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RPC Meeting Minutes
October 18, 2006
Present: Balik, Collins, Flath, Heyman, Hornbach, Hoye, Laskin, Latham, Lindeman, Michelfelder, Nedelsky, Wheaton and Contant (ACE Fellow).
- Meeting was called to order at 2:10 pm
- Minutes from the meeting of October 11, 2006 were approved.
- Trustee Committee Reports: Dan Flath reported on the Advancement committee meeting which consisted primarily of a discussion of the upcoming comprehensive campaign priorities, status, and future plans. Flath also reported on the Admissions committee meeting which consisted of a review of the new need aware admissions policy.
- Chair Heyman resumed the discussion of the faculty support issue. He had prepared a detailed model and a summary of the various alternatives under consideration. Committee members provided comments on the various outputs from the model and made suggestions on how best to proceed. Heyman will revise the model to remove study away students from calculations throughout. Other suggestions included showing steps toward achieving the 10:1 student-faculty ratio, rather than meeting that goal in one step. Another suggestion was to remove the shift in chair course release option to providing summer salary to only those options that included a general course load reduction. Committee members indicated that this way of summarizing options was very helpful and that up to 10 options could be presented in this manner, without becoming too confusing or overwhelming.
David Wheaton described his modeling for the budget for the next 5-6 years. Included in his planning are modest changes in faculty and staff levels, enhancement in programs, and increase in debt service.
- Chair Heyman announced that FPAC will meet on November 8 to review FaCE grant proposals and that all FPAC members should read proposals prior to that meeting (proposals will be at CST starting November 1).
- Meeting adjourned at 3:30 pm.
Respectfully submitted by Cheryl Contant
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