EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
August 21, 2002

Present:

Jan Duggar
Sandra Bevill
Len Frey
Carleen Marburger
Bill Roe
Jim Washam

Others:

Chris Collins

Absent:

John Seydel

Mark Young

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

FALL ENROLLMENT
Dean Duggar reviewed the Fall class enrollment with the committee. Dr. Washam stated that he feels that they are down in enrollment. A section of Business Finance was cut and he’s had very few overrides. Dean Duggar felt that most of the principle classes are close to full. Dr. Roe was surprised with the enrollment in MIS and Management Science as he expected the numbers to be much higher. Dean Duggar will check with the other department heads on this enrollment. Advanced Management Finance class is low – 30 allowed with only 6 enrolled. Dean Duggar asked Dr. Roe if he was comfortable with not putting any advising holds on any MBA student. If they’re in the pre-MBA they still need a hold lifted until they are formally admitted.

Registration Comparison Report:

Graduate enrollment is up around 140 and overall university is up 199.

Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores are up, new freshman up, old freshman down.

Dean Duggar will write a letter to Rick and Tom that there not be a registration hold on any MBA student.

SUN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
The Jonesboro Sun articles were mentioned in the Faculty/Staff Meeting that there is a shortage of articles and we may lose our spot in the Jonesboro Sun if we don’t submit any articles. Dean Duggar commented that there is a crisis on Liability Insurance in the State – so if someone could write an article on this. Some nursing homes just cannot get it, so they are looking at a lot of early retirements due to this.

DOMAIN STATEMENTS
Dean Duggar commented that he would like to have time to meet with Steve Replogle to go over this.

COMMITTEE LIST FY2002-2003
Added Becky Carr to Outreach and Internship – Take off Natasha and Joe Bork (call Mark Young to get replacement for Joe Bork). Len Frey expressed interest in being added to Internship Committee.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES FOR FALL 2002-2003
Added TaMolly’s Night on September 9th. Changed day of Economic Outlook to Thursday. Add Retiree Luncheon on September 10th per Dean Duggar.

OTHER

Dr. Washam commented to Dean Duggar that his department was going to do some recruiting of their own if that was okay and Dean Duggar felt that it would be great.

Dean Duggar would like to e-mail the faculty when the date is confirmed for the meeting on the Capital Campaign four weeks from today.

Dean Duggar discussed with the committee the formal three year review of department heads when he came on board. Dean Duggar also commented that he doesn’t have any major complaints or on-going criticisms of any of his department heads. He would like to do an open questionnaire to the faculty to find out what they think of their department head and continue for another three years. Would the committee like to do the same with the Dean? (Three year review). The feeling was that it isn’t necessary for a formal review of the Dean. Dean Duggar asked if we should do this in the Spring or is that too late?

PLAN FORMAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT HEADS IN OCTOBER.

University’s Courses & Curriculum Committee – Dr. Frey is presently on this committee, but Dr. Frey feels that Dan Marburger would be a better representative on this committee since he is on the COB Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. However, Dean Duggar’s concern is for example: Engineering adding an MIS in Technology and offering one of our Management courses etc.

Meeting adjourned at 2:48 p.m.

Next meeting will be held on September 4, 2002 in the College of Business Conference Room, BU105 at 2:00 p.m.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins