President's Council Meeting Summary
Present: Dene Thomas,
Absent: Tony Fernàndez,
Calendar Review
Calendars
for October, November, December and January were distributed noting President’s
travel and major campus events.
President’s Report
Senator
Craig’s educational and appropriations liaison visited with President Thomas,
Ken Clark and
Provost and Vice Presidents’
Reports
Provost:
The General Education Committee met on October
24. The committee is on task and the
next meeting is scheduled on Friday, November 14. The General Education Task Force will utilize
the Thinking through Lunch program to introduce topics to the campus throughout
the year.
Hell’s Gate Visitor’s Center/Hunting Heritage
Education Center is developing a brochure to utilize in solicitation contacts
for planning money. The grant request is
in the amount of $60,000 and is being submitted to hunting and shooting sports
societies. The Center construction
committee will meet tomorrow to discuss specific uses of space. In order for LCSC to remain involved in the
project the Center’s focus will have to be educational, historical and cultural.
Thinking through Lunch is scheduled on October 31, in Administration
Room 203.
Administrative Services:
Ken Clark reported on to-date activity for the Office
of Grants and Contracts.
1.
FY 2003 $5.8
million in grants
2.
Currently we sit
at $4.26 million ($1.68 Vocational & $2.52 Academic)
3.
Projects in the
Pipeline
A.
Federal
Appropriations Earmarked Funds
·
IVI Phase 5 to
create online courses for small business to train and certify IT person to
provide to web and marketing, sales, etc.
·
American Indian
Student Leadership Education will re-submit a trimmed down version. Project team of
·
Fire
Science/Paramedic Distance Education to respond to (1) national shortage of
paramedics, (2) request from Fire Department in Lewiston and State EMS
representative, (3) Non traditional students who wish to trade up for a good
paying job, (4) HS students interested in taking tech prep classes leading to
fire science/paramedic certification, and Associates Degree; eventually
Bachelors of Applied Science.
·
Skid Pad. Received $695,450 but we are trying to locate
land. Have some sites in mind that show
some promise. We’ll submit another
proposal to buy land, develop the site, pay project director, develop site
plan, pay for more amenities that the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration added to the proposal when they awarded the
grant.
·
We are working
closely with out Idaho Congressional Delegation locally and in DC. Our goal is to make them partners, rather
than masters to whom we beg. I believe
they are quite comfortable in the role of partners.
·
We are trying to
learn about the Federal Departments, agencies, and who funds which
projects. Our congressional partners
tell us it’s important for us to help them know that.
B.
Tech Incentive
Grants (SBOE)
·
Sent a call for
proposals or soon will. Select Committee
will review proposals and determine which LCSC will choose to develop and send
in. Once again $157,000 is the maximum available
to LCSC.
C.
Title III Planning
or Development Grant: Project Team organized and meeting
·
Sent out requests
for faculty and staff input within certain criteria
D.
Native American
Focused Initiatives
·
Project Team
organized and met this summer and throughout the fall to recommend joint initiatives
to President Thomas and to the Native American Advisory Board. Want these initiatives to result in grant
dollars funding projects important to LCSC and the Tribe.
E. Bottom
Line: We want more external funding, but
we want the money to support the specific role and mission of LCSC. We want to maximize the amount of Facilities
and Administrative (Indirect) money coming back to the college also. By getting more faculty and staff interested
in grant writing, we’ll produce more funded proposals and more external dollars
and more indirect money.
Student Affairs:
Data collected from the
recent national student trends survey indicates entering students will not be highly
political, will have high expectations regarding amenities; have high priorities
and be a higher maintenance group, i.e., counseling. Institutions overhead support function
demands will grow. The data is reflects traditionally
age students entering students, and this is a growing population at LC. The data is beneficial but the instrument is
difficult to administer.
President Thomas has
appointed a
The Alcohol Awareness Program
has had good attendance. Discussion
continued regarding national and local contemporary social issues. LCSC is experiencing a heavier demand on student
counseling services. Recent changes to
FERPA allows for some intervention. The
institution has Duty to Care responsibilities and must weigh the liability of
not intervening.
The discussion covered a
broad range of topics including inappropriate student behaviors with faculty
and staff. A suggestion was made for
staffing and training for dealing with incivility. President Thomas pointed out that we have a
progress in place to deal with similar student situations.
Direct
Reporting Units
Athletic Department:
LCSC hosted the Frontier Conference Athletic Directors meeting on
October 24.
Institutional Planning, Research and Assessment: Unit Action Plans are due on Friday.
College Communications Coordinator: A subject matter list is being developed to
help publicize the college’s available expertise to serve as contacts for the media
or to serve as public speakers. A general
notice will be made for faculty and staff enlistment.
Other Reports
Faculty Senate: The
Budget Liaison Committee met on October 22.
The discussion focused on strategic planning for faculty salaries. The faculty will request support of the
Around The Table
LC’s customer service representative
is no longer with Excel Comm. A new
representative has been assigned. The IPS switch over is still in the list for
review. We should have an answer soon
regarding the switch over date. It will
take seven days to lay the fiber.
Bert Sahlberg extended a reminder to submit photo
opportunity leads to College Communication.
We have been getting good coverage from the media, but we need the
advance notice to continue.
Reid Centennial Hall is hosting an open house on October
31, from
Chief Technology Officer candidates’
interviews are scheduled for November 3, 5 and 6.
The next President's Council will be on Wednesday, November
5, at 9:00 a.m., in the Alumni Board Room.