Cabinet Minutes 19 March 2002

Present: Christi Miller, Julie Morales, Steve Reed, Mike Metcalf, Tony Macias, Jerry Harmon, Donna Rees, Peggy Lankford, Chris Farren, Pat McIntire for Gwen Cassel, Sherry Bayes for Chris Casey, John Counts, Faye Vowell

The President shared a 12 March 2002 ABQ Journal article featuring WNMU. The ABQ Alumni chapter was instrumental in getting it published.

The Alumni Bulletin is now at the printer.

C & I will meet today and continue a discussion of General Education among other items.

Faye Vowell is visiting classes for those faculty applying for promotion and tenure.

The Chairs and Directors in Academic Affairs had a successful workshop yesterday with Dave Trites on data based decision making.

Student government meets tonight to continue discussing tuition and fees.

A group met last Friday to discuss learning communities for next fall. Potential faculty for learning communities will be invited to a meeting on April 19 to discuss participation.

The GO bond was signed by the governor. It contains a total of $1.6 million for PD and Martinez renovation, $3.2 million for infrastructure for the FACT and other building repairs, and $ 80-90,000 for the library. The SOE IT project was also funded. Total GO Bond money for WNMU equals around $5 million. The bond goes to the general population for vote; if passed, it will b funded through property taxes.

No budget has come from the state yet. The WNMU budget will be discussed after spring break in a meeting with the President, the VPs, faculty and staff senate leadership, and the faculty senate budget committee. Sherry Bayes or Chris Casey will be glad to do a brief tutorial of how the budget is put together for anyone who is interested

Greg Sierra and his class are updating the campus map for us.

Craig Pfeiffer from the Fire Department is interested in having July 4 fireworks display at the softball stadium. The President supported the idea.

Institutional Research is preparing the IPEDS spring report. An explanation of formula funding will be placed on the web page.

Web registration is available and is being piloted by Academic Support. It will go online for everyone in the fall.

The new firewall software has been ordered.

CHEKS met to order new T1 line. It will be available in 30-90 days.

Major library system and financial aid upgrades are taking place.

IT is working on a support policy for computing labs.

Lease vs buy on computer equipment is being discussed. It will be on the agenda for the next ITT meeting.

General Assembly met last week. Two motions regarding fees were passed as was a motion about establishing new administrative positions. A motion to upgrade the network was also passed.

Elections for next year are taking place. Presidential candidates are Mike Metcalf and Arley Howard. Michele Behr and Magdaleno Manzanares are the vice presidential candidates.

The PD coalition meeting yesterday.

Tony Macias is working on a plan to enable Welfare to Work people to be transported from Deming to work for for Stream.

Welfare rolls have dropped 53% in Grant County. Tony Macias will be in Socorro tomorrow for a Directors meeting with Human Services.

The Vo Tech community group is meeting to discuss establishing concurrent enrollment programs.

ABE is up to 800 clients.

Rehabilitation grants have be recalled to Washing ton for review

Gwen Cassel received a small ($7500) DVR grant to pay for one course.

Claudia Leonard's father passed away last week.

Katherine Woodard is still working on her self study with comments from outside reviewer.

Wellness and Movement Sciences is gearing up for Senior Olympics.

Nursing lost two students last week leaving16 left in first year cohort. There are 11 left in the second year cohort.

NCATE Report: 1. A revision of the conceptual framework and program outcomes have been approved by the SOE as a whole. Concepts have not changed. 2. Administrative policies have been updated and a new organization and decision making chart has been drafted. 3. Program revisions in regard to pedagogical content courses, new state standards in special education and other areas, program outcome data and employer survey information points to a need to deal directly with classroom management. SOE is discussing programmatic change today to address this. 4. Teaching field endorsements are also being addressed. Humanities has done a fine job in updating the language arts endorsement. SOE will have a one day retreat to discuss needed changes in graduate programs.

President Counts, Faye Vowell, and Jerry Harmon will attend the Renaissance group meeting in Washington, DC next week. President Garcia from URN will attend also.

The School Psych endorsement will go before the Professional Standards at its next meeting.

NM Virtual College group has been meeting for a year. Donna Rees attended the meeting last week. They discussed a cost sharing model shared by Frank Renz.

Writing workshops are being developed for forest service--1 credit.

The Gallup space issue will be discussed by Donna Rees and Pat Maguire this Thursday. They are looking into lease agreements.

Upgraded network in Gallup with local ISP. The Virtual Nework is still not online. All Gallup courses have a Web CT component.

Rick and Donna met with staff in Deming to discuss technology issues. Luna County has received $820,000 to expand the Mimbres Learning Center.

May 4 is Gallup graduation.

Elections for staff senate president have been completed. Barbara James will be new staff president assuming office on Oct 1.

The next meeting of Staff Senate on April 3 at 3:00 pm

Staff have concerns with pay schedule time changes. Information about this went out on email, but not everyone is on the staff listserv. We need to work on this problem. IT will send out instructions on how to add yourself to the listserv.

Peggy Lankford told the President thank you again for the holiday for staff next Thursday.

Chris Farren will again organize a team to participate in the Cancer Walk in the fall..

Sodhexo food negotiations are still in process.

Another draft of the student handbook will go out again this week.

The Summer Schedule of Classes will go to the printer this week. It is available on the Web page now.

Internships at Stream are being discussed.

For fall, 170 new students have accepted the Bridge scholarships; 35 of these applicants have an ACT of 25 or higher. The Honors Director has sent a special letter to this group.

We are trying to leverage our scholarship dollars in attracting better qualified students.

The Budget is being worked on by Business Affairs.

The PO deadline dates will come out after spring break. The departmental Walmart card will have a later deadline than in the past.

The HR module implementation of Banner is going well.

GASB rules are changing and the Business Office is working on implementing these changes.

The president thanked everyone for their voluntary contribution to El Refugio.

Monica Mitchell won the Miss Deming contest last Saturday night. She was Miss Silver City last year.