Present:
Dean Duggar
Dr. Bill Roe
Dr. Sandra Bevill
Dr. Charles Ford
Dr. Len Frey
Carleen Marburger
Dr. Jeff Pittman
Dr. Tina Quinn
Dr. Steve Replogle
Dr. John Seydel
Dr. Jim Washam
Mark Young

Others:
Chris Collins
Crystal Crockett
Dean George Grant
Dr. Gauri Guha
Sarath Nonis
Paula Ruby
Absent:

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

LIBRARY AND DATABASES
Dean Grant thanked the committee for allowing them to attend this meeting. Allocate $400,000 of new money to various departments. With money 50% increase in
allocation within the departments. There will be some strict guidelines. Linda Cryborn –
acquisitions allocation memo from her, Myron Flugstaff – head of technical services
within the library. Linda – giving us a 50% increase over what we had previously. Previously $63,000, we now have $95,000. The chairs have a letter indicating their complete allocation and a bottom line of how much faculty should be spending. You
have to spend at least 10% on the books. Dean has a listing of the current journals
listed for the business department. Who takes ownership of which of these so they
know how much money they have for other things. Journals that have been cut from
the college have been included in the packet, take a look at those and see what you
want added back. Survey of Departmental Library Procedures have been inserted
into the packets. Must have this back before they can order anything for the
departments. Need to know who is going to be responsible for allocating the money.
Dean Duggar asked Dean Grant to comment on the tremendous variance in journals. Dean Grant stated that the prices are skyrocketing. Some universities are refusing to
pay this price. Harvard cancelled a subscription. Dean Duggar asked how we would be able to know if that journal is available full text on-line. Dean Grant stated that you
will have to check it one by one. If a journal is available electronically, then maybe we need to cancel the printed copy. Myron: It is on-line – encompass article searcher,
allows you to search different databases at the same time. Use campus ID and login.
Dean Duggar asked if there is an average price for a book. Linda stated that they have that, but she didn’t bring it with her. Dr. Washam asked if the price he’s getting, the
same as what the Library gets? Linda commented that they pay more and sometimes
they get a discount. Dr. Replogle asked if we have the ability to see if a subscription is available on-line so then if we wanted to get a hard copy, we could order it. Dean Grant prefers to have some kind of liaison person as Dr. Frey asked if they prefer a list of everything the department wants rather than several different requests. Dean Duggar would like a reallocation of the journals and then divide them up between the departments. Collection/Development Calendar for making allocations this next week. September/December to review subscriptions and decide what to cancel if anything and when a subscription is cancelled, the money stays with the department. Guidelines say
you have to involve students. Maybe be a part of your committee to make selections. T
his is really the student’s money. Student Recommendations – 3 books per semester – and this is the library’s money. Charles Ford – during the year most of faculty will
receive textbooks that we don’t need, can we give them to the library. Dean Grant
stated that we could give them to the library. Link on Library’s Web Site – Library Development Program – opportunity for one of your students to add a book to the
library as a thank you for contributing to their career. $50 donated to the library –
student and professor’s name is added to the database. It can also be an appreciation
for mother, father, etc. This is just an opportunity for students to add to the library. In memory of someone. Dean Duggar asked Dean Grant if he gets a list of books for the COB that should be added to the collection. There are some selection tools available.
Dean Duggar asked if there was any money left for the college. Allocated $90,000 to
the 4 departments. Dean Grant needs 4 contacts from each department and needs
form back ASAP.

EVALUATION OF CHAIRS
Dean Duggar would like to consider a better evaluation system for the Chairs and Centers.

EVALUATION OF CENTER DIRECTORS
Non-classified center directors are not evaluated. Non-faculty, non-classified are evaluated. What can we do to better track our centers? Partly evaluation and partly planning. Shouldn’t the centers have a mission, goals, etc? Dean may not know the
extent of the center’s activities even though he knows what they do. Mission, Objectives and evaluating the center’s more formally. Starting with January – at end of the year
there would be a center report along with individual faculty report. Ex: Joe Horsley what the center did as well as what Joe did. Evaluated pro-rata according to what that responsibility is. This should also go along with the Chairs as what they do for the department. The difficulty is that there will be different responses for different
disciplines. Jim may recruit readily for accounting, but may not for economics. Dean Duggar would like to put together a document to list the chairs and their
responsibilities. Dr. Ford asked – so we won’t have the questionnaire on faculty?
Dean Duggar commented that we will probably do those so he can see them. Dr.
Pittman – we’re held accountable for our individual actions, but not for our discipline.
Can we develop something that shows accountability for the discipline? Look at these concept documents and give Dean Duggar your suggestions on these. Mark Young
asked a question on the center’s activity. They have developed their own criteria and doesn’t know if it’s applicable to the other centers.

STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT
Dean Duggar commented that there’s a lot of discussion around campus on Student
Code of Conduct. Students say that there is rampid cheating on campus. The Nursing Program has their own Student Code of Conduct. Would like to work with our students
on a Student Code of Conduct that our students will sign. Deal with cheating, what
employers expect with employees. Dean Duggar asked if there was someone who would volunteer to develop the Student Code of Conduct. Tina – do something in their department – Tina said they were working on a Code of Ethics within their department.
Dr. Ford to send a copy of a code to the Dean. Carleen volunteered to work with Dean Duggar on this.

ETHICS PROGRAM
Dean Duggar commented on the upcoming Ethics Program that will be held on
October 1, 2004 in the Convocation Center Auditorium. Registration begins at 8:30
a.m. and the program begins at 9:00 – 2:00. It is $25 for everyone and $5 for students. Dean Duggar is putting together a packet of information for everyone. Dean Duggar
asked that the department chairs urge faculty to send students. Dean Duggar discussed the various sections to be discussed. He also asked that everyone urge those that
need ethics to attend. Bank Director Training credit, CPA, CPE Credit, credit for
attorneys, etc. AACSB finds that business is weak in this area. Dr. Washam asked if students can come for one section and Dean Duggar said yes. If students don’t stay for lunch, then there’s no charge.

SUMMER CAMPS
University has asked that if we are going to have summer camps, let them know by the end of November so arrangements can be made. Pre-semester event – week before classes start, have a one day leadership outdoor event, day or two of technology,
canoe trip for new freshman in business. A summer technology camp – if you’re
looking at camps, please let Dean Duggar know. We have to provide supervision
if they live on-campus – it’s about $20 day for room/board.

ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES – THE $80K
$40,000 for research program – for trips. Now we can go to the research office and
fund the activity. $40,000 in AA to fund faculty development. Sending someone
overseas to give a paper – they will participate in that funding. First-come, first-serve basis. Please make this known to faculty.

PREVIEW DAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
Would like us to consider what we can do to improve our effectiveness. Dr. Allen is
going to take role to make sure all colleges are represented. Are we presenting our
very best professional image? Update materials, pictures, storyboard, banners,
handouts etc. Dean would like this to be as professional as we can and make things portable so we can take the board with us. Also, graduate school would like us to come
to places they are going to. Tom has some sites where he is going for recruiting, UCA, Harding, Blytheville, where we can go – need to work this in our schedule if we can.
Can we set up a cooperative relationship with universities that don’t offer students a
5th year? Carleen stated that they will need volunteers to man the group but she’ll
send out an e-mail.

ICT ASSESSMENT
Educational Testing Service (ETS) would like for us to participate in the pilot. Use our students in the Introductory Class MIS1503 and students in the Management Capstone Class and see what we get out of that. That would be this semester in October. Registration information is about 20-30 minutes and two hours for the exam. Dean
said that it is his understanding that we would be able to do this in our labs here in the college. We will not get a national norm for this first-time around because it hasn’t
been developed yet.

FACULTY/STAFF FALL PICNIC
Dean Duggar asked everyone to please give a count of how many will be attending the picnic. Dean Duggar is looking for volunteers to cook boston butts. Dr. Frey suggested having Jim Steele cook all of them for us. Keep pork separate, with separate utensils,
etc. Send another e-mail for everyone to respond so we know how many people are
going to attend for food purposes.

Dr. Pittman – have a low cost design person to make some visual improvements. Dean Duggar asked facilities management to do this and they wanted to hire an outside architect at $30-$40,000 and we can’t do that. We did get some money for new furniture
in the foyer. Dean Duggar will talk with George and Jerry to look into this. Dr. Ford – suggested asking Claudia Shannon to do this. She and her husband have interior design degrees from the University of Memphis.

October 8 & 15th - bringing in High School Counselors for recruiting.
Planning Committee Meeting Minutes
September 13, 2004
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Dr. Replogle announced that the Night Rotation Program is now available.

Meeting adjourned at 4:55 p.m.

Next meeting scheduled for September 27, 2004 at 3:30 p.m. in the COB Conference Room BU105 has been cancelled due to Dean and Dr. Roe being out of town.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins