PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
February 13, 2002

Present:

Sandra Bevill
Jan Duggar
Len Frey
Carleen Marburger
Sarath Nonis (replacing Dr. Ford)
Steve Replogle
Bill Roe
John Seydel
Jim Washam
Mark Young

Others:

Chris Collins

Absent:
Joe Bork
David Boyd
Charles Ford
Terry Roach

Meeting was called to order by Dean Duggar at 2:00 p.m.

TECHNOLOGY
Dean Duggar distributed the proposal from Mark Hoeting regarding minimum standards for desktop computers and the second portion of the proposal is regarding voice mail in relation to cost etc. Dr. Seydel stated that this is just an example of a standard we should implement and we should have a standardized college.

Building rewiring – in process of building closet for rewiring of building. Sending out RFP for wiring this building this week and there will be some time before the building is actually rewired. Probably about the middle of April and the rewiring should be completed by summer.

Horizon Institute – still putting together an advisory group in industry. If you know anyone that we could invite, please let Dean Duggar know. Dr. Roe’s MBA class is working on a Strategic Plan and they are to give a progress report at the meeting scheduled for Tuesday, February 26th, at the First Community Bank. Dean Duggar met with Randy Pepper at Fed Ex and he is in Fed Ex services and they do all the evaluation of all the technology that is implemented at Fed Ex. He is just the right person for this. AS400 is important because most all the manufacturing plants here are using 400. Kathy White will be conducting the meeting. Asked Kelly Fish to act as Chair or project leader for SAS Program. He has invited Jim Ogelsby to come and be on campus Friday, March 1st to talk with faculty about what our software can do and go from there. CD Rom self-training and have some training meetings. Dr. Seydel felt that we need support from other departments as no one outside his department has expressed any interest. Dean Duggar would like to have Crystal and Mark’s shop involved. Dr. Frey asked Dr. Nonis about data mining – what other response can he get from the Marketing department. Being short on faculty, that’s where the problem is and there isn’t any flexibility in this. Dean Duggar asked Dr. Nonis if he could evaluate SAS software and see what the advantages and disadvantages are. Dr. Nonis stated that for the curriculum and research purposes we are dealing with SPSS or SBSS? and is that good enough. However, if we are going to change, then that’s fine, he’ll support it. Dr. Replogle stated that as a college we only offer one statistical course and students use Excel rather than a statistical package. Most will not have access to a statistical package when they leave college but they will have access to spreadsheets. Think of this whole thing as a system, where do we want to start as a first course etc. Maybe this should be discussed in the curriculum committee. Dr. Seydel feels that the more people we can get at the workshop on March 1st, the more likely we will be able to determine if SAS is the direction we want to go or not. Kelly Fish has all the information, so any comments or questions should be directed to him.

Dean Duggar is not opposed to incentives to certain activities. Need to be more open to helping people get these skills as they are hard to learn on your own.

There was some discussion about the Accounting 150 hour course. Dr. Washam stated that there are three meetings coming up and by the end of summer they should have goals set for the catalog. The two he knows of is the Masters in Accounting, and splitting the Undergraduate Degree between a CPA Track and Management Accounting Track.

MIS Masters Degree – finalize

Change in the accounting track to prepare students for CPA exam.

MBA – restructuring MBA program with 1 to 2 hour courses, replacing 3 hr courses.

Dean Duggar - Need something closer to a supply chain management degree?

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTS

MIS Masters Degree

Accounting Track

MBA restructuring

Supply Chain Management Degree?

Dr. Bevill discussed the Freshman course and asked the committee what they see that needs to be done. Is it worthwhile? Dr. Bevill feels that it is very worthwhile. It is a good introduction to business and most of the freshman were undeclared. Trying to get some stability in the course from the faculty. Dr. Bevill is going to go back to teaching this course. This course is supposed to be for Freshman or undeclared majors. Dr. Frey doesn’t see restricting to Freshman only. Some Sophomores and Seniors are allowed to come to the class because they come from Radio/TV etc and they need to be in this class. Freshman Experience class acclimates freshman to the university. Incorporates reading a catalog, a special notebook goes with it, time management, advising, how to read a degree plan and acquaints them with the library, etc. Dr. Nonis would like to look at a COB Freshman Experience class.

