Academic Initiatives Oversight Committee
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
AIOC Meeting
Date: Tuesday October 21, 2014
Centennial Hall 1200
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Call to Order at 4:34p.m.
Attendance
a. Present: Andrew Glaser, Hayley Kresnak, Alex Joers, Jacob
Schimmel, Cole Paulsen, Ingrid Iverson, Mark Haakenson, Megan
Lindbeck, Paula Knudson
b. Absent: Bethany Brent, Lisa Kruse
Old Business
a. Questions from Last Week
New Business
a. Presentations
i. Undergraduate Research
1. Increase is from pay increase.
a. Money is tied to how much they can give back
out to students
b. Funding for NCUR and student projects
ii. Graduate Research
1. Delegating how much money each college gets for
graduates.
a. Graduate council policies
b. Assigns funding to individual graduate students
i. 1 mini grant and 1 grant
ii. Total cannot exceed $2200 dollars
2. Changed deadlines so it better fit schedules
a. Survey costs have gone down
b. Money is going to help them present work at
regional and international conferences
i. Presenting can cost $1000-$2000
ii. Typical amount given for conferences is
$200-$500 dollars
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c. Money only allowed to cover out-of-pocket
expenses
d. The Mini-grants are starting to take off so
spending should increase.
iii. Admissions
1. 2 main items
a. Diversity Recruiter
i. Not all of the salary was utilized because
did not have person for whole year
ii. Multi-cultural recruitment days
1. 7-10 recruitment days
2. Students from Milwaukee, Twin
Cities, and greater La Crosse Area
3. 352 students participated
iii. Goal is 8 recruitment days
1. Increased funding is due to 2%
pay increase as well as to go back
to the 2013-2014 budget year.
2. If funding were to be increased a
social interaction in Milwaukee
3. If funding were cut then a
reduction in the number of
recruitment days
4. General linear increase trend from
2004 to 2014 in number of
multicultural applications and
freshmen students
5. Increase in multicultural
percentage of student population
from 9.25% to 9.6%
6. Changed in how students check
the cultural boxes.
iv. Office of International Education
1. Changing leadership
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a. Looking into why full amount of scholarship
funding was not fully spent
i. Looking to increase the amount given to
study abroad students
b. 17% of students study abroad
i. Looking to increase that to 20% and then
grow
ii. UW-Stout surpassed UW-La Crosse in
number of enrolled international students
c. Increase in programming
i. Students earn points for attending
programs. There is a challenge for
students attending programs. An increase
may benefit students
d. Looking to increase the portfolio of
international students to correct problems
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Discussion
Announcements
Adjournment at 5:50 p.m.
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