University Planning and Quality Council
Minutes
Members Present:
Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo, Dr. Paul Hosier, Ms. Kay M. Ward, Ms. Beverly Vagnerini for Dr. Robert E. Tyndall, Dr. James Dragna for
Ms. Pat Leonard, Ms. Mary Gornto, Dr. Stephen McNamee for Dr. JoAnn Seiple, Mr. Lawrence Clark, Dr. Perri
J. Bomar for Dr. Virginia Adams, Dr. Cathy Barlow,
Dr. Robert Roer, Dr. Terrence Curran, Dr. Mark Galizio, Dr. Susan McCaffray,
Dr. Denis G. Carter, Mr. Robert S. Russell.
Others Attending: Mr. Max Allen, Ms. Mimi Cunningham, Ms. Nikki Howard, Ms. Nanette
Manning, Dr. Becky Porterfield, Ms. Peggy Chance and Dr. Kenneth Spackman.
A quorum was established and
Chancellor DePaolo called the meeting to order at
The minutes of the
Reports
Chancellor’s Report. Chancellor
DePaolo indicated that the Board of
Governors will be acting on the UNC Long-Range Plan 2004-2009 in January
2004. She said that the effort to raise
the cap on out-of-state freshmen students enrolled at UNC institutions, led
largely by UNC Chapel Hill, has met with strong opposition from the public and
the Board of Governors is unlikely to act soon on this issue. Two committees, both with student
representation, have been charged with making recommendations on
campus-initiated tuition and fee increases by December 1 for review by the
senior officers, and then by the Board of Trustees prior to submission to the
Office of the President by December 19.
Chancellor DePaolo strongly reaffirmed the importance of the role of the
University Planning and Quality Council in strategic planning for the
university.
Report on Diversity Planning. Dr. Carter
reported briefly on the work of the Diversity Initiative Planning
Committee. He described the process for
the development of a Comprehensive Diversity Plan for the university, and
presented a handout setting forth the work plan of the committee.
Accreditation
Update. Dr. Spackman acknowledged the recent highly
successful accreditation visits hosted by the School of Nursing (for voluntary
accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education on October 3)
and by the Graduate School (for the substantive change to offer the PhD in
Marine Biology by the SACS Commission on Colleges on October 23). He announced that in order to equalize their
accreditation visit schedule, SACS has postponed UNCW’s
next reaffirmation visit by one year to 2013 (and the self-study process will
begin in 2011).
Action Item
The
Council took no action on the recommendation of the
Planning Items
The
Council engaged in an extended discussion of what form an answer to the
question “Who are we?” will take, the process for articulating its answer and
establishing UNCW’s core values, and the content
messages that communicate UNCW’s identity and
values. There was consensus that “Who
are we?” should have an answer that is concise enough for members of the campus
community to remember (though variations of the answer will be necessary
depending on audience and purpose).
Members expressed a desire to have the
Chancellor
DePaolo’s advice to the Council included these
questions that must be addressed:
·
If, in the
process of deciding what we want to be, we choose the harder path, then how do
we make the harder path happen?
·
What is UNCW’s optimum size for what we want to be, and what must
we do to make that case to the Office of the President?
·
What will it take
to make us “clearly, demonstrably the quality alternative to the
mega-universities,” and what areas do we have to focus on to get there?
There was no new business.
The meeting was adjourned at
Future Meetings
December
18, 2003, 3:30-5:00 pm, AL 215
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