Minutes

Campus Cabinet

February 3, 1999

Dr. Alexander called the meeting to order at 2:04 p.m.

NCATE

Dr. Riedell announced that the NCATE visit starts in Beaufort on Friday. The team will be at USCA from noon Saturday to noon Wednesday. Dr. Riedell reviewed the master schedule, and announced that the School of Education was ready for the review.

AACSB

Dr. Vyas described preparations for the AACSB visit one year from now. Consultants have reviewed a first draft of the self-study, which all faculty helped write. Primary areas of concern are demonstrating that USCA students in Sumter and Beaufort are getting same quality of service as students in Aiken, and showing full faculty participants in research.

BSN

Dr. Groves announced that a proposal to offer a Bachelor in Science of Nursing degree was submitted February 1. Consideration by the state Commission on Higher Education will take place in May. Dr. Groves said she hoped to offer the program in the fall.

Pacer Downs Update

Dr. Alexander announced that an agreement had been reached on the purchase of Pacer Downs. Approval by the Commission on Higher Education and the state Budget and Control Board should come by the end of the summer. No state money is involved in the purchase, which will be financed through a revenue bond.

Exemplary Programs Submissions for CHE

Dr. Lovely Ulmer-Sottong announced USCA's Exemplary Program Submissions, which are: business degree completion programs in Beafort and Sumter; the circulating K-12 math/science education kits at the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center; the Industrial Mathematics program and contracting remedial mathematics with Aiken Technical College by the Department of Mathematical Sciences; the Japanese cultural awareness training for the Bridgestone/Firestone by the USCE Department of Continuing Education; the scintillation counter donated by ChemNuclear; and the rehabilitation program partnership between the USCA Wellness Center and Aiken Regional Medical Center.

Two efforts have been submitted under the category of eliminating duplication and waste. They are the sharing of administrative support by offices of the Department of Continuing Education, and the closing of the USCA Print Shop.

Dr. Ulmer-Sottong also announced that the biennial survey of alumni will be mailed soon, and that the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment now has the capability to conduct World Wide Web-based surveys.

Printing Costs

Tony Shealy said there had been no change in the cost of making copies on departmental copiers. A new copier contract is being negotiated, to begin July 1. Copies in quatities below 50 are to be made on departmental copies. Copies in quantities between 50 and 200 are to be printed on campus. Copies in quantities above 200 are to be printed at USC Columbia. Mr. Shealy said new technology, and possibly networking desktop computers to high-speed copiers, any expedite printing and reduce costs.

Present at the meeting were: Robert Alexander, Telesia Broomfield, Sandy Bumgarner (for Randy Duckett), Ed Callen, Frankie Cubbedge, Carl Dawson, Corey Feraldi, Mike Findley, Ida Fogle, Trudy Groves, Jean Haynes, Mike Hosang, Jeff Jenik, Deb Kladivko, Doug Kuck, Val Lumans, Tom Mack, Deidre Martin, Linda Matthew's, Mike May, Sally McClellan, Karen Morris, Karl Munschy, Ginger Noel, Bill Pirkle, Blanch Premo-Hopkins, Diana Rice, Margaret Riedell, Ahmed Samaha, Tony Shealy, Jane Schumacher, Glenn Shumpert, Karl Stenger, Lib Thomas (for Vivian Grice), Lovely Ulmer-Sottong, Niren Vyas, and Randy Warrick.