Call
to Order
The
meeting was called to order at 6:12 p.m.
Roll
Call
Present:
Canady, Creamer, Holden, Jeffries, Patterson, Pelleran, Rasmusson
Absent:
Limited
Public Comment Re: Agenda Items
MAHE
budget presentation - Tom Ferris gave the Board a presentation on budget.
(A copy of the presentation is on file with the official Board
materials.)
Chairperson
and Board Member Reports
Chairperson Report
Funding
Task Force - Chairperson Jeffries stated that over the past few years
there have been two major issues that the Board has been dealing with.
One is the equity issue for faculty and staff.
The Board has responded by setting aside $1 million to start
dealing with the issue. In
addition to this issue the College has recently approved the Facilities
Master Plan that identified over $50 million worth of capital improvement
need to the campus. This will not only improve what the College has currently,
but will also enable the College to more effectively provide services.
President Cunningham has asked that the funding task force explore
options to deal with both of the above-mentioned issues.
Chairperson
Jeffries appointed Trustee Rasmusson, Trustee Canady, and himself to serve
on the task force. Trustee
Holden will serve as the alternate. Resources
to the task force will be EPIC/MRA and Muchmore and Associates.
Other task force members include Bill Darr, Dave Davidson, Gretchen
Couraud, Jan Penton, Steve Vossler, and Ted Szymanski.
Special
Recognition-
LCC
Wellness Committee - Chairperson Jeffries presented a resolution to the
Wellness Committee for their hard work to encourage LCC employees to find
a balance between body, mind and spirit to achieve physical wellness.
In the programs fourth year the Wellness Committee received the
Governor?s Council Gold Award. Pam Bergeron, the program?s chairperson, was on hand to
accept the award.
IT
WAS MOVED by Trustee Holden and supported by Trustee Pelleran to accept
the resolution of recognition to the LCC Wellness Committee as presented.
Ayes:
Canady, Creamer, Holden, Jeffries, Patterson, Pelleran, Ramsusson
Nays:
Absent:
Motion
carried.
LCC
National Kitchen & Bath Design Program - Chairperson Jeffries
presented a resolution to the LCC Kitchen and Bath Design Specialist
Certificate of Achievement program. The
program is new within the Interior Design Technology program.
It is the first and only National Kitchen and Bath Association
endorsed college program in the State of Michigan.
Professor Arlena Hines was on hand to accept the resolution.
IT WAS MOVED by Trustee Pelleran and supported by Trustee Patterson to
accept the resolution as presented.
Ayes:
Canady, Creamer, Holden, Jeffries, Patterson, Pelleran, Rasmusson
Nays:
Absent:
Motion
carried.
Chairperson
Jeffries also announced that Christine Lopez, Board Secretary, would be
leaving the College. She is
going into the private sector. There
will be a reception for her on January 29 in the HCC Solarium. He encouraged the trustees to attend and said that he
appreciated the work that Christine has done.
Board
Member Reports
Trustee
Canady attended the RED Team meeting on January 4th.
The commuter train project has been put on hold for now.
They have already secured 50% of the funding and it is unclear why
the project has been put on hold.
Trustee
Holden said that at the Workforce Development Board meeting it was
announced that they received an extension on the M-TEC grant. She also mentioned that the environmental scan project that
Bill Brown is heading up is a result of some extraordinary work that has
been done. Lastly, she and
Trustee Pelleran attended the LCC Recognition Program and it was a genuine
tribute to the 25 individuals and teams that were recognized.
It made her very proud.
Trustee
Pelleran stated that sitting through the recognition program really gave
her a sense of all of the programs in which LCC is involved.
She was very impressed.
President's
Report
Informational
College
Priorities Update - President Cunningham stated that the Board received
a status report on the list of priorities that she presented to the Board
on May 25, 2000. (A copy of
the Priorities Update is on file with the official Board materials.) The
president will be giving the Board a list of priorities for 2001 at the
next Board meeting.
Lansing
M-TEC Update - President Cunningham said that we are still waiting for
General Motors to make the final decisions on location. There have been a couple of key personnel changes at GM that
are impacting this decision. We
hope to hear about the location by the end of the month.
2000-2001 Budget Status - President Cunningham
gave the Board a budget projection as of this date.
This semester enrollment appears to be flat with a slight increase
in credits.
An
accurate picture will be available after the first week of classes.
(A copy of this report is on file with the official Board
materials.) A representative
from the State Budget Office said that community colleges most likely
would not get an increase in State funds for next year.
If this is the case, this will represent a $1 million loss to the
College. We are preparing
conservative projections with the assumption of not getting an increase in
State funds.
Board
of Trustees Website - President Cunningham stated that Christine Lopez
has put a lot of time and energy into the Board of Trustees website.
Christine gave the Board a presentation.
The web site address is /trustees.
Action
Items
Approval
of Minutes - President Cunningham presented the November 20 and December
13, 2000 meeting minutes for approval.
The minutes were approved as presented.
