Present:
Dean Duggar
Dr. Bill Roe
Dr. Sandra Bevill
Dr. Len Frey
Carleen Marburger
Dr. John Seydel
Dr. Jim Washam
Mark Young

Others:
Chris Collins

Absent:

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

Dr. Roe reported on the ADC meeting today. Getting more graduate assistants. Dean George Grant, Library Dean would like to meet with the Department Chairs to get some input from each chair regarding their concerns for the library. Wants to know if the library is suitable to your needs. Any concerns, send to him. Set up a meeting in about a month to meet with Dean Grant to discuss these concerns.

PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A NEW DEPARTMENT
Dean Duggar discussed the idea of pulling computer; MIS, etc. out of the EDS Department and make a new department. Look at systematic process of who should be in the department; prepare an application for submission to the Board of Trustees and the Arkansas Department of Higher Education Board. Pursue meeting with the faculty on this proposal and transition would probably be in August before we get approval from the various boards. Use the same secretary for both groups for some time period. What degrees go with this department? Start working on a Strategic Plan and start finalizing as we get into the fall semester. Dean Duggar would like the discussion and support of the committee. There are eight economists in the department, two QM courses, Business Statistics and Operations Management. There was some discussion regarding bringing in Computer Science people into the MIS Department. Computer Science only has one chair, Jeff Jennus and 3 faculty members at present. Dr. Seydel asked if Dean Duggar if he has met with Dr. Susan Allen on this and Dean Duggar stated that he has met with Dr. Allen and that she was positive about this. Dean Duggar would like the faculty in this discipline to come together and take ownership of this department and look beyond where we are today. Such as, how we can serve students and industry in the future. Dean Duggar and Dr. Seydel could meet next week on this.

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INTERNATIONAL CAREER DAY
Carleen discussed International Career Day which will be held on April 1, 2004 from 10-2 p.m. and will be involving the entire University. Kathryn Cotton, etc. An e-mail will go out tomorrow notifying everyone of the event and soliciting their participation. Carleen commented that they will need people to prepare food, schedule a speaker, etc. Louella Moore will be setting up a Tai Chi demonstration. Mark Young gave Carleen the name of someone who could speak and she is to e-mail him.

BEGIN SELECTION OF DISTINQUISHED ALUMNI FOR HONORS BANQUET
The COB Honors Banquet will be held on April 12, 2004 in the Convocation Center Hames Rooms at 6:30 p.m. therefore; it is time to select our Distinguished Alumni for the banquet. The following were suggestions given by the committee:

James Mooney – Acxiom – Dr. Seydel suggested
Jim Pickens – Mark Young suggested
Carleen to put out something to faculty/staff for nominating some people.
Beta Gamma Sigma Honoree – need nominations for these as well
Betty Sloan – Carleen suggested for Beta Gamma Sigma
Mark Duckworth – Dr. Roe suggested for Beta Gamma Sigma
Outstanding Young Alumni – Matt Allen (in charge of global banking for Microsoft) – AFL pay for expenses if he would come? See if he would come to a couple of classes on Monday and Tuesday during the Honors Banquet.
Alumni Breakfast – Distinguished Alumni – Dean suggested Dwayne Powell
E-mail Dr. Roe suggestions for Beta Gamma Sigma Honoree

SELECT DATE FOR PLANNING RETREAT
August 13, 2004 – Check Dean’s calendar
Look at the lake – Heber Springs or Norfork, Gaston’s?
Dean cannot make the August 14, 2004 date, therefore; need to select another date.

SELECT DATE FOR FACULTY/STAFF PICNIC
Chris asked the committee what dates they would like for the picnic, if they still wanted it held in the Pavilion and if the wanted to hire Philip Jackson again. Dean Duggar commented that the music major that played for the Christmas event with Carleen and Henry Torres was excellent and we should try to ask him and his price is very reasonable as well. Dean Duggar has his card so he wants me to see if he can play for us. He has a little band.

OTHER
Dean Duggar – adjustment money for faculty and he doesn’t want to lose it. Look at equity issue, people out of line in market and productive people. If we go ahead and allocate all that money, and then have someone you want to hire and salary is $2,000

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more than administration will approve, and then this money could come out of this so that’s the problem he has with using it all.

AFL - Dr. Washam commented that as far as the AFL position they are back at square one.
EDS - Dr. Seydel stated that they have an MIS candidate coming in on Friday.

MM – Dr. Frey stated that they have Jack Carson coming in next Thursday for the OB position. They have one other position open and Nareatha Studdard has accepted position.

Dr. Frey announced to the committee that Dr. Ford will be having bypass surgery on Tuesday next week. Management/Marketing is covering his position while he is out.

Revision of Merit Document still on the table.
Code of Ethics – Friday was the deadline – Dean Duggar asked Dr. Washam to contact Dr. Pittman and ask him to finalize this document so we can adopt it.

Dr. Ford would like to appoint someone to the Graduate Council since he will be out.

Carleen – Business Connection – need some information on research activities. Dr. Roe asked if we could just put a section in there with what people have done, trips, publications, etc.

Research Grant Requests – not successful in getting this. Dean would like to try to find a way to get 8-10 grants out all the time. Some would be small, some larger. Pepsi-Co Corp has a Pepsi Foundation and get through them through Frito-Lay (this is just one example) and this takes time to get to them. Union Pacific Railroad.

Dean Duggar met with Jerry Halsey and Bruce Burrow and they would like us to do a Chair in Real Estate. There is a possibility of getting support for this. Dean asked them to run a list of alumnus working in real estate – 320 realtors/developers. Rick Ashey (largest shopping center developers in LR/AR). Many brokers/owners are ASU graduates in this area. Put a proposal together for Endowed Chair.
Dean Duggar asked who the committee thought would be involved in this.

Mark Young asked if Don Cotton could come to speak at the Planning Committee. Dean Duggar thought that would be good.

Meeting adjourned at 4:26 p.m.

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Next meeting scheduled for February 16, 2004 in the COB Conference Room BU105 at 3:30 p.m.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins