias, Katherine Woodard, Faye Vowell, Julie Morales, Dan Tressler, Rick Johnson, John Counts, Carmen Maynes

· Rick Johnson discussed an article "Tuition burden falls by a third" which he shared with the VPs yesterday. He argued that we need to bring our tuition more into line with UNM. Because UNM's tuition is larger, when we do a similar percentage increase we need to remain the lowest but we still have room to increase more. He urged us to put tuition money into salaries because the rest of the institutions are doing it.

· Jasmine thanked people for their support of Meet the Mustang night

· We registered around 400 students to vote on campus. Oct 5 is the deadline to register. After that we will begin to shuttle students for early voting.

· Julie Miller distributed a handout on Bond Issue C and urged us to vote. An estimated $308,000 would come to Grant Co. as a result of this bond.

· Julie Miller, Julie Morales, and Dan Tressler will be the program for Rotary today discussing Bond B, Bond C, and Foundation scholarships.

· Katherine Aguirre is the new Miller Library secretary

Joy Lemme is the new Executive Assistant in Business Affairs.
Auditors are on campus for the next two week
We have received and invitation to join the Heartland Alliance as our athletic conference. If we join, this would mean that many of our athletes would not have to travel as far to compete
We beat Mesa State in football on Saturday.
CHE hearings will be on Oct 5 for special projects. IT hearings have been postponed.
PD Martinez construction project is moving right along.
In Applied Tech, 5 faculty members will go to Taos for a Community College conference.
Tony Macias has been selected as a Board member of ACTE.
Applied Technology will have a new sign to identify where they are.
An Applied Tech recruiting letter will go out soon. Brochures for all programs will be finalized.
Applied Technology faculty will be trained on Advising Space in October. The Registrar has provided training on degree audit.
Rep Hamilton and Herrera met with Pres Counts yesterday. We will invite them to campus to discuss concurrent enrollment and career and technical programs.
The Nursing Accreditation visit is due at the end of the summer. The self study is similar to that of social work.
Social work and counseling are doing a joint workshop in Gallup; participants can earn one hour of credit.
Faye Vowell discussed the recently created Articulation Task Force to address a common course numbering system
Advising Space training will take place on Friday,1 October.
At 2:30 in Hunter Hall there will be a Prospectors meeting. Lobbying day will be Feb 10 in Santa Fe.
Media representatives from Mexico will be here for the NAFTA Conference. Julie Morales will show them around.
As a part of Homecoming on Thursday, 28 October a golfing event will take place. From the Foundation, endowed professorship and faculty development planning is done and implementations beginning. The Foundation still needs to raise a little more money for Bond issue publicity.
MEChA would like to paint a mural on the side of the MEChA building.
The PMT on Web has met and is working on internal marketing
Document imaging purchase orders have been sent in. Members of the PMT will visit Eastern NM University to benchmark their implementation.
The recruiting program for next year is up and running. College day programs have started in northern NM.
Rash of alcohol problems have occurred on campus with appropriate disciplinary action taken. The new nurse is helping with educational programs and student success courses are also discussing the problem.
Over half the Student Success seminars have scheduled meetings on Discover and have recommended that students see their advisors.
Sharon Clark, the new nurse, will be here on Monday.
Donna Rees spent in Gallup. Andy Hernandez loaned Deming IT staff to Gallup. Sean and Hoover did a great job there setting up a brand new 25 station lab, a new computer for adjuncts, and 4 new in-focus projectors and 3 new lap tops. The funds to pay for this equipment comes from the monies Gallup McKinley legislators earmarked for the Gallup Center.
Ad person Doug Veazey, the editor of the Gallup Herald newspaper has two children at WNMU in SC. We will do ads for the MBA in the Gallup Herald..
Karen Murphy has been working with SOE faculty on developing or revising 11 courses
Donna has done an rfp for creating courses online; Mary Dowse and Lloyd Cowling have applied..
Our computer worms appear to be minimal now. A number of monitoring points have been established. The Residence Halls are in the DMZ. We are creating antivirus disks for all the RAs.
IT people will be scarce on campus next week. Many of them will be at an on campus wireless training or the CHECS meeting.
IT is experimenting with WIKI technology, web sites that are editable by anyone. IT and the Web PMT are trying it out. If anyone else would like to, they can. Anyone can create a page through a browser; this is primarily a communications tool. One person can create a document and then others can add or change. It is almost friction free communication. It could be used for class projects. It is not as interactive as CHAT. WIKIPEDIA is an example of how someone’s using this.
The Alumni Bulletin was mailed last week.
There will be an Alumni production of GREASE.
On Oct 8 Women's basketball will host a fundraising golf tournament
Visitors from Monterrey Tech. will be at the NAFTA reception tonight.
Dr. Gilbert is off campus but reminds us that on Oct 13 from noon to four we will have an AQIP quarterly meeting.
On Monda, October 25, Julia Gabaldon from Quality New Mexicowill be on campus; NM Leadership Network will have a reception on that evening.
In October, Western will have NCAA consultants on campus to offer training on prevention of alcohol drug abuse, racial discrimination, and sex harassment as well as cross cultural communication. The meetings will be open to faculty, staff, and students.
The Building Naming committee (a Board of Regents subcommittee) will meet on Sept 30.
The call for nominations for the Honorary Degree will be coming out.
The President gave praise for the hard work of the Assessment Committee and the success of Assessment Convocation.
We will know the outcome of the audit soon.
The W looks great; congratulations to all the students who painted and the staff who supported them
We need to look at making the lottery scholarships available to more students. Tied to this is the issue of bridge scholarships. We will look at the criteria for awarding the bridge scholarship.
Diversity Day will be on Oct 19. This is collaboration between the Forest Service and WNMU.
NAFTA Institute will start tomorrow.
Monterrey Tech is the premier engineering and science in Mexico. The President of Monterrey Tech will be here this afternoon to discuss a partnership with us.
The ITT will meet within the next 30days.
President Counts received an invitation as one of 50 presidents to go to DC with the Secretary of Education to discuss the preparation of teachers of math and science.
President Counts and AVPAA Junius Logan will be at the Renaissance Group meting in DC next week. Junius Logan will also do some lobbying with our legislative staffers regarding the Career and Technical Institute project.
8:30 Tuesday, October 12 will be the next Cabinet meeting