PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
February 27, 2002

Sandra Bevill
Jan Duggar
Don Lester (replacing Dr. Frey)
Carleen Marburger
Richard Taylor (replacing Dr. Ford)
Steve Replogle
Bill Roe
John Seydel
Jim Washam
Mark Young

Others:

Chris Collins

Absent:

Len Frey
David Boyd
Charles Ford
Terry Roach

Meeting was called to order by Dean Duggar at 2:05 p.m.

HORIZON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Dean Duggar discussed the meeting on the Horizon Institute of Technology that was held yesterday with Kathy White at First Community Bank. The Institute is moving forward and will be approved by the Board of Trustees by March 8th and funded by January of next year. The purpose of the Horizon Institute is to strengthen our Information Systems/E-Commerce Program, assist in Faculty Development Activities, Alliance Program; goal of serving business of Northeast Arkansas and have an active outreach program and increase their knowledge of technology, work with training activities and seminars to adopt technology that increases productivity; what we can do with secondary education – Bachelors and Masters in Business Education to modernize these degrees to be more of a technology degree rather than a secretarial degree. Dr. Wyatt would like us to have a strong speaker’s series and advocates spokesmen for technology and technology issues. There was a lot of discussion. Mark Young stated that Dr. White is intent on making sure that what we were doing is very practical. She wants to spend the money and see measurable results, have some goals and achieve them, rather than try to solve the problems of the world and accomplish nothing. The members of the Netmobile Steering Committee that were there were very excited – Jerry Adams/Acxiom. Dr. Roe commented that we need to make sure we have a lot of involvement of as many stakeholders as possible. Kathy White does not want us to copy University of Arkansas. We need to emphasize technology throughout the curriculum; such as, in accounting, finance, marketing etc. Dean Duggar and Dr. Seydel met with Sharon Davis from Strategic Technologies out of Little Rock who is a licensed IBM provider on the AS400 program. Dean Duggar asked if there were any questions on the Horizon Institute from the committee. No questions.

ACXIOM
There have been three people on campus in the past two days. Jerry Adams, Allison Nicholas and James Mooney who are trying to build a university relations programs – internships, externships, computer based training. This was strictly a formative meeting with MIS and Computer Science & Engineering. This is supposed to be a university wide relationship. Dean Duggar stated that they are trying to get Alltel, Teleflora, etc on the Advisory Group.

SAS MEETING WITH JERRY OGLESBY

Dean Duggar announced that there will be a meeting with Jerry Oglesby on Friday, in BU418 regarding speaking on SAS software and how it might be used and also to get to the point where we can start training.

AARON LUBIN – SPEAKING ON “EXECUTIVE COACHING”
Dean Duggar reminded the committee of Aaron Lubin coming on Tuesday, March 5, 2002 who is a successful executive coach, recruiter, etc. and that he will be speaking on “Executive Coaching” and encouraged everyone to attend.

BARRY MELANCON – SPEAKING ON ENRON COLLAPSE
Dr. Roe also reminded the committee of Barry Melancon – AICPA in New York who will be at the Collonade for a breakfast meeting at 7:00 a.m. on March 5th. Following the breakfast meeting he will give a two-hour talk for CPE credit on the collapse of Enron. There will be a drop-in reception in BU105 after that. Dr. Replogle commented that Barry was on the news the other day and he was briefly questioned on the Enron collapse.

CASH MANAGEMENT SEMINAR
Dr. Washam announced the Cash Management Seminar to be held on April 12th and it will be based on a panel from 9-12 and then lunch from 12-1. Tom Rainwater, Susan Bivens with Fed Reserve, Kim Hall from Enterprise National in Memphis, and Doug Davis from FedEx. will do a presentation and then will be open for discussion.

COB SCHOLARSHIP EMERALD GALA
Carleen discussed the Emerald Gala and announced that some of the silent auction items are: $900 in Microsoft Software, tickets to the Orpheum, night at the Peabody, night at the Clarion Resort in Hot Springs, dinner in Hot Springs, Redbird tickets, picture from David Martin, dinner with Dr. Wyatt, dinner in Memphis, auto detail, haircut and highlight. She also announced that Dean Duggar will be on KAIT TV news at 5:15 with Dianna Davis to announce the COB Scholarship Emerald Gala. Dean Duggar asked if there were any suggestions on a last push for buying tickets for the Gala.

