Audio Recording of Meeting, 2012 October 5

Thank you Dan.
On the phone our vice chair has asked that I kind of take the gavel for today and
preside over the meeting.
So that being said I would call the meeting to order.
I would note that we have a quorum and I would do a little something different because
we do have a number of new faces around the board.
So why don't we take 30 seconds and go around the table and say who we are.
House start.
I'm Pierre Albert, member of the University Council.
Gary Roth.
I'm a PhD student over at CNSC and I am the graduate student representative on the council.
This is for the Provost for Vice President.
I'm Christine Wagner from the Department of Psychology and I'm currently the vice chair
of the faculty senate.
I'm Jim Jackson.
I'm the University Council.
Mike Stein.
Robert Gulleschand.
Robert Gulleschand.
We're on the L.A.
I'm a true show.
Okay.
Matt Cullswell, University Council.
Abner Zumpia, University Council.
Hey, homecoming.
Hello, I'm Dr. Russes.
Oh, President of the Alumni Association.
So we're all dressed in on taking the minutes.
And feeding us.
Hello everyone.
My name is Arthur Rushworth.
I'm the undergraduate student body representative as president and it's a pleasure to be
all.
Good.
John Fallon, University Council.
George Philip, former member of the University Council.
Good.
Well, I agree with the R&A student.
More contentious with Cancer Research Center.
We fed it.
Much better than the finance.
Good.
I'm Dean Sonani by Sprez, the devolving.
That's Deli, she's the staff.
Thank you.
I would do that the review of the minutes, not only, well, we'll take them one at a time.
We have to do both May 18th and August 15th.
Are there any suggestions on the minutes, any corrections, any additions, subtractions?
June both together on either one.
Both.
I would look for a motion to approve the minutes.
Member, council member, Caldwell.
Second.
Second.
No.
Council member Jackson.
All those in favor?
Aye.
I'm ready to proceed.
Opposed?
I asked unanimously adopted.
I would move now for the report from the president.
Former chair of the University of Cal.
First of all, welcome back.
It's great to see you all here.
We have had thanks to you and all your efforts.
A very exciting new semester.
We are welcoming our 19th president to the campus.
He was here yesterday and plans to be back a number of times before he arrives here.
I'm going to go to the office and ask him about January 2nd.
The about part scares me.
But I am really excited about Robert joining the campus because I really think he is going to do a terrific job.
The council and the search committee did a wonderful job in bringing him here.
So stay tuned.
But I think you will very much like working with him.
That was a wonderful event here last week.
Last week before.
Two weeks ago at Liberty Terrace where the campus community had the opportunity to welcome Robert to campus.
That went very, very well.
And I think he is extremely excited about the prospect of coming here.
And I think we should be excited about the prospect of him coming here.
I've got these pages of this stuff.
This is a banner year and that we were able to welcome 45 new faculty for the start of the 2012-13 academic year.
This is the first year since our devastating budget cuts where we have been able to have a reception that was not a booth in a diner.
I'm trying to be funny.
But of the 45, there were 35 tenure track faculty in the group.
And including 21 women and 20 persons of color.
So we are working very hard at creating a more diverse faculty on this campus.
The provost should be congratulated for her efforts in achieving that.
So we are making very good progress moving forward.
Now that we have an opportunity to hire somebody that is not nano.
As far as the enrollment front, we welcome the class of 2016.
We have 2,567 freshmen, which is up 147 from a year ago.
We took in 1385 transfers, which is slightly less 18 less than we took in the year before.
Out of state students, we had an increase of 11 percent over last year.
International students, we had an increase of 26.3 percent.
This university is at the point now where we will have probably by next year considerably more out of international students than we do out of state students, which tells us one thing.
And that is we need to more aggressively in terms of getting out of state students.
But it also depicts the great success we have had in recruiting and continuing to recruit out of state, out of country or international students.
We enrolled 183 presidential scholars, which is 22 more than a year ago.
We have 145 new honors college students, which is 19 more than enrolled a year before.
All in all, it is a great class in terms of diversity.
This is our best year.
We have a class, which is 38.8 percent students of color, which is an increase from last year of 2.8 percent, which was a record.
We continue to make great progress in that arena.
Our overall undergraduate enrollment is slightly over 13,000.
Graduate enrollment, about 5,000 up around 300 and change from last year.
Overall, graduate enrollment up by 120 students.
Quickly for events, we had the 28th annual Burton Lecture on September 14th at Ron Canestary, which gave the Burton Lecture a very good job.
Ron has been a terrific supporter of the university for a long time.
Sadly, he is retiring, and we will miss him because he has certainly used his influence in the assembly to benefit this university as well as public higher education in general.
You Albany won a Case Educational Fundraising Award, and Fardin is to be congratulated.
How many recipients, Fardin?
Three public universities were honored this way, and we were one of them, and it is based on the analysis of three years of fundraising.
So I take partial credit for that.
But congratulations to our development team because they did a terrific job.
And considering the adverse economic circumstances that we were forced to act in, we had the best performing foundation and fundraising efforts in the SUNY system.
So congratulations.
Governor Cuomo announced the State Poet and the State Author on August 29th.
I'm going to read how is going to serve as the 10th New York State Poet and Allison Laurie as the 10th New York State Author.
I say that because this is a function or a process that goes through our writer's institute.
It's really a university function, and they actually have a term.
They will serve from 2012 to 2014.
We hosted the awards presentation.
I believe the same day we had the Burton Lecture.
We had to kill me that day.
It went all night.
We opened Liberty Terrace on August 20th for students.
If you haven't been by there, we'll probably try and do something for a council function so you can see it.
It's a brand new 500 and bed facility.
It is the only facility in the state, and dormitory facility in the state that is lead gold.
Among the incredible energy saving elements is that 50% of the energy for that or close to 50% of the energy that comes from a heat sink under the parking lot.
So it will be a very, very efficient building that we will operate at a much lower cost in terms of energy.
As you all know, energy is a big issue.
Going forward, we're doing our thing.
Of course, our new school of business is also a lead structure.
I believe it will be silver, not gold, but it's still a great step up, so we're being very sensitive.
As you look around, you see a lot of construction going on.
The newest construction to start is the new data center.
Most of you that have been around for a while know that our data center has been located in the basement.
In my tenure here, we've had flooding, and I've come to learn even though I'm not a science guy, that water and electricity, there's a problem with that.
So you don't want to have a data center in a spot where it gets wet.
So we're actually now building a state-of-the-art facility that will be used for the campus both the business and the research enterprise on campus.
That's exciting, and that will be in one of the rehabilitated outbuildings that are very unsightly as you come down.
And this will be very nice if you look down in the lobby.
There is an artist's rendition of what it will look like.
It's going to be a very nice state-of-the-art facility.
If you can't be on this campus without looking at the landscaping and the improvements that are being done in terms of trees, pathways, etc., the purple path will be completed.
Finally, that's a concept that started decades ago, and it's finally being done.
The parking, which is always the biggest issue on campus, you can talk about everything, but parking is really a problem.
It's somewhat disadvantaged, but if you look at the walkway now from state quad and to colonial quad and what that looks like,
and I just had lunch with the council, and I walked back to you, Hall, and it's a breathtaking view there that you're looking at within your school of business.
Recreational fields are being improved.
The new quad has a softball field.
I'm still trying to figure out how we're going to keep cars from getting hit if they have softball games.
They're hitting the other way, but a foul ball is a pleasure for you, windshield.
The Tower Project, the Fountain Tower Project, as I mentioned to you earlier, it's a beautification of the campus,
but it is a beautification process because that tower basically is a storage for 310,000 gallons of water.
It provides all of the water pressure for the campus, and it is necessary in particular for the towers.
So it is a utility, but in the meantime, we're going to deal with the tower, which has major problems, and fix up the fountain area,
and it gave me the excuse to cancel the fountain day.
This thing is odd, too. That's not good.
I'm joking about that.
The Campus Center fountain is behind schedule, but hopefully we'll be open reasonably soon.
I think there was an issue of parts, but that should be progressing.
That will really enhance the look on the campus, that symmetrical fountain, fountain type of thing that we've got going on.
School of Business, I just took a tour through the School of Business last week with a potential significant donor, and it is magnificent.
It is going to be a structure that we will be extremely proud of.
I cannot imagine having an entertainment event on this campus that will not be held in that building.
The Atrium, the Open Staircases, and what's going on there is breathtaking.
It will be one of the nicest facilities in the region, so I'm very proud of that.
I think we will get great utility from that.
I think it will help our enrollment, it will help our faculty recruitment.
It will certainly help our ability to raise money as well.
So I'm very excited about that.
Indian Quad renovation is going on.
We're currently in the process of literally demolishing the interior of the tower.
For those of you who are around, that actually only Pierre probably was around.
The way these towers were built, these quads were built. It was Dutch colonial state in Indian.
I was going to say that one was built when I was a student.
That's the newest.
Indian is the newest, and we're actually rehabilitating it.
That will be done in the summer of 2014, and that will actually give us a much more reliable housing stock for the campus.
We have a lot more projects that will be underway.
We're looking at a new capital campaign, but the project that has not started, that is most exciting to me,
because it has the most direct impact on students, is the rehabilitation of the campus center.
That will be a 50,000 square foot addition and a total gut rehab of the entire facility.
That is a fabulous project because this campus center was built basically with a 10,000 student enrollment max.
Clearly we have more than that, and we have probably when it was built, we may have had 20 or 30 student organizations.
We have 250.
There's no place for programming. There's no places for our students to actually do the things that are necessary.
They will be a wonderful amenity for our students.
I hope I get invited back for the ribbon cutting on that one, because that's...
Is the space being expanded?
Or just 50,000 square feet. We're building that much expansion.
And you're renovating what's there?
Yes, it's going to be a terrific project, and it's much needed on this campus.
So lots of capital. We'll talk a little bit about another incredibly exciting capital project,
which Vince will describe to you in a little bit.
But I'll save that for a second.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has sort of adopted our campus somewhat.
She has been on campus a number of times. She has announced a bill to spur growth in new science and technology,
a federal legislation that will actually help the capital region in this arena.
She also did a commercial at my desk, so I tell Robert to look for Gillibrand commercials, because it's his desk.
You can see the corner of it, but his desk is actually in the commercial, so it's...
There's a whole bunch. This part of this America innovates Act, but we haven't got time to go through a lot of this.
U.S. Congressman Paul Tanka, who has been a fabulous supporter of this campus since he was in the assembly, and even beyond that.
As a Congressman, he's been on campus numerous times to support us, whether it's the RNA Institute or our art galleries or our libraries or whatever.
He recently visited the campus to celebrate.
Invite Congress to visit your museum week. That's actually the title of the week.
And we did. And he came. And it was a great event.
I'm going to skip a bunch of breaks here, because I could keep you here forever.
Very importantly, we finally presented our NY SUNY 2020 proposal to the governor.
The proposal itself, I think, was well done and well received.
It is the product of an incredible amount of work.
And I say incredible amount of work. No one will ever recognize the number of nights people stayed, including the night before the presentation where I know Vince slept on my couch.
I know they didn't leave the Capitol till after 3 a.m. in the morning.
Vince doesn't look good normally, but when he sleeps on my couch, he really looks like hell.
But I'm going to let Vince sort of describe to you what our proposal is all about, because it's very exciting and it really does give you an indication of the future for this campus in terms of where we're going to go and developing the economic vitality of this region.
Well, first in the way of background, you might recall we made a presentation to it was last fall about our 2020 plan.
In much of it has not changed. Our 2020 plan is what it is largely a year ago with the exception of the Capitol thing.
And we presented to the Board of Trustees on August 1st of 2011, who was very well received. The governor, senior staff was present.
And they informed us about a month and a half later that they came to a realization that the four university centers all had Vince's Capitol themes that were focused on health.
And that they wanted us to rethink the Capitol theme. And that's what we've been working very closely with. The governor, staff, SUNY, Chancellor Goddurek, involved in our Capitol theme a little bit in this direction that we're going to talk to you a little bit about today.
The overarching theme of the 2020 plan really is to build your university and grow and spur the regional economy.
And we're doing that by increasing the academic opportunity for every student across every college and school in the university.
And our Capitol theme, and in particular our Capitol theme, really goes far to advance cutting edge innovation research and technology we just see about momentarily.
Our Capitol project is centered on the emerging technology and entrepreneurship theme. And we call it the impacts for sure.
And the reason that we moved in this direction and it's an emphasis of the governor and the chancellor is that New York is a laggard nationally with regard to the research that it generates in converting that, translating that into economic opportunity.
We ranked third in the country with respect to research expenditures, but we're not taking advantage of that research and translating it into some commercial opportunity.
Last year, a long university attracted, actually, generate more than $450 million in research expenditures. And this is the basis by which B-Tech will help in the commercial vision arena.
B-Tech essentially will be a home, an entrepreneurial ecosystem where we'll have tech transfer, workforce preparation, commercialization, small business development, and training.
And we will bring in our researchers, our students, external investment and funding, business and industry. And we will have to complete that ecosystem to really commercialize research.
In this facility, we're really leveraging four of our most prominent research clusters, atmospheric environmental science, forensic science, biomedical science, and big data, big IT.
We have industry partners in each of these research clusters, who are very excited about aligning with us as we move forward.
And we'll be back on the heels of announcing a number of partnership agreements with these companies.
The location of this capital facility will likely be either on the north side or the south side of the life science research building.
It'll be about 225,000 square feet. And the idea is really to leverage some of the investments we've already made in capital on the campus.
It's a $165 million facility. And we plan to launch this sometime in early 2013, the design phase of it, and hope to complete it sometime in 17 years.
And with these capital projects, they all generate a lot of job creation. This project alone, we estimate, just under 1600 construction jobs.
Again, the construction jobs is a big theme in terms of the economic growth. When the university will really benefit is in terms of permanent university positions.
One of the hallmarks of the 2020 legislation is that it's being held as the most significant reform to the state university since Nelson Rockefeller and the great expansion of SUNY in the 1960s.
We expect, to create about 735 permanent jobs, 187 new faculty, and the liberal arts and the sciences are going to benefit tremendously as well.
It's probably the liberal arts is going to be our largest investment area, largely because with increased enrollment, which you'll see in a moment, we need to support the general education experience.
But coupled with the hires, we'll have research or course that to the tune of 355 positions, and other corresponding university support to positions across the campus.
The 187 faculty, we expect, will add to our $450 million in existing research funding, just under around $120 million.
That's not an annual increase, that's over 5 years.
That's cumulative.
We don't set the expectation that high.
It's about $45 million in year 5 annually, we expect it.
Again, all the schools and colleges will be at that this year from the 2020 initiative.
We're adding, we expect to add about 700 course offerings.
Our graduation rates, we really want to invest in the support infrastructure so that we see increases there, at least 100 more students every year.
In terms of access, we want to grow the enrollment of the university by 1,350 students, roughly 900 undergraduates in that number.
There's a couple of questions with regard to tuition from the council leading into this meeting.
There's a concern that tuition is going to increase, and how are we going to protect students?
There's a provision in the act, it's called the CAHP Credit Set-aside, where those students who currently are CAHP students, they received CAHP from the State of New York.
They will be protected, and 30% of the tuition revenue will be set aside for those students, so they will be CAHP.
We're also making investments into other scholarship programs, $2.5 million to be precise.
There's a tremendous priority with respect to diversity and inclusion.
We're investing in our Carson Park, and in Frederick Douglass scholarship programs over the next five years significantly.
NWBE efforts were aligned with SUNY and their new goal of 25%.
We actually currently already exceed the thresholds that historically exceeded the thresholds that went set by the State.
I mentioned earlier our public private partnerships and the companies that are going to align with the E-Tech Initiative were poised right now to unveil some partnership agreements over the next several months.
Our project will talk a little bit about the Governor's regional economic development program.
He unveiled this back in 2011.
It was the NNY City 2020 project from the university, was a transformational project unanimously endorsed by the REDC here in the CAHP.
The reason is pretty simple, it's the economic development impact.
Overall, our plan generates 2,300 jobs for the CAHP.
It also has a corresponding $1.8 billion economic impact based on a Department of Commerce model.
I think one of the things, especially early on in this process, that was really quite remarkable.
It was a galvanizing moment for the university.
It's not just the university community came together behind the 2020 project, but the CAHP will reach in.
We had 300 capital, region, business and community leaders.
Mike Castellano did an unbelievable job in raising support for our 2020 plan.
The Times Union, I don't know if you recall back in 2011, they were sensational.
They were all over and very supportive of what the university was proposing.
It was really quite remarkable.
You might want to remember that's the only positive story you got in the last five years.
That's why it's so remarkable.
It was a great moment.
Essentially the overall plan, we scaled back this presentation to get through it quickly,
but we'd be happy to answer any questions that we have.
Thank you.
Questions and events?
I have one question.
I mentioned the increase in enrollment.
Will there be more building plans for drones?
How are we going to increase enrollment time?
One of the things to keep in mind is we keep in enrollment 18,200 to students back in OEL9.
We're down to around 17,100 students right now.
We do have the additional capacity, particularly since Liberty Terraces is online on the additional 500 beds.
The 500 beds, frankly, are there only because we didn't have those 500 beds right now.
We would be booked to the hill because we've taken down the tower.
So we've actually, we're replacing more beds.
We have more beds offline than we do online.
But as we grow more beds in terms of new beds now, as we grow the enrollment,
we hope to basically accelerate our rehabilitation plans to the points where we're going to have housing to accommodate that.
Plus, there are also some plans in terms of redeveloping some of the properties downtown,
not in terms of the pushing people into the less than desirable neighborhoods that exist down there now,
but creating additional postgraduate international student housing.
So we know about housing and we know what's going on.
We also know that we've got a number of triples in this year coming in.
We actually have people that are literally living in lounges.
We're mindful of that and that will be addressed.
Thank you.
Just a couple of reminders before I give up the floor next weekend, 12 to the 14th is homecoming weekend.
A lot of activities on campus last year was incredible.
This year will even be more incredible.
So if you have an opportunity to come on campus, there's just so much going on.
And we also have a pretty good, well, we actually have a decent football game.
We'll win it.
You never scheduled a tough team on homecoming weekend.
But if you get a chance, come on campus.
And another event that is really going to be just a hallmark of our campuses.
Citizen Laureate Award on this campus is the highest most prestigious award in the cap of region.
This year our honorees are Mickey and Norman Masry.
The Masry's have been incredibly generous to this community everywhere,
the university, but the entire capital region for a long time.
Normally we have the event at the Hollis Springs.
It's usually booked to the rafters.
This year it's well beyond the rafters and we had to basically schedule the venue,
reschedule the venue to the Sepkul Arena, to the gym, in order to accommodate the number of people that are coming.
So that is a great event. It's black tie.
It's probably the best event in the region in any given year.
Fardin is doing a terrific job.
It's raising a whole lot of money for the university.
If you get a chance, that's a terrific evening.
November 1st, it's Thursday night.
That's it for me.
And I don't think this is my last meeting.
No, we're not.
That ring's a bell.
It's a bell.
My youngest son's birthday.
I'm spending a little while here.
And a day that lives on in New York.
For my wife, she'll remember her reason.
I don't know about you.
My sneak attack.
My mother, she wasn't even pregnant.
There's any questions of...
President Phillips.
George? President George?
Just George.
Just George.
I was interested today as President George, right?
Yes.
As President George, I like that.
And I hope, Arthur, it has that in part of his comments
because there was a spectacular show prior to our council meeting today
over at the campus ballroom.
Do you want to go next?
Because I'm not actually on the thing.
We revised the agenda.
You're on it.
You're on it.
We're number four.
Oh, okay.
It's the other Arthur.
That's me.
So, hello everyone.
Again, I appreciate you guys all being wary of my situation tomorrow
with the LSAT.
So I'm sorry that I seem a little disheveled.
But yes, it's a little...
A disheveled for a college student.
But yes, to speak on some of the endeavors that SA has undertaken
so far this year, what we're planning on continuing is...
For one thing, thank you, President Phillips,
and for everybody that attended this morning,
we had the kickoff community service month event
in the campus center ballroom around 11 o'clock.
And what that does is it kicks off the initiative
between the University of Albany and the surrounding...
Albany community in the high school.
What we're doing again this year is the Student Student Initiative,
which is a collaborative event between the students here on campus
and the Albany high school students.
We're creating after-school programs,
and we're really just trying to rejuvenate the Albany community
and get those kids to know that higher education is not only an opportunity
that they can achieve, but it's something that offers them
so much more than just academia alone.
It offers them a sense of community.
So that was a wonderful event that happened this morning.
It was very successful.
I think it was 50 members of the Albany high school
come and extra form.
Yeah, so that was 60.
So that was even better.
We had Dr. V, who's the new superintendent of schools also here today.
So that was really good.
The community really seems to be getting behind us in that initiative.
As well, I'd like to invite all of you to our 2013 speaker series,
which is also happening homecoming weekend.
This year, the keynote speaker will be Russell Simmons.
If you guys don't know who Russell Simmons is,
he was a reference manager and basically started the music industry
or what seems to be today's hip-hop music industry.
So that's the really exciting event that we have going on.
For people of my age, he's the very gordy of hip-hop.
Real music and then there's just that.
I'm a translation.
I think very calm, I'll come.
But he has been known traditionally to be a very good speaker.
So please, there's no registration required.
You can just show up.
So please, all of you, you're all welcome to come.
And I hope you do.
Again, that is taking place during homecoming weekend as well.
We have also, we plan on planning our fall concert coming up as well.
We'll be announcing that soon.
We've had our elections already, so most of our positions are filled,
except for our vice president, which we're still searching for currently.
We have an election going on now.
And we have a couple other events coming up next year.
Next semester, we have a, we're going to call it a spirit event.
It's new.
It didn't happen last year, so it's going to be new.
We'll be announcing that.
It's still a secret now.
But let's just say you won't be on the map.
So it's already been approved too, so it's nothing scary.
I promise.
But yeah, we thought we're really excited about the year to come.
And I look forward to seeing how well we do.
The question is, is the new president will leave town after that?
Yeah.
I'll make paper for you.
Yes.
In a puck well, I was saying a positive way, but who knows?
My name is George.
Any questions?
Other than, are you looking for volunteers to serve on your search committee for your vice president?
I'm not going to be on my list.
Is anything like the last committee had it with you in the name of jobs?
Thank you.
Now I'll move to the portion of the agenda, which is dedicated to four updates.
And we have a member that would perhaps give us a little bit more about our background and update on the faculty.
So I'm a professor in the psychology department, but I'm actually a behavioral neuroscientist.
And my lab is over in the life sciences building.
I am the newly elected vice chair of the Senate, and also, therefore, the chair of the governance council.
It's still the beginning of the academic year, so there isn't too much to work from the Senate.
The Senate had its first meeting of the academic year.
Not too much business of substance at that first meeting.
All the councils have met. The Senate councils have met there, busy completing their missions and their charges.
They formed their subcommittees, and so a lot of the years are grinding.
A lot of the work is being done.
And the first full meeting of university faculty will occur on October 29th in the campus of the fall.
That's been all there is at this moment.
Thank you.
Questions, observations?
Thank you.
Gary attended our last council meeting, but is here in his official capacity representing the graduate students.
Gary?
I'm in the introduction.
So I'm a PhD student over at CNSC, for those of you who haven't met me before.
And I'm the graduate student representative for the NML report on current state of the graduate student by GSO, particularly.
GSO has actually had two meetings since the new administration took office.
This is particularly poignant because the GSO new administration came in and was immediately informed that there had been a number of fiscal issues.
Which basically even was basically one story made short is that significant mistakes that were made resulted in overestimating income and reserves and underestimating expenses.
So obviously as you can see the graduate student, the graduate student body definitely idolizes the money.
But the administration having found this out, immediately called to emergency meeting, reorganized the budget.
Basically they cut what was what was into space at $200,000, a bigger budget and half and worked down a range of the UAS so they could meet all the obligations and manage to handle all the debt since five of the end of this year.
Not everyone's entirely happy with some of the cuts that had to be made, but they need to be made.
Talk to me about that.
It's hard, but definitely specifically George unplugged.
Despite that, the GSO is currently still trying to expand operations in a dresser and long standing issues.
So the downtown campus which accommodates roughly 1.4 of all graduate students will be getting an office for the GSO.
In addition, we're looking at ways to streamline systems in terms of distributing information on graduate students and also managing to increase the efficiency of and look at systems that are in high demand like our printing services.
Beyond that, the administration has decided that the community engagement needs to be a very, very high priority.
The Vice President specifically is taking the step of man-dated community service for GSO for our GSO groups.
The Vice President worked with the SA President and the media outreach coordinated further expand the kickoff event, which was discussed previously so we'll go into a lot of detail.
And that event, which was intended by the GSO President this morning, March just the beginning.
The GSO has also sent some of its members to the student initiative and we plan to continue to do so throughout the year.
The GSO administration specifically has asked me specifically to mention that it's not merely committed to community service, but it's becoming model for proactive role in the community with all the enthusiasm to fitting any grand dedicated student.
Good job.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So this financial thing, this wasn't anyone misappropriating, but it was just accounting errors?
Or is that a mylotean's that question?
Yes.
Actually, you actually have a statutory fiscal role.
So you remember, the four of many of you were on the council, we actually did the undergraduate put them in a receivership because we had to send the orders the fewer and the way before you're doing that.
So I thought there were reasons to put on this.
No, no, that's okay.
So obviously in front of me, I don't have all the documentation.
The full details are that there was that there were a couple of errors made.
The biggest errors made were actually on the income side.
There was a certain amount of anticipated revenue coming in, which wasn't meant to be considered a student role, was actually a little lower, that was anticipated by the original numbers and those were not dated.
Additionally, there was a certain amount of carryover that goes from year to year, and they had been continuing to carry over the old numbers without asking for an updated amount of what the reserve was.
In addition to not paying attention to the fact that they're supposed to be a mandatory minimum 10% carryover to offer.
The result, that alone, it would have put us a little in the red.
Beyond that, whether or not there was misappropriation of funds, certain funds didn't, certain expenditures were not made in the way that they had been dictated on the budget, and that's currently under discussion by the, by both SAS.
By UAS, and also by the assembly and the current administration.
If your annual budget was 200,000, you've cut it to 100,000.
Yes, so as a couple of years' budget has been roughly $200,000, give or take a few thousand, but this year they've cut to 100,000, including everything should manage to put us back in the black by the end of the year.
Well, thank you. It's good to hear.
So, Henry, looks audited by any external?
That goes for the SC as well.
Our audit process is handled by Marvin Company.
We have a personal auditor, and we actually do currently have an audit going on with UAS.
They're giving us suggestions on how to better handle internal control.
Basically, it's focused on that.
We're handling it in a partnership way, so we will take their advice on the consideration and implement some of those ideas.
We've actually been very proactive and beaten them to the punch on certain measures, and they've been very accepting to that, which is nice.
But our bucks are pretty straight on our end.
However, we do have an outside company, and the university is taking a little interest in our control.
So, we're working with the university on one side and the other side, we do have an independent auditor.
So, at this point, the graduate student body has currently accepted that we're really supposed to have three controls.
The three levels of control are supposed to be our own internal budget and oversight by the assembly who is supposed to approve but any expenditures over certain amounts in addition to the budget itself.
The UAS oversight, and then also another auditing, another auditor company, or something like that.
This had been brought up in previous years, and the previous administration had not made pursuit of this a priority.
The current administration would like to, but they spoke with UAS, and the bottom line is that to do this is an expensive proposition.
So, they're going to be relying on UAS's ability to audit them until the hours are worked out at the end of this year, and we're back in the black, and then have the reserve necessary to implement that going forward.
It's supposed to be implemented annually.
Is that answered the question?
Maybe you could use a couple of the accounting students from the school business to that.
Actually, you actually have some of them on your...
I think that's not a bad idea to give them some real life experience.
Keep the polysize students away.
That was actually one of the ideas that had been discussed.
Okay, good.
Thank you.
Alumni?
Well, it's going to be busy in the glorious summer for us.
Our executive director and staff and volunteers at the board simply do not know the concept of the rest of the recreation associated with summer hours.
This is the result of their plan.
What does it mean?
I look at this, you have one page, and I have 20 pages.
They usually set the pages on the side.
They call them talking points, they said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, okay.
They are limited to remarks.
I just want to share some of those.
I just want to say a few little things from the entire way of how we think about this.
First of all, we now have 157,000 alums.
We represented 115 countries, I think, is very impressive.
Under the programmatic highlights in the past,
let me just pull out a few statistics for you.
We have something like well-in-exas in 2000, alumni volunteers that it's growing every day.
As a matter of fact, next Saturday we're going to have a breakfast to honor them and so forth.
We part of that is that they have contacted 400 of our acceptance students and brought up to least 600 in parents of the selected students through our 10 alumni receptions.
I'm really pleased about what I spoke to you about the UCAN effort.
That's the Unite the Albany Career Advisory Network.
Our goal prior was for 1200, we have 1500 and again, growing the light of the fact.
Our most popular program still remains as the list says here.
The goal of anything to do with the graduates of the last decade.
Any of our athletic events, of course, homecoming is big, purple, grey, and so forth and not bad.
I want to thank Dr. McAverick. He's a splendid partner.
He never lacks in zeal and he listens to all our less than desirable ideas sometimes.
He's one of our thoughts.
So thank you.
By the way, homecoming next weekend, you can just go on the website and see us as door tangent.
I've got pages, the pages about 50s.
Let me just highlight a couple of them.
One is, and I'm so proud of this, it's 5K run, 2.5 walk in the Lundane dash.
This was actually initiated and is coordinated by two of our board members, Dr. Sharon Cantor and Bruce Scander.
What you're marked about is Sharon is out on the west coast and the river is here, but they managed before it all.
It's wonderful.
And all funds raised for that go directly to the hope fund for the cancer research center.
We also had one of the other highlights, going to be the Class reunions.
And I have the pleasure of serving on the South of the world, and I'm inducting the Pam Sentry Club.
People have been out 50 years, so we give them a pin. I'm wearing the pin today.
Five years away before I wear this button.
So we're looking forward to that.
Then George and I will have the pleasure of meeting with legacy families.
Now these are people with more than one generation of loans, or current students who have a parent or grandparent at the attending university.
That's Saturday afternoon. You're invited to that reception.
I think we can give you a few statistics on that.
We have 1,361 different legacy connections, we are parent or parent and student relationships.
This year along, we welcome 48 new freshmen, ladies and students to our campus.
They join 318 current students, and I've lived at some point in X-Up 800.
All told it was an endured something of Pam Sentry.
And they come from neighboring states in Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
Okay, moving along.
Under the paragraph, which is now well called, our present, which is our alumni and student engagement.
We're always looking for new ways to maximize alumni engagement, and in fact encourage the support of leaders in the university.
Part of that is also creating a culture of giving the mom and student.
So from day one, I actually back up and learned the orientation.
Members of my board and myself have attended orientation meetings.
Start connecting them to the alumni association and their parents.
Then in the fall when they move in, they're giving their congratulations.
I gave you the day into a little volume t-shirt, so we give them that.
So it's ongoing throughout the whole time.
So then you can read more about that.
Moving on to our future.
Basically, as you know, in 2010, we embarked on our strategic planning process.
We're in the second year of that.
And it's such a working, living document.
I'm so proud of all that the group is doing on this.
And basically you'll see down here just includes the same enhancing philanthropy, connecting the career of the networking.
And I have to just divert from it again and say that I can't begin to tell you how much we appreciate for these.
None of this work with philanthropy and continued partnerships would happen without their peace.
It's just fabulous. It's always their force.
It's very courageous. He's a gifted man.
It's very courageous.
Who do you also entertain so far?
Less than desirable ideas.
Anyway, so that's that.
Now, in some incompletion, it's hard to believe that one year has gone by already.
So I'm really into the second year of my presidency.
I don't know if that makes me a...
What's it a lane?
No, it's a lane.
But at any rate, not a grateful note though.
I just want to thank you for all your support and encouragement and kindness.
And on behalf of the alumni board, would you like to also thank you?
Let's have a few minutes.
A little more.
A little more.
A little more.
These are for the women.
I'll make sure I give out the right...
I think for them.
I just saw you a couple of times.
Yeah, just a bit.
I think we can build.
What's wrong with my...
I think you have gifts, I believe.
They're very cute.
Yeah, well, the petnum.
You get a ball.
It's for a woman.
You can't take a home.
You're wiping it ever.
You know you are a partner in very, terribly roles.
You want to instill that in all of you.
I expect to see you in the next meeting.
Ah.
Very nice work.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Well, we want to thank you for the...
These councils are very impressed by you.
I give a full report for you.
For me.
How can I tell you this is not a good time?
This is my talking time.
I can see you.
Oh, John, it's so new.
I can promise you.
I can promise you.
I believe that that is good.
You can wear it as a do-wrap, John.
I'm going to change it for the time.
Now, if you need more of these just too much with me, I'll be washing dishes.
Not that seriously, but we want people to wear, obviously show your purple-dolled spirits.
Thank you again.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, so...
Thank you for the gifts.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now, we do have one for Dan, right?
Dan, you're still there.
I'm just the gift.
Oh, no question.
And Bob is the one that will ask you.
Oh, Robert.
Yeah, Robert, he said, you can find some of those, okay?
I'll put it there.
I'm going to say one word to Lisa Arvillon off we go.
Good idea.
Thank you.
That completes section five.
We're probably halfway through the agenda.
So we'll go to old business.
Dan, I know that there's an interest on old business for a brief reflection on the past presidential search.
And before we do that, I want to...
I think everybody joins everybody in thanking Dan Thompson and Patricia Goldwell for co-sharing this job.
And spearheading.
I know the first council meeting that I attended.
The attorney from Troy was on.
Was here as a member of council.
Yes.
Richard Hamph.
Richard Hamph.
And he told everybody at the council that in the event that you are, that you have to be engaged in a project.
You should be engaged in a presidential search that you should be looking at anywhere between three and four hundred hours of time to do that.
And that's when Karen Hitchcock was president.
And we've gone through three, some of them.
Two, some one.
And it is a lot of work.
And I know that as a member, no less the chair.
So it's got to be even doubly amounted for the chair that you did and the co-chairs, etc.
So...
Okay.
Well, thank you.
And of course...
Dan?
I think Dan and I both thank...
Most of the people in this room, I think, were involved in the search one way or another.
And everybody spent a huge amount of time.
And after it was over, actually, Dan and I both spoke to each other.
And I think both of us agreed that I don't know what we would have done without having co-chairs.
I mean, that...
I mean, it allowed for us to hand things off.
And it really made life a lot easier for us.
So I think maybe in the future we want to always consider...
Hopefully we don't have to deal with this anytime soon.
Always consider that kind of a concept.
In any way, you know, it's interesting.
Back when we had our meeting in May, if you had asked me when the search would be done,
I probably would have answered January, something like that.
And I think as most people know, we were trundling along.
And I think it was really going very, very well.
And then the day after we had our interviews with kind of what I would call our semi-finalist group,
the Times Union published a list of some of the candidates.
And by doing that, not only did they damage the lives of some of the people on that list,
they obviously people also withdrew from the search.
And I think, you know, quite frankly, it was a big black eye for both Albany and the SUNY community.
And at the time, of course, that meant that we accelerated the search.
We pretty much aborted having...
We were supposed to have what's known as a representational search.
We canceled that.
Typically, the council gets an opportunity to interview the candidates before forwarding them to the chancellor.
That was also eliminated.
And the net results, of course, is that we actually ended up completing the search much, much more quickly,
which in some respects, I think, is a good thing.
I think we should always be looking for ways to shorten the process.
But I think the more important thing is that this is the second time there's been a leak in particular,
in an Albany search process.
And I think certainly, maybe not 100% of the search committee members,
but most of them would join me in saying we have to investigate, and we have to consider what the repercussions should be of somebody doing this.
It just can't be that we ignored, and people get off Scott 3.
And so I think we will look in the future towards ways maybe the process can be improved,
and how we might add some teeth to a confidentiality agreement.
But in the near term, I think it's the role of the council to this council to take a little bit of the lead on this.
And at a minimum, I think what I'd like to suggest is that we, as a council, ask SUNY to proceed with an investigation into what happened here.
I believe they have the resources, and I think as an initial step, that's probably the appropriate place to look.
Is it really the SUNY people, or is it the general council of the University of Albany that has to conduct that kind of search?
General council actually works for us at General Council.
I know, I know, technically, who is, did they have the ability to SUNY per se?
He would be using his head as General Council of University of Albany.
I know he's on the payroll, technically, but...
Yeah, I mean, it would actually, that sort of thing would have to be originated at SUNY through the General Council's office.
I mean, we could certainly initiate something, but it'll end up getting back to SUNY anyway.
Yeah, I think too, because it's a bigger SUNY issue, I think it's a SUNY issue in a lot of ways, too, in the process.
I think they're better equipped than we are to probably address this.
I mean, maybe they'll come back and say, no, it's up to you.
But anyway, so I would like to put forth, I don't know if it should be done as a resolution from the council to SUNY Central,
that they go forward with an investigation.
So, I make that motion.
The motion on the tables, or a second?
Second.
Second?
Have them.
Open for discussion.
What exactly would be our desired outcome from that investigation?
Would it be a week?
Hope them to actually determine whether the source of the leak.
I think the best outcome is determining the source of the leak.
And making a public, I think the minimum outcome is an improved process.
I changed the process.
I think to me that's a minimum.
I mean, that's big.
This clearly isn't tolerable.
We can't do business like this.
Right.
It's a second.
It's completely destroyed our first search.
So, we're going to get a whole new.
I mean, it was a standing.
And it was, I believe, delicious.
I mean, I think that it was a very managed leak in terms of the information that was released.
The timing was literally after we've right after we've finished the interviews.
I mean, this was somebody out with an agenda.
And so, we've finished what three or four o'clock that you have to do next morning.
It's in the paper.
12, 10 in the morning.
Connection.
I was walking home from the last interview because it was, I was on a video in New York.
I got an email from the office here saying, well, the Times Union has called.
They're going to put, have a story on the process.
Do you want to make a statement?
They didn't say, oh, we're going to release the names.
They just said they were going to have a story.
So, I can tell you that you haven't even made a three blocks.
I mean, that experience as church representative of the diocese would be.
Press, I can tell you that's something that the Times Union would have had storage
with it, calls it, they would understand so and so and so and so.
And it will be three to six months of research.
They have the document, I think it's six independent sources from what they are told
before they publish something.
Not this.
And so, you know, as you said, it wasn't, it didn't happen that night.
The story was ready to go in my opinion.
Maybe one verification.
And they could, it's easy to achieve.
Believe me that the leak happened quickly because your list wasn't compiled.
Right.
Until very late.
Right.
Exactly.
I mean, all of us that were right there know, exactly.
It just, anyway.
So, can I ask a quick question?
Sure.
Have you had conversations with SUNY or are they, we're going to catch them by surprise with
this resolution?
We are not catching by surprise.
We have repeatedly asked about it.
I don't think they're enthusiastic.
Follow a question.
At same time, we have seen some overtures where more addressing the process than trying to find
a culprit.
Or if they concerned about the integrity of their search, I mean, our search, I mean,
I'm surprised that they're not more enthusiastic about investigating.
So, I, I don't, you know, we have to think about it.
I'm not sure, we talk about the day.
What's going to happen is, was this thing is done and this has been reported.
Then, the Albany Times Union, right in our poll, that's how it's going to be passed.
So, it's possible that SUNY doesn't want us to, you know, either get out of control.
So, it's going to take us to a higher level of the resolution.
I don't know.
I guess my point is that I would think that we would want to be careful with what the resolution
says.
And if we put that kind of thing into a corner, that is now, if they don't do this investigation,
go do something that's a fallen animal, make new recommendation for the process.
And what the process will be in instances of leaks.
I just don't want to get into a point where we're kind of putting a chance to learn a tough spot.
I think one of the things that I'm hearing is that the, but most desired, you know,
impact is to determine who made the leak and basically, you know, expose this person and create whatever consequences.
But we also have to figure out why the process doesn't work.
We also have to figure out why the disclosure or non-disposure agreement seems to have no effect.
Certainly when it comes to Albany.
So, you know, there are other things that we can achieve, one, improving the process, which is important.
And two, maybe actually adding some teeth to the non-disposure agreement.
We think that it's possible with the person that leaked it to an even sign that on the school.
But they somehow figure out the way to access the process.
I think the matter is that it only had to come from a limited number of people, all of whom in one way or another signed a non-disposure agreement.
Unless, well, you guys, you don't have to have a conspiracy theory here.
You could figure out what the possibilities are.
I mean, it was clearly intentional.
The person knew whoever did this knew it was confidential.
And I think it was delicious in its intent.
And I don't, there have to be repercussions, I guess, as my concern.
If it hadn't happened before, maybe you can sit there and say, oh, this was an aberration that would never happen again.
But that's what everybody did the last time.
And there were members of the search committee who said to me, I was furious that we didn't investigate this the last time.
When you say malicious in its intent, do you mean that they were wanting to just blow out the whole process,
or just create trouble, or do they have sort of a completely favorite candidate they were trying to defend?
It was selective information.
And the fact that it was selective and not necessarily accurate, I mean, it just, it was a managed, I felt it was a man.
So they had an agenda.
I don't know what the agenda was, but they had an agenda.
Well, there's clearly an agenda to embarrass the university or just out the university, if you will.
But we don't know a specific agenda.
We don't know.
One caveat is that whatever we draft, I mean, whatever you draft, I think cannot be, you got to be careful so it's not construed in any way or shape or form that anybody gets unhappy about the results of the search.
No, that's not right.
But I'm just saying, you've got to be very careful with the wording so that it's not like, you know, see what you did, you screwed it up and, you know, we're very happy with the results of the search.
But we were lucky.
I feel like we were lucky because we had a fantastic outcome here.
And, right.
Yeah, that's very good.
It was so endowed when this happened.
I mean, when this happened that time.
So the university, I was here.
The rate is synonymous support for the current president.
Yes.
However, in light of the tangential issues associated with what occurred, including people's time, efforts, money, and the money.
Well, people were damaged.
The one, the one thing that Pad mentioned that two people changed their jobs lost their jobs.
We don't know if it was consequential.
That's what I meant.
But that's terrible.
I mean, at any level, but at that level, it's...
Yeah.
But the intro...
The intro is what you're saying.
What George is saying is the intro to this resolution, and George, by...
Yeah, absolutely.
Has to make it clear in the first paragraph that the council plays to unanimously without reservations, support the decision made with respect to the current.
The new president.
But is only doing this because of X, Y, and Z.
And the process needs to be fixed and I think that's what you're saying.
Yes, absolutely.
You're right on it.
And since this is the first search under the new guidelines from the Chancellor from SUNY, this is an ideal time to reflect on those guidelines and how they...
And then ask for the...
Correct.
And the council, especially, requested SUNY, you know, look into this and report back to us, you know, the results.
That investigation.
And maybe we can couple that with as well as reconsider some of the guidelines in light of this.
My suggestion would be that once it's drafted and some soils are going to draft it, it would be distributed to the court.
And then everybody has a chance to weigh in on the comments that they have.
Yes.
You have some talented people here, and that, you know, they have some benefits to make sure it's done.
And in the appropriate way that George, I think, wants it to be done.
Right.
And I do want to second what George said and that is that there's no question we ended up with a great result.
And because we did, it makes you feel like, okay, maybe, you know, I think everybody's tempted to kind of ignore the fact that we have a bad process.
But you are.
But that's exactly what we're talking about.
And frankly, that's the big issue.
The big issue is going to be how much credibility got for bid we have to go through this again.
How much credibility does this university have in the marketplace and the future when the past two presidential searches resulted in, you know, an inappropriate leak to the media that damaged people.
Yeah.
If I'm a 50 year old or a 55 year old person that's looking for a career move, I'd avoid this job.
Because it just, who needs to take that risk?
That's right.
Yeah. I don't want to be revealed as one of 30.
Because my employer is not going to be happy with me and I'm basically taking away.
So I think the important thing is one, we need to preserve the credibility of the institution going forward, especially as it been twice.
And then I think SUNY is a vested interest.
They have a huge turnover among the presidents.
They need to have a credible process in place that, you know, is full proof as it can be.
It's certainly not full proof now, but it can be better.
Right. And I think there are things we saw in our process that were the basic guidelines that are now in place could be improved.
And to at least minimize some of this kind of a risk.
All right. So the motion that we have on the table is to adopt a resolution, but we would amend that motion to say that we would draft and circulate a draft resolution for adoption with everybody sign off.
Yeah. I think so.
We don't have to wait until December 7th.
So, I think the end of the year, I'd like to.
I think the resolution needs to be in Adams. That's why.
So I think everybody needs to have an opportunity to review it and do it in the comments that they have.
But again, I'm not trying to try to do it in the air.
I'm just, you're right.
And we would do it initially by emailing if there was a need, maybe a conference call.
Right.
I'm going to send around a work version of it and everybody can mark it up and make some of those comments.
And I'm sure it's not going to be that big of a deal for everybody.
Very good.
And this will come from the statutory members of the council.
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah. But I think you can actually absent somebody to murdering.
I think you could actually get a vote for the full council.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah. I mean, I think that's actually a light it.
I don't see any group in this room that is not equally impacted and wouldn't be as.
No, I think the, you know, it should be the whole.
I just think it should be unanimous.
And I think we should view it and get across the points that you.
That's a recommendation.
Right.
Okay.
If that's the motion on the table.
Second.
Okay.
After did the original motion.
This is the.
This is the motion.
This is the motion.
Intermo.
Move the amendment.
Well, they have to say I'll move the amendment.
Okay.
Nice second.
I'm going to get my name in the inventory.
Get your name in the minute.
From mileage.
Yeah.
I need proof that a discussion.
We'll meet you with all those in favor.
I vote.
Those.
May.
Onto new business.
We have more old business.
Thank you.
Susan can't be here at the beginning part, but she did come.
So here she is.
She is.
She has to be put a little bit further down on the agenda so she could make it back.
She made it back at her time, which tells us either she got back earlier or we're.
We're all dragging on the agenda.
So Susan Phillips.
I think we're going to do it this way.
I don't know.
Yeah.
This guy is a man of bio or whatever the hell they are.
He did nothing to do with this one.
So thank you.
I'm delighted to bring to you again some update.
So I'm a strategic plan.
Many of you participated in it from the word go.
Participated all the way through it.
The process that took a year to create it.
We're now at the very end of our first year of implementation.
And just a quick background on the agenda.
And just a quick background on this.
No tests required here.
We came up with a strategic plan that included six different themes.
And within that six different goals within each theme, all put you to be done by yesterday.
And so the president picked a selection of what we call the first up.
The priorities for years one and two.
Those were then translated into seven different working groups.
And off they went for the first year.
Probably did in the space of the 12 month year, 18 months worth of work.
And I brought to you a report of that.
I will just quickly highlight as soon as it gets around.
So on the first page of this, you'll see what the first up priorities were.
They included undergraduate academics, student engagement, advisory, mentoring, and support.
Student recruitment and enrollment, graduate education, research, keeping pace with emerging technologies, and faculty and instructional development.
Each of those was assigned to a working group.
And they took on the activities that were outlined in this community plan.
As well as some other cool ideas that emerged along the way.
Across the seven different working groups, about 150 faculty, students who were participating.
It was quite a year, a bumper crop.
You can see the full details I call it the full Monty at that website.
And on the next two page, I've highlighted some of the, this is a 60,000 foot view of what we accomplished in this first year.
It is relatively enormous, if I may make a sense.
I would like to say so myself.
Under goal one, which is one of the strategic plan goal concerning undergraduate education in the academic sense.
We actually passed, discussed and discussed and discussed and passed.
A new general education program for our undergraduate students, which the president has now signed.
And we're moving into implementation.
It both expands the exposure that students have.
And also reduces the number of credits that they have to make making us actually much more competitive and comparable to other institutions.
We've also established a peer mentor program to allow upper class students to serve as additional mentors for the younger students coming along.
A special initiative that we've undertaken during the year, I call Community College Connections, working to develop better, stronger, easier connections between our regional community college partners and university to make the, to make it a much more logical, easy and efficient pathway to send their best students to us.
We've created a new program to highlight the quality of the academic achievement is valued here on campus.
So we're taking a way of showcasing some posters you'll see on campus, like our alumni posters of this cool student who did this wonderful academic thing.
So you'll see those coming up.
And of course you heard about the hiring of 45 full-time faculty with recruits, plans for recruiting several hundred more over the next five years.
So we're going to be working on our New York City 2020 initiative and faculty turnover.
My estimate is that over the next four or five years we will have higher, probably 400 new faculty, which is just remarkable.
It will be a really a truly re-energizing kind of experience that the university has been seeing as public in the 60s, when it grew.
Under goal two, we've created something called advising plus, eight plus for short.
This is a coalition of all our academic support services to try to get them available to students who created an academic support services council to coordinate all of the academic support that happens in various units, athletics, EOP, residents' lives, international, and so forth to make sure that the students have the supports that they need.
And I know where they can go. It's a one-stop shop to get with the need to succeed academically. That's now in place.
There's an email actually going out this afternoon to remind all the faculty about that.
As they approach the mid-term semester, we expect to get business to pick up and get paid plus.
You'll see that.
We also launched 40 new sections of discipline based first-year courses.
This has been an initiative growing for a number of years actually and now being able to play out this strategic plan to really enhance our first-year experience for as many of our first-year students as we can touch.
The 40 sections of the first-year courses are one of those versions. We also have 17, this is doubling our number of living learning communities for incoming freshmen.
They're very exciting. Created a website for new students that's modeled after the informal EOP which is UAE, you know.
And we're very happy to expand the faculty mentoring and orientation of a number of faculty participating in cancer traditions has increased pretty dramatically over the last couple of years and even more so this year, the faculty can't be lighting it.
The attendance was just wonderful. I actually don't know if the University Council gets an invitation to candle lighting but it is very cool and we ought to invite you.
It's a wonderful start.
The start to the year is the bookends to the torch nut. It's when you light the candle and then the graduation is when you pass the torch to the next class.
So it's a very, all the new students have their candles but it's still quite striking and very moving.
Go through was our graduate education goal and this one was a very delicate, very carefully done project of establishing new benchmark criteria by which especially active programs would be evaluated.
And Kevin Williams, our vice-privileged for graduate education, did it.
So we now have a new, a new, a new, decentralized set of criteria of which to evaluate programs and will then begin moving into taking that on to the data and evaluating.
Also created a new program of professional development for graduate students.
Under our research profile, you'll hear more from Vice President Diaz this afternoon about the research productivity this year.
We've been working very hard not only to increase the number of 10 year tenure track faculty who are the research profile but also to create a number of units we've all come pretty opposed to award units to help people apply for external funds and then navigate the process once you get them.
As well as where you'll see coming up, we're taking on a number of problem solving processes to make sure that we're getting out of the way of any kind of research activity that we can promote.
Under the, quite called infrastructure goal, goal five, to add to and we configure our spaces, our smart classrooms are now 100 percent.
So our classrooms are smart for a while. They were only moderately intelligent. So they're good.
We obviously, you'll hear about our completed facilities master plan that was an extensive process and you heard also about some of the construction of the new recreation fields.
And I hope that you had a chance to see the purple fencing around the mountain. This green fencing everywhere else, but it's purple around the counter.
Under our community and the one that engagement agenda, the goal six, you've heard some of our breads already about being named to the 2012 Presidents Higher Education Community Engagement Honourable.
We've also done our first presidential awards for recognizing our faculty and community engagement partners.
And took on a campus forum for thinking about how we might include community engaged scholarship in our promotion and tenure at guidelines.
So that'll be a conversation that is yet to come. So accomplishments for year one, not bad for what is probably a short year.
Coming up in year two, this is not in handout format, but I'll tell you some of the things to look for.
By year two, we'll have some better better sense of the metrics that we can use to gauge some of the traditional retention graduation rate indicators that are what every college uses.
And we'll also have be doing some additional improvement of advising programs, especially advising in the major.
So, probably the big thing that we're hoping to accomplish by the end of the year is to establish a new writing program for undergraduates, which will then produce perfect writers of a by the time that graduate.
We have a number, I have nothing on ambition.
We have a number of initiatives going towards internationalizing our students experience, including not only increasing the study of broad opportunities, but also increasing the number of international students and the kinds of exposures that students, domestic students have to cultural and international experiences.
So you'll be hearing some of those things coming up over the next year.
We're also, I mentioned that you'll see the graduation, the evaluation data for graduate programs being put into use.
We'll also hear some more about undergraduate research, creating opportunities for faculty to step aside for the 10 o'clock period to undertake some of the research activities.
You'll hear a lot more about online teaching and learning with the whole initiative growing on that.
No MOOCs on the horizon yet for those of you who have been following, but definitely looking to grow our online presence.
You'll hear more about a business intelligence system that'll be in place hopefully actually in a couple of months to begin to coordinate our different data services.
And hopefully we'll see some of the fences come down and you'll see more of the beautiful spaces around here.
So more updates. I'm planning to do a couple of forums on campus to get bring people up to date on where the plan is.
I'll do a mid-year report roughly in December to let people know where things are.
I've already spoken to Robert Jones about where this will be once he arrives and the places where it makes perfect sense for him to take a new twist on it.
And so expect when we meet in December, I'll have a whole new profile of where we are, what we've accomplished even in year two, and what you can expect for the rest of the year.
So very, very exciting year. Many compliments to the hundreds of people who have been really putting their shoulders behind this and making some wonderful things happen that are just right out of our plan, right into what we need.
So it's thanks for all that support. Any questions I can answer on that?
Here.
Yeah.
Would it be appropriate at this time to, I mean Susan Phillips has done a phenomenal job on this.
It's ridiculous to imagine what it's going to be.
Yes, there's a lot of people in the world that you've been running it as quarterback.
But known Susan obviously, all of us have for a number of years and we see this dedication in this.
Would it be appropriate for the council to give some kind of unanimous comment to the fact that that well she's done on this for this period of time and produced this year?
Certainly it's appropriate.
I think you have a motion.
I'll send it.
I'll send it.
I'll send it.
I'll send it.
I'll send it.
Susan, the second.
We have a first and a second on emotion is their discussion on the motion.
The motion was first and second.
It's done.
It's the second.
John and Patrick.
Yeah, okay.
John.
Okay.
The motion on the table is their further discussion?
Not I think it's appropriate because I'm really pleased with other progress that's been made on the play.
The show is that we take it seriously.
We both play it on the shelf and there are scenes in there of light.
And we're actually putting these things into practice and that's bad for us.
So congratulations to you and to George.
Thank you.
I'd add that.
The Council made an opportunity to endorse the strategic plan when we first did it.
So you actually were in the process of the time.
Susan is done a spectacular job.
I've told Robert that many times when he complimented me on the strategic plan and I said,
sorry.
She did it.
That's it.
The only question I had to ask is you look at this total plan in the landscape.
We looked at the future of what spaces might be available for Lucas Strock and not Robo or other
disarction and I bet that you asked us how you might want to best use the space.
Actually, the Steve might be better to...
The MFP is.
The MFP is just remarkable.
The facility's master plan has actually...
It began two years ago.
Just about 20 per person.
And actually informed a great deal of the 2020 process and the strategic planning process.
It's...it's their remarkable people, those planners.
They will imagine in the future what kind of spaces will be needed.
What kind of students we can anticipate having and somewhere.
What kinds of needs different disciplines will have in the future.
So all of those projections into the uses and spaces for the future in the next 25 years will sort of
spell out in this facility's master plan that was just completed this year.
And translate all that in a new capital plan?
And then it translates into a capital plan.
Of course we need capital plan to do this.
Actually the first leg of it, actually the first two legs of it are now implemented with the 2020 plan.
Almost signed.
And with the acquisition Skylar.
Skylar's acquisition and James, I know you're interested in downtown.
That was the next one.
Skylar acquisition has been approved both by the school board and the SUNY trustees.
And the process of finishing that transaction.
That's exciting.
Yeah, that's exciting because that will complete that footprint down there.
It's also a spectacularly beautiful building from an architectural perspective.
People don't realize that the inside of that is very beautiful.
Also in that plan there's actually new construction on the downtown campus.
It calls for a brand new building that will be located there.
There's several sites that they're looking at.
Downtown is a prominent part of the facility's master plan on a going forward basis.
Somewhat a controversial part.
But at the end of the day we recognize that we do not.
We don't have to wear with all to accommodate the academic enterprise on this campus in the downtown.
The presence is critically important and a big part of our future.
So.
It's very exciting.
We're excited.
What's cool about the boat that we're here and on there.
The motion offered and seconded all those in favor.
Hi.
Hi.
Opposed?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The by-law agenda amendment.
I think we, the by-laws that we enacted adopted at the last meeting.
There was a technical description.
The faculty.
The faculty.
It is in the minutes.
Instead of present at the university faculty, the by-law should read the representative of the university senate.
That's the amendment.
All those in favor?
Is there a motion?
I make the motion.
I have no seconds.
It's all those in favor.
Discussion.
Hold on.
Thank you.
We're changing award, right?
Okay.
You moved it.
It's in the minutes that we did.
But there is a technical correction.
Right.
All those in favor?
Oh, I got it.
Opposed?
See, I took my care of my car very quick.
Fardine, if you wanted the next two, things on the agenda.
Do you have my resolution?
I have a copy.
I think it was in my head.
I have a copy over here.
As you see, the resolution, we are asking the university council for approval of the name of the physical education building for the swire family that is in recognition of the $1 million gift to the athletic department.
The physical education building is not the septuarina.
It's the old gym.
It's the old gym.
The old gym.
The old gym.
It's the old gym.
And I think you brought this before the council and executive before it was all finalized to an exception, etc.
The physical education building guideline of the naming for that space.
And it already has been approved that this is the amount that is necessary to name that space.
So moved.
So moved.
So moved.
Second.
Okay.
All those in favor?
I.
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Both.
My.
After the next time I'm here, it will be a Sacramento five times what I just made sure.
All those in favor?
I.
I.
We want to be five times.
There's no more phone call yet.
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As for the development of the George W. Scorrecious enough to give me credit for the award that we received but it is truly the work of my team.
It is a great team that I work with and I want to thank George officially at this university council meeting for allowing me to work with my team and working with me being on the road and doesn't mind some of our creative ideas.
He goes along with it.
And so thank you George for doing that for us.
And also the unsung hero here is the University Foundation Board.
We have a very, very strong foundation board from all over the United States, one from Germany, one from France and over the last few years they have stepped up and they have helped us in many, many ways.
I think they should be recognized for what they do.
And as far as for year 20, 11, 2012, we have established 13 new endowments.
We have 399 endowments right now.
That number four years ago was about 210.
So we almost doubled the number of endowments at the university.
And last year we supported the faculty and the campus to the tune over 2 million 179 thousand dollars.
But the number that we are most proud of, we set a record in awarding scholarship, 1 million 50.
And this number five years ago was 210,000 dollars.
And in this current economy and the way our investment returns have not been great for us to be able to work that much scholarship.
Is that a million in scholarship in addition to the two million you just mentioned or a part of it?
Yes, this is this is this is this scholarship students and a couple of other additional points of pride is our retention rate.
And the retention rate for us has been 66 percent and for donors.
The national average for universities is around 58 percent.
And we are very proud of the retention rate.
It's however the donor new donor acquisition has been struggled.
Last week at the foundation executive committee I was complaining that this is a pipeline, a pipeline.
I came back I was telling George that you know I had a whole plan about you know, crying that how things are tough and our reports came along that participation actually went up.
So that doesn't mean George would take more money away from me.
So we went from 6.8 percent to 7.8 percent to 8 percent is along my participation.
And if you look at the number of students we graduate in every year versus the new number of donors we have to get to come up to a stake for, you know, at 8 percent or 7.8 percent, that's a pretty good effort.
You know, I was a part of my team I believe.
And last year our outright gifts we were up 13 percent and it went from 3.76 to 4.25 million dollars.
However, what we suffered last year was our plan giving numbers to a down.
And the year before we were very lucky that we secured a 7 million dollar gift last year in total in plan giving with it 1 million dollars.
And I know to some plan giving is not like cash but plan giving is better than cash 3 years from now.
And the planning mature program, fundraising program, 30 to 35 percent of their revenue annually comes from plan giving.
Plan gifts that were secured years before.
And this man here had done an incredible job over the years and I can't thank him enough because we are, for many years, we will be benefiting from this hard work.
Also, as you talked about, a little bit about the Long Night Association, I'm not sure what they see in me that she praises me all the time because I can't say enough.
Or the relationship we have and the work we do is it's an MBA of the SUNY system and many other colleges.
And it is Lisa, Bella and his team for doing a wonderful job and to speak with you all in clear advisory network.
Yesterday we had an event called the Fashion Panel. We had experts from the Fashion Industry on campus.
We had the same one in New York City March 21st. I don't know if anyone remembers.
I remember the date because I couldn't make it this my new year.
So, and we had room for 75 students. We shut down the registration at 80 over 120 students.
Oh, geez.
And we don't have a fashion major provost. Did you hear that? We don't have a fashion major.
What is a provost? What... what's a long guy?
So, and this you all money career advisory network, I think it's the most best services we could provide to our students, to our alumni.
And it's a great tool for engagement. So this has been an incredible year as far as the quality of the programs we have been able to produce.
And also speaking of my team, I hope you all have a chance of you and you already magazine.
And they do a tremendous job. And one of the things that we love in with Dr. Jones is that we right now,
13,000 and George knows and we are advocating for printing going back to 120,000 in credit edition.
And especially the first issue, the next issue is going to be presenting Dr. Jones.
You may approve of 120,000 just like that.
All right, so this is my report. Yes.
Question on the plan giving numbers when you report, is that a... is that like mature plan gifts we actually got the money or is it plan gifts that you've written?
And it's plan gifts that's been secured.
And as it is face value, it's the face value of the gift.
Council for advancements on education has changed the guidelines.
And we can talk about that later.
So I'm getting a lot of heat at my place.
Two things. First of all, I like having a print.
Yes.
So thank you. I've got one of the 30,000.
So you're a daily company of 29,999 others.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Could I hear the word campaign sort of whispered by you?
In the evening thinking? Yes.
Actually, we, that kind of a very, very early conversation is I had with Dr. Jones.
And I'm working with my team on the planning of the capital campaign.
This would be an endowment campaign for us.
Endowment. I mean, I absolutely think we need to do it.
Endowment campaign is really, really never had an endowment campaign here.
And look, when we look at all these numbers and all these accolades,
it talks about the fact that we have the foundation to go forward with the capital campaign.
And with the stability that George brought you over the last five years,
and can go to our donors, we are a proven commodity now.
And also, as you know, the chancellor is planning to embark on a much larger,
much sooner, much more, much more, much more.
And we are going to be a part of that.
And I'm also served as a chair of the Chief of Management,
all the 64 campuses.
They hired, they retain a consulting firm that is working with no-rop campuses
and representations and some early studies of capacity and where we need to go.
The campaign itself is something that we've talked about
sometimes, I think it's an ideal opportunity for Robert to come in
and announce a campaign.
So we're not going to do like YFA.
There will be a quite face.
And interestingly enough, I've always found it interesting if you're in business,
you've never seen a counting like campaign account.
Yeah, it's usually that's a subject for an indictment by somebody when you come up.
I think I actually think it's probably that the rat was raised in the front.
Oh my god, sorry.
We need to do more cells in our city.
Right, right.
That's why I asked the question about the Shlann Giff.
How we can't fall?
And of course he's changed a bit.
Thank you.
Please send our appreciation along to your staff.
There we go.
The perfect job is you, too.
Thank you.
Like Jackson.
I thought, I took a few minutes to talk with the council about the students and their deaf indebtedness and so forth.
I think that this, to me, is a major, major issue and it's not only impacting now, it's going to impact the future.
We look even back in 2010, we're seeing that one of those households have tremendous debt.
We're finding now default rates of starting with probably 5.9 million that have defaulted.
And as a result of that, you're looking at something like 76 billion dollars.
Now, certainly those private loans, to me, are a factor, but the biggest factor has to do with financial management.
And that's why I'm finding that, no matter how bright the kids are, is that if you don't have some basic knowledge of finance and put it for the plan,
long term, that you're going to be impacted in a very negative way.
We're looking now at something like those individuals with 35 years old having 40% of their debt is a student loan debt.
Finding those that are earning $21,000 a year, the 24% income goes to paying off this debt.
And we'll find more and more that they're more and more defaults.
So my point is that starting with the younger students working the way all the way up to college and beyond,
is that if we don't do something somewhere to address this issue, it's going to really, really devastate.
And if you're having many families determined out with a college, you're going to discuss them whether they should even go to college.
And I think that's absurd. I think now, they need to go.
You look at those old industrial jobs they're going.
And of course, as a result of this, you have to have some form of advanced training.
And continuously, I visit them at tech schools and some of the students think that once they finish that,
that's when you stop. My point is no, you're going to have to continue to do this for the rest of your life.
You're fighting out people at the middle age level who have those jobs before the crisis.
They're unemployed and they're not going to be employed again.
Certainly not at the salaries. You're looking more, if you dump advance, that you're looking at more service jobs.
So my point here is that financial management is crucial.
If you make the money, but you don't manage the money, you're still in difficulties.
We find this happening open over it. I've heard a fortunate story of a family lost their son to an accident.
He had a 500,000 on a life insurance policy. They didn't know about it.
So after they buried him, they got a check for a quarter of a million dollars.
What do they do with, obviously, this family is determined to spend, they blew it.
Then, shortly, they got another check for a quarter of a million dollars.
That was belong. They were in something like 30 to 40,000 dollars.
Credit card debt now. They're in something like 50,000 dollars in card. It goes on and on.
So when we look at our students, I'm thinking, what the tuition money they're getting.
Otherwise, if they get a grant, they get a government loan, which you want them to have.
They said, what do they do with the money? Instead of taking that money and paying the tuition,
many cases, they're spending on a cell phone, they're spending on cars, gasoline, etc.
And, which means they're borrowing even more money. And they look at the kind of job that they're going to have.
They don't know that, let's say, the first job is a 50,000 dollar job.
In my mind, you should not borrow more than 50,000 that should be a lid.
And if you've got other ways to do it, that means you've got to research what available grants or scholarships.
And they're out there. There are a lot of scholarships. For example, I can recall that students who were kind of applied in medical school at the University of Louisville,
there were scholarships specifically for students from New York State, but you have to research these things.
You have to do the legwork. And I think that's crucial.
The other thing, from a personal point of view, we had set aside for our young scholar that about $250,000 is the cover college of medical school.
I kind of think, well, when we got through with this thing, it was like $500,000.
Fortunately, we could pay them, but that's not going to happen in all cases.
I recall when the left North Western went to University of Chicago, there were 12,000 students that year.
They only take 100. So of that, 100, you know, these guys can do anything.
But what I discovered was that if they do not know how they did not know how to manage money,
some of the credit cards, one kid bought a car, and a credit card.
These are guys with an IQ that is off the scale. But no practical common sense.
And again, that creates that kind of problem. So it looked over the years.
I've done some, you know, little seminars and sessions with them and having conversations in New York,
you know, Ohio, Illinois, and in California. I find a consistency that there's a problem.
How does the impact on, but beyond the finances? I think, you know, Christian Jackson had about 10 friends.
And what I found, that all of them went through the asset bought medicine.
They were ready to go. Of that 10, four of them, fortunately he was one, one of the four,
in and out with no debt. Their view of medicine, their commitment to, to, was a lot different.
The other fellow, and they went with stress down because they had this debt.
I sit on the board of directors at the old medical center, the college debt.
Now looking at the medical debt, you add in together, you come out of the medical school, maybe the 200,000,
a college, whatever. Now you've got to go into residency.
So they make a few books. What do they do? They kidnap more debt. Now you've got to fellowship.
It depends on the length of the fellowship. Some are three years, some are six, whatever and so forth.
Tremendous debt. And then that impacts their lives and the kind of choices they can make.
So my concern here is that we need to look at it very carefully.
Well, some, one local college has hooked up with a financial institution to provide this kind of information
that I think is extremely helpful. They haven't made it a requirement yet.
But I think that I want to look at it very carefully and see what impact it's going to have because, as I said,
I don't want to just identify a problem, be a PI. I think I like to be a PS, a problem sol,
it's a look to see what can be done. They can have an immediate impact on this because again,
it can be, you sure they say, crushing. Now that little website that the flyer gave
you came from, youbuckle.com. I think it's an interesting website. Now what do they do?
They said, I didn't give you this part.
The Otterstawter College Financial Program is step one. Find a team of student leaders.
Step two, get a faculty step advisor. Step three, create a name and brand. Step four,
it walks you right through how to set it up. And in my mind, you don't need a new organization.
You should take an existing organization. Which is a way you want to look at it.
But I think it's something that has to and needs to address.
I don't want to see family sitting and saying, you know, well, you know, I can't send my child.
And there's certainly capable of doing it. But we're not going to do it because of these kinds of issues.
I think that we just have to make some choices. Very important choices. But it has to be structured so that the kids can really understand.
Yes, we have a wonderful society. But this is the capitalistic society. And in my mind, if you don't understand capital,
you're going to have a problem. And I think that should be an integral part of your education.
So that's my little homily. And I hope that we'll think about it because I think to have a bright future
will hope and great expectations, I think you have to manage money.
Do we teach personal financial development, Chris? In any of the like, we have a financial literacy program
that works through our school of social welfare downtown. I believe citizens bank citizens.
Yeah. I think your students are students are taught.
No, it's actually geared towards the community. It's trying to create financial literacy in the, in the kids.
The social welfare program is actually a great prevention program for the community for our own students.
We actually are financial aid office also does prevention for the community in our high schools.
And at SUNY financial aid day, we do a great deal of here's how to shop, here's what it means here to the side of fun.
We also have on the campus SUNY itself has signed on to the financial aid data sheet.
But Chancellor has made a commitment to ensure that students know what they're shopping for and how much it's going to cost.
Especially lunch. Especially lunch.
Right. Part of that includes a default prevention program, which we've signed on to be part of.
In the early adopters, there are five of the SUNY campuses that have signed on to be showcases for where, how this prevention program can work.
So actually come, you know, give us roll out a year and we'll have some data for you about how this is working well for our students in terms of preventing the default rate once they exit.
James, you're raising the range of the race and other things that however, which I think is a good idea.
And that is we have two student leaders in this room. And I think that this is something that can be initiated in a collaborative way with student association, the GSO,
and the administration and the faculty because I think that everybody has a role to play in this. And I think this is a worthwhile endeavor.
So I agree with you.
I think the other thing too is to look at, for example, if you say, well, you know, it's $50 a month for a phone.
But you have to annualize that. Then it becomes 600. Stop bucks, profit.
You spend five bucks a day, you know, you know, 25 bucks a week.
You didn't look at how much you're spending in a month and not when you're spending in a year.
The other thing that they don't really understand how the system works, if they get paid on a Friday and it's after four, they deposit the check.
But that check isn't recorded to a Monday. They start spending on Saturday.
So as a result of that, you've got all of these overdrafts. And these overdrafts today are significant.
So you say, well, how does it make billions? Well, that's how they make billions. And because of these kinds.
These are just little things that can, you know, an A. And if you don't understand it, you don't think about it.
Then of course it becomes a trap.
So I think we've had like a whole bunch of problems there. But one of the ones that I think we have a little difficult to with is that once an individual might eventually realize they've gotten into trouble,
and might want to do something about it. But there's a great deal of a personal embarrassment that some people feel once they've gotten themselves in it.
And then they don't want to look for resistance. And you know, while it's great to offer the option of becoming educated on how to not get yourself into trouble in the first place,
the problem is once someone's gotten themselves into trouble there, they might be more reluctant to try and look for a social system,
unless they can guarantee some sort of confidentiality.
And I think of that something that if the universe is capable of providing it and advertise that it's capable of providing it,
it would be a tremendous boom for students who are getting themselves into trouble before they get themselves to deep.
What's that part of an orientation? You know, I mean, isn't there like an orientation when kids are freshmen and stuff?
You could actually do that in larger groups. These are the kinds of things that you're back to.
This is so good. I think you're the sound.
The orientation program right now is going to end up with about 12 days long.
I think that's why we got so much in put it in, but I'm not mad at signs of loans. That can be a problem too, because they sign of loans, they always sign of loans.
And I think that's another issue.
Fortunately, we didn't make it. You know, I'm going to say within the last two months there was an article in the Times about which schools had the biggest,
largest numbers of defaults and I think dollars. And they didn't list them all.
You're the private. Well, the more funds are actually the four profits obviously, but then they listed a number of other schools.
And fortunately, I mean, they didn't go through the whole list, so I don't know where we were on the list, but I was glad to see we didn't make the hit parade.
So we are actually we're actually very good because first of all the with a tuition increase, we've been very, very mindful of the fact that there's a cap on tap, which frankly, there's a really easy solution to that.
Basically, cap tap at the public university tuition rate. So you don't have to fool around with it. I mean, that's right.
It doesn't take up, you know, it doesn't take one of our great students to figure that out, but apparently it's more to share something.
You know, Dr. Jackson, I think you're you bringing this to the forefront right now is so timely.
I was wondering actually if you had a conversation in advance with Chancellor Henry.
The board of trustees, Chancellor's in her in the governor embraced it at the September meeting a campaign and suit conference some of the components to this.
Our their goal is for 2013, 14 to adopt the national model for SUNY and all of its campuses were one of the six campuses and this is about early awareness, informing families and parents creating a tracking system and then the support infrastructure underneath.
So students don't get themselves into trouble, but they also have the tools and resources upfront to avoid trouble.
So it's coming and it's a it's a big issue and we're going to be hearing a lot more about it and participating in the Marlin.
Good.
I'm teaching in the freshman seminar course that what a large percentage of freshmen take and I suggest that that could be a very good vehicle for this type of model to get to the freshmen.
You can get to all of them, but at least it's the start.
Maybe something I don't mean to I just want to build up what you were saying.
Something it's I like the idea of where they're required to go.
So so introductory classes maybe this is something you can maybe introduce, hit the advisory plus somewhere.
Maybe there could be some type of you know so because all freshmen have to be advised in the main campus center advising, you know, and then they branch out when they when they pick their constant.
However, they all go through that one office at one point time you go through advising services.
So you I like the idea of concentrating in areas where you know the students will go.
We all know students have to eat on campus at some point.
That's why it's great to put something that you have an event going on in front of, you know, the dining halls.
But I'm serious you need to find them where you know they will go.
The toughest part is really getting them out of their room and getting them to pay attention.
But if they're going to places where they have to go that's when you have a motion with it.
You know so I you know besides the language I'm using you know it needs to be somewhere where it's like oh I didn't know this was coming at me but I'm here now so I should listen.
You know because I have to be here anyway.
So you know I think this is wonderful though because I believe me I'm a student and I know exactly what you're talking about.
I have friends that are kind of like I'm like oh you're buying a phone with your student loans like I'm buying books with that.
Come on now don't do that you know so I get it though and I like that and I do want to help this out in any way that I can especially grassroots.
Because I think President Philip was right it needs to be something that starts from the ground up.
But I think it needs to be somewhere where it can be where they're required to go.
It also needs to be really forced I mean you cannot do it just to first do it.
Yeah because I have to hear the message over and over again so to the extent.
Okay that you know we all agree here and there's no question.
The obvious issue is resources and at the end of the day you know everything here requires resources to do it.
We haven't been in a position to have resources hopefully going forward we will allocate those resources in areas of the most neat.
But that's why in order to make this work it has to be a collaborative effort because I can assure you that if we were to line up and take we have requests right now for a phenomenal amount of additional funding.
What do we have? $22 million in requests for $2 million of money.
So it's about $11 for every dollar we have in terms of additional resources and that's going to get worse and worse and worse.
So that's just on my side you've got to even worse.
But at the end of the day that's why whatever we do here has to be in collaboration with the students because you actually have to supplement or compliment the resources that we have because there aren't many.
Thank you.
That's why I was saying this one mobile college. I didn't look into it but I know that they've pointed out what a bank I want to find out what the situation is because I don't want the banks promoting itself.
But they're providing the banks providing the resources to do the program.
You want to do that kind of thing but I have to find out more.
I know I'm just related to it this morning so I can never change that.
What we in our financial literacy program for the community had to one of the big stumbling blocks early on in negotiating this was how much promotion will we allow in terms of this program because what we didn't want to do is create a captive audience for people to basically market services and not market intelligence and market not.
So that's a slippery slope and you know that that's a good thing.
But I fundamentally believe what James is looking to because I really do know I've seen this problem first and I know it since it is something.
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I'm a graduate from private and public and they're income based on their debt.
5, 10, 15 years out.
And many of the elites, the IE's,
where the numbers from 10 to 60,
many of the elites were around 20, 23 points based on the income versus the money they had to pay to go to college.
And public higher education was at one of the top seven public higher education.
The number one was Georgia Tech.
And in the rankings, if you look at the budget cost to go to university at Albany
and the income 5, 10, 15 years out,
our points would be 39.
And tops was 35.
Yeah, it was 33.
So the future looks good, believe it or not, for us.
Much better than people who are paying $60, $65,000.
With that said, many of the choices that you see for private colleges and universities, $60,000, $70,000,
those are manufacturers suggested retail.
Right.
So you have to take that under account too.
Thank you.
Moving to F on New Business.
Dr. Diaz, if you would.
I would be happy to yield play some of the agenda to the R&A student and cancer research center and then fall off to them.
If that would be payment to term.
That is fine.
You're just going to set this up for Paul and Martin.
Many of you may have heard about the governor's regional economic development council process started in 2011.
There's over 20 programs in the state.
And what the governor wanted to do was really bring a focus to economic development at the regional level.
It's something that he did when he put in the administration when he was at HUD.
So what he did was he created 10 regional councils.
Our regional council has 17 members.
President, for me, you all may serve on council.
I attended by a state chair in the governor of Duffy.
We have two regional co-chairs and Shirley Jackson and my cast line of up.
My cast line just happened on yesterday.
And Jim Barbid from Albany Medical Center is going to take over for him.
So this consolidated funding program.
It was a billion dollars a year.
One is $700 million a year to it.
It looks like it'll continue to be this way going forward.
You consolidate these 20 plus programs.
And you want to make it simple.
Where there is one application process.
One consolidated funding application process.
They call it a CFA in which institutions, public, private, human individuals can compete for economic development funds.
And so there's two ways it works.
As an individual, you can compete for the $700 million as an individual institution.
And you get a score at the local level of 20 points.
And then you're up to 20 points.
And then the application goes to the state level and the other 80 points are awarded.
Each region, I'm sorry.
That's a question.
Each region that also competes for $25 million in additional funding.
And this is our second year we've been in it.
And we've had very well in year one.
Paul Agress is going to talk about our RNA initiative.
They had the second highest rate project through this process.
And Martin Tenniswood is going to talk about a CRC lead biotech quarter initiative at the third highest rate project.
And we also participated in it as a partner in this research alliance, which was just announced on Wednesday.
But I'm going to hand it over to Paul, who will tell you a little bit more about the RNA initiative and then Martin will talk about it.
So these are projects that have already been funded or in his cycle.
So that's last year's.
Yeah, but we're also there also being submitted for phase two as well.
Vincent, Vincent, there we go.
All right.
You look at your pointer.
Just a little bit off.
Okay, I'll set it up.
Okay.
Older generation.
So a lot of you will be asking what is RNA.
So let's go back 50, 60 years when you didn't know what DNA was.
Now you know that DNA is your chromosomes.
And we'll be blueprint of who you are and blueprint of organisms.
RNA is the product of DNA and it's responsible for implementing that blueprint.
And the next 50 years is going to be the RNA half century.
As we understand RNA as a central molecule within all life as a target for new drugs and a diagnostic and more recently as a possible tool in forensics.
So there's a lot that can be done with RNA besides just understanding basic biology.
The RNA Institute here is a unique center for research.
And it's going to be a science driven technology center for development applications in the life sciences.
And we've received a CFA award in 2012 and we're going to talk about that today.
So the Institute resides the Institute's mission and vision are part of the SUNY 2020 and new Albany Impact Plan.
With regard to these plans in the Strategic Initiative I, it's definitely a part of the Human Health and Biomedical Sciences,
translating science into human health.
And Strategic Initiative I'm the five, Business and Entrepreneurship, creating a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship and through public-private partnerships increasing and enhancing the sciences.
And it's obviously part of what we heard from Provost today and the Strategic Planning Implementation with regard to the Research Enterprise, the Graduate Education and the Merchant Technology in the Sciences.
The Institute is creating highly skilled long-term sustainable positions.
It is there to retain jobs. It's there for innovative technology development that can spun out of the University, training highly skilled sustainable workforce,
commercializing products that come from this University, corporate investment in the University to partner with the University is also a very important factor.
So we're going to concentrate on the CFAA Award and here are some financial numbers so we are doing our management, financial management.
The award was for slightly over $2 million but the project is close to $10 million in total.
If you look at the bottom of the screen, you've seen the award for $2 million in 36,000, $22% of the entire project.
There's an NIH grant we brought in, five points plus millions of them all are 62% of the award and the University of Equity of 1.5 million.
I'd like to point out that I've discussed this with President Philip just recently that this new Institute, which is a little over two years old, has now brought in twice as much money as the University has invested in the Institute.
This is all external funds.
The CFAA project.
Keep doing all that.
Put it on the table.
Put it on the table.
Put it on the floor.
Get it next out of that five.
Next out of the bond.
The other one.
The other one.
The other one.
The other one.
Okay.
Okay.
So we're going to take part of the $10 million project is the construction of $15,000 square feet.
One of the projects that President Philip mentioned.
Within the Lifesign's research building, it's part of the wing that had been completed
and that construction is now ongoing.
It also includes high in instrumentation purchasing for an advanced instrumentation laboratory and a recruitment of four new faculty just recently and two new faculty positions that we have that were recruiting.
We have one person from the Spirit Bowl Institute, this gentleman here from New York City.
We have a new faculty member from MIT, a new faculty member from Harvard, a new faculty member from Stanford.
So we've done excellent in our recruitment.
The project includes an in creating an environmental, an environment of entrepreneurship and includes the School of Business.
The program supporting this included Student Venture Fund, which was funded by Corporation, a $20 billion corporation, Thermo Fisher, supporting students with $50,000 for each of the teams to go out and create new products in
prototypes, which would then be licensed to this corporation.
We have a faculty, Innovation and Scented Fund within the CFM.
We have an interdisciplinary project for faculty research in which they will collaborate with other faculty at other institutions.
And of course, we are enhancing our public private partnership program.
And next week we're going to open a Welcome Center funded by $100,000 in equipment given to us by Dell computers.
We have a travel award program in which we get students and post-docs 10 to 15 awards per year to present their work at other conferences all within the six.
The Student Venture Fund, just by way, is actually very unique because it is a collaboration between the scientists and the business people.
Our MBA students team up with our science students, our biology RNA, medical biomedical students, and they create the concepts, they market them and they combine their skills.
It's very creative and I think it's a great way in terms of fostering translational research that ends up becoming a business or something.
I'm sorry, but I like that very much. It's a great approach.
In fact, we have a sister institution in the Green Tendon once and now adapted at the Earth.
So very quickly there are metrics involved in getting one of these awards.
And we have to pay attention to those metrics and we have already started to get results on the metrics that are required.
So in terms of expertise and capabilities in RNA science and technology, we're hiring into 10 new positions technical staff, post-doctoral fellows, and support staff.
In terms of support staff, I want to introduce Jen Montemiro. She is the assistant director of the institute and she has been terrific in the last couple of years in making sure that we get awards like this from the state and public private partnerships.
We also have five metrics involved in creating a supportive environment for research and technical entrepreneurship.
And we have three metrics and physical research resources that we're creating.
So in creating this supportive environment for research and technical entrepreneurship, we have a student venture fund that we just discussed.
We've already awarded that once and we're going to award it again.
We have a faculty innovation incentive fund which will be awarded in the next year.
We have public private partnerships and we're going to bring in two corporate research agreements in the next couple of years.
We have interdisciplinary pilot research programs funded by the vice president of research here and they are now bringing in results.
One peer review publication from each collaboration, one presentation of results at each collaboration we have.
One grant proposal has been submitted and they're going to have lines or connected with conference.
And you want to continue your meeting?
Yes.
I think Dan, yeah, I want to just come in.
We can turn it up.
I haven't heard of it in a long time.
Okay, so we have a travel award program and finally our physical research resources.
We have completion of our 15,000 square feet at the end of the year.
And I offer you a welcome to join us at the ribbon cutting on June 11th.
There will be two Nobel laureates, eight members of the National Academy of Sciences, two members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, two members of the European National Academy and one member of the Royal Society,
all of which are scientific advisory board members for the RNA institute.
We will have completed the purchase of $1.6 million in high end equipment.
And next week we're opening up this welcome center we just discussed with the $100,000 donation by Bill.
So the RNA institute is science driven technology with public private partnerships.
And our vision is to be New York's national RNA research resource created and sustaining jobs for the life sciences.
Great question.
Thank you.
I have a question.
You know, people with specialised let's say in messenger RNA or specialised in trans-RNA and what these, what they do with the function drive and how that relates to them to DNA.
Yes, we do.
Our specialised are in different fields.
So, for instance, we have these four exciting young people that we brought in.
One of them is an RNA cell biology in terms of gene expression.
One of them, two of them work in our chemists and involved in the chemistry required for imaging RNA using conflopole microscopy for us.
It's microscopy to see how it moves within cells in real time.
And then the last one, you know, lady is an RNA biologist interested in rotobiruses.
We have now 49 principal investigators associated with this institute.
It is the largest RNA institute in the United States.
It has over 350 researchers in those 49 laboratories.
And so, we are really comprehensive when it comes to who's doing what, how they're doing it, what are their approaches on our most of them are involved in cancer biology, neurobiology and infectious disease.
And when we made the decision to make this investment during a period of budget retrenchment, we found, first of all, that we had a critical mess within the University of skilled researchers that would complement Paul's efforts.
We brought Paul in, we brought another one of his colleagues from Maryland in.
And frankly, this is succeeded beyond our wildest expectations and much quicker than we anticipated it would.
But truthfully, this is going to be an incredible center of excellence at this University.
You know, for years, we've been known as a one-trick pony.
Nano was the deal. We are no longer that.
This is a tremendous opportunity for the University to excel nationally, as is frankly, some of the work we're doing in Epicfair Science and Research.
But we have this. This is succeeded well beyond our wildest imagination. We've gotten a tremendous return on our investment.
And this is what I talked about earlier. I talked about strategic investing. I'm going forward basis.
So, Paul's to be congratulated because they've done a fabulous job and they certainly did it better and faster than I anticipated they would.
We all anticipated they would.
Just echo what George has said. This is one of the hot areas in science.
Six Nobel Prizes since 2007, eight in this field. It's a version.
That's Fred Noble, but we also have a Nobel Prize winner.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Dr. Diaz and deference to the time is offered to put his 2002.
Yes. We'll do the introduction. The second I just want to let him know that he has a little bit more time because you've suggested that he'd be placed on the December 7th agenda.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So, I'll do a little bit about the biotech, the Bill of my Tech Corner, CFA.
