Present: Chris Farren, Julie Miller, Joy Lemming for Chris Casey, Kathie Gilbert, Duane Elms, Rick Johnson, Jerry Harmon, Mary Hittle, Jasmine Fallstich, Christie Miller, Tony Macias, Julie Morales, Katherine Woodard, Dan Tressler, Faye Vowell, John Counts

The statewide Articulation Task Force will meet in ABQ on Wednesday. Faye Vowell will attend to represent Western.
The Museum gala was wonderful: good food, good wine, good music and good company. Kudos to Cynthia Bettison for all her work.
Two Vocational Technical Education Center applications have been submitted in partnership with Animas/Lordsburg (industrial maintenance/CNA/pre nursing) and Silver/Cobre (CNET/CNA/pre nursing). Thanks to Donna Rees, Mary Billings, and Tony Macias for all their hard work with this project.
Last Wednesday, Dan Tressler attended the PD appreciation dinner at the Buckhorn hosted by the Chamber of Commerce and SIGRID.
The Foundation is working on the Faculty Endowed Funds. They are working with the Gallup Foundation to provide scholarships for Gallup students.
The Foundation is working on sale of University Club tickets; the University Party is on November 20. Tickets are $100 and $125.
Social Work held a joint workshop on battering men and women in Gallup.
OT hosted a great statewide meeting and made $2,000 on the t shirts they sold.
The Nursing pass rate on the latest test administration is 93% per cent.
A Grievance Hearing was held last night.
General Assembly will meet on Thursday.
Rick Johnson is trying to schedule a Retention Task Force meeting.
On October 29, Rick Johnson met with Faculty Presidents who discussed how to collaborate with University Presidents on legislative priorities.
The GO Bonds passed: Harlan Hall $500K infrastructure; $165 K for Americans with Disabilities money; mobile media classrooms will receive some money
June Decker will do early incentive retirement.
The MS Concepts Class has been phased out with action in C&I. The content will be integrated into activity classes.
Our consultant is working on the employee survey. On Nov 8 the consultant will come and visit with faculty and staff and share results.
Senior surveys are coming in slowly.
Invited by Dr. Lou Ollivier, Mr. Vidal Quadras Roca was a guest lecturer last Monday. There was good participation.
QNM and Baldrige site visits are taking place.
Kathie Gilbert is talking with John Saari about a trophy case for our QNM awards.
Our NSSE results are in for this past spring.
Kathie Gilbert is creating a matrix to array data on our feedback from the Baldrige application, QNM application, and our system portfolio.
There will be a Community Relations meeting tomorrow at 4:00 in the SMB.
We are going to update the WNMU profile.
E-campus Tours will be on campus this week taking pictures. They do 360 degree shots and put them on a web page for students to do virtual tours.
The dedication ceremony for SMB will be done when the McDonald family is available.
In February, the Silver Schools Bond election will take place.
Thanks to Julie Morales for all her work on the Bond issue
A total of 800 students are enrolled in ABE; enrollment has doubled. Growth is attributed to the work of a new recruiter; demand was in computers and basic Spanish.
Tony Macias is on the Board for the Association for Career Tech Education and will meet with other Board members in Ruidoso on Friday.
A new sign for AT is being built in front of JCB.
Next week is the CHE meeting.
A Financial Management associate degree program is now going through C&I. This degree was created at the behest of the community businesses.
Homecoming was great; lots of turn out. Jerry Harmon was thanked for his help with the alumni guest lecturer program: Abe Amendariz, Dudley Sykes, Joe Mendez and Grady Harlan. Jasmine Fallstich and Christie Miller have brainstormed about a "thank the community night" for all the help that the community gave us with Homecoming.
There will be another recognition night in Deming on January 7. Christie Miller is working with Andy Hernandez.to arrange this.
On Nov 18 at 8:30 at Doc and Eddy's bar, the ABQ chapter will have a hospitality room prior to the UNM and WNMU men's basketball game on Nov 19.
Ursula Doll and her committee did a great job on the Homecoming activities. Vanessa Espangle was the overall winner of the Fear Factor. Over 600 people attended the Haunted House.
Student Senators are sponsoring a Casino night the weekend before dead week. It will be played with monopoly money.
Kerri Wog will do the synching for the all university calendar. Jasmine Fallstich will be the back up for Kerri Wog.
