President's Council Meeting Summary

September 10, 2003

 

 

Present:  Dene Thomas, Kathy Martin, Rob Lohrmeyer, Richard Moore, Tony Fernàndez, Whitney Pugh, Jerry Hindberg, Bert Sahlberg, Deacon Meier, Dave Taylor, Dawn Byers, Kathie Wilcox, Janis VanHook

 

Absent:  Chet Herbst

 

Calendar Review

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

 

President’s Report

 

Idaho Education Forum is scheduled for Friday, September 26, at 7:00 p.m. in the TCC.  Senate Education Chairman Gary Schroeder has organized the forums to provide the public the opportunity to comment on education issues.   Dr. Thomas suggested that individuals who wish to comment present reality as people are experiencing it; be respectful of legislators; and keep in mind, the governor’s intent to recommend a flat line budget for FY2005.

 

Provost and Vice Presidents’ Reports

 

Provosts and vice president will be reviewing roles and missions of colleges and universities within the state prior to the State Board of Education’s review. 

 

The Professional-Technical Postsecondary Certification Handbook has been revised.  Part time or adjunct faculty certification requirements will be determined on an individual basis by the dean of the college or his appointee. 

Academic educators teaching only general education courses supporting Associate of Applied Science degrees are not required to apply for professional-technical credentials if they meet institutional standards and are not teaching related subjects.   The existing certification process is under review and may be revised.

 

LCSC Division of Natural Science and Mathematics and the University of Idaho are collaborating on a multi-year grant proposal for Biomedical Research Institute funds.   The primary purpose is to encourage research at the undergraduate level.  The funding source has donated DNA sequencers and supplies to some colleges for use in their undergraduate biology programs.  The package would include equipment, hardware, software, supplies and funding for faculty development and student co-curricular activities.    

 

Administrative Services:   No report.

 

Information Technology: 

 

1.  The Higher Education Information Technology Committee met on September 5.   The main topic of discussion was the Statewide System of Library Services.  Now that all four-year institutions will be on the same system, the State Board of Education directs the institutions (librarians) to actively plan for and collaboratively deliver a statewide system of library services to students, faculty, and staff in Idaho.   The task is to develop a plan for statewide network access to the library systems currently in place.  Northern Idaho has a courier service which allows for one-day delivery of an item.  Southern Idaho does not have a courier service and results in delays up to seven days.  The good service of a one-day turnaround results in librarian’s willingness to release materials.  This becomes an open flow of material for the patrons of the libraries.  The Library Directors and HEITC are to develop plan for the December SBOE meeting.  To do so, they need more clarification as to what the Board would like to encompass in the plan.

           

2.  Update on Ed.net:  The business plan put together by the HEITC had the following assessment parameters.  There would be no upfront costs associated with this network.  The only available money was already in operations by the institutions.  A main factor was the institutions would not be mandated to join the network.  Goal was to link higher education as the backbone of the network with a throughput of 1GB.  This would result in voice, data, and video on one network instead of three.  In February, the Albertson’s grant wanted the K-12 institutions added to the plan.

 

Phase 1 of the plan was to connect the 7 higher education sites.  Phase 2 was to connect the K-12 sites.

 

IBM presented a feasibility study last spring that was rejected.  The plan called for a mandatory exclusive use by all institutions.  IBM did not include video conferencing.  The HEITC will not present IBM’s feasibility study to the SBOE until satisfied with the proposal.  HEITC answer is if they deliver a quality product at a competitive price, the network will be used by all institutions.

 

HEITC wants the Provost’s to write a vision plan for education advances, outreach, and getting into all communities, then turn to IT to form the plan.  This would provide for ementoring between K-12 and higher education.  This would also provide tool for online discussion over difficult issues.  The provost’s will soon receive an email asking them to answer four questions.  The IT directors will also be on copy.

 

3.  Planning is underway for the changeover to the new Internet Service Provider Exo.  The current provider Verio requests the return of their IPS addresses.  The changeover could take one to two days whereby the campus could experience an internet outage to program the DNS servers.  The outage will be planned on a weekend or at another time when impact would be low.   The campus will need at least a two-week notification.  The most desired time would be during winter break so there would be no impact to on-line classes or Datatel users.

 

4.  Activity Center construction photos will appear on the LCSC web page soon.  The intent is to provide a visual construction progress report.

 

Student Affairs:

 

Fall 2003 headcount is 3,471 up approximately 5.4 percent and FTE is 2,578.    

 

                        Fall 03       Fall 02     %Increase     ‘94 Record Enrollment     %Increase

Institutional

Headcount:        3471           3108          (11.8)                           (3347)              3.7%

 

 

           

ENROLLED APPLICANTS FALL 2003

 

HS Grads 2003:   374        288          (29.9%)     All HS Graduates 2003 Degree/Non-

                                                                                    Degree seeking

 

LHS 2003 Grads:  88          72           (22.2%)

 

International

Students:               46          42           (10%)

 

Yield of Admitted Students:          71.3%

 

 

Student orientation summary: 

  • More faculty involved than ever before with workshops and presentations. 
  • A proposal has been made to incorporate the cost of orientation into the fees process. 
  • More attention will be made to integrate timing of financial aid disbursements with orientation.  
  • Staff is exploring offering orientation courses for credit in conjunction with the freshman year experience and may tie orientation to financial aid eligibility. 
  • Parent/Partner orientation went very well

 

 

Other Reports

 

Faculty Senate: Chairs of standing committees can be accessed at http://www.lcsc.edu/faculty/

Faculty is establishing a benevolence fund.

ICHEF will address the state exigency policy.  ICHEF members will request a meeting will Governor Kempthorne in October.

 

 

Around The Table

 

Coeur’d Alene enrollment has increased making some interesting challenges for space.

 

Northwest Children’s Home and the School of Technology student Workforce Development and Welding program   collaborated on a project. NWCH students created a to-scale sculpture of Twin Towers.  The sculpture will be unveiled at the Lewiston Center Mall on September 11, commemorating Patriot Day.

 

Faculty representatives to the Datatel Advisory Committee are pleased with the committee’s progress.

 

This Social Sciences Division will offer a workshop during the Partners in Education Conference.

 

Idaho Nursing Education Conference is scheduled for September 18.

 

This month LCSC will be honored by the presence of Jean Colson, co-founder of Mackenzie Ward Research, a leading developer of online educational content in Europe.   Colson will be delivering a series of lectures and lead brown bag discussions, as well as confer with LCSC colleagues on the status of online education, and current collaborative projects with LCSC. Her company will be developing an online educational module with the Division of Social Science.

 

Meeting Adjourned

The next President's Council will be on Wednesday, September 17, at 9:00 a.m., in the Alumni Board Room.