Present: Zane Howard, Donna Rees, Cathy Owen, Chris Casey, Jerry Harmon, Barbara James, Pat McIntire, Gwen Cassel, Faye Vowell, John Counts, Chris Farren
· Congratulations are due to Zane Howard who has been accepted at the University of Pittsburg in an MBA and MIS program.
· The final banquet for Student Senate was held last night.
· Shaina Franzoy was elected as the Student Senate President. There were no challenges to the election process.
· Student Senate went well this year. The people worked together well. The budget ended in the black
· There was another Coalition meeting last week to discuss the Stream layoff and related problems. Stream is submitting an application for TAA funds. May 6 is the next Coalition meeting.
· On April 11, Luna Co made the first information petition to CHE for learning center status. Donna Rees and Andy Hernandez attended. WNMU was identified as the senior partner.
· Andy Hernandez is working to create online courses for Deming . Deming is moving toward putting the class schedule in the Silver City schedule of classes.
· Last Monday Donna Rees attended the funeral of Nadine Gardner's husband who died from bone cancer.
· The addition to the Gallup building is almost finished. There will be about 60 graduates this year. Two of them are MBAs, the rest are education. The building dedication will be on Saturday afternoon, May 3. There will be a meeting with the Gallup faculty on Friday morning.
· RUS students will be able to take a music appreciation course in the fall using IP video conferencing.
· Liz Jenkins has resigned as the acting Executive Director of the CHE.
· Roof replacement for FACT and Chino will start within the next two weeks..
· TAC who is doing our energy improvements is about finished Martinez-PD building.
· The Softball team is playing two games today. If they win both today they win the conference.
· Interviews for the basketball coach are continuing; there was a pool of 94 applicants. We are interviewing four.
· The Education Hall of Fame has selected two recipients for this year.
· The reading faculty in the state are meeting this Friday to talk about a statewide reading initiative.
· Practice teachers action research projects are being examined this week. This is a key piece to our NCATE efforts.
· The NCATE visit will be next spring. Business accreditation will take place next year. OT and Nursing will be the next year.
· There will be a special meeting for SOE next week: operational plan, finalization of policies. Two searches are ongoing: counseling and elementary education.
· Significant progress is being made on the NCATE evidence room which will be an electronic evidence room. SOE is working with the Web Master.
· SOE is working on a rotation of classes to meet the needs in Silver City and Deming.
· A special general assembly for staff was called yesterday to discuss the increase in health insurance.
· The Chairs Council met last week. The discussion centered around the adjunct and overload budget for this year and for next and how the VPAA's office will deal with decisions about when to close classes beginning with the summer.
· Social Work had its honorary society banquet last week. Donna Irwin attended. There was a good newspaper article chronicling events.
· The herbarium was dedicated to Emeritus Faculty member Dale Zimmerman on Saturday in a lovely ceremony.
· Wellness and Movement Sciences reports that Shawn Simonson has resigned.
· Nursing has had to dismiss one student for dishonesty. One will probably self select out. Sixteen will graduate. This is the largest class in a number of years. Nursing has worked hard to increase retention.
· OTA lost a student who got called up for military service. Faculty are working with him to minimize the impact on his education.
· Dr. Van Dran and Gwen Cassel are working to initiate a vision therapy program in the schools.
· OT pinning is May 8 at 6:00 in the Sunset Room. This program is student driven.
· The Emeritus Faculty recognition ceremony will be the same evening.
· The field work supervisor recognition barbeque will be this Friday at Gwen Cassel's house.
· SHSHP will have a Brunch on May 5 at Pinon Cafe.
· The President has agreed to support the Salary and Benefits recommendation to increase the promotion amounts by $500.
· Student Jasmine Fallstitch will be an intern in Senator Bingaman's office this summer.
· There are 104 applicants for AVPSA position. The search committee is working.
· Work on the degree audit program is proceeding. Care is being taken to ensure that the output is user friendly
· There is a lot of interest in the Arizona waiver. We are taking steps to use the entire 200 waivers.
· A Navajo representative will be on campus to discuss processing problems in regard to Navajo students. Thanks go to Dr. John Bourdette for his work with the Navajo students.
· We are signing a Memorandum of Agree with the Alamo Navajo under the direction of Tony Macias. They are interested primarily in two year Applied Technology programs.
· One of our performance goals is to increase the number of our Native American students.
· 500 Posters to recruit graduate students have gone out nationally.
· We are scheduled for 80 campus visits for prospective undergraduate students currently.
· A financial aid workshop for 9 high school counselors from Silver, Cobre, Lordburg, Animas, Reserve, Quemado and Deming was held last week.
· We are in the process of finalizing cafeteria contract.
· Students are encouraged to pre-enroll for summer and fall. The most up to date schedule information is on the web.
· The University Student Discipline Committee is meeting to address a student problem.
· Summer schedules have been mailed out the all school teachers west of I-25 and contiguous Arizona counties.
· The Budget meeting will continue today after a short break and will continue as long as necessary.
· There will be a Board working session on May 8 followed by an open meeting.
· There will be one more Cabinet meeting on May 6.