PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
March 27, 2002

Present:

Sandra Bevill
Jan Duggar
Carleen Marburger
Sarath Nonis (replacing Dr. Ford)
Steve Replogle (replacing Dr. Frey)
Terry Roach
John Seydel
Jim Washam

Others:

Chris Collins

Absent:

David Boyd
Charles Ford
Len Frey
Bill Roe
Mark Young

Meeting was called to order by Dean Duggar at 2:10 p.m.

TECHNOLOGY PLANNING ISSUES
Discussion on technology needs for COB. Mark Hoeting came and spoke about this and Dean Duggar gave Mark an outline that was distributed to the committee today. He stated that it will probably need to be updated as we go along. We want to infuse technology throughout the curriculum where appropriate to develop AIS courses, HR MGMT etc. In terms of the core, we have a lot of access to software, but we have very few people that are able to use it. Need a larger server and data warehouse. Dr. Moeeni is working with optical read and sort. Ongoing Allegiance Cardinal virtual lab. Need higher speed access to the internet. Degree wise – applying for MS in Management Information Systems and E-Commerce by summer. Sometime in the future, a DBA or PhD in Information Systems. Asked committee to review these issues and modify where appropriate.

DBA or PhD – Dean Duggar commented that if we do consider a dba or PhD then we should look at confidential report. Supply Chain Management not talked about much and Dean Duggar feels that maybe he’s left something out. In Finance area need a live feed or market board. Dean Duggar told Carleen that the University is pretty committed to Net 2.(Super high speed replacement of the internet system). The University would like to announce by next April. Dean Duggar asked Dr. Seydel and Technology Committee to look at list and see if there is anything else that needs to be added.

BUDGET
President Wyatt told the Vice President last week that he was going to have a major presentation of the budget yesterday. Dr. Wyatt presented the budget as he sees it. Indicated tuition increase of 6.9%. No fee increase for Jonesboro campus. Fees and tuition will increase on all other ASU campuses. Policy and salary savings will be suspended next year. Indicated no salary increases for anyone on the Jonesboro campus. Indicated that as they go into the legislative session – make salary high priority. Indicated that at end of the year they would look at the Clip program and if there are any end of year funds they may give some out of that but not making a commitment to this at this time. Indicated the completion of the budget had to be completed by April 5th.

Education, Sociology and Nursing and others for 7 faculty positions. Carrying forward 231,000 for new VP AA. 70,000 for faculty promotions. Faculty Equity – 50,321. Operational Increase for VP’s (4 VP areas) – slush fund – can be used for area meetings etc. Diversity Initiative - $100,000 new position (Glen Jones has been offered position).

FACULTY HONORS CONVOCATION
Dean Duggar asked the committee if they wanted faculty to be honored at the University Faculty Honors Convocation.

FACULTY AWARDS (Deadline is today)

Received Dr. Washams – Dr. Seydel will give his two and I have Dr. Frey’s already too.

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
Dean had a planning meeting this morning with Dr. Wyatt and Steve Owens. Booklet will be finished in April and printed. Must set up some photo shoots to get faculty and students in these. Straly Snipes will have a summary this week to use as a three fold. We should have a nice folder to use for potential donor. $26 Million campaign. Building will be down Marshall with a parking lot on Marshall and building back of Marshall. Dr. Wyatt has agreed to make his home available for any potential donor luncheons, etc. Leadership group to come together and get orientated and have kick off with Dr. Wyatt – 2nd meeting with trucking firm, adv group, bank group etc. September – start the geographic meetings in about 12 locations – Memphis and foothills will be out of state, all other meetings will be in state. Get alumns to host meetings. Doing Little Rock the Friday before the Little Rock football game. Trying to get a meeting finalized with Dr. Wyatt and business leaders in Jonesboro – Fowlers, Trouts etc. Following up with EDA to get a contribution like they did at Little Rock. We are getting schlolarships in – retired faculty member transferred $31,000 of Walmart stock to scholarships and has asked to remain anonymous. Other scholarship contributions have been coming in – John Tipton – Don Stone and so on. Carleen asked if the business leaders on the board for the capital campaign – are they going to tour the building and see the pressing stated it is in. Dean got a call from Dr. McDaniel to meet on budget and getting a fulltime person to work on the capital campaign. Nice material and COB viewbook, leadership team made up of people who can call anyone to set up appointment, geographic groups that will host meetings, sector group (bankers, cpa’s) etc. We will need people in the College to help as well. Do not have money yet for a new architect for the new site. Preparing materials for the Walton Foundation, the Kresge Foundation to visit with them. Nonis – are COB’s prohibited from doing anything in the stock market? Dean said no. Endowed funds are invested in a mixed portfolio per Dean. The College’s portion of the campaign will be about 25% of the University’s campaign. Replogle – asked if we are far enough along on the features of the building to name it. Carleen asked if any present students could be involved in the fund-raising? Like in a class. Dean Duggar felt this was a great idea.

COMMON COURSE NUMBER FOR THE ASU SYSTEM
System asks that all common courses have similar numbering. If there is a plus by it, then the number has changed. Fine Arts classes are now 3 hours.

OTHER

State of Online Learning via ASU-J

Overview of online learning – Dr. Allen put this together for informational purposes.

Number of FTE Students per FTE Faculty

Full-time Equivalent by year. 2nd table - % of classes under 20 students. ASU – 44%

On Back – student/faculty ratio – highest in Arkansas 19/1

Treasury Management Seminar – April 12, 2002

(15 registered)

Carleen – Sr. Preview Day – good opportunity for us to showcase the COB. We had 8 students. Sound system was bad at armory so students did not hear to follow faculty reps to COB. Students left with a smile, everybody did a great job helping.

Actively involve the students in some type of program – think it will be better.

Sandra – major curriculum sheets and change in Gen. Ed. Community College Liasion people are coming to the COB – 11th of April – get chairs and faculty involved. Introduce them to new degree plan and gen ed requirements. Faculty will need some training before new student orientation before summer. First group of students coming May 28th for new student orientation. Summer school begins the 29th. Gen ED requirements are still evolving. Natasha is working on another sheet for faculty.

April 26- Ridgepoint – Golf Outing – Joe Bork – begins at 11:00 a.m. Light lunch before that. Need volunteers for that day.

Mark, Jerry and Joe have a team – Jan has a team.

Emerald Gala – $4000 made on silent auction, scholarship contributions and ticket sales. Dean will get something out to faculty so they know how we made out on this. Talking about moving the gala to a weekend again.

Terry – phase out of Westark. Who is going to advise ASU students still at Westark. Will still get degrees from ASU even though they will going to U of A.

May 4th will be graduation.

63 graduates – largest they’ve had

Dr. Nonis – exit surveys a little behind on those because he needs the data.

Washam - Accting Faculty working on 150 hr program. MS Degree working on. Finance asked a few alumni on finance program, what should be included etc.

Seydel – MIS Degree has no emphasis areas. Consolidation has been approved.

Meeting adjourned at 3:20 p.m.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins