Present: Jerry Harmon, Julie Miller, Donna Rees, Kathie Gilbert, Gwen Cassel, Christie Miller, John Counts, Carmen Maynes, Julie Morales, Barbaraa James, Tony Macias, Faye Vowell, Chris Farren

· The President thanks the entire University for helping produce the QNM Zia Award application. It is available on the shared drive and will be put on the Web. The QNM application is directly connected to the assessment effort and the AQIP system portfolio.
· Thursday morning will be the Cabinet retreat beginning at 8:30. We will participate in a SWOT analysis. We will look at the draft of the strategic plan. The VPs will each present the issues they will deal with this year.
· Friday, The Board Retreat will start at 9:00 with the president, the vp's, the leadership of the Faculty, Staff, and Student Senate meeting with the Board in a working session. A closed session will begin at 2:00 and an open meeting at 3:00pm.
· The 24 page Alumni Bulletin is at the printer. It should be out within the next two weeks.
· The Las Cruces Chapter will have a tailgate before the NMSU-Western game.
· Sept 3 is the meeting of the Deming Chapter.
· October 4 is homecoming.
· Monday the SHSHP will be in retreat.
· Movement Sciences has made an offer for a visiting professor to replace Shawn Simonson.
· Nursing will start a cohort in Deming next August. A group of 16 students is presently doing pre-requisites.
· Fred Wey will be located in Gallup to work with Social Work students.
· OT is sponsoring the 2004 OTA state conference here in Silver City on Oct 22 and 23. OT is also starting a Very Special Arts (VSA) program here.
· Donna Rees talked about online courses on the radio last week.
· Mary Billings attended the NM Virtual College meeting. Our online courses will be on their web page.
· We will have 16 totally online courses in the fall.
· ITV training is being held today and the RUS schools are participating as is Deming.
· Steve Leibhart and Dean Foster attended a WebCT conference in ABQ last week. Probably a consortium will be formed. For more information on this, contact Julie Miller or Steve Liebhart or Dean Foster.
· The Screening Committee for the Director of IT is interviewing 2 candidates this week: Michael Carr today and tomorrow Duane Elms. Both will have open forums at 3:15 in the SMB. Please attend if you can.
· The Help Desk is working on service improvement with Kathie Gilbert. They are developing a scorecard for assessment.
· On Friday, the technicians from the Extended University to work with Jason Collet.
· A "Biblical Event" took place in Chino when the waters came down, they came down the light fixtures, the walls, the east side of the building. They flooded the training room all the way down to Jan Jahimiak's cubicle. Five years from now IT should not be in the Chino Building.
· The Library held a mobile meeting classroom meeting with the Extended University people. A total of 6 units will be placed in TorC, Deming and Gallup, and 5 units in SC.
· We videoconferenced successfully with Tor C for the first time.
· The IT RPSP proposal is with Chris Casey.
· Two openings exist in library staff: the public services manager and the media services manager.
· Luna Co will be going back to CHE to do a second presentation for Learning Center status.
· The NCATE kick off for the year will be on Aug 13. The Kennedy Center Effort will also start on 11 August.
· A special election will be held in Sept to determine the governance of education in the state. The 3 tiered licensure proposal under discussion in a series of meetings around the state.
· The Deans of Education agreed to develop a competency based articulation agreement with the community colleges. This agreement would enable transfer.
· Leo Pauls of the Renaissance Group would like to make a campus visit on Oct 15 and 16.
· Toby Keith may do a benefit concert for the labyrinth at the hospital.
· Maria Rolfe is recovering from her back surgery. Sharon Zuniga fill in for her temporarily.
· Painting the W will be moved to August 23. There will be a pool party that evening. Faculty and staff are urged to participate.
· On last Friday 250 students were dropped for non payment of the fee to hold their classes. This opened up a number of classes for the fall.
· 600 students who were here in the spring and are eligible to return in the fall have been sent a letter with the name of their advisor and department phone number and asked to call and make an appointment to register. Their advisors were also sent a letter giving their advisee names and asked to let the secretaries know when to schedule appointments.
· We have maxed number of appointments in Academic Support from now until the start of school. Gwen Cassel, Ben Tucker, and Virginia Huegel will be helping out in Academic Support to assist with advising this week and next.
· Please check any information on the web needs to be updated. We have a huge maintenance issue.
· At the Orientation last Saturday, we showed the parents the Mustang Express..
· MBA recruitment in Gallup looks good.
· Drug and Alcohol Institute is here on campus this week.
· The football teams are coming in. The volleyball camp is here again this week. The publicity for athletics looks good.
· The new assistant director of Admissions, Laure Romero has been working for a couple of weeks.
· Peer leader training is being done this week. Karen Correa and Marie Leck are doing a great job. A team from Johnson and Wales University is on campus today to help with the training.
· ABE started registering for classes on Monday. CHE is now responsible for ABE. Tony Macias is working with Tom Root. The database is changing.
· The Works program is still filling positions for SC, Luna Co, and Tor C.
· Tony Macias attended a Carl Perkins workshop last week. Carl Perkins is coming up for reauthorization this year.
· In the Applied Technology customized program computer program, 37 students have enrolled and have completed the first phase. They took the A+ test and received a 95% pass rate; 5 students went to retest and passed to get us to 98% pass rate.
· Students in construction and welding received the first certificates from the national association and names in national registry to help them get jobs. We need to figure out how to transcript this achievement.
· Staff Senate is gathering feedback on suggestions and concerns to format the goals for this year. There will be a September election, and the new Senate will meet in Oct. The salary and classification committee is meeting weekly this year. They are looking at job descriptions and that the ranking matches job description and that matches the range. Longevity issues will also be addressed.
· There was a going away party for Tim Turner. He will be teaching at LaPLata.
· Cynthia Martinez was Staff Employee for July, Charlene Ashburn for August.
· The campus directory is being updated.
· The WestWind is in process. Give Julie Morales any items you want included.
· Next Monday at noon will be the CETAL ribbon cutting.
· The annual faculty picnic will be held at Gomez Peak on Friday, August 15.
· The LULAC banquet on Saturday, Aug 16.
· We will do a Cabinet picture on Thursday at the retreat.
· Dates for next week
Monday, 14 August New Faculty Orientation
Monday and Wednesday mornings, the Learning Community meetings.
Tuesday morning, Assessment Committee
Thursday, Faculty Retreat.