Next Cabinet meeting will be on April 22, the last of the semester will be May 6
· Great Race activities have started. The dance had 400 students. Thursday night is the talent show. Friday night is the King and Queen contest. Saturday night is the banquet. Alumni will join students. Sunday is the race itself. Housing has paid the entry fee for all student teams. Hatch, Cobre ad Silver high school teams. There will be 3 VIP. Teams.
· The catalog should be back in two weeks.
· A new viewbook has also been produced.
· Contract negotiations with Sodhexo have been finished. The old snack bar (cooler) will be open from 7 to 7; there will also be a bakery area. There will also be some construction that will take place over the Christmas holiday.
· Financial Aid is running 100 behind in applications for next year.
· 104 applications for the in AVPSA position were received., 54 were deemed qualified.
· Class schedules are out 20 added since they were printed. Go to the web for the most current list. It is updated daily.
· The first orientation will be May 17. It will be in the SMB. Faculty training will be on April 22. Chairs have been asked to provide a list of faculty who will advise on those days. Faculty must attend training in order to advise. Copies of the new Advising Handbook will be distributed to the attendees.
· Teacher Education Hall of Fame committee is meeting today. The theme is "From Generation to Generation."
· The Renaissance Group meeting was attended by Dean Jerry Harmon and President Counts last week..
· HB 12 was approved to help the integration of arts into K-12 education.
· This is the week of the Young Child
· The Good to Great book by Joe Collins on strategic planning is a great read. Jerry Harmon recommends it.
· Donna Rees met with Gallup Student Advisory committee a couple of weeks ago. They are very positive and hard working group. They feel they need new Counseling position in Gallup. They want wireless access in the Gallup building. A vendor has visited the site and described what we could do. The technology fee for Gallup next year will hopefully pay for this. It looks like it will cost $12,000.
· The new Gallup building looks great. New furniture will be delivered next week.
· 45 Teach for America and 18 Peace Corp fellows are applicants in Gallup next fall.
· Gallup Graduation will be May 3 at Red Rocks as well as the building dedication. The PDK initiation will be the night before. Looks like we will have 64 graduates this year.
· Linda Baldwin and Irene Meares will be in Gallup the week after.
· Jerry Dominguez, Vice Provost for Extended Education at UNM, has had a conversation with Donna Rees and his intentions are to go more heavily in Gallup so we need to look at ways we can deal with this.
· Andy is coordinating location for road signs in all our sites.
· We are testing ITV over to see if it will support video.
· NMSU will be offering a degree completion program in the fall in Deming. Probably this will be in business, but we are not sure.
· Deming is going for learning center status this year. They will do a presentation at CHE on Friday. Andy Hernandez, Donna Rees and Chris Casey will attend to support the effort.
· Mary Billings is working with WIA board.
· Economic Development meeting here this week. Cabinet Secretaries attended. Planning for economic development was funded last year, $100,000 for a labor analysis study. $250,000 will go to SIGRID for a long range economic development plan. The next coalition will be tomorrow in the GRC at 8:30. We will talk specifically about how to help the 376 employees displaced at Stream.
· Comp 101 and 102, College Algebra, Music appreciation, and Spanish will be offered via ITV for RUS partners for next year.
· Tor C director's position and Program Manager on Silver City campus being advertised.
· Westwind deadline is the end of the month.
· Financial Aid PMT has been productive. Today they are looking at materials being sent out to students and trying to make them more user friendly.
· Memo on cut off dates for PO s has been sent
· WalMart Cards are presenting a billing problem. They will probably be converted to procurement cards.
· TAC is on campus working on air handling issues in the buildings. This is supposed to be done with disrupting work. If work is being disrupted, contact to Mike Martinez.
· American Fidelity will send a rep to talk to people who are interested. 457 alternate retirement mechanism voluntary better than 433 B, done through payroll deduction. It is portable.
· Sherri Bayes and Chris Casey are back from an accounting update in Chicago last week.
· Candidates for the new basketball coach will be on campus over the next couple of weeks. Lots of candidates.
· There is a new keyless entry to Castorena. The building automatically lock at 5:00 pm. This allows us to track entrance into the building. Laptops and palms are prime targets for thefts. Lock them up at night Friday.
· Martinez PD project working group has been selected, A second meeting has been scheduled for next week. Construction will probably start toward the end of the year.
· Progress has been made on the Chino building roof and air conditioning.
· Chris Casey will attend CHE on Friday. She will leave campus on Thursday.
· We may host the women's softball regional tournaments.
· Michelle Behr, Mike Metcalf, and George Muncrief met with Cissy McAndrew regarding the endowed professorship and faculty development money.
· ABE Advisory Committee met and elected officers.
· Tony Macias is meeting with students to see what CNET courses need to be offered this summer to meet WIA needs.
· Works program, Dept of Human Services has issued a contract to Eastern to offer a GED to welfare and will pay for a half time facilitator to work with Plato. This will enhance our program.
· Tony is working with Student Space people; we are in final stages of implementation of this for Pre University programs.
· Intensive ESL program with URN this summer is under discussion.
· The MOU agreement with the Alamo Navajo nation is being finalized.
· The Alumni Bulletin is out now.
· Academic Council will meet this week.
· Staff Senate --Margaret Soucy and Anita Rios are two newly elected Senators.
· Lynn Lewis is the employee of the month.
· Barbara James has been elected for a second term as President of the Staff Senate.
· Julie Miller shared a diagram of the network once the Layer 3 network is implemented. The work that needs to be done to fully implement the system will be done this summer. There will be disruption in the network when it happens but we are trying to do it in the least disrupted way possible. WE will try to give notice ahead of time.
· There was a major disruption during spring break. Probably an attack on the network through one of the servers with a public IP address. Those servers are vulnerable to attacks, because they are inside our firewall. This makes the network vulnerable. We are working on a solution that will entail the need to create a DMZ for the public IP servers outside the firewall.
· There will probably be an IT meeting next week.
· CAAP implementation is going forward. This is the degree audit program.
· David Kent and Julie Miller are going to the ACRL meeting.
· We are moving into the final year of our RUS grant. The bridge has been moved to campus and reconfigured so the members can video conference with the outside world as well as the RUS partner. This means we can video conference with Deming, T or C, Magdaleno,
· Global Resource center now has operational video conferencing center.
· Cable access for the I-net allows up to deliver programming now. Anyone who has ideas about what content you would like to provide should talk to Julie Miller or Faye Vowell. Gloria Maya is extremely interested in doing this.
· Alumni Reunion activities in conjunction with the Great Race. look very exciting. They start Thursday night and continue though Sunday. Christie Miller will drive again.
· All students on a third party billing, faculty and staff on tuition remission, any student on financial who signs award letter and returns it, any student who pays $100 prior to Aug 1.
· Next Board meeting is May 8.
· Retirees reception at Dr. Counts home on that evening.
· Dudley Sykes has been invited to be graduation speaker.
· The termination of Coach Joe Mondragon has been upheld by the hearing committee.
· Dan Lopez, President of NM Tech, has a grant possibility that he will share with the President and the VPs today.
· Gail Gruber is now Dr. Gruber. Congratulations to her.