Present: Terry Anderson, Donna Rees, Kathie Gilbert, Rick Johnson, Jerry Harmon, Christie Miller, Mary Hittle, Chris Casey, Jasmine Fallstich, Tony Macias, Katherine Woodard, Duane Elms, Julie Morales, Julie Miller, Chris Farren, John Counts, Faye Vowell

Julia Gabaldon of QNM was on campus Monday and visited with local businesses and public schools to talk about quality.
We have heard from AQIP. We will receive our feedback in early November and a team will attend an end of January strategy forum.
Kathie Gilbert is just back from a Baldrige site visit and would be glad to discuss it with interested parties.
There will be a meeting of Faculty Presidents this Friday. They reported to the CHE on the following priorities: 1. faculty and staff compensation and 2. keeping the tuition low. The other concern was libraries. Also on Friday there will be a brief report from ERB. There is some concern about the management and future of the ERB See Rick Johnson for more details
Terry Anderson joined the Cabinet to discuss the Early Childhood Programs. She handed out an org chart as well as some graphs and charts. The program is much bigger than just the CDC. Six programs come under the umbrella of Early Childhood programs. The newest component is the Family Counseling Center. An innovative play therapy program is now available; the School Age program is in its 6th year. The Growing Tree is ten years old; it serves 15 children and toddlers. CDC serves 100 children primarily for students. The food service is large. Early Childhood education enrollment has more than tripled to around 30 students. La Familia serves a 4 county area to do training spread over the year. Community childcare is at capacity with 25 students. Early Childhood Programs serve a total of 210 children. The use of the CDC as a lab site has grown. Our weaker area is assessment of lab sites from the students perspectives. The programs are supported by the legislature with a fee based component. There are 51 contracted employees; 20 are professional teaching staff; 9 work-study positions, 2 graduate assistants and 5 volunteers The Pre K initiative coming down the road will provide the next challenge. Grant County has the ability to become one of the first sites of the new program...
Christie Miller invited everyone to Homecoming activities. There will be a Talent Show on Thursday; the TGIF will be on Friday; also on Friday at 2:00 in GRC alumni will share their experiences and successes since graduation: Abe and Emma Amendariz in bilingual education and Joe Mendez in Criminal Justice. Alumni are also visiting classes as guest lecturers; There are 35-40 entries in the parade. Jasmine Fallstich, Ursula Doll and student government are to be commended for their work.
The Staff Senate has initiated a new communication method: a WIKI page. It will be used as a method to record minutes of meetings and projects. Communication is a priority.
The base calculation for the formula for next fiscal year is in; it up 4.4%. This will add $619,000 base to the base without inflationary adjustments.
Auditors are back on campus cleaning up details.
Men's and Women's cross country teams are now competing. Students are doing well. The volley ball game is on Sunday; the team has a 17 and 9 record. They are playing on Friday and Saturday. Their season is winding down.
Football game on Saturday is at 1:30.
ASW, WNMU, and the County Clerk's office are sponsoring free rides to early voting at 12:30 on Tuesday and Thursday and 12:00 on Wednesday. Howie Morales and Serena Murillo are the prime movers in this effort. Avelino Maestes is working on the problem of 200 lost student voter registrations. If you are concerned about this, please call Jasmine Fallstich.
Our first event from Homecoming was last night-- a dance. It had pretty good attendance. First Fear Factor contest was held and Dan Ryan won for eating two cans of cat food at the fastest rate.
The President thanked Jasmine Fallstich for her support as a voting CHE member. We were successful in our appeal to get an additional 1.5 million dollars for the renovation of Juan Chacon added to the CHE recommendation.
Last Tuesday, Donna Rees and Tony Macias attended a question and answer session on the rfp for Career and Tech High Schools; the governor has allocated $10 million to this effort. Donna Rees, Tony Macias, and Faye Vowell will be meeting with the superintendents of Animas, Lordsburg, Deming, Silver and Cobre to discuss submitting a proposal.
Last Wednesday, 5 Applied Technology faculty members attended a teaching effectiveness seminar in Taos.
There will be a Halloween haunted house in Watts Hall again this year.
The School of HSHP is having a school meeting tomorrow.
Social Work is meeting with Navajos in Gallup to set up a cohort.
Banner 6 is up and running. Banner Web is in process of being updated. Luminus is on a test server. The Mustang Express links into the Web products are being tested. If you run into problems call Steve Liebhart.
We are dealing with an issue on the document imaging project to be sure we can legally destroy documents after they are scanned.
IT testimony has been scheduled on our three projects.
A full page ad on Homecoming will appear today in SC News.
A group in the community is concerned about having to pay for use of WNMU facilities.
Car party tickets are available for purchase.
The Elizabeth I exhibit is a great success. Dr. Lavalle's lecture on the Spanish Armada had 25 attendees. The concert at the Church of the Good Shepherd was standing room only.
Julie Miller, Junius Logan, and Duane Elms attended student forum to talk about library change in hours.
Julie Miller judged the annual Willa Cather award competition.
Garth Gerstein attended the film commission meeting in Deming. At the end of this week, he will attend the Consortium of College and University Media Centers meeting.
We are discussing a proposal for start up of digital media production associate degree.
Diversity Week was a great success. There is a Karaoke contest tonight.
Pre registration will start early in November.
Ten people from the Document Imaging PMT took a trip to Portales last week to look at document imaging. ENMU staff was very welcoming.
The Web PMT is proceeding. Homework assignments have been given; first focus will be on external marketing by benchmarking other university sites.
The Southwest Workforce Investment Act Board is requiring some expensive and burdensome reporting. They are contemplating holding our payment until we resolve this issue. We will appeal the reporting requirement.
On Thursday there will be a NM Virtual College in ABQ.
George Muncrief has asked Donna Rees to benchmark faculty roles for online teaching at other NM institutions.
Andy Hernandez is meeting with film office in Deming to discuss collaboration.
Javier Milo, one of our alums, received a 25 thousand dollar award from Milliken Foundation. Only 100 teachers nationally received this award.
Chairs Council meets on Thursday.
C&I will meet today.
President reminded us that the decrease in enrollment will cause us to build our budget for next year to be sure we can protect ourselves in the out years.
CHE has proposed modification to the ABE legislation.
The President asked for Jasmine Fallstich's help in the lottery scholarship discussion.
Cabinet will get together for a special meeting next week.
On Nov 3, there will be a Staff Recognition for Senate members for last 2 years at 10:00 in SMB.