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ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes
January 8, 2015
9:00 AM. BRK 204D
1) Call to Order
a. Meeting called to order by Teresa at 9:09am.
b. Members present include: Teresa Szabo, Donna Haynes, John Snyder,
James Burgdorf, Jo Barnard, Mae Noll, Raymond Barnett, Matt
Panich, Clay Bellot, Laura Alexander ( by phone)
c. Guests include: Patti Sims, Ashley Edge
d. Approved absences for Maureen Hoover and Gregory Mayes
2) Approval of Agenda
a. Motion to approve by Clay Bellot
b. The motion seconded by Donna Haynes
c. Motion approved
3) Approval of Minutes
a. Motion to approve by Raymond Barnett
b. The motion seconded by Matt Panich
c. Motion approved
4) Old Business
a. APAC CIUS endorsement Statement of Concern
Teresa noted she sent the APAC CIUS endorsement statement to President Easter and
Chancellor Koch on Dec. 12th.
Received a thank you from Jorge Villegas for APAC’s support
b. Information survey of APs (James Burgdorf)
Discussion on suggestions/feedback since December meeting on topics for survey.
Committee agreed to have James facilitate a survey committee to work out
questions/topics for survey to propose at February meeting.
Volunteers for committee: Donna, Matt, and Maureen.
c. Questions/topics for March 9 meeting
Discussion on agenda items: invitation to Chancellor Koch and Provost Pardie present
state of campus, accomplishments, and upcoming changes, plus an open forum for
questions; kick off/build buzz for upcoming AP survey; APAC past year
accomplishments and upcoming initiatives, plus open forum for questions.
Discussion lead to the idea of inviting campus departments to display information about
their departments to all new and existing AP. Teresa was to send out an email to campus
and Clay would collect pdf copies to display on website and James would collect hard
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copies. An extra table to display this information would be requested through Campus
Services.
d. Possible CSAC/APAC co-hosted event for staff
Teresa received feedback on CSAC’s interest level on co-hosting event/presentation by
the International Student Services Office (ISS) and English Second Language Program
(ESL) departments. It was determined that APAC will continue with event as a brown
bag luncheon program open to all campus employees. Ashley Edge, International
Admissions Counselor, agreed to lead the planning of this event with APAC, ISS, and
ESL. Teresa will send an email to Sarah Jome, ISS Director, to gauge interest in such a
presentation and designate Ashley as the APAC representative for planning. Raymond
has agreed to assist Ashley with the planning.
5) New Business
a. New AP representative for Sustainability Committee
The resignation of Beth Nahlik from the University of Illinois in December, created a
vacancy on the Sustainability Committee. Discussion by committee lead to decision that
the vacancy will be announced campus wide seeking interested parties to submit a letter
of interest to APAC to serve out the remaining term thru August 2016.
Teresa will send out campus announcement soon.
6) Committee Updates
a. Campus Senate (Raymond Barnett)
Highlights of items reported from the December 12 Senate meeting:
 Chancellor Koch spoke on the uncertainty inherit with a new incoming governor.
Chancellor Koch noted this is the time to plan, not the time to panic. Governor
has proposed for all Illinois Higher Ed institutions to prepare budgets with a 20%
reduction in state appropriations. For UIS that equates to approximately $3.8
million. If such reduction, UIS will continue to focus on preserving the core
structure and on time graduation success. UIS is moving forward with new
degree programs, changes to some graduate certificates programs, graduate
teaching program, plus the addition of a UIS Cross Country team. Some of the
initiatives mentioned are geared toward attracting students transferring from
community colleges. The addition of the agreement between UIS and the UIC
School of Nursing is another great attraction for future students.
 Provost Pardie noted the state is behind approximately $330 million dollars in
payment to U of I. While better than last year, still a significant amount.
Enrollment updates: Freshman is currently flat from last year, transfers slightly
down, online enrollment for transfer and grad levels are markedly down, and on
campus graduate in up approximately 9%
 Dean Ermatinger noted the ESL Program recently hosted 40 students and 6
teachers from the Mexico Proyecta 100,000 program. The program consisted of
80 hours of instruction. While UIS would be in favor of growing this
relationship, the decision is up to Mexico’s Proyecta 100,000 program.
b. CSAC (Jo Barnard)
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No December meeting to report on.
c. Other committee updates
None
7) Public Comments/ Announcements
a. UPPAC Spring meeting February 5 10:30-12:30 BRK 180G
b. APAC Campus wide meeting: March 9 2015 Brookens Auditorium
c. APAC meeting with Laurel Newman, Campus Ombudsman March 12,
2015
d. Clay is making edits/updates to the APAC website
8) Adjournment
a. Motion to approve by Clay Bellot
b. The motion seconded by Mae Noll
c. Motion approved
Next meeting February 12, 2014 - 9:00 a.m. Brookens 204D