Present: Dan Tressler, Mary Hittle, Julie Morales, Tony Macias, Chris Farren, Christie Miller, Jerry Harmon, Jasmine, Duane Elms, Donna Rees, Katherine Woodard, Julie Miller, Chris Farren, John Counts, Faye Vowell

The President welcomed back Jerry Harmon to the Cabinet
Salary and Benefits will meet today,
The AQIP Advising team will meet today.
On Oct 2 WNMU hosted the ASNM conference. They discussed some of the legislative priorities: infrastructure, library, lotteryb scholarships. They will vote on priorities at the next meeting.
The WNMU student legislative priorities being discussed includea new Expressive Arts building, refurbishing the MEChA building, a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer for Natural Sciences (Does PD have an old one?) Students will be voting on these priorities soon.
There will be a building naming election for the SMB from 10:00 to 6:00 today. A great deal of student interest in this issue.
Homecoming will be here soon. Housing will buy 200 thunder sticks for students for the game.
Sept 14, the LESC met on the two to four year transition agreement; this agreement was accepted. Now any community college education major can transfer courses to any 4 year institution without losing any credit.
Bill Charland and Rick Yzenbaard have conducted three focus groups on the education doctorate in SC, Deming, and Gallup with faculty and they are developing an online survey to go out to students. A report on the needs analysis will come forward this fall.
In relation to the NeTL, 11 faculty are working on online courses
The application for the Beyond the Minimum Accountability Best Practices Award has been submitted to AACTE. Alice Jones wrote the application.
Jerry Harmon thanked the entire SOE faculty who picked up the slack in his absence--especially Barbara Taylor and Gail Gruber.
As a part of Homecoming, there will be Alumni guest speakers on Friday afternoon, 29 October.
Outstanding alumni for this year have been selected: May Fugiwara and Charlie Otero. The alumni ambassador is Rosina Romero.
Athletic Hall of Fame pictures will be hung in the Hunter Hall conference room
The next Deming alumni event will be recognition of educators employed in Deming schools...
The Foundation is looking for money to run an ad in the paper for Homecoming.
The football team travels to Flagstaff for a game this weekend
Special project hearings were held last week. Chris Casey, Terry Anderson and Pat McIntire attended. Hopefully within the next we will hear what will be recommended.
Preliminary capital recommendations have been published. Juan Chacon is on the list but only for $2 million. We are contemplating an appeal.
There is still no date for the IT project hearings.
Julie Miller shared some pictures from the Weekend at the Galleries.
The reception for the Elizabeth exhibit will be this Friday.
From the Library, Craig Holme has been elected to Staff Senate.
The Employee Surveys are being processed. The plan is to have data back and to share it in early December.
Kathie Gilbert is going on a site visit for a Baldrige applicant
The quarterly AQIP meeting is tomorrow
The Drafting Program has just been certified by the American Design and Drafting Association.
Last week the Applied Technology (AT) faculty received training on Advising Space.
Five AT faculty members are going to a community college faculty development session in Taos.
Matt Eilert is on a recruiting trip with Admissions.
Four AT faculty are attending a leadership training in El Paso
Julie Morales has been working on publicity for the GO Bond
Diversity Day is on October 19. President Counts asked Cabinet to attend Jimmy Cabrera's keynote address. He also encouraged the Deans and Directors to allow as many of their people to attend as possible.
Mary Hittle was welcomed to the Cabinet for her first meeting.
Employee of the month pictures have been hung in the hallway of the Castorena Building... Thanks to Julia Biglin who worked on this project.
Staff Senate voted on some handbook changes. Thanks are due to JoAnn Fisher for her proactive work.
Staff comments on Assessment Convocation have been mostly positive.
Faye Vowell has sent out a letter reminding departments of the outcomes assessment reports that were due in September...
The Foundation has raised the last of money committed for GO Bond publicity
Dan Tressler is working on the Endowed Professorship and Professional Development fundraising effort. Contributions are slow. Letters are being sent to directors and Dan will follow up with a personal meeting.
Costs have been covered for the November 6 Museum celebration.
Week of October18-24 is Diversity Week. People are encouraged to attend as many of the events as possible.
Friday is fall grading day.
We are starting to advertise the Academic Support position
Oct 20 and 21 going to Portales to look at their document imaging. Three seats are still available on the chartered airplane. Plane leaves at 10:30 am on Oct 20.
New statue provide underage prison term and fine.
NSSE statistics 46% father did not graduate from high school; 36% mother did not graduate from high school. Illustrates the need for an array of support. Mary Hittle noted that national figures for Hispanics who have a baccalaureate, master's or doctoral degree is 2%. In the last Chronicle almanac only 3.2% of doctorates were given to Hispanics. We need to grow our own.
Fundraiser for Rotary scholarships for education. Dinner. Cabinet is invited.
Dr. Farren, Dr. Shook and Dr. Vowell presented two papers at the NACADA conference in Cincinnati last week. They noted that in a number of areas, WNMU is on the leading edge.
Social Work will find out today if it needs to write another report because of the loss of two faculty member..
June is on the Grant County obesity task force.
Lat Thurs Andy and Donna met with Lordsburg regarding a grant for a feasibility study for a learning Center. Lots of GED needs and ESL needs. Different model perhaps mainly a receive site for online and ITV classes
Three vacant positions in EU. BIA funded position in Gallup filled.
NMVC meeting on Oct 28.
On her RFP for faculty to create online classes, Donna Rees got good response; she is encouraging faculty to offer upper level courses. Magdaleno Manzanarez Roland Shook, Robert Welch, Mary Dowse, and Irene Meares have responded to the RFP. Mary Billings has arranged training for WEB CT for them.
In DC last week, Junius Logan met with staff from Bingaman and Pearce office last week in DC on the SW Center for Career and Technical Education. The reception was positive. Thanks to Junius for doing such a good job.
As of this morning, bandwidth is at 6 megabits per second.
Last week 6 IT people from SC and the Extended University attended wireless boot camp.
We dodged a bullet with the lightening last week. If lightening hits the switch, we are in real trouble. Disaster recovery is one of the high priority gaps we need to address.
The CHECS conference was good. CHECS is moving to include K-12 as well as higher education. They made over $40,000 on the conference this year.
Duane Elms brought back some information on a Las Cruces public school program with NMSU for concurrent enrollment. We will explore this agreement to see if we can also articulate with them
In terms of telecommunications access in SC and EU; we have issues with prices. Duane Elms and Garth Gerstein are talking with Norma Grijalva who runs the CHECS network to see if we can get better connectivity at lower prices. MCI has raised the cost on our PRI network so we may be going to IP service through CHECS because we will go over budget if we do not do something.
Last week the President represented the University at a conference in DC on preparing math and science teachers. He was one of 42 college and university presidents there. The Secretary of Education spent the day with the attendees. We face a national critical shortage in this area. Recruiting for these areas needs to start in grade school. What can teacher preparation schools do?. Next step will involve education deans and vice presidents in a similar meeting. Mary Hittle talked about the success of the Expanding Your Horizons programs as a model in this endeavor.
The President is a member of the Board of Governors of the Renaissance Group. He and Junius Logan attended the meeting in DC last week.
A special Board of Regents meeting will be held next week to discuss the Fiscal Watch and perhaps the Honorary Doctorate and the naming of the SMB if reports are ready for them to deal with..
The Building Naming Committee will meet next week.
On next Wednesday, the College and University Presidents will meet in ABQ. CHE will also meet and the base budget figures for next year will be released.
The next Cabinet meeting will be two weeks from today on October 26.