ASNM had a meeting in Las Vegas last weekend to discuss legislative priorities. This list of priorities will be distributed across the campus. Students are interested in keeping their input into the governance of Higher Education.
Students are concerned about the proposed Virtual Campus. Dr. Farren will discuss it at the next Student Senate meeting.
Mary Hittle thanked President Counts and Carmen Maynes for their help with the Staff Senate recognition. Steve Liebhart gave a presentation on the WIKI page for the Staff Senate to enhance communication. They are also getting training on the Mustang Express
Hatch has approached us about serving them in regard to their bilingual education needs. Andres Rodriguez is working on this.
The Socorro school district is interested in working with our SOE for master's level classes and for concurrent enrollment.
No official letter has been received yet from NCATE; it is expected this week.
NeTL will have 10 deliverable courses for the spring.
We have finished about half of the needs assessment on the doctorate. There is an online survey for any perspective student; we have about 100 responses. We are trying to be as inclusive.
We seem to have won a $50,000 grant to assist with Family Counseling center.
We have submitted the first phase Title II report. Thanks to Betsy Miller and Rosemary Grijalva for their work on this.
Jerry Harmon met with the architect yesterday to discuss landscaping for the PD Martinez building.
Jerry Harmon has been nominated for Professional Development committee of AACTE.
Counseling faculty are working on producing a state wide conference on men's issues for March.
The SC Fighting Colts are 10 to 0. Congratulations to the Harmon and Woodard kids.
Duane Elms is meeting with Deb Martinez later today regarding camera security systems. Give Duane Elms an email and he can give you the URL for the demo camera.
Duane Elms distributed a graphic of the use of our increased bandwidth. We are using it well.
Duane Elms will make two presentations for Finance and Capital for CHE IT projects next week. He asked for suggestions about what to present to make the best case. The President will meet with Duane Elms to practice his presentation. The President suggested that the focus on what they will get for the money, the value added from the money they allocate to us.
Julie Miller will also present on the library infrastructure request.
AQIP system portfolio results will be in soon.
Gilgamesh, the fall theatre production, completed a successful run this past weekend.
Academic Affairs held Budget Hearings last week. Garth Gerstein represented the Faculty Senate Budget Committee at the hearing.
President Counts, VP Farren, and VP Vowell attended an orientation to Element K training yesterday. Feel free to inquire about our progress when you see us on campus.
There will be an audio conference on Faculty Evaluation today from 11:00 to 12:30.
Dr. Deb Heller is giving a talk on Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare. All are invited to attend.
Watts Hall video installation is scheduled to occur this weekend.
In the library, Victoria Gutierrez has resigned due to a family emergency. Today is her last day. Fortunately Katherine Warren will be working on a temporary contract while we search.
Teresa Strottman will attend a regional Voyager (the integrated library system) Conference.
Julie Miller will attend the ACRL management institute in Palm Springs next week.
Spring registration has started
Dr. Farren will attend Salary and Benefits tomorrow to discuss the student recruitment plans and follow up.
Enrollment is running a little over 5% behind compared with end of term last fall. We need to focus on increasing enrollment for the spring.
Next week the hearing on faculty positions to be filled for next year will take place
Cabinet discussed a number of ideas that would increase spring enrollment: these include the following:
allow/encourage staff and faculty to use their tuition hours,
create a pool of unused tuition hours to distribute like we do for sick leave hours.
hours taken for audit count in the formula,
courses that might be attractive include expressive arts, literature, health and wellness,
use all of Element K seats,
ABE computer classes could be offered for credit,
can we make an excerption for senior citizens to waive technology fee,
create a class on University marketing,
Spanish classes would be attractive,
General Assembly and faculty can generate ideas for additional classes and identify faculty who are willing to teach the class.
Used retired language as well as senior citizen language.
We also need to focus more on retention. This is a key piece. We need to collect this information.
We need to be sure that all students get advising and are enrolled for spring semester.
We need to look at stop out data.
The impetus has to be action.
La Familia hours to train families could also be used to generate credit hours.
Another market is home schoolers-- maybe to target parents or family oriented class.
Community education program suggested by Frank Merrit and Barbara Taylor should be considered.
Early scholarship (bridge scholarship) rules have been adjusted to maximize the number of students we can bring in on scholarships. The governor also wants to change the way the lottery scholarships are awarded.
We are currently advertising for the Director of the Academic Support Center position.
The next Cabinet meeting with be the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.