Cabinet Minutes
23 October 2001

President Counts received a call from Steve Holmes, President of Chino Mines, informing him that as of 15 Jan, 2002 the Chino mine and the Chino smelter will temporarily close. Tyrone is not affected. This will impact 650 people in our area. Donna Rees and Tony Macias will contact DOL to understand the benefits they will offer those laid off. We need to organize to offer educational opportunities to students. The President, VPs, and Deans of Extended University and PreUniversity Programs will meet with Steve Holmes at the end of next week.

June Decker's book Walking Games and Activities has been published by Human Kinetics press.

WNMU will host the NM Academic Advising Association meeting next October.

Steve Reed is looking into purchasing software that will facilitate tracking out Title V students and Perkins students.

Academic Secretaries will meet next on Oct 31. All secretaries are welcome. Contact Marcia Harris-Bourdette if your secretary is interested in attending.

Junius Logan has secured a BRIN grant for us that will allow us to purchase another IP video conferencing unit. Faye Vowell agreed to allow that unit to be placed in Watts Hall to facilitate its use by Nursing and OTAR.

Academic Council met last Thursday. Minutes will be out soon. If you want a copy, contact Marcia Harris-Boudette.

There will be a Marketing Committee meeting at 2:00 in Hunter Hall

Please encourage people to contribute blood at the blood drive in Graham Gym from 9:00 to 6:00 on Tuesday. The drive will be closed for lunch. The Foundation is working on fund raising in the Region: Gallup and T or C.

Cissy McAndrew wants to meet asap with Funding AQIP team

The Annual Fund Drive is being planned.

If you are working with anyone in the community as a major donor or who is doing substantial volunteer work, please coordinate with the Foundation so they can make sure they thank the donors.

Christie Miller thanked people for making Homecoming successful.

Alumni meeting in ABQ this weekend

At the Holiday Inn in Las Cruces at 4:00 pm on Nov 10 there will be a hospitality room just before the basketball game.

Alumni profiles are being created for people in Las Cruces and in Peru, Indiana.

On Nov 17 University Club party will be at Buffalo Bar with a red, white and blue theme.

Donna Rees attended a HUD conference last week in ABQ. Our T or C construction project is on track for completion

Next Tues evening, 4:00 - 7:00, is the grand opening of the Mimbres Valley Learning Center. WNMU is featured on the sign. Class schedule information for the spring will be available for the Deming community.

A meeting with legislators for the Galllup area is being planned.

Donna Rees and Judith Lawrence are gathering data. Chris Farren will work with Gallup to design a recruiting brochure for Gallup. Donna Rees and VPs have a meeting with Stream on Thursday, 12:00 to 2:00--this is a meeting for the community to meet Tony Taylor, the new site director.

T or C and Deming can now be accessed from the Western Home page.

Gwen Cassel is back from an OTA conference and reports that enrollment in our program is in good shape relative to others.

Social Work is talking about a marketing plan to assist in recruiting students.

Gwen Cassel is collaborating with UNM in offering an OTA class via ITV.

Jerry Harmon was in Gallup for the SOE faculty meeting last Tuesday.

The MAT program in Gallup has 67 degree seeking students. We may get another 40 for next year.

Jerry Harmon attended a TEAC (Teacher Education Accountability Council) meeting yesterday to establish legislative priorities: They are teacher salary tied to a career ladder, funding the mentorship bill and the loan for service bill, and a legislative memorlal to establish TEAC as an advisory board to Board of Education and CHE.

This may be a hard legislative year due to the economy. But NM is in good shape compared to some other states. Our top legislative priority is pay for our faculty and staff.

Jerry Harmon submitted a teacher education report to CHE last week. Judith Lawrence did the stats on enrollment and Sherry Bayes provided the funding information. More students are in the pipeline, but fewer are graduating. JH thinks that this is due to the increase in standards.

We need to do internal marketing of the loan forgivness program for teacher education majors to recruit students into the program and to let them know of the opportunities. This could be an advisor training topic.

Third Friday data and IPEDS data have been submitted by Institutional Research. The 2003 CHEKS conference will be in Silver City. Steve Reed has been named president elect of that organization.

NM schools are forming a consortium to purchase Campus Pipeline software.

There will be a Nov 8 presentation on Portal Technology. Contact Steve Reed if you are interested in attending.

We are operating a new version of Banner.

Web registration consultants will be here next week to set up web based registration.

Joint Banner Finance Training will be in Socorro next week. This will allow us to save money.

Tony Macias is working on the Hispanic Business leader mentor program which is a part of the Title V grant.

WIA conference met in Silver City last week.

ABE testing is showing students are entering at the 7th and 8th grade level.

Peer mentors from Title V will be on the radio program this week.

65 arson investigators are on campus this week. Three houses owned by WNMU and scheduled for demolition were partially burned. These houses will be used for education and training as a part of the arson seminar.

The Play premieres this Friday. Please plan on attending. Check out the scrolling bar on our web site.

A mail room memo went out last week.

We will not longer accept ABC shipments for personal items because the company will prosecutes the University for unpaid bills. A memo will go out from the Business Office on this soon.

CHE ranked two of our capital projects : infrastructure ($4.5 million) and the PD-Martinez building. This is a GO bond money year.

Mike Metcalf asked that Purchasing policies that have been changed be clearly communicated to all the campus. The case in point is reimbursement po's.

Procurement cards have been piloted for about a year by athletics. There are significant issues that have to be dealt with to make them feasible for broader use

Administrative and staff salaries will be available in the library as requested.

An AAUP representative presented at General Assembly.

A special Staff Senate meeting will take place tomorrow in the JCB conference room to discuss the Employee of the Month program.

First Wed in Nov at 10:00 is the next regular Staff Senate meeting.

Spring Schedules will be out in early in November. We will start pre- enrollment then. Proposed Orientation Dates for this year are as follows: May 4 June 15 July 20 August 16

Dr. Farren requested that Faculty consider moving the Faculty Retreat to earlier in the week.

April 27 in the date for the Great Race AQIP advising group met last week. This group is co-chaired by Curtis Hayes and Marcia Harris-Bourdette.

A maintenance weekly work order report will be available soon to track progress on projects.

An Interim Mustang editor has been appointed. Frank Juszczyk will continue as Faculty Advisor.

The electronic bulletin board is operating at Watts Hall. Kudos to Tina Rippa and Cissy McAndrew for making it happen. Athletics, Pre-University Programs, Presidents Office, First NM Bank, and the University Club helped purchase it.

Sharon Zuniga and Carmen Maynes will attend the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) meeting next week. Our viewbooks will be in conference registration packets.

Nov 13 and 14 will be the date of a Civil Rights workshop class here in Silver City . If invited, please attend since this impacts our Risk Management premiums.

Dec 7 Annual Service Awards banquet at the Flame.

Dec 14 Board meeting at 2:00 or 2:30.

Vice Presidents Vowell and Farren will meet with Faculty and Staff Senate presidents over lunch on Friday. President Counts, Commissioner Zuniga and VP Casey will be at CHE. Julie Miller and Gail Gruber will also go to testify on IT projects

Cabinet will meet again in two weeks. .