Joint Planning and Budget Committee

September 21, 2005

1:15 pm, 325 Graff Main
 

Members Present:  Bill Colclough, William Doering, Thomas Gendreau, Mark Gibson, John Mason, Mick Miyamoto, Mike Nelson,  David Riley, Gwen Straker, Katie Van Roosenbeek, Mary Torstveit, Mary Beth Vahala, Ken Winter

Consultants:  Ron Lostetter, Sharon Radtke, Jennifer Wilson, Terri Thill

The meeting was called to order by Chair, David Riley.

         I.      Thank you to Vickie Baer for taking the minutes.

       II.      Ron Lostetter passed out a letter from UW System President, Kevin Reilly regarding the “Consultation with Appropriate Governance Groups Regarding Regent Resolution on Employment Policies and Practices.”

      III.      Operational Efficiencies and Improvements Planning Document – Draft

A.     Ron and Dave have met regarding these items

B.     Joint Planning and Budget Committee should identify which items they would like to work on.

C.    Various items on the document were reviewed and discussed:

§         Voluntary cut-backs

§         Turnover of computers in campus classrooms and labs

§         Review student printing on campus – John Tillman will be gathering more information on this.

§         Increase student credit hours (SCH) load for instructional academic staff from 12 SCH to 15 SCH – Deans have been asked to gather data.

§         Evaluate academic year faculty teaching load if included J-Term

§         Outsourcing bookstore – Sharon Radtke, Larry Ringgenberg  and Barry Miller are working on – expect to have some information in December.  This item could be identified as a “2” in the term column.

§         Increase non-resident enrollment

D.    Sharon will obtain information for the committee on program costs – to be determined.

E.     Dave would like the committee to look at enrollment issues/ideas and e-mail him their thoughts.

   IV.      Next meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 28 at 1:10 pm.

     V.      Meeting adjourned.