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PRESIDENT’S REGIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

July 10, 2007

Minutes

Present: Cain, Hudson, Jaso, LaCour, J. McGuill, Morales, O’Connor, Schaefer, Walker, Ward and Wu

Absent: Alcorn, Brockman, Clapp, Fowler, Goodson, Hernandez, Jacob, Kvinta, Jr., McCrohan, C. McGuill, Meyer, Murphy, Rollins, Saxon, Simons, Thomas

I.                    Organizational Business

A.     Approval of Minutes – Chair Linda Ward called the meeting to order.  Lance LaCour moved that the minutes from the March 6, 2007 PRAB meeting be approved as written and Susan Cain seconded the motion.

Motion Approved Unanimously

B.     Report from Nominating Committee – Ms. Ward, Chair of Nominating Committee presented four nominees for new membership with their terms expiring in 2010:

1) Ron Hyde, South Texas businessman since 1975 – Co-founder and president of Texas Air Patrol, Inc., the parent company of Stetson Aviation, Inc.; the general partner in Greater Texas Equities and CEO of five credit unions;

2) Arlene Marshall, President of Calhoun County Economic Development in Port Lavaca; 

3) Janet Leatherwood, Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Methodist Sugar Land Hospital in Sugar Land; and

4) Charles Darcy, Chief Operating Officer of DeTar Healthcare System and Administrator of DeTar Hospital North in Victoria.

C.     Regent Morgan Dunn O’Connor moved to approve all nominees as presented for membership and Joyce McGuill seconded the motion.

Motion Approved Unanimously

D.     Election of Officers – Hernan Jaso moved to elect Susan Cain as Chair and Celina McGuill as Vice Chair of the President’s Regional Advisory Board for the fiscal year 2007-2008.  Regina Morales seconded the motion.

                                                                                          Motion Approved Unanimously

E.  Chair Ward recognized and thanked the four outgoing members: Lorrine Hernandez, Charles Kvinta, Jr., Joyce McGuill and Kay W. Simons, for their service to UHV for the past 6 years.

F.   Tentative dates of the President’s Regional Advisory Board for FY08 were presented to the Board.  These dates will be put on the Master Calendar.

II.                 Presidential Update – Tim Hudson, President

Dr. Hudson thanked the outgoing members of the President’s Regional Advisory Board for their service and support of the University of Houston-Victoria.  He thanked the outgoing chair and vice chair for a job well done.  

Dr. Hudson provided handouts on tuition:

·        Illustrating the cost of 12 credit hours per semester from FY 2007 and FY 2008 showing the 5.9% increase of tuition fees for UHV for 2008.  He stated that UHV still ranks favorably (20 out of 34) compared to other Texas public universities.  He also presented a comparison of semester credit hours (SCH) based on base funding years of 2004-05 and 2006-07.   UHV shows a 7.2% increase at a time when many Texas public universities showed a decrease in number of SCHs.

Dr. Hudson discussed the following:

·        UHV fared very well during this legislative session; he expressed appreciation to our legislators and those who supported and contacted our legislators.

·        The tuition revenue bonds requested by UHV were fully funded and all special item requests were approved.  Particularly important was the approval of our MSN request for 1.1 million over the next two years.

·        A marketing study has been completed on staff salaries.  Qualified staff will receive equity, and merit raises will be given to staff based on their evaluation.  Raises of approximately 4.4 to 4.5% will be given to staff.

·        Tenure and promotion was 100%, which is a reflection of our quality faculty.

·        An official groundbreaking for our new building was held on the UHSSL campus and the building will be shared with Wharton County Junior College (WCJC).  

·        UHV has taken program leadership in the undergraduate business and undergraduate criminal justice programs at the Sugar Land Teaching Center.

·        In fundraising, we have exceeded our goal.  The baseball game between UH and UTSA raised over $20,000.  One of the donations was made by O’Connor & Hewitt Foundation.  The golf tournament held in Victoria resulted in $90,000 for athletics.

·        We have been working with Austin Community College for the past year on transfer agreements for our online programs.  Leaders from their college will be visiting our campus on Wednesday, July 11 to discuss ways we can further work together.

·        His trip to Spain, as the sole U. S. representative to participate in a European Millennium Commission, was a wonderful experience in learning how different countries and cultures approach community outreach and economic development.  Reports will be written from the work of this commission.      

III.                Presentations

A.     International Programs – Dean Charles Bullock gave an overview of the Global MBA Program and the partnerships with Spain, Mexico, China and the Middle East.  He gave a presentation on his visits with the following six Chinese universities:  Zhejiang University City College, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Zhejiang University, Central University of Finance and Economics, and Xi’An International Studies University. The global MBA students will use English textbooks and syllabi and classes will be taught in English.  The students will complete there final year of study in the United States at our Sugar Land Teaching Center.

B.     Update on Athletics – Mr. Ashley Walyuchow presented softball and baseball highlights on fundraising, sponsorships and how well the programs are being received in the community.  For the baseball and softball program, 148 students submitted applications.  A total of 46 students will be participating (20 softball and 26 baseball).  The students have to be enrolled in 12 hours each semester to be eligible to play.  Some students have applied to UHV with plans to try and “walk-on” this fall.  Umpires will be recruited from all over the state.  The logo is in the development stage.  There will be some scrimmages this fall with games beginning in the spring.  As soon as all games are finalized, season tickets should be ready for sale, hopefully by the end of August.

Claud Jacobs endowed an athletic scholarship in his father’s name.

IV.              Roundtable/Bright Ideas

Linda Ward asked for ideas for future meetings and thanked everyone for their input and adjourned the meeting at 3:30 p.m.

Submitted by:  F. Landry

Approved:  9/13/07