EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
February 3, 2003

Present:

Jan Duggar
Sandra Bevill
Len Frey
Carleen Marburger
Bill Roe
John Seydel
Jim Washam
Mark Young (Alan came in Mark’s place)

Others:

Chris Collins

Absent:

Meeting was called to order by Dean Duggar at 3:36 p.m.

STUDENT INFRASTRUCTURE FEE ALLOCATION FOR SPRING 2002-2003
Dean Duggar informed the committee that we have received the student infrastructure fee. Dean Duggar will have Lorerinda order the remaining items needed.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF SELF-STUDY REPORT
Dean discussed the self-study report and commented that there are a number of items that have been focused on correcting.

UPC MEETING UPDATE
Dr. Roe updated the committee on the UPC Meeting. President Wyatt addressed the UPC on the state of the budget. Essentially stated that the legislature has been so consumed with the public schools and reorganization, that they have not taken up anything else, so higher education has not been discussed. Asked that the budget that we had previously, be restored, asking for salary increases, and asking for help in system for ASU and technical center. Not very optimistic. Too soon to be able to put together a budget we can count on. Continue to look at various scenarios of budget cuts and increases as there are a lot of possibilities to take place. Request from UALR for 3.1 billion dollars for Cyber Center. Commented that he was proud of the fact that we have done a good job of enrolling students here at the main campus and in the off-sites. Was able to repay technology infrastructure money – $489,000 paid back to the students.

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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUND RAISER LUNCHEON WITH GOVERNOR HUCKABEE
Carleen and Dean Duggar met with David Huckabee to solicit his help in soliciting his father’s assistance in the Capital Campaign. He is willing to come to Jonesboro and we would host a luncheon and sell tickets to the luncheon and he would speak on what we wanted him to speak on. Carleen got a fax on information we want to send to Gov. Huckabee. Dr. Roe asked if we could do a dinner instead. Dean Duggar asked the committee if we could do one in Little Rock. Carleen commented that she had talked about going to the Governor’s mansion but there were some legalities to that. Dean Duggar commented that the Governor has a new addition and could we ask for a reception at no charge and invite 20-30 key business leaders that have an affiliation to ASU. Have the Governor talk about his support of higher education. College initiative and support from these business leaders. Get someone from Alltel, Axciom, larger banks, brokerage firms. Carleen commented that the Governor would be willing to sign any letter we wanted him to sign. We need to designate a time so Carleen asked for suggestions from the committee.

Dean Duggar would like to do the Little Rock one around the first part of May. Where would we like to hold something like this here in Jonesboro? Jonesboro Country Club or Ridgepoint. Carleen asked how much would we charge per plate? Dean Duggar asked Carleen to let him think about this. Carleen suggested advertising to get some media attention.

REMINDERS:

2/3/03 – PRT CALENDAR – RETENTION RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1st YEAR FACULTY TO BE PROVIDED TO VCAA

Gauri-Shankar Guha – Dr. Seydel stated that he sent this down to the Dean’s office in November. Chris will check on this.

2/5/03 – FALL 2002 & SPRING 2003 SYLLABI DUE TO AA

All have been received

2/7/03 – BASELINE BUDGET DUE TO AA

All have been received. Dean discussed with the committee.

Old Initiatives

Taking MBA to distant sites and how it has impacted faculty.

Student Service Center retention that is ongoing.

New Initiatives

MS – Information Systems and E-Commerce

MS – Accounting

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Planning for Information Knowledged Based PhD

Budget Reform carryover for the centers

One Time Expenses

AS400

Enterprise System

Business Building

Executive MBA – Dr. Roe suggested they meet with President Wyatt to see if there is any seed money to get this started. Have a market study done. Dr. Roe said they have a program draft (not geared toward the medical profession).

OTHER

Dr. Bevill asked the committee to mark their calendars for April 1st at the Reng Center for panel discussion.

Merit Evaluations – Dr. Seydel has most collected, Dr. Washam – majority are in. Chair Evaluations are being collected.

$51, 200 for computers in 221. Spent under that – have $22,000 more to spend. Dr. Seydel asked if we are going to have a problem with the university if we don’t spend it on computers for the lab. Dean Duggar would like to make sure all the classrooms are in good shape. Dr. Seydel said that all the classrooms in this building should be set up with computers. Dr. Frey asked if all projectors have been secured. Dr. Seydel said 417 is done and 416 is done. Take the $22,000 to buy new projectors for ones that were stolen.

AACSB Information – Dr. Roe wanted to remind the chairs about this – he sent the form out to them to fill out and get back to him.

Dean Duggar discussed his visit to the business school in Little Rock. It only has about 10 classrooms. Primarily an office building- has two buildings connected by an atrium – back of atrium there is a food service area – can bring in sandwiches and pizza and has a lot of seating and spills out onto the outside. The building is modest in the sense that there is not a lot of tiering of classrooms – only one riser. Auditorium that seats about 80 on first floor. Microsoft Office classroom that is tiered with about 54 computers. Executive MBA classroom. 3 board type rooms – one is really nice, one that is nice and one that is plain. Largest will seat about 20. Does have modern wiring – didn’t have enough money to connect everything. There are plugs and internet connection in every chair in the classrooms. Small screens are used in the classrooms – seemed to be bit of a problem. Auditorium has a backslide projector so it has a large screen. One issue that concerned Dean Duggar was that every computer and every projector is connected so that if one goes off an alarm goes off. They have put one of their stairwells on the outside of

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the building and it is glassed in . 350 students with 3 elevators and 4 stairwells. Bathroom facilities are nice and sizeable. One of the areas that was controversial was that the Dean wanted to get rid of the traffic in his office so they have put the departmental offices together in one suite, one suite in student advisory and all secretaries

are pooled. All of the faculty offices are identical 10 x 12. All have curved desk table on one side with storage units. (Modular furniture) There is a nice faculty lounge area with a porch out on top of one of the lower levels. There are areas for coffee on every floor.

The atrium can seat about 350. It is wired so you have good surround sound.

The Economic Development area is fairly extensive – combined two faculty offices – little library primarily for economic development activities but open to students. Their building is 98,000 sq feet and ours is supposed to be 120,000 sq feet.

The architects are telling Dean Duggar that in about 8 weeks they can have a rendering of the building. They are going to come back to us to work on the planning of the building. The Wilson Hall replacement will be before us. Dr. Frey asked what the President was going to do with Wilson Hall once the new one is built. Dr. Frey said they were told not to put anymore money into the building.

2/14/03 – PRT Calendar – Dean Duggar to receive applications and recommendations from College PRTC

Next meeting will be held on February 17, 2003 at 3:30 p.m. in the COB Conference Room BU105.

Meeting adjourned at 4:32 p.m.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins