Audio Recording of Meeting, 2012 March 9

Good afternoon everybody.
Dr. Jackson, right.
Good afternoon.
I guess we're here for the Universal Council meeting on the afternoon of Friday, March 9.
I'd like to call the meeting to order and start as we start all meetings with a question
to whether anybody has any changes to the minutes, draft minutes from the last meeting.
A small change, I think John's name was misspelled in paragraph 3.
Oh it was.
The fallen.
The fallen, fallen.
The fallen, fallen.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
That's something so.
I'm sorry.
Paragraph 3.
Yeah, the message that was saying.
That's actually the fallen, fallen.
Actually, it was correct, but not on the version.
Okay.
Okay.
The answer.
I used that on the phone for a while, so I'm at the time.
When we're doing a markup call, I'm like, oh we already caught that.
Yeah.
One of those are lower.
Yeah, and I should have Charles Chastis, me for not taking a roll call.
Who's on the phone?
Jim Jackson.
Oh Dr. Jackson, good afternoon.
Good job.
Is Jim Clancy on?
Jim, I spoke to him this morning, but I don't.
He can't show you.
Yeah, I thought I already did.
Okay.
Anyone else, members of the press?
No.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other changes to the minutes?
Can I get a motion to adopt the minutes as resolved?
As resolved.
As resolved.
As fallen, yes.
I'll second.
Thank you.
Did it?
I think.
John, you got to vote it.
No, no, no.
I don't know.
All in favor?
All right.
Great.
Thank you.
Next up is our steam president, Mr. Philip, in a report.
I'm looking around for the esteemed part.
I'm not sure.
I'll give you a big round of applause.
The steam president.
The steam president.
How does that mean the steam president?
We'll go quickly because there's a lot of things that have happened since the last meeting.
Just to update you on in Ysuny 2020, because I know that's been on the agenda for a long time.
We have submitted a new iteration of our proposal to the governor's office.
They will be reviewing.
It will probably be sometime after April 1st, which is the budget deadline.
So clearly they have a full plate on their, the full plate at this point.
We have, however, been active in our conversations with both Suni and the governor's office.
And we are nearing the end, which is, which is important.
Was the revision based on feedback you got from it?
Absolutely.
We've gotten a lot of, a lot of back and forth.
And frankly, our initial proposal was, was biomedical in its approach.
And both Buffalo and Stony Brook.
We're also biomedical.
So we've gone back to the drawing board.
We're like, oh, no.
But we've come up with, and the focus of the theme is going to be climate.
So it's a little different than anything you've seen.
But it could change sustainability, those types of things.
Yeah.
And you know, our atmosphere of science and research and some of the other work that we do is,
and of course it will be one of a number of themes, but it'll be the focal theme.
If it's accepted on that way.
So it, uh, I forgot was that a competition where all four university centers were submitting.
And only how many would there be approved?
All four.
Or will be approved.
Yeah. All four will be approved.
It's just a matter of whether or not we are going to come up with a proposal that's,
uh, that you're coming?
So in any event, we're very optimistic that this will be dealt with, uh,
shortly after the completion of the budget.
As far as the budget is concerned, the state-operated colleges appear to be in good shape.
The governor's proposal does not call for any reductions.
One of the really good parts of what had occurred as a result of some of this NYC in 2020 legislation,
uh, was an assurance of maintenance of effort which meant that, you know,
we aren't going to get increases, but we aren't going to get decreases.
And that's, uh, that's critical.
At least we've bottomed out.
We're going to be able to use the full value of the, of the tuition increase,
which is also, you know, very important.
And, uh, so, uh, we are, you know, we're in the process of trying to regrow the enterprise in an intelligent way.
Uh, SUNY Presidents meeting occurred on February 6th.
There is a, there's actually an NY SUNY 2020 amendment that will,
uh, one guarantee that we get the full value, at least we're trying to get the full value of the,
uh, of the, uh, of the academic excellence fee because we've, we're a year into it.
So rather than get four years that we actually get the full value, which is five years going forward,
no retroactive payments, but going forward, at least get the full value of the five years.
Uh, there is a proposal that the governor has to expand the, uh, the capital component of NY SUNY 2020,
uh, to a competition, uh, for the other, uh, state what, uh, facilities, not the four university centers,
which have gotten it, but they want to expand it to three other SUNYs.
I believe it's $20 million.
The piece that it has been, $20 million, the piece, uh, again stressing the whole idea of partnerships,
uh, you know, coming up with a collaborative effort within the community of partners,
and including partnerships among the SUNY campuses, which is something that they're trying to encourage.
Um, another part of that proposal is, uh, credit language, uh, one of the dilemmas that we have right now, uh,
uh, for, for example, we are doing things that will, uh, make those people who are, uh,
uh, who have, would have a limited access to the university, uh, than that this tuition,
this current tuition increase would provide for a, uh, an undue hardship.
So, for example, the $300 tuition increase says it exceeds the $5,000 tax.
Uh, the five, uh, tap limit, uh, if you're at 100%, tap assistance will actually give you aid for the full 100% of the increase.
So, we'll make them whole. The dilemma is not that side. It's the side where you have minimal tap, uh, increases,
and we're talking about $15 grants. Yeah.
The $15 grants are an administrative nightmare, uh, to address.
So, we're, uh, we're doing, uh, we're trying to issue, uh, you know, some kind of credit setup,
so we don't have to start issuing $15 checks.
Um, so that's something that's, uh, it's being worked on.
Uh, the chance, uh, also went through her top priorities.
Uh, one is a shared services, uh, you've read a great deal about that.
Um, I think she wants, her goal is to shift 5% of the, uh, budget, the operating budgets, uh,
from administration, uh, to academics to instruction, uh, which is, frankly, a, uh, certainly a worthwhile goal.
Uh, 2013 and planning 2014 in terms of an implementation.
Um, what does that mean exactly?
Well, I, I think where, my opinion is where they're going to be able to get the most bang for their buck as IT.
Uh, IT is, you know, they're, they're all over the map 64.
You get 64 different systems pretty much.
Well, but close, it's not 64, but it's certainly, uh, they're all over the map.
And I think there are real opportunities there to save money.
That's where you're going to get, you know, procurement is, uh, in my opinion, a limited opportunity because pretty much the procurement processes are in place right now that, that maximize savings.
Uh, some of the procurement stuff actually flies in the face of other initiatives.
For example, uh, we have a bi-local initiative here, uh, which is part of our sustainability initiative.
You know, those bi-local produce, et cetera.
Well, that may not fly with a big stake procurement initiative where we would be buying Brazilian, uh, stuff or whatever.
So that's kind of complicated.
Yeah, whatever.
And the other thing would be, uh, you know, we have a very big emphasis in New York State and an increasing emphasis on minority and women business enterprises.
Right.
Some of these procurement stuff actually flies in the face of that.
Right.
So I think that's more problematic, but I do think IT is a real opportunity.
I think shared services, uh, in other areas, you know, might generate some, you know, return, but I don't know that it'll generate a great deal of money, uh, one way or the other.
I think, frankly, uh, you know, productivity is always some way that you're going to be able to get, you know, more bang for your buck.
I mean, that's, uh, I think there's going to be, uh, in her right, in her plan, uh, a far greater emphasis on entrepreneurial behavior and entrepreneurial kind.
That, uh, she wants to measure that.
She wants to measure how many entrepreneurs we train, how much external research is attracted.
You know, how many businesses we grow, that sort of thing, uh, because, you know, that's the thing that, uh, that the State University of New York is the economic engine for the state.
And that this is the way in which we grow not only big business, but small businesses.
Is she, she's not talking at all publicly about campus consolidation? Is there anything like that, right?
Well, you saw what happened and, uh, and I can question.
And, uh, and frankly, right now, the, uh, the cobalt skill campus is, uh, and the, uh, I know, I know that I'm, I'm neighbors with both of those campuses.
Yeah. And that's actually working.
I think it's working pretty well.
Pretty well. Although, although if you talk to the people who are there, they're not, you know, staff's not that happy because they got to do a lot of traveling and stuff.
