Cabinet Minutes

17 September 2002

 

Present: Chris Farren, Gwen Cassel, Jerry Harmon, Donna Rees, Arley Howard, Julie Morales, Peggy Lankford, Tony Macias, Steve Reed, Chris Casey, Christie Miller, Faye Vowell, John Counts.

 

· Enrollment on the Silver City campus for the fall is up 7% in headcount and credit hours up 15%. There is a 16% increase in first time freshmen. Over 1800 students pre-registered prior to registration day. Many thanks to all who worked to make th is happen.

· President Counts read a letter from a grateful parent applauding the student centered help her daughter received. Vivian Myers, Janet Wallet Ortiz, Gil Gonzalez, Mike Alecksen and Betsy Miller were named specifically.

· In the past two years our allocation in I for the I and G part of the budger is down $360,000 due to the impact of low enrollment on the formula. This will stabilize next year because of our enrollment increases. Good work on retention and recruitment.

·Chris Farren talked about an enrollment management plan that will recruit to replace the displaced miner enrollment of around 200 when they cycle through our system. This recruitment will need to be balanced with increased retention. Complaints in regard to registration have decreased this year. We still need to work on complaints about Financial Aid and about the Business Office.

· This Wednesday a board will select cheerleaders. We have money for uniforms for 7 cheerleaders due to a generous local citizen who donated the money to make this happen.

· Student Activities have focused on Mexicano/Chicano/Hispanic month in September.

· College days have started for the Admissions staff.

· The Social Work accreditation visit will be this week. We are well prepared; the self study was very well written. The mock visit took place last week.

· HSHP faculty will be going on recruiting visits with Admissions particularly to Northern NM Com munity College.

· On Oct 11, the state President of the New Mexico Occupational Therapy association will be here to talk with our students.

· Donna Rees is also receiving fewer student complaints this year. The site directors are doing a fine job.

· Donna Rees is working on the lease for the renovation to the Gallup building. We will probably take possession the first of December and have a grand opening in the spring.

· The NM Virtual College group is having a meeting on Friday.

· We might need to buy a refrigerator for Deming to keep the cats for A and P. The Deming Hospital which was keeping them for us lost them.

· Deming staff were on campus for Banner training to be able to create their own CRNs. Next they will work with the Business Office. Eventually all off campus sites will be able to finalize students.

· Donna continues to explore grant money for building a new technology building.

· The Faculty Senate p residents will meet on Sept 28 in Albuquerque. The Blue Ribbon Task Force on the formula adjustment will be one item discussed.

· Faculty are concerned that a member of the administration brought a fire arm on campus. The faculty are asking what disciplinary action has been taken.

· New Mexico has received an $8 million dollar literacy grant. By Sept 30 we will hear from a math and science partnership grant. All teachers in NM hired in 02-03 must have one of two types of licenses by 2005: either the traditional program or an alternative licensure program. SOE is on track to deal with this. We will have discussions of how to implement alternative licensure and satisfy graduate school criteria. Care is being taken to be sure the coursework meets NCATE standards.

· On Friday the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Child Development Center will be held at 10:30.

· Campaign materials for the bond issue are now available. Julie Morales will speak at vari ous service groups to support the bond issue.

· Peggy Lankford will be traveling to T or C for Sammi Johnson's retirement party. Vivian Myers will join her as will the Extended University staff here in Silver City.

· John Saaari, Steve Oizumi, Tina Rippa, Gary Cook and Mary Buchan were elected to Staff Senate. There will be a run off for a technical position and the maintenance workers still need to vote. The handbook committee is discussing some policy issue s. On Oct 9 installation of the new officers will take place.

· Tony Macias is dealing with parking problems around Watts Hall.

· Tony Macias is working on offering GED courses over cable TV.

· Program certification in construction is being done this week. A master trainer from El Paso is working with WNMU faculty. Students who graduate from this program will be listed in a national registry of certified workers. This will help them to obtain good paying jobs.

· Tony Macias w as in ABQ visiting on Perkins issues last week.

· The Coalition met to discuss worker recruitment for Stream. Tony Macias is working to connect the welfare to work students with employment at Stream.

· The CTEP task force is visiting Pima College on Friday to look at its technical building.

· IR has gathered Pell grant data for Tony. Judith Lawrence is project manager for Web for Executives.

· The Con Confianza (Title V) Peer leader assigned to IT will train students to use the Portal.

· A statewide network plan for Checs will be discussed at a meeting later in the week.

· Internet 2 connection for WNMU is turned on.

· The procurement card situation has been resolved.

· Training for using the equipment in the Besse Forward auditorium will be this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon.

· The last of the furniture for the Besse Forward Building will arrive this week.

· Auditors will be on campus next wee k. They will be here for about two weeks.

· Banner HR work is ongoing. There will be another training next week.

· We won our football game this past weekend.

· Mike Martinez is on vacationthis week. Henry is in charge.

· The Blue Ribbon Task Force will meet Oct 9 to make a final recommendation to CHE.

· The Alumni Bulletin was mailed out last week--24 pages.

· On Sept 27 the Gallup Alumni Chapter will have its first meeting.

· On Oct 4 the T or C Alumni Chapter will have its first meeting.

· The Albuquerque Alumni Chapter meets monthly.

· A pre-game tailgate party is being organized by alumni for 5:00 pm on Friday.

· The state mining conference will be here next week in the Besse Forward Building.

· The NAFTA Institute will also meet here next week.

· A meeting was held yesterday with stakeholders offering ITV classes in the spring to ensure that we had no conflicts in scheduling .. The meeting expanded to discuss plans for offering degrees at distance sites via face to face, ITV, web based and mixed delivery. Programs will develop a three year course rotation and share the draft plan by November 15. Any program interested in dista nce education offerings is invited to participate in ongoing discussions.

· At Academic Council two weeks ago, the only item on the agenda was a discussion of summer session. The consensus of the group was to have two four and a half week sessions for degree seeking students. Standard hours for class start and end times were set. Minutes from that meeting will be shared on the campus listservs.

· President Counts encouraged members of Cabinet to share Cabinet discussions with our constituencies.

· Cabinet will meet next week and after that we will go back to meeting every other week.