University Planning and Quality Council
Minutes
April 19, 2006
Members
Present: Provost Paul Hosier, Ms. Pat
Leonard, Ms. Mary Gornto, Mr. Stephen Demski, Dr. David Cordle, Mr. Lawrence
Clark, Dr. Brad Walker (for Dr. Cathy Barlow), Dr. Virginia Adams, Dr. Robert
Roer, Dr. Sue McCaffray, Dr. Tom Schmid, Mr. William Fleming, and Mr. Bob
Russell.
Others
Attending: Ms. Sharon Boyd, Ms. Lisa Castellino, Dr.
Terry Curran, Mr. Mark Lanier, Dr. Mike Walker, Dr. David Webster, and Dr.
Kenneth Spackman.
Provost Hosier called the
meeting to order at 3:30 pm.
The minutes of the March 23
meeting were approved as distributed on the Web.
Continuing
its work from the March 23 meeting, the Council acted on additional draft
resource plans for progress measures as follows.
Resource plan for progress
measure #3. The draft resource plan for the
diversity progress measure was approved after an amendment offered by Mr. Lanier
to replace the second sentence by “Based
on the recommendations of this study and the funding already committed to those
recommendations (as of April 2006), there is a need for at least an additional
yearly investment of $275,000 for staff and programming, as well as $1,000,000
for one hundred scholarships of $10,000 each.”
Resource plan for progress
measure #4. The group that worked on the
retention and graduation resource plan reported that they had neither
sufficient data to identify causes of student attrition, nor evidence that certain
actions will result in specific retention effects. Therefore the cost of achieving this progress
measure cannot be estimated at this time.
Instead, discussion led to the possible alternative of estimating the
immediate cost of data gathering and development of strategies to increase
retention and graduation rates. The
Council requested the working group to prepare such an estimate of initial costs
for consideration at the next meeting.
It was also suggested that the data for the “where we are now” section
reflect UNC institution averages rather than aggregated UNC student data.
Resource plan for progress
measure #6. The draft resource plan for the
salaries progress measure was approved, subject to the addition of “and
benefits” in the estimated cost statement and clarification of the use of both “midpoint
of their salary range” and “median market value” for SPA employees.
Resource plan for progress
measure #7. The draft resource plan for the
R&D expenditures progress measure was approved without amendment. It was pointed out during discussion that after
an initial investment for grants officers, overhead receipts from additional
grants may pay the remaining cost of achieving this progress measure.
Resource plan for progress
measure #9. The draft resource plan for the
endowment progress measure was approved without change.
Lack of
time precluded action on the remainder of the agenda. Provost Hosier asked Dr. Spackman to arrange
for an additional meeting to consider resource plans for progress measures #8
and #10, a revised resource plan for #4, and Council accomplishments for
2005-06.
The meeting was adjourned at
5:13 pm.
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