President's Council Meeting Summary

October 9, 2002

 

 

Present:  Dene Thomas, Kathy Martin, Rob Lohrmeyer, Dean Froehlich, Whitney Pugh, Carmen Rahm, Deacon Meier, Richard Moore, Chet Herbst, Janis VanHook

 

Absent:  Renee Hofeldt, Patty Leonard, Rita Morris

Guest:  Dawn Byers

 

Calendar Review

Calendars for October and November were distributed noting President’s travel and major campus events.

October 14                    ICHEF meeting with Governor Kempthorne

October 28                    LCSC Day at Coeur d’Alene Center

November 5                  Election Day – Presidents’ Council in Boise

November 11-12           North Idaho Legislative Tour

 

President’s Update

 

  • President Thomas presented the institution’s progress report to the State Board of Education on Thursday, October 3.  The report was accepted without questions and received positive comments.

 

  • Eastern Idaho Technical College has requested the institution’s name change to Eastern Idaho College. To change the name, the Board must approve proposed legislation to modify Idaho Code.  The Board deferred discussion until they have an opportunity to review such a change in the perspective of the whole Idaho system.  Given the timing of the Board’s review, President Thomas intends to request consideration be given to changing Lewis-Clark State College to Lewis-Clark State University.   One major benefit would be to distinguish by name recognition Lewis-Clark from the community colleges.

 

Provost and Vice Presidents’ Reports

 

Administrative Services

 

  • Student Fees Indexing:  The Financial Vice Presidents discussed indexing.  Institutions will submit pros and cons of the proposed options which will be complied and submitted to the Presidents’ Council.

 

  • Governmental Accounting Standards Board: All governmental future financial audit reports will meet the GASB 35 reporting requirements.  This has been a major change for higher education reporting.  Beginning in December, financial reports will look totally different.  Comparative history will not exist.

 

  • Equity Funding:   Equity funding continues to be a major issue for all institutions with the Board.  LC will need to study this issue and prepare for continued debate at the State Board level.

 

  • Differential Course Fees:  Institutions are requesting differential fees for certain courses on a case-by-case basis. 

 

School of Technology

 

Tech Prep Program:

 

Students who are under 16

Students who are under 16 are not given college credit while taking a Tech Prep articulated class.  Out of the 154 students we had roughly 29 students recorded during 10th day that were 15 years old.  During this fall semester 3 students turned 16 years old.  Our records show that 13 students will turn 16 years old during the spring semester.  Students who are registered as 15 years old will need to be administratively withdrawn.

 

Grand total of 10th day students minus the 26 under aged students equals 128 students.  There are a small number of students continuing to register, which means that the original 10th day head count is not to far off.  In fact, as of this morning we show 204 students registered in Tech Prep articulated classes minus 26 under aged students equal 178 Tech Prep students.  The main Tech Prep focus has been on cleaning up articulations, taking advantage of competitive grant opportunities and forming strong contacts in the high schools. 

 

FYI:  Students can receive college credit for current articulated classes taken during their junior and senior year.  They can also receive retro active college credit for classes taken under 16 years of age if:

  1. The classes that were taken were part of an articulated state “Tech Prep Program” (Tech Prep Program = series of logical classes ending in a capstone course.)
  2. If the student completes all classes in the program including the capstone course, which is the last course of the sequence.

 

Considering varying demographics of Idaho’s regions, sometime ago it was agreed by the coordinators to not have a uniform method of running Tech Prep in all of Idaho’s regions.  After I inquired about enrollment and grading processes in the various regions I was informed of many different methods.  Most regions do not enroll students until late in the semester (not counting students for 10th day).  Once the class has finished they evaluate high school student grades and report whether they received an “A”, “B”, or some other identifier for those students receiving grades below Tech Prep’s “B” or better policy.  Coordinators seem to not designate an “F” for those students not receiving the “B” or better.  Instead they are giving “NR” for not recorded or something similar.  Below is a recommended policy after consulting regional and state coordinators.

 

Draft Policy: students taking Tech Prep articulated courses:

  1. Will not receive college credit for grades lower than a “B”.
  2. May withdraw up to the last day of class.
  3. Can petition for a grade appeal under special circumstances.
  4. May be administratively withdrawn at anytime.

 

Year Long High School Classes

In the past, students that were enrolled for year long classes such as “accounting” were not enrolled until the start of the their second high school semester.  The reasoning was that some students would come to the realization that they would never become “accountants” and would most likely drop the second semester class.  In this case students that would drop at semester weren’t even signed up so no harm done.  The students who chose to continue would sign up for “Accounting” the start of their second high school semester and be counted for the year long class. 

 

Due to the new process created this year to allow students in yearlong classes to register at the beginning of the academic year, it is necessary

 

Community Programs

Center for Arts and History:  Gallery schedules were distributed and can be referenced on the Center’s web site.   The Lewis and Clark theme will be prominent for the next couple of years.  The Center and Community Programs have received additional grant funding to bring the educational component to the public schools. 

 

Direct Reporting Units

 

College Advancement Report

 

LCSC is different from any other institution in the state, and so are our alumni and friends.  Our alumni are teachers, nurses, social workers and corrections officers, auto mechanics, welders, medical and legal secretaries.  They tend not to be the CEO’s of multi-billion dollar corporations. They tend not to be the recipients of stock options and golden parachutes.   Our alumni can make a huge financial difference for LCSC, but for the most part, they can make that difference as a collective group, with lots and lots of smaller gifts.   Our local non-alumni friends, on the other hand, tend to be those with significant assets, capable of making major gifts.

 

With state revenue down, fund raising efforts take on even more importance.  We have to become more financially self-sufficient. We are developing ways to reach, reconnect with, and pique the interest of more and more of our alumni and friends.  To help keep the momentum moving forward during this time of state budget holdbacks, staffing of the College Advancement Office has been rearranged, with some salary savings moved into program support. 

Activity Center Campaign

Pledges for the Activity Center continue, for the most part, to be paid with confidence.  A handful of donors have expressed concern over the holdback of construction funds, a few have indicated that they will finish their pledges when the state funding is released.  One pledge has been cancelled.  The understanding is that the project is on hold, and is not an “if” it’s a “when”. 

 

Campaign expenses, which total just under $200,000, were not included in the campaign fundraising.  The Foundation is responsible for this debt.  Funds raised from the adoption of seats in the Activity Center are slated for these expenses.

 

Major Gifts

In FY ’02, the Foundation provided funding for a series of donor cultivation dinners and luncheons which will mainly be used as the building blocks of our major gift program, cultivating local, non-alumni donors.  This program will also help keep engaged major donors to the Activity Center as their campaign pledges are completed.

 

In FY ’02, we received 15 more gifts of over $1,000 than in 2001, and raised a total of $424,885 from this group, up from $290,534 in 2001.  This represents a 32% increase in major gifts.

 

The Foundation Scholars Program continues to be a solid attraction for major donors.  So far this year, we have 13 ½ scholars adopted at $1500 each, for a total of $20,250.  The Planning and Development Committee of the Foundation is currently working on recruiting additional adopters.  The Foundation Scholarships will total $36,000 this year with 24 scholars.  The Foundation covers Foundation Scholarships not contributed by adopters through other unrestricted funds.

Planned Gifts

Planned gift opportunities continue to be marketed to all of our alumni who graduated in 1970 or earlier and selected individuals, through a 3x yearly newsletter.  The most common form of planned gift we receive is a bequest, usually for endowed scholarship.  On average, we receive one bequest of $60,000 plus each year.

Advertising

Advantage Advertising is in the second years of a two-year contract to cover general image and recruitment advertising for the College.  The new campaign will be reviewed in October for implementation beginning in January 2003.  Advertising focuses on markets in the local region, in Boise, and in Coeur d’Alene.

 

Other Reports

 

Faculty Senate:   ICHEF will meet with Governor Kempthorne on Monday, October 14.  There will not be a Faculty Senate meeting on October 10. 

 

Meeting Adjourned

The next President's Council will be on Wednesday, October 16 at 9:00 a.m., in the Alumni Board Room.