President's Council Meeting Summary
Present: Dene Thomas,
Absent: Tony Fernández,
Guest:
Ken Clark
Calendar Review
Calendars
for February and March were distributed noting President’s travel and major
campus events.
President’s Report
President
Thomas traveled to
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Safety Training Facility (Skid Pad Phase II): Land, site preparation and
facility construction.
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Firefighting Distance Education: Develop curriculum for on-line delivery
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American Indian Students in the Leadership of Education: Provide distance
delivery and summer certification program to paraprofessionals and others
interested in working with American Indian students education and obtaining
teaching certification.
Ken Clark reported on
meetings with the
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The visit to DC
had two purposes: (a) Thank the Senators for support for LCSC and the National
Youth Sports Program which will enter its 30th year; and attend the
NYSP annual meeting. (b) Visit with our Senators on Capitol Hill and
follow up with any questions they might have about our appropriations requests.
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LCSC’s American Indian Student Leadership in Education grant
has been funded ($457,345) for FY 2004. This makes our 2005 request a
second phase of this same project, which increases our chances of further
funding. The project is modeled after
tribal school community for higher graduation rate.
·
Senator Crapo
asked for a letter written by us for him (he’ll make revisions before sending)
to send to the FMCSA requesting $285K of the previous $695K award to be used to
purchase land for the skid pad project.
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The Senator’s
office also requested some paper document to prove that we are able to buy the
land we are seeking, as well as a written contract from the National Guard
Engineering Unit that they are committed to site development for the Skid Pad
project.
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The proposals
President Thomas took to
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We had a project
group working on a Title III Development Grant. Because the deadline for
it was February 26th, and we had much more work to do than time to
do it, I asked the committee if we could continue working on the project for
next year’s funding cycle. We have a much better chance of being funded
if we do our homework, instead of cutting corners and turning in sloppy
work. They held a meeting February 13th and agreed to continue
to work.
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This office is
committed to joining with Polly Blasko and visiting each Division and educating
them about the grants process. No one has to do the work alone.
We’ll organize a project group for each proposal. It’s more enjoyable and
the participation of several knowledgeable people results in a much better
proposal.
· I hope to meet with Senior Administration and propose modifying the indirect cost distribution system to provide incentives for grant writers. The extra incentive will increase the number of people willing to write a grant, we’ll organize a project group to help them, and the more grants we write, the more external funding we can generate for LCSC.
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On-line grant
program needs to be replaced by an off-the-shelf version. Allen Schmook is
assisting in the search.
President
Thomas attended the Workforce Development Council meeting on February 13 in
JFAC voted Monday for a $223.3 million
general fund budget that does not provide more money for more students or
facility occupancy costs. The general fund increase of 2.5 percent will pay
only a portion of the $8.5 million needed to give raises to employees and cover
their benefits. The difference will come from increases in student fees. The State Board approved 8.5% fee
increase. President Thomas will go back
to the Board and request the full 9.98% increase. President Thomas has agreed to not ask for
more than 9.98% if student leadership will support that request.
Two positions on the State Board of
Education are due for reappointment or for new appointment. Terms expiring are James
Provost and Vice Presidents’
Reports
Provost:
On February 10th, the
Administrative Services:
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The Compensation
Review Committee met on February 12.
Issues are being discussed and recommendations will be formed.
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The occupancy
date for the
Student Affairs:
Dr. Meier attended the
Association of Student Judicial Affairs officers meeting in
The Strategic Enrollment
Management Committee will meet today at
Direct
Reporting Units
Athletics:
Baseball season opened on February 13.
Due to the
Information Technology:
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The Information
Technology Resource Management Council (ITRMC) reviews and evaluates the
information technology and telecommunications systems presently in use by state
agencies, and prepares statewide short and long-range IT and Telecommunications
Plans. ITRMC met on February 13. Institutions
of higher education have been categorized with the other state agencies which
are required to request exemptions for products that are not on the standards
list. Allen Schmook
recommends a close review of the standards and exemption requests.
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Information
Technology is conducting a periodic review of computer security/disaster
recovery policies/procedures written June 2002.\ to incorporate suggestions of
homeland security and department of defense.
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The new
connection to the Internet via XO Communications is in place. The IT department's system engineers are
stress testing the new "pipe" to determine its capacity and verify
its reliability. If there are no
problems we will move the campus to the new provider on Friday, February 27, at
College Communications: We need to do a better job on getting the
word out on high visibility campus visitors.
Institutional Research and Planning: The fall Northwest Commission on College and
Universities five-year, interim accreditation visit will be in October. The exact date will not be determined until
May when the two evaluators have been assigned.
Grade Point Average
Summary – Fall 2003
The following averages are
based on the Fall 2003 semester GPA for the cohort
group of academic and technical students who are First-Time, First-Year,
Full-Time, Degree-Seeking. Any GPA of 0
was excluded.
Cohort Group Number
of Students Average
GPA
All FT-FY Students 388 2.70
All FT-FY Students except
FT-FY SSS Students 318 2.69
All FT-FY SSS Students 70 2.75
All FT-FY SSS Students except
CAMP* 38 2.63
All FT-FY
*All 32 CAMP students are
also in the SSS program
Other Reports
The Classified Staff Organization will conduct their Silent
Auction on March 4 and continue to sell the remaining books.
The next President's Council will be on Wednesday, February
25, at