MIS DEGREE
Dean Duggar discussed moving ahead with the Graduate Degree on the Information Systems Degree. Dean told Dr. Seydel that he needs the official name of the degree. He would like to look at other areas for instance, Dr. Horsley’s area before he retires – Supply Chain Management. We need help on Web Page – Mark has new web pages coming on line from his department. Carleen needs a web page. Another area needed to be developed is a means to reaching community colleges about our programs. Carleen and Sandra Bevill stated that Jill Simons told them that 55 community colleges will be on campus and they are going to a meeting sometime in the spring. Dean Duggar stated that we have unusually large graduation classes so he’s concerned with fall enrollment. Community colleges are competing with us on the lower level classes – freshman, sophomore. Dr. Replogle asked how enrollment is over all? Dean Duggar stated that Dr. Wyatt is emphasizing strengthening our graduate programs and making that a stronger part of our attraction as he stated in the ADC he attended a few weeks ago.

Dean Duggar asked if there were any other issues? Dr. Seydel commented that a year ago the computer labs were upgraded to have office 2000 instead of office 97. Office 2002 and office XP are out now and we are still running office 2000 in the computer labs so we probably need to upgrade to office XP. John will talk with Mark Hoeting about university-wide plans. Dean Duggar stated that there is a draft document out recommending a minimum standard for computers if anyone hasn’t seen it. There’s a number of machines not using office 2000 right now. What started as a technology fee that could be used for different purposes is being wrapped into faculty only. Dean Duggar would like to have the money come to the colleges so that they can buy the computer that they need. There are concerns about centralization and problems of getting equipment when ordered. Dr. Roe stated that the meeting for Student Infrastructure will be coming up soon so we need to get a list together and Dean Duggar asked that this information be taken back to Department heads regarding this. Asked Dr. Seydel to make sure he gets big server on this list.

Richard Taylor asked how the budget was looking for next year. Dean Duggar stated that there isn’t an answer on this as yet. 2.13% reduction. Auxiliary services and athletics are not included in this budget reduction.

Dean Duggar discussed the Capital Campaign. He has draft of Brochure and would like everyone to look this over.

Fully funded professorship in MIS. Money for a Professorship/Fellowship in Finance/Bank Management and trying to get a Professorship/Fellowship in Supply Chain Management to come out of Transportation money.

Joe Bork commented that he had visited Hendricks College and that Acxiom built them a building. There is also a Don Reynolds Science Building on campus. Joe asked why can’t we go after these people for the Business building. Dean Duggar stated that the last round for our building went to Don Reynolds when he arrived at ASU. The University of Arkansas/Little Rock went to Las Vegas and did their presentation and we mailed ours. We are not sophisticated enough yet in fundraising. We need to have a full-time person to focus on the capital campaign. Dr. Wyatt’s vision for academics – access, graduate programs, external funding for research. Dr. Wyatt stayed for the entire meeting of the Horizon Institute. Joe Bork stated that his questions are questions he doesn’t see answers for, the COB needs a new building and he can’t understand why we can’t get it. Wal-Mart – need to get some of their board members together, get campaign literature together and approach them in regards to supporting ASU.

CURRICULA
Dean Duggar asked if there were any other issues in this area? The AACSB Team’s criticism when they were here was that we are stretched too thin. That it would be better to try to let one faculty member teach more sections of one course.

Dr. Seydel stated that the Fine Arts courses have been changed from 2 hour courses to 3 hour courses. May be a change in the number of hours in general education. UCC will need to get a clarification on this. Dean Duggar stated that if they up the number of hours required in general education, then maybe we’ll drop one of the FA classes required.

Don Lester stated that his Small Business Management class has four teams out of that class that are signed up for the Arkansas Business Competition. Reports are due April 5th and will be reviewed for the next two weeks after that and if they win, they will go to Little Rock for the final competition Governor’s Award.

Work with NE Arkansas Business to help with some research projects.

Dr. Bevill - Student Services Center stated that they are working on presentation for faculty. They will do this presentation after Spring Break on a Friday morning. She will be happy to do the presentation by department. Natasha and Michelle will also be helping in the presentation.

Joe Bork had brochures for the Golf Outing and passed them out to the committee members.

Dr. Washam stated that the accounting faculty are still working on the 150 hr course.

HOMECOMING 2002
The football game of ASU vs North Texas will be held on October 19, 2002. Deadline for special events that will be planned in conjunction with this weekend is June 1st and specific details of any event by July 15th in Alumni Office.

Next Planning Committee Meeting will be held on March 13, 2002 at 2:00 in the COB Conference Room BU105.

Meeting adjourned at 3:05 p.m.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins