President’s Council Meeting- 9/1/2015
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President’s Remarks- none
Career Tracks- Toni Higgs
Physical Plant updates- Jeff Smith
Starbuck & other food vending in BRCHS building- Dr. Sapienza
Orthodontics parking for Wednesday’s needs consideration- Dr. Sapienza
Other- Area reports
Jeff Smith- Physical Plant
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Work order site should be working; site would send receipt confirmation but not actual work
order number; should also reduce duplicate tickets received
Aramark received 1100 work orders in August, completed 780
Working quickly to address A/C issues in various buildings
Staff Concerns: trees, restrooms, ants, ceiling
o Tree specialists will visit annually as concerns continue with fallen trees
o Ant issues: Terminix comes to campus weekly
o Restrooms in Kinne & Fitness Center need attention; Fitness Center already addressed
o Ceiling in recording studio looks as if it will come down on new equipment- Jeff will
address issue
Dr. Sapienza- Brooks College of Healthcare Sciences
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130 Baptist members visiting on September 2nd
DCOB Starbucks gets swamped with DCOB students and BRCHS students- Dr. Sapienza
requested more vending in BRCHS
Grant for GRASP school- will be sending two faculty and some students over to complete
reading assessments
Ortho Faculty member Professor Kate Litschel passed unexpectedly on Aug 1st
Professor Hasenblaus featured in US News about students and cell phone use
Working on creating a donor wall in BRCHS
Kim Jones- Alumni and Advancement
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Six events this week across the country
70 registrants for HC and Family weekend already
New Staff member starting on September 28th- Shawn Wood form Clarion, Dir. Of Major Gifts
for Athletics
New signage for BRCHS coming soon- naming of BRCHS & ribbon cutting event 9/21 @ 8:30am,
over 100 RSVP’s from Brooks already
Donor report is a work in progress but should be out in the next 3 weeks
President’s Parents Council has 15 families- gained two this summer
Less than 10 nominations for Distinguished Alumni awards
Day of Giving will occur in April- Advancement and Marketing had 100% participation and were
invited to Dr. Xu’s place for a meal
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Village Apt 6 will be renamed Rutherford Hall after Will Rutherford; look for invite
Margaret Dees- Admissions & Marketing
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507 new first year students enrolled; we only had a 14% melt vs the 25% melt we had last year
and the national melt percentage is 10%
Transfer enrollment up significantly
ADP enrollment doubled
New Chief Admissions Officer may be introduced this week
Three positions open in Admissions; two more may be available soon
Completed a recruitment study and determined there are 538 schools we should be targeting
for recruitment
Wave magazine coming out soon
Interviewing for a position in marketing now
Dr. Henry Rinne- Fine Arts
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109 to 135 Fine Arts majors (enrollment is up in their area)
Looking to expand dance cohorts
Gallery Opening on Thursday
Professor performance on Friday at 7:30pm
The Nanny Lead male actor will be on campus to speak with students (Peter Marc Jacobson)
Consider joining the Friends of Fine Arts
Dr. Matrecia Jones- DCOB; Dean Capener is out
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14 new EMBA students
Faculty approved food industry degree
Accelerated MBA is now at 45 students which is twice the size it’s been
Hoping to expand masters programs
Diana- President’s Office
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Thank you’s for Midnight Million Dollar Moonwalk; huge turnout at roughly 725 students
Dr. Xu- Provost
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Great job on matriculation- personally received two thank you cards from new parents
Stephanie McLarty is now her Executive Administrative Associate; Stephanie Ross is still here
September 14th team from China visiting
Reorganizing the library staff
FSCJ collaboration on pathway program coming- hopefully will attract more students from there
Looking into how we can integrate more technology in our learning
Terry Devlantes- EPIC
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EPIC Projects
o Video production room is in Council 143/144; almost complete
o Finishing science lab upgrades
o New tables in Gooding 113
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o Upgrades to Terry Concert Hall coming soon
o Creating EPIC video for Homecoming
Working on Bike Share program with Will Baxley
Youth Crisis Center is looking to expand its services and has been working with BRCHS and with
Professor Barkley on their PR
Working with David Healy on university’s physical master plan
Toni Higgs- Career Development
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New workshops coming soon
New staff member joining her team- Jeff Morris will begin on September 16th and he will focus
on Employer Engagement
Fall Industry Networking Nights are set
o Eight FINN’s on Tuesday’s and each will incorporate a small expo with employers at each
Toni has an onsite space in Athletics on Wednesday’s from 1pm on as needed
David Healy- Chief Financial Officer
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He will be reaching out soon to department heads about budgets
Small issues with the chiller plant
Lots of mundane tasks on the docket
o Making sure we are ADA compliant
o Working on golf cart issues
Bank transition- make sure everyone knows that rule changes are because of the bank and it’s
not coming from Liza’s office; looking forward to building a partnership with Fifth Third please
be patient
Look forward to a neat offer from Aramark- potentially offering faculty/staff one meal a week to
be used in the Riverview Café during the academic year
Still working on physical master plan
Dr. Kristie Gover- Chief Student Affairs Officer
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Switching gears to Emergency Preparedness- we are set to launch any emergency plans if
needed; Kevin Bennett is currently at an Active Shooter conference
Opening of North Hall has gone really well
Echoes matriculation success- reviewing changes to beat the heat
Fraternity & Sorority Life recruitment begins this week
Circle of Green & Gold (engagement initiative for small group of new students) had reception on
Monday, Aug 31st that went well; roughly 20 students in group
North Hall has Academic space- hopes to have a faculty space added; space would work great
for JU 102 instructors
Dr. Logan Cross- Institutional Research
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Open Session on TRAC Dat & institutional planning at 4pm in Stein Board Room on 9/2
Two sessions next week in DCOB (no specific times provided)