PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
January 26, 2004

Present:
Dean Duggar
Dr. Bill Roe
Dr. Sandra Bevill
Dr. David Boyd
Dr. Charles Ford
Dr. Len Frey
Carleen Marburger
Dr. Jeff Pittman
Dr. Steve Replogle
Dr. John Seydel

Others:
Chris Collins

Absent:
Dr. Jim Washam
Mark Young

Meeting was called to order at 3:35 p.m. by Dean Duggar.

Dean Duggar asked that remarks on the Draft of the Code of Ethics document be sent to Jeff Pittman by January 30th. Dean wants Jeff, John and Mark to arbitrate and then get document finalized to Dean. Jeff – good comments, publications from a common database.

University Planning Committee – ADHE (Arkansas Dept. of Higher Education)– formula for funding the universities. Breaks programs into 4 categories where they have estimated what the base cost would be. Varies from certain disciplines that are in the lower categores to those with more technology equipment involved and then to the highest which would be engineering. They include salaries, supplies, other support items. Allocation based on lower division, upper division, graduate etc. If that is adopted and some percentage of that is funded, going forward that may influence the priorities on this campus.

Dr. Allen & Deans
BUDGET PRIORITIES
RAA wants our budget priorities by Friday. New positions coming from existing or non-funded non-existing positions. For instance, Henry Torres is not in a line and Mary Pat Braudis.
Second part of this is zero budget – what is your allocation within the college? Dean not in a position to talk about reallocation.

Budget form asks what are your priorities if new money were available? Dean wants comments from the committee. Talking about a person in advising (working specifically on undergraduate or assisting Bill with graduate . Funding or refunding the Finance Position, additional graduate assistantships (specifically to develop the new masters programs), supplies. Dr. Seydel felt that it would be nice to have some funding from the state for travel for faculty. Dr. Frey felt that it would be nice if they would help us with our recruiting efforts. As soon as departments get their pool approved by Glen Jones, get the people in for interviews and get them hired as quickly as possible.

Positions – we need to be able to support position with student credit hours. For instance, if we hire someone in the Management/Marketing department we need to be able to support that position with student credit hours.

Future depends on SCH and production. Replogle asked if lower SCH numbers in AFL and MM were due to lower sophomore courses. Boyd asked if a faculty member is teaching in Paragould, wouldn’t that decrease our SCH numbers? Frey commented that if he is teaching a CVN class in Paragould, then why would they have an on-site class as well?

Dean asked for committee to rank these by priorities:
Advising (5)
Recruiting Support (2)
Graduate Assistants (6)
Funding Finance Position (1)
Supplies (3)
Travel (4)

Replogle – last meeting he said Dean mentioned changing allocation of graduate assistant positions.

Dr. Allen looking at the 9 hour workload as a std avg. with some people teaching more than that. Need to provide her with what we are actually teaching. Avg of 10 in the college. We would then need to offer less sections with larger class sizes in order to do this. Credit for the internships over and above what’s necessary to support Sandra Bevill.
Dean needs Faculty Senate Budget from last year if anyone has it.

Dr. Allen looking at a different way to awarding promotion going from a flat dollar to percentage. From Assistant to Associate 5.5% and from Associate to Full 6%. (DOUBLE CHECK THESE PERCENTAGES WITH DEAN DUGGAR)

Looking at Centers – Dean asked Dr. Wyatt and Susan Allen- If Economic Development is - make it part of the university budget, not AA budget. Look at center’s that can be self-sufficient. Gave Herb Lawrence’s department as an example.

UPC to hear requests. Everyone wants big money – Rick Stripling ½ Million for his shop. Etc. No net increase in students and everyone wants more people and more money – this is a real problem.

PRT CRITERIA
Dr. Ford discussed the PRT Criteria. PRT Process Suggestions were distributed to each committee member.
#2 – Dr. Seydel suggested clarifying instructional development.

EX: Dr. Bevill – been here 3 yrs – 7 good publications, teaches classes well and everyone likes her – why not tenure her?

Standardized resume, etc.? Phase in the Merit Document, standard reporting. Look at the Universities’ std reporting per Seydel.

Meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m.

Next meeting scheduled for February 9, 2004 at 3:30 p.m. in the COB Conference Room BU105.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins