Present: Raymond Rodrigues, Farhat Iftekharuddin, Jose Martin, Sylvia Pena, Marilyn Dyer, John Ronnau, Delayne Hudspeth, Jon Steingass, Eldon Nelson, Betsy Boze, Deborah Suzanne, Cynthia Lerma,
Letty Fernandez, Jim Holt, Pat Wade

1. Eldon Nelson was presented the first-ever and new dean-revolving Deans Survival Kit.

2. Enrollment situation: A general discussion ensued about low enrollment for Fall. A history of the Enrollment Mgmt. Committee was given by Farhat and Victor. A retreat comprised of all the players plus off-campus person/s was proposed for the purpose of creating a concise proposal that would serve as a guide on what to do about this recurring enrollment problem.

3. Jon discussed the benefit of purchasing a Noel-Levitz survey for the purpose of gathering valuable retention / enrollment management data. Deborah shed light on how that data might be utilized to give us a clearer picture of our situation- sample of the sample. Betsy asked that the faculty be informed so they can allot time in their syllabi for the survey. Time- 6 weeks into the Fall semester @ 10:50 TTh and 7:15 M pm. Approval of the Human Subjects committee should be sought. The students shouldn’t be told when it will occur or they will not come to class.

4. An arena registration survey will be created and conducted by Institutional Research.  Components of the SA registration survey used last year in addition to Deborah’s survey from Oklahoma will be given to students at arena registration.  Findings will be useful in analyzing enrollment trends, etc.

5. Letty presented a “Image Building” campaign planned for this year.  It was noted by Delayne that we need to have specific target audiences. Sylvia pointed out that an important audience are outlying customers that typically go to Pan Am & Kingsville.  Jose felt that “hi-lighting” individual faculty is a good approach to building image for the institution. General discussion ensued that asked the question “What is the institutional image?” Betsy pointed out that an enrollment mgmt. survey will only show what you are, not what you want to be.

6. John asked the group for suggestions on how to meet the President’s mandate of increasing graduate enrollment 10% by Fall 2001. He is seeking the advice and support of IR in collecting and analyzing historical data on graduate enrollment. Pat advised that if the institution wants to grow the Dual Enrollment program that the ISD's could be approached with the same initiative UTB had with BISD when the Partnership first began- Graduate courses for the HS faculty.  That population could become part of the 10% increase when you throw other school districts into the mix.

7. Dean’s Goals for 2000-01:
Business- Live the AACSB accreditation plan. (20 step program)
Education- State mandates: 85% EXCET target; restructuring of educational certifications
Health Science- Kickoff of new programs: Master PHN & AAS in Sonography; National accreditation of EMT/Paramedic 1 year program; Preparing new programs: BS Allied Health, Pharmacology AAS; New building/s oversight and development
SM&T- New Eng Physics program; Investigate graduate certificate programs relationship with industry; Pre-med program; Kickoff of new Building Trades certifications; Historical Restoration program development; Bachelor of Arts in Technology- BAT; NSF funding for graduate programs;
Math department staffing (48 sections taught this Fall by part-timers)
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Liberal Arts- Masters in Pub Admin / Pub Policy; Masters in Juvenile Justice & Forensics; Collaboration with Distance Ed; Gen Ed program assessment; Improve College’s advising system; Bi-literacy program growth; Certificate in ESL; Post-Bac’s in Fine Arts; Writing across the campus
Workforce Development- Ultimate goal: Become a revenue generator; Partnerships with every school and college; Incubator & Technical Training Center; PC Institute @ Jacob Brown’s Stokely Hall; Microsoft service provider @ PI Center; New director @ CJ Institute; Increase CORE program participation; Distance learning; Extension credit; Grow Tech Prep agreements; Develop food service training w/ tourist industry; Continue existing programs: Health Science w/ BISD, HS equivalency / Bilingual GED, AP certification, truckdriving;
Graduate Studies / Sponsored Programs- Continue providing external funding assistance to faculty and staff: this years goal- 50 proposals and $5 million; Promote graduate programs in the community; Maintain quality of graduate programs; Develop new graduate programs; Web-based manual for grants and contracts- policy & guidelines

8. Delayne announced that the Mead Lab in the library will be the educational projects lab, a center for innovative instruction development. He will be convening a faculty steering committee for distance education.  The Provost directed him to make it a sub-committee of the Computing and Technology
Committee.

9. Victor summarized the status of lapsed salaries and what monies are still available for use.

10. Discussion about reclassifying the institution for purposes of funding focused on the Masters Level I Carnegie model and the President’s future attempts to propose a single funding model to the State in order to find a fairer way to fund the institution.

11. Betsy discussed a Datatel detail related to the removal of the “STAFF” designation. Cynthia explained that HR has to input faculty information into the database. Sylvia said she had heard from a faculty that legally protected faculty information was “down-loadable” off of the UTB/TSC web-site. Victor said he would look into the particular situation.

12.  General discussion about proposed exceptional item projects.