President's Council Meeting Summary
Present: Dene Thomas,
Guest:
Randy Martin
Calendar Review
Calendars
for September and October were distributed noting President’s travel and major
campus events.
The holiday
calendars for 2003 and 2004 were distributed.
President’s Report
President
Thomas attended an appreciation dinner sponsored by the City of
Idaho
Education Forum is scheduled for Friday, September 26, at
State
Board of Education will be held in
The Idaho
Supreme Court will conduct an open forum in the Telecommunications Classroom on
Thursday, October 2, t
Strategic
Planning Cycle
Units have been asked to
examine three different planning scenarios this year. While the three sets of
assumptions (zero growth, 2% raises, and 2% cut) are not as severe as the
scenarios for our FY03 and FY04 planning efforts, there is still a great deal
of uncertainty over what the Legislature will ultimately provide, and the level
of uncertainty is exacerbated by the Board’s acceleration of the student
fee-setting process (proposal due in January this year).
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We have begun
Phase 1—Unit Action Plan development for FY2005. Units should submit
their draft UAPs through their Deans/Department Heads
to the Provost not later than close of business, Friday, Oct 31, with
electronic info copies to IPRA.
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Phase 2—Review of Unit Action Plans by the Functional Area
Review Groups (planning committees) starts the next Monday, November 3 through
close of business, November 21.
Provost and Vice Presidents’
Reports
Provost:
In accordance with Policy III.Z, I Planning and
Coordination of Instructional Programs and Courses, State Board staff will
interview the provosts regarding topics and questions to assess needs related
to a statewide telecommunications network.
Discussion points:
·
Identify emerging
trends in teaching, learning and research that will impact our institution.
·
How will our
institution respond to the changing needs of education?
·
Describe the
extent of your educational services’ outreach and the resources available to
offer these educational services.
·
What barriers (or
obstacles) and challenges do we foresee in providing educational opportunities
to an identified community of need (e.g. k-12, remote centers, remote
students)?
The responses will be cmpiled
and presented at the October 16 CAAP meeting.
A state-wide satellite conference was held on Tuesday,
September 23, regarding financing healthcare in
LCSC health care insurance costs are expected to
increase 20 percent this year.
Administrative Services:
The Budget Liaison Committee met on Tuesday, September
23.
Issue #1: Salaries
and salary increases. The Governor plans
to recommend a flat-line budget meaning there will be no funds for salary
increase. A plan needs to be in place to
administer any salary increase. All
three employee groups will be included in the plan discussions. ICHEF will ask for a three percent increase
for state employees in when they meet with Governor Kempthorne
and at the education forum.
Issue #2: LC
will propose an approximate 10 percent increase in student fees for FY 2005. The Budget Liaison Committee supports the
proposed ten percent increase to keep the programs
healthy.
LCSC, in compliance with Idaho Code, Section 59-702,
concerning ethics in government, has determined not to purchase (direct) from
its own employees. The only exception
being in a bid situation, which is to be well documented and determined to be
in the best interest of the college and the state of Idaho. Any purchase of service from an employee must
be processed through the purchasing office, effective immediately.
Information Technology:
Jerry Hindberg outlined what makes MP3s illegal; the
action Information Technology is taking to protect file servers; and the
individual departments’ responsibilities.
A MP3 is illegal when copyrighted material is
distributed or downloaded in that format.
All MP3 found on LCSC’s file server will be
deleted if the copyrights have not been purchased. An intranet message clarifying what is and
is not legal will be posted.
Information Technology policy: A scan of the Redwood file server will be
conducted on a weekly basis to search for MP# files. Upon detection, IT will notify the person who
owns the file. If the file is in a
departmental directory, the division chair will be notified. The person will then be required to either
delete the file or produce a license for the file.
Department responsibility: Only licensed software is allowed on state
owned computers. This includes servers
as well as faculty and staff workstations.
Workstations will not be scanned by IT for MP3 files unless requested by
the Division Chair or Department Director.
If a MP3 file is detected, a report will be made to the person
requesting the scan. The individual that
uses the workstation will then be required to either delete the file or produce
a license for the file.
Student Affairs:
All but one seat on the student
senate has been filled. Luke Baldwin
recently resigned from the senate.
The various student
committees have been staffed.
Student government has
identified campus action plans for the year.
In addition to the annual projects, the following new projects have been
identified.
Institutional Planning, Research and Assessment: Unit action plan timelines and planning
materials are available on the intranet.
North Central Idaho Citizens Corps Council has been
formed and met on September 18.
Other Reports
PSO Staff: At the
meeting last week, the PSO expressed interest in establishing a benevolence
committee.
Faculty Senate: The
Faculty Senate will meet on September 25 to develop questions and handouts for the
education forum on September 26.
Classified
Staff: The CSO Flea Market is scheduled
for September 25 at
Around The Table
The holiday social date is December 12.
Coeur d’Alene students will
attend the October 9 dine with Dene.
Brent Student has been hired as the short-term
coordinator for Workforce Training
Nursing Educators conference was very successful.
The Hell’s Gate visitor information center has potential
use as an outdoor education site for Natural Science programs. The City of
Datatel will be shut down on Sunday,
September 28 for maintenance. There will
be a two-hour outage on Wednesday, November 26, prior to the start of business.
Media services programming with City of
The next President's Council will be on Wednesday, October
8, at