Publications – Business Connection went out already. The next issue is coming up and the theme is International Focus. Carleen talked with Clint and told him what the focus is.

Dean Duggar stated that all major brochures have arrived and have been delivered.

Two other things that Dean Duggar would like to focus on is; an overview booklet for the COB and he has asked Carleen to work with a group on working on updating the Web site.

Dean Duggar asked Mark Young if they have a web site set up. Mark stated that they are working with a private firm to help them get a new one set up. They have selected a design and have given information to the firm and it should be up and running by the 2nd week of March. Dreamweaver software will be used and Crystal Blake will be responsible for updating the site. Mark stated that Carleen and John Seydel can call Crystal if they need any help at any time. Netmobile meeting is set for Friday. Hank Czarnecki will be on the board as well.

Carleen stated that a printed list of the COB courses has been printed from the Web – Summer I and Summer II courses. Dr. Frey stated that some courses have been added so he told Carleen to make sure that she has the most current off the Web.

Dr. Washam has a new web site up and running and their brochure is on-line.

Dean Duggar wants the University to have design, college flows into that, departments etc.

MBA Brochure - it’s moving – finally got some pictures Dr. Roe liked.

UPDATE ON MERIT EVALUATIONS
Due February 18th

Student Teaching Evaluation: Make sure we have a college wide scoring and department scoring. Testing Center should be able to batch all department scores together. Dr.

Seydel does his early in the semester so faculty can have them before they leave for the summer. Dr. Frey does theirs in the mid-term. National Service – national avg for the course and discipline, university avg, college avg and course avg. – they could do this if we used them. Dr. Seydel feels that he doesn’t agree with evaluating in the middle of the semester. Administer in the same three-day time frame.

Dean Duggar needs self-evaluations by Monday, February 18th.

Capital Campaign – Dean Duggar has a meeting Monday afternoon to look at the bigger brochure. Straly Snipes is working on this. Contacts are continuing and going well. Meeting with Dr. Wyatt on February 18th to talk about the campaign and the time frame for regional meetings. Henry Jones to set up meeting with well-known figures. Falling back a little on the schedule and it may be April before we have a silent kick-off.

Mark Young and Dean Duggar met with one of the local advertising firms and talked about having an outside professional but it came back so expensive. We need a full-time person involved with the campaign. Christy Valentine was one person and talking with Mark Lewis, Development Office – talking with them about the importance of having a full-time person on this campaign. Need faculty to attend Alumni Meetings around the area. COB Alumni Group is up to about 37 members.

Dr. Seydel stated that Phone-a-Thon Week is next week for EDS. Dr. Washam already did their week in January.

Dr. Roe – Aaron Lubin – March 5th – remind faculty and encourage students to attend.

Barry Melencon will be here on March 22nd and will be talking at The Collonade from 7-8 a.m. Breakfast and talk 8-10 a.m. – will receive CPE credits for the talk. Registration for the CPE credits is very inexpensive. He will be talking on response to Enron collapse. Following that, he will be on campus for a reception at the COB. $35 including breakfast and $10 for students. Dr. Frey - possible to have HR classes get credit for going to the talk. Dr. Replogle suggested maybe requiring students to attend a certain number of these talks.

Mark Young - Delta Center completed a grant with Enterprise Corp. of the Delta. Will bring about ¼ million dollars to the program if approved. They are behind in training revenue about 15% due to the economy. They are trying to do more individualized classes rather than company classes right now. Received $23,000 to redo computer training labs. Joe Bork was in a meeting in California about two weeks ago and Mark told him to take an extra day and visit the University there regarding their 3rd party AS400 programs.

Seminar on Cash Management will be held on April 12th.

Meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins