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Jerilyn McIntyre, Rich Corona, Libby Street, David Shorr,
Liahna Armstrong, Lynne Imamshah, Mark Anderson, Judy Miller,
Daniel CannCasciato, Mark A. Michael, Paul Baker, Linda
Beath, Charlotte Tullos
1. Approval of the PAC minutes from 10/1/03.
Motion to approve as presented by Mr. Corona. Seconded by
Ms. Imamshah. No further discussion. Motion carried.
Dr. Shorr was sitting in today for Dr. Li. Generally, fall
quarter is going well for the faculty.
The deans are very pleased that all four colleges have
been able to accommodate the fall increase in student
enrollment rather smoothly.
There is nothing new to report from the Exempt Employees
Association. An agenda for the 10/28 meeting will be going
out later this week, which will include a link to a new EEA
web page.
This is Homecoming Week, so the media relations area is
very busy with publicity on all the related events.
The Chamber of Commerce installation banquet is 10/25. Mr.
Anderson has tickets for anyone interested in attending.
The naming ceremony for the Milo Smith Tower Theatre is
11/13 at 5:30 p.m. and the ceremony for the James E. Brooks
Library is 11/15 at 2:00 p.m.
Dr. McIntyre and Mr. Anderson discussed several news
stories related to enrollment and other successes on campus
this fall and the planning involved in getting this
information out to the media. Dr. McIntyre felt that
CWU’s tagline “What’s Central to
You?” asks an important question, and a new focus for
our marketing campaign should be to answer that question as a
means of defining the concept of what Central is and where
this university is headed for the future.
The CWU-TV program is underway. Executive VP Dan Michael
is starting an aggressive campaign, “Get Involved to
Get What You Want” to fill student slots on various
campus committees. The Wildcat Walk for homecoming will be
this Friday, 10/17. The BOD is sponsoring a root beer
“kegger” at Nicholson Pavilion on Thursday
evening 10/16 as part of the homecoming festivities. The BOD
is also hosting a forum on 10/30 in Barge 412 for candidates
running for the Ellensburg City Council.
Ms. Bacica is working on researching federal
legislation.
Omicron Delta Kappa is establishing a chapter on
campus.
No report:
Judy Miller, Daniel CannCasciato, Barbara Hodges
1. Provost/Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
– Dr. Beath
The provost is in China for the next 10 days. No further
report.
2. Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment
Management – Dr. Tullos
The CWU enrollment report was published in The Daily
Record last night. The increase in enrollment is due to
the improvement in the retention rate even more than an
increase in new students. The implications for the growth in
enrollment were discussed in detail.
3. Vice President for Business & Financial Affairs
– Mr. Corona
Carmen Rahm joined the PAC and updated the group on the
ZenWorks Project. ZenWorks is a suite of tools for
technicians to service computer customers over the network.
Remote control/management is the first tool being
standardized by ITS. This allows technicians to access a
computer through the network and fix it without ever coming
to the employee’s office. It’s conservatively
estimated that this could eliminate 30% of the office calls
on campus. There are several other tools in the suite that
allow technicians to accomplish a number of other
maintenance-level tasks across the network. Currently,
ZenWorks will function on all PCs that have a Netware Client.
A new Netware Client will be installed soon that is Macintosh
compatible. Thus, by the end of this year, this system will
be able to support 98% of the computers on campus. Overall,
this will increase efficiency and reduce costs, although the
improvement in service that ITS can provide is the main goal.
A campus wide announcement will be made in the next few
days.
A new IT plan is under development and the University
Technology Committee will be reviewing it later this
year.
Mr. Corona wanted to remind staff about the Employee
Advisory Service. This is a state-provided service that CWU
contracts for. Originally this organization provided services
for civil service employees, but was expanded to all staff.
Two handouts on EAS were distributed. EAS is designed to
handle problems in the workplace and personal issues that
affect the workplace. All services are confidential. EAS will
also come to campus and give free training to staff on a
variety of issues.
4. Vice President for University Relations – Dr.
Baker
There is a new direct mail campaign targeted at
cultivating new donors.
A Foundation Board meeting is scheduled for this Friday,
10/17. The alumni reception scheduled for this Friday 10/17
prior to the Homecoming Banquet is projected to have an
excellent turnout based on RSVPs received to date.
The implementation of the new web design is almost one
month ahead of schedule with over 11,000 pages completed.
5. Executive Assistant – Dr. Street
Yesterday five CWU personnel attended the Washington State
Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs training regarding
government-to-government tribal relations. It was a very
worthwhile workshop.
The President’s Office is putting together a
symposium on globalization and has solicited faculty input
regarding potential speakers.
The new dean of libraries, Tom Peischl has agreed to chair
a new archives and collections committee that will bring
together several related groups across the campus.
The university calendaring meetings were held last week
and were well attended.
Development of a process for capital and operating
budgeting that begins as soon as the prior cycle ends is a
major long-term goal. At this time, the proposals for
budgeting goals and objectives are being worked on in the
units and departments and will come forward 12/1.
6. President – Dr. McIntyre
Dr. McIntyre will be in Japan for 10 days beginning 10/21.
She was invited to speak at the Shimane Women’s College
50th Anniversary celebration and will visit
several other universities that CWU has exchange
relationships with.
She has also been visiting the leadership groups of the
colleges and divisions within the university to discuss
issues of concern particular to that group.
Statewide conversations about the state’s higher
education master plan and compact are continuing.
Dr. McIntyre joined a meeting of the WA Campus Compact (a
national organization that encourages civic engagement
activities at universities) yesterday. This organization is
wrestling with funding difficulties at this time, because it
was not renewed on two major federal grants.
1. University Bulletin items – Mr. Anderson.
Jerilyn McIntyre, Linda Beath for Dave Soltz, Rich Corona,
Charlotte Tullos, Paul Baker, Libby Street
1. Approval of the Cabinet minutes from 10/1/03.
Motion to approve as presented by Paul Baker. Seconded by
Mr. Corona. No further discussion. Motion carried.
Fall 2004 is the 5th year review for
accreditation, subsequent to a full-scale report. Dr. Beath
is putting together a plan for how this should be
accomplished. The plan will address recommendations and
standards in a written report for this process. There will be
two NASC evaluators sent to campus in October 2004.
Dr. Beath is also dealing with the four student learning
outcomes that were developed at the state level eight years
ago for assessment and accountability: critical thinking,
writing, information literacy, qualitative symbolic
reasoning. Writing intensive classes are now a requirement
and intensive writing workshops are also part of the
programming to address this requirement. The university math
center addresses the qualitative symbolic reasoning piece. A
critical thinking initiative has a new faculty member in
charge and the new library dean will be assisting with the
information literacy outcome.
At the Board of Trustees resources subcommittee meeting
Trustee Jay Reich was interested in what the schedule and
structure is for the budget process at CWU. The group
discussed how best to manage this request.
Mr. Corona will be meeting with the Faculty Senate budget
committee next week to discuss overall operating budget for
the university.
Yesterday he met with Doug Ryder, Bill Vertrees, and Linda
Mahaney about space utilization on campus.
The cost study contract has been awarded and the contract
details are being worked out.
There was a very good article in The Daily Record
about the operations of the CWU boiler plant. It was nice to
see these very competent staff being recognized.
Don Diebert is making a presentation at the higher
education users conference regarding guidelines for when to
modify the PeopleSoft system and when not to. This model was
developed here on campus.
There are many homecoming activities this week and on the
coming weekend.
Two SAEM groups will be making presentations at major
national conferences next month. Two staffers are being sent
to the assessment workshop next month in Seattle.
The program to help students at-risk is coming along
well.
Dr. Tullos will join a conference call with the
Transitions to Success group tomorrow, 10/16.
Costs for naming events are a concern and this was
examined as a policy item. The Development Priorities
Committee will work on building some guidelines.
The Murdock grant proposal for $500K has been
submitted.
The marketing campaign and planning for the next stage in
the campaign was discussed.
This year’s distinguished alumni will be visiting
the president’s box at the homecoming football game
this Saturday, 10/18.
Discussed the capital and operating budget process for
2005-07. This process should bring together high-level
conceptual goals for what services the units want to provide
to the campus.
Dr. Meghan Miller is working with the Umatilla Nation on
setting up a follow-up meeting and also arranging a meeting
with the Yakama Nation.
The CWU policies manual updating process was summarized. A
new resolution is being formulated to clarify the approval
process for the trustees and the university.
Funding for the Resource 25 calendaring program was
examined.
Dr. McIntyre is working with Terry Teale (COP) on the
League of Education Voters funding initiative.
Mark Lundgren will be asked to post the new peer
institution list on the Institutional Research web page.
Edmonds Community College President Jack Oharah contacted
President McIntyre to discuss long-range plans for expansion
of the CWU-Lynnwood center.
Dr. McIntyre is meeting with the COTS Dean’s
executive group tomorrow, 10/16
1. ACE white paper, “Affirmative Action in Higher
Education After Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz
v. Bollinger.”
2. Nominations for the Frye Institute.
The Cabinet was asked to submit nominations.
1. Regular report: Enterprise Information Systems
update.
2. Debt-ratio policy.
3. Equipment replacement policy.
4. Copying policy for campus.
5. Overall management of computing support and resources
on campus.
6. Campus tree management plan.
Minutes approved.
Jerilyn S. McIntyre, President
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