Human
Resources
Appointments
Administrative-
Gretchen
M. Couraud, Director, LCC Foundation, Foundation Office, Executive Office
Julia
Petry, Chair, Social Science, Social Science, Liberal Studies Division
Richard
Reagan, Chair, Communication, Communication, Liberal Studies Division
Jeffrey
E. Stiles, Program Director, Imaging Technology, Human Health and Public
Service, Careers Division
Resignations
Administrative-
Ronald
E. Roush, Director, Operational Services, Administrative Services Division
Faculty-
Sharon
Kennedy, Faculty Member, Careers Division
Trustee
Creamer commended the College in attracting Ms. Gretchen Couraud.
He said she is an aggressive, tenacious individual that is well
connected in the community and will do a great job.
Trustee
Creamer said that it places management in an uncomfortable situation in
making job offers and having the Board approve the appointment before
consummating the deal. It is
always possible that the Board will disapprove the appointment and
management has already made an offer to the candidate.
He stated that the Board should look at delegating this process to
management to avoid placing them in an uncomfortable situation.
Trustee
Canady agreed that Ms. Couraud was a great choice for the Foundation
Director position.
Strategic Plan/Monitoring Reports/AQIP/Program Review
The
Board was asked to approve the proposed modification and language to the
strategic plan. The following
modification was made on page 1 of the Strategic plan:
4) Personal
Enrichment. LCC will
participate in all four learning areas with an emphasis on ?careers and related Information Technology?. (language in italics is the suggested modification.)
The following language was added to the Guiding
Principles:
LCC
will manage its finances in a responsible manner; allocating resources and
achieving efficiencies to best serve the priority needs of its students
and the taxpayers who support its operation.
President
Cunningham said that the monitoring reports, and academic quality
improvement project (AQIP), and the program review all lay the foundation
on which the Board will make some major decisions in the next new few
months.
The
strategic plan and AQIP will integrate the daily work of the College and
allow us to measure and evaluate how the college is doing and present it
to the Board. This
information will be important in how we move forward in terms of
monitoring reports, continuous improvement processes, and program and
service review. Every area of
the College will go through a review process.
President
Cunningham stated that the Program Review process would allow us to shift
more dollars to instruction.
Mr.
Ray Turner gave the Board a presentation regarding the monitoring reports
and academic quality improvement process project.
He said our strategic plan is built on a continuous improvement
process model. Drivers in the
plan include financial balance, research and analysis looking at
information and data as a basis for informing our planning.
These are drivers for the action that the strategic plan includes
in order to move forward. The
College is involved in lots of planning such as instructional master
planning, facilities master planning, and marketing planning.
We are planning for strategic initiatives and strategic areas of
excellence in the strategic plan. The
plans are being set up to measure the outcomes we achieve.
Critically, all of the outcomes are fed back into our system of
information to inform further cycles of planning.
Mr.
Turner stated in the past the College operated under the Carver governance
model and Board Ends. It is
being suggested that the monitoring reports be replaced by performance
measurements done in a systematic way.
Reports will continue to be given to the Board, but in the new
format, which will include performance measurements.
Mr.
Turner outlined the Academic Quality Improvement Process (AQIP).
AQIP is a partnership with North Central Association to encourage
and facilitate the academic quality improvement at the College.
It is an alternative to the traditional cycle of accreditation and
provides a context for continuous improvement that is consistent with the
College's strategic plan. Mr.
Turner stated the following processes are vital in receiving accreditation
and have or will be accomplished: structure
strategic plan implementation into continuous improvement format,
integrate strategic plan with AQIP timeline, communicate with North
Central and other AQIP colleges, college-wide dialogue about AQIP,
completing the Trailblazer Self-study, submitting the recommendation to
the Board, and the Board deciding to request AQIP participation.
The following are processes that still need to take place:
formal request for participation submitted to NCA, college
acceptance into AQIP, and strategy forum.
The strategy forum is the first collaborative activity with the
North Central Association in the AQIP process.
Provost
Wimbish addressed the Board regarding program review. She stated that the process started by looking at the
strategic plan to decide on the criteria that would be used for the
decision making process. Open
forums took place where the criteria, process, and examples of information
that would be collected were discussed.
She said that on October 16 the Business Office provided data that
was distributed to departments for faculty to review the information.
Divisions were then asked to review information on October 20
regarding the College's community impact.
Faculty were involved in the review and in the discussions.
A
program review recommendation will be submitted to the Board for their
review at the next meeting.
Approval of Bids-
Two
bids were presented to the Board for approval.
The first proposal was for a network upgrade and Sequoia NET.com
was awarded the bid. The
second proposal was for an enterprise-wide data backup system and Compsat
Technologies was awarded the bid.
IT
WAS MOVED by Trustee Creamer and supported by Trustee Pelleran to accept
the President's report as presented.
Ayes:
Canady, Creamer, Holden, Jeffries, Patterson, Pelleran, Rasmusson
Nays:
Absent:
Motion
carried.
Public Comment
There
was no public comment.
Adjournment
The
meeting was adjourned at 7:33 p.m.