I'm on the East Campus. The East Campus is shown here. If you look very carefully, you can see these account on true of the bill for the night.
I say, I say, it's down here when nothing happens.
But what we have is that this is actually the main two of our three building.
The old chemical plant, the story with the plant was built in the 1950s.
It's been renovated and it's now full. It's got 17 different companies in there.
It's about 400,000 square feet of active lab space.
This is the George building. Education building is just what the school taught.
It's not just George building.
It's just George building.
This photograph has been taken actually from up here on top of the cancer research center, which is just up the road up 920 from the main center.
So, if you look at the good benefit of Cal, Albert and East Campus, it's kind of unique because it's actually a private, well, it's private beyond by the University of Albany Foundation.
It's a unique organization because it actually allows you, because it's not owned by the state, per se, that allows you to call out the rise academic and for profit companies on the same campus, which is still not allowed on the state-owned campaign campus.
What we have there is a mixture of academic teaching and research in school public health against research center.
We have not for profit research organizations. The New York STEM Science Institute, which you've heard about earlier today, a little bit.
And the faculty of the Pharmacy and the Research Institute, PRI, which is part of the Albany College of Pharmacy, not for profit group.
And then we've got two very large for profit organizations on the campus AMRI, which is just relocated back to the campus again and we're general.
And we have a lot of small companies that only put two of them down here, but there's actually 15 different small companies located in the main building.
And one of the things that's happened as a result of this is we've actually been able to collaborate with them.
The reason we can collaborate is when we built, they built, when the Cancer Center was built, the Center for Functional Genomics, which is actually under Jim D. As is purview, was established at the same time.
And it's got state of the odd instrumentation for proteomics, for genomics, transgenesis, and a lot of molecular technologies.
And this was originally about a $10 million investment in 2005.
We have a collaborative research ongoing with a lot of university Albany investigators.
We also do contract research from the small biotech companies on that campus.
And we have a lot of collaborative research with them. It's not actually contract research with collaborations.
And to do that, we've actually written a number of SBIR and STTR grants to the federal government, which allows us to fund this work.
And we also do a lot of collaborative research with a number of large companies.
But what in our area that we do an awful lot of work with now is to sign a new set of agreements, is we actually put general electric with global health.
And so that's actually turning out to be a very profitable endeavor.
So what's happened, and why did this biotechnology corridor come about?
When Dr. Sennford actually produced a document about the power of SUNY, it struck us that the SUNY in the entrepreneurial century is something that we fit into, much as the R&A Institute does.
The senior education pipeline, I'm going to talk about how we're establishing that.
And of course, we're doing cancer research, and we're doing a lot of work in terms of producing a healthier New York.
One of the things that we have the unique opportunity of doing at the Cancer Center is working with HVCC Hudson Valley Community College.
We've got a number of faculty members from the biomedical science department, myself, Dr. Carpone, Dr. Welsh, and a number of people within the CFG have been collaborating and participating in the research.
We've been participating in the biotech program, and we've posted a lot of the interns from HVCC in the labs on these campus, and they actually get credit for the work they do upon these campus.
And one of the things that's come out of this, especially with the smaller clients, and in fact even with some of the larger clients, is that they are finding it very difficult to find well-trained technicians to work in their labs, which is one of the reasons that we spend a lot of time doing the contract research for them.
Rather than doing collaborative research with them. So one of the things that came out of this was the idea that we should produce a biotech card.
Now the concepts laid out here in a bit of glory detail, but essentially what we've done is we've taken all the ability of the University of Albany mainly on the East Campus in terms of the Cancer Research Center.
And we've sat down with the people in the School of Public Health, the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and what we've sat down and produced is a new bachelor's degree.
It's a BS in Biolist Cromutation. That's actually been completely put together now at this stage and it's just been put forward to Senate and it's gone through the School of Public Health program.
And so what we've done is produced a biolist Cromutation program which is a BS. And what we've done is specifically go to Hudson Valley Community College to write an articulation agreement with them.
So we have a fully articulated agreement with the committee to sign, I'll show you the timetable where it's shortly.
This is already inside, I've talked to people that North County Community College, and Clinton County Community College is connected to each.
We've also talked to people at Plantsburg and Potsdam about having students articulate into the program from them.
The only one that's fully dealt with so far is HBCC, refused to have a status date as the sort of a centerpiece.
But we have this old process ready to go. So the biolist Cromutation program is in place. They're all working and do their training at CRC.
And one of the things that comes out of this is during their training they will in fact do a series of internships at the various compenings.
So the companies will get to see new trainees while they're being trained. And the trainees will see the companies while they're being trained.
And we think this is going to be used, a new pipeline for students that will be able to go to the big companies like GE, MRI, TICANIC, which I didn't mention, but that's an animal research company about the pharmaceutical research company.
And also the small companies who are dying to get well trained technicians but can't afford to advertise for the meeting in some cases.
So this all leads to getting the biolist mutation program dealt in place. And we have already discussed with Kevin Williams the professional science major.
And you found this started off as a professional science major. And we've talked to Aaron, the B.S. and we'll now produce, go up to do a professional science master's program which will include some business.
And if we do an environmental instrumentation, it will be the first PSM in North America that's actually focused on bio instrumentation and business management.
And there are lots of bachelor programs in bio-industrialization.
No, this will be the first one to be the first one to be guys.
And you know one thing you can do with that is that could be like a certification kind of program as well which will enable you to...
I mean then one of the nice things about certification program is you can then kind of be rang to be number one.
You know it's one of those things that can kind of...
We can move off from that. Right, right.
Absolutely. So this is what we put together for the CFA essentially.
And as Vince has already told you we were given an award for this, I will tell you right off the bat that I didn't know what on earth I was doing when I wrote the CFA.
But I had known I probably would have written it differently.
But what we did get was a biotech corridor concept in place to develop the BS in bio instrumentation.
And what we have, I guess Paul and I are like we all like to see pictures of instrumentation.
But what we have and this is by scale by the way.
But we have plenty in the budget for an island tar personal genome machine which means that we can now sequence individual human genomes.
A mass spectrometer for a lot of studies with proteins essentially proteomics.
And then in self-2000 which is actually an instrument that's produced by G.E.
And this is actually going to be created tested in our facility.
But what it does do is it allows you to follow in live cells the movement of proteins in RNA in real time.
And you can do it in 96 different samples at the same time. It's a phenomenal piece of equipment.
Anybody that gets trained in this facility to work on this we have to write a position for this kind of instrumentation to go somewhere with it.
So what I want to do is just go through very quickly for slides and where we are now.
First of all we've done the equipment purchase. We actually received the, we got the award announcement sometime last year I think in November.
We got the account number from research foundation on Wednesday the 19th September.
And I point that out.
What did the things that happened was that we want to learn how to find a frame for getting this we couldn't meet it.
But we said we could we put the first purchase orders out the next day through our NF we had them already.
And we actually said the first our have sent the first purchase orders to the vendors on the 24th of September.
And we actually received the I and Tart personal genome machine on Monday this week.
So we have done a for the job doing this. I actually want to point out this is done by Don Marie even and Mike McFaith in R.F.
They did a phenomenal job of making sure we were set up ahead of time so nothing went wrong.
And the people that had it are and Michelle Anderson and Randy Williams at the CLC they put everything in place.
So I have never seen documentation by my putting exactly what plug some of these things will be plugged into the wall because that's one of the requirements.
So the equipment is actually in place some of its come that the PGM came in and we've got the other stuff is being shipped out next week.
We're actually renovating two sections of the two actually four last two sections in the Cancer Research Center to accommodate all the equipment that we're putting into the teaching facility.
So and I have to say that one of the things people have to say this is Jeff Jones who's at UAF he facilitated this by agreeing to commit money to the renovations as part of our matching fund.
And so the clinical renovation costs we've got the renovations for the teaching space equipment we're setting on the 25th and it started on Monday.
So that's also underway. The second round of the renovations and the teaching space has to start in January because we've got to figure out exactly how we're going to position the bench's for teaching.
We can't do that to a couple of equipment we don't have moved like around. But that I suspect we'll have that all organized and the designs will be fine lives and organized in a perfect time.
So if you look at where we are with the actual documentation of the BS and bios mutation, this is actually going through just so Susan knows it's a faculty initiated undergraduate major which means it doesn't have to go to SUNY Center.
I understand. I'm learning these things like all of us. The proposal is being reviewed by the academic committee for the school of public health at the next meeting which was actually yesterday and it was approved.
So it's now on its way to the Senate. I don't know when that will get done. And that's all for comment and approval. So I'm an optimist.
We actually have the enrollments of the first students in the program and anticipated the fall of 2013. We in the documentation for the CFA we anticipated the enrollment of 15 students.
We've actually already got five students pretty low. The students that actually went through our internship program and have said as soon as it's available to come back to do the BS they're back.
So I think we're actually going to be able to fill the slots for the 15th for 15 students in the first year which is one of the one of the benchmarks that you have to meet.
This work is all being facilitated by John Ty who's taking a really major lead this is from Cancer Research Center.
Right Williams Dianne Deur and Dean Nesk Phil Neskitt from the school of public health. These are the people in the shepherding me.
It's all the way through the whole process to be considered and so forth.
We have the articulation agreement with the community colleges well underway. The Hudson value one is actually completed.
We're actually going to be meeting with Carolyn Curtis on the 18th to finalize the documentation from their side. It's been done from our side.
And I've been discussing particularly with Philip Community College where the head of the department of biotechnology have to be a form of postdoc in mind.
So I have an in.
So I cheated in that respect. So I think it's going to be second even though it's connected. He's a lot of post.
And again, it's the same for 10 people who have done this. So we're not well on our way to getting to meeting the goals that we have.
The somebody else I have to acknowledge and it's not this in on the fence. Vince actually and Cliff in the president's office.
I don't know anything about politician politics. I don't understand what the CFA is or how it operates. If Vince hadn't kept me straight, I'd be somewhere off in a green field in upstate New York looking for where the place is supposed to be.
So probably better off to work.
But these events really did shepherd this through the entire CFA process process.
And Jim has been enormously helpful in all of this. And the other person that's been enormously helpful in this is actually Kevin Wilcox.
He said one that said we said we couldn't meet our timeline goals. I'm going to prove him wrong if I'm possible.
I haven't we haven't tripped up yet on show.
But this is these guys have done all the administered it. She's been explained me what I'm really doing.
The other person that needs to be acknowledged is Paul because in the course of trying to come up with the matching funds for our offer for our CFA agreement,
one of the things that we were actually short on was the match. And Paul very graciously agreed to back out three of the items from his proposal so that we could use those as backing from the our laser applications.
That's so that we could include them in our matching funds. And then very grateful for that. So with that, if any comments I'm happy to take.
Thank you both very much.
We have now set a new council record for time. So congratulations to everybody that helped make that record.
But it extremely worthwhile and and I think on behalf of the council it was it was terrific.
And thank you Jim Diaz for offering to have your review at the next council session.
We do have an interest in preparing perhaps for additional agenda items for the next meeting.
And I know that we want to as the council discuss how we could be supportive and helpful to the new president coming in etc.
I didn't know if there was any other new business or any suggestions on that. But I would offer that as an opportunity for us to provide additional input for the next meeting on December 7th.
Would it be possible to have more prolonged discussion period for that purpose? I think that would that be the direct management issue.
So if we're going to have it at the next meeting, it's extremely long meeting.
I think if we can carve out the time and make that a significant part of that, I think that that would be.
Would you consider as we would have today perhaps the new luncheon as an opportunity to make it more official meeting?
Perhaps we're doing the official meeting.
Well, I don't know that it has to be official if we're just sort of talking about the new things.
I think it becomes official when we actually need to defend that.
I mean, I was just thinking of the convenience of holding even the official meeting and instead of cookies having food.
So it would be the same day as start of no and then as part one of the meeting.
And then it has that convenience and the end of the agenda to go into the end of the event.
It's so uncomfortable to be grazing. You won't be eating.
Yeah, well, not a vegetarian.
Can we do that? Would we be able to start it now?
As long as you guys are already a little alone.
I'll set tomorrow on good to go.
Good. My birthday.
We missed no more parties.
Well, what I'll do is I will send out a note on it and then we get reaction as people.
We have the notes at the bottom of the homecoming.
I generally give an ACT update, but since that's our annual conference in conflict with the homecoming,
I will not give an ACT update. Enjoy the homecoming.
And the game's coming up and our next council meeting is December 7th.
I'd move for motion to adjourn.
Oh, who did it?
I'm just trying to.
Yeah, I'm just trying to.
I can't.
I can't.
All those approved.
I hear.
Yes.
I'd have to do a play on the table.
Here we go.
Nope.