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President's Advisory
Council :: Minutes
June 7, 2005
Official Minutes
Present: Alcorn, Blackwell, Clapp,
Fowler, Hudson, Jaso, McGuill, Murphy, O’Connor, Ross,
Russell, Saxon, Schaefer, Simons, Stafford, Thomas, Walker and
Ward.
Also Attending: Wayne Beran, Richard
Phillips and Don Smith
Absent: Brockman, Davenport, Goodson,
Hernandez, Kvinta, McCrohan, Moya, Post, Rivera, Rollins,and
Wu.
I.
Organizational Business
A.
Approval of Minutes – Willie Schaefer moved that the
minutes for March 1, 2005 be approved as written and Harrison
Stafford II seconded - Motion Approved Unanimously
B.
Change in By-Laws – Morgan Dunn O’Connor moved that the
Change in the By-Laws be approved as presented and Loleat Ross
seconded - Motion Approved Unanimously
C.
Report from Nominating Committee – Kay Walker, Chair,
Nominating Committee, presented three nominees for new
membership: 1) Celena McGuill, Marketing Director for Katy
Mills representing the Katy area, 2) Susan Armstrong Cain,
Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Armstrong Warehouse
and Transfer, Inc. representing Victoria County, 3) Jan Jacob,
retired educator representing Victoria County. New member team
will expire in 2008. Morgan Dunn O’Connor moved to approve all
nominees as presented for membership and to extend the terms
of Eric Murphy and Michael Saxon to 2008 - Loleat Ross
seconded.
D.
Election of Officers – Morgan Dunn O’Connor moved to
elect Randy Clapp as Chair and Linda Ward as Vice Chair of the
President’s Advisory Committee for the fiscal year 2006 and
Hernan Jaso seconded - Motion Approved Unanimously
II.
Legislative Update
Tim Hudson
updated PAC on the budget that was passed by the legislature.
The enabling language, which would permit UHV to have
discussions about offering a Ph.D. program in the future,
passed both houses. Unfortunately, no special items were
funded for any higher education institutions including the UHV
grant request for a program to obtain a nursing license and
Tuition Revenue Bonds (TRB’s). UH and UHV are in a period of
growth and must continue to be innovative in searching for
other avenues to increase funds for different initiatives and
for increasing salaries (raises) for faculty and staff since
raises were not allotted to higher education employees either.
III.
Budget Update
Wayne Beran gave a brief overview of the UHV fiscal year
2005-2006 budget.
1.
Funding from the State is increasing by $412,000. Also,
an additional $572,000 will be accumulated from an increase in
tuition and fees (rates) derived from an estimated increase in
the number of students enrolled.
2.
Tuition Revenue Bond Requests – Funding was not
approved for the construction of UHS-Sugar Land Academic
Building, Student and Administrative Support Building or for
the Regional Economic Development Center Building.
3.
Special Items – Regional Outreach experienced a
decrease of $13,245 for this year; Small Business Development
Center requested $195,500 and received the amount; Excellence
Funding requested $268,737 and received a decrease of $13,436;
Nursing requested $400,000 and received $0.00; and Center for
Mexican-American Studies requested $200,000 and received
$0.00.
4.
UH System Highlights – Through the new Faculty
Excellence Fund, the University of Houston main campus will
receive $5 million over the next biennium. Research
Development Fund: UH to receive $10,275,258 over the next
biennium, UHCL $632,140 and UHD $128,170.
5.
UHV Budget Highlights: $26 million operating budget
for next year; 7% increase in operational funds; 90% of all
departmental budget requests were approved at the amount asked
for; and overall 4-5% pay increase. Also, the new Nursing
program will be funded, additional faculty and staff will be
added to continue growth and quality improvements; funds to
increase marketing, including Hispanic and International;
increased funding for technology and Library materials;
replacement of classroom furniture and chiller in UW building;
install occupancy sensors and upgrade lights for energy
efficiency gains; additional scholarships of $38,000; support
additional faculty research and development; funding earmarked
for the comprehensive campaign and other fund raising
initiatives and cover increases in employee benefit costs.
IV.
Academic Update
Don Smith
presented the Academic Update for 2004-2005. The School of
Business achieved American Association of Collegiate Schools
in Business (AACSB) accreditation. The team that reviewed our
program gave us commendations on our on-line program. It is
the first on-line program for MBA in the State of Texas. The
Board of Regents wants us to market this program to the other
campuses. Only 15% of business programs worldwide are AACSB
accredited. Achieving this accreditation will help us
internationally with countries such as China. The Nursing
program was approved by the Board of Regents. Both the
Nursing and Masters of Information Systems programs are being
presented and reviewed by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board (THECB) for approval. The Master of Science
Development and Entrepreneurship Program are being developed.
UHV is still looking for a Nursing Director and the Dean
searches are on-going. UHV is looking at producing an On-Line
MBA program in Spanish.
V.
Advancement Update
Richard
Phillips provided PAC a fundraising update for 2005. The
Friends of the University campaign has received $221,081 of
the pledged amount of $235,644. Thanks to Randy Clapp, Josie
Rivera and Linda Ward for their outstanding work on this
year’s lead calling phase of the campaign. UHV’s Annual
Alumni campaign is underway. To date $10,300 has been pledged
and alumni calling will continue through June. Randy Clapp
has agreed to continue as one of three PAC members that will
head the 2005-2006 campaign.
VI.
Advice, Discussion
Dr. Hudson
presented the following outgoing PAC members with a memento
from UHV – Mona Davenport, Susana Moya, Loleat Ross, Josie
Rivera, Harry Stafford II, Eric Murphy and Michael Saxon.
The next PAC
meeting will be held September 6, 2005 at 3:00 PM in the UC
Multipurpose Room.
The meeting
was adjourned.
By April
Bagwell 6/05 |