But it seems to me, this is just me talking.
Yeah.
I think that's where the future real savings is.
And, you know, until somebody's willing to bite the bullet on that, I think you're going to have trouble exacting real savings.
So I agree with you. And I think biting the bullet goes beyond that there.
I don't know that we need 64 campuses.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I mean, I don't know.
I forget 64 administrations.
No, no.
Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying. You consolidate administration so that you may have a single entity with more than one campus.
You could say you use some of the facilities, but you don't necessarily need 64 entities.
Well, this morning, I just read the, uh, New York.
This morning, I read the, uh, uh, uh, Canton and Podstam, uh, they're both counsels, incidentally speaking of that, have, uh, have publicly stated that, uh, they're trying, they're recruiting for a combined CFO.
Yeah.
And both councils have come out saying that they don't think it'll work and that they need individual CFOs.
Oh, no, surprise.
I mean, we, we, we, we, we, we, for both, uh, for both campuses.
I'm like Pierre and I didn't know.
I was that tartan veteran.
But you also have to even look at, not just at the administrative level, but isn't there a way for, I don't know, somebody at Cobal School wants to take some,
or Cain, of course, it's only offered at a university that somehow they can participate online and, you know, your favorite Scandinavian studies at Binghamton and not have, you know, so that you can kind of share resources academically as well.
And I, and I think that's the future.
I think we're looking at distance learning, we're looking at, uh, non-traditional approaches to delivering the product that we have.
I think that's the only way we're going to go.
We've talked about the demographics going forward.
And then that tells you what we have to do.
To make a smaller, you know, problem is, is that, uh, you, I mean, I'm, I'm sure in your conversations today, for example, you could see there are going to be people that are resistant to any change whatsoever.
So I know that then come as a shock to some of you, but resistance to change is not necessarily.
And the other thing that the, uh, then emphasis that the chancellor has is, uh, apparently, I don't know, I don't know the source of the measurement, but that soon, at least the statutory or the state campuses, spend about $70 million a year in remediation, preparing students to be actually be able to go to college.
Uh, she wants to work on that number and bring it down.
It's an interesting number because I believe the community colleges have already published the number, which is significantly higher.
I guess if you add the two together, it's a huge number, like 150 or $60 million of remediation efforts.
That sounds even low. I mean, it sounds low.
Well, I think what it tells you is is that maybe, you know, there are lots of work that needs to be done not only on K through 12, but then also in the community college.
The idea of free flow, you know, is, is a good idea, but you got to make sure that people are able to compete in an environment.
You know, not every student that graduates from community college can come to the university, all of them.
Yeah, a lot of them can, but not everyone can. And there needs to be a, but this whole idea of having, you know, open articulation agreements has been floated for a long time.
And this idea of remediation, but a lot of money is being spent somehow. I don't know how you fix the pipeline, but you got to fix the pipeline somewhere.
The, the steering, no, no, the steering committee shared services has this first meeting next week or week after.
I'm on that as by virtue of ACT and Provost Phillips is also on it. There's 19 on the, so.
Okay. University of Albany will be well-readable.
And the, you know, her final plan is this idea of the pipeline and the free flow and also measuring completion rates.
So, and that's, that's important. You know, it's more than graduation rates, it's completion rates. It's, you know, how you get there, how long it takes you to get there, what's the, the course of action that you get there.
To be honest with you, you know, not everybody needs to go to a four year school, you know, not everybody.
I mean, frankly, right now, the emphasis is on community colleges and the workforce training that, that they create.
And there's lots of jobs, technical jobs for community college graduates, especially in this area with, you know, with global foundries and the like.
But local news, we have unveiled our, our plan for our new academic, athletic facilities.
Generally well received in the community, not overwhelmingly well received in the, on campus, but it is capital.
It's $24 million. It's the estimated completion cost.
$6 million will come from private donations. We are a, a pace in terms of the private donations.
We think that the facilities that we construct are going to be modest and, but expandable.
There'll be a football, soccer, any number of other depending on how much money we get from other sports.
Facility that will accommodate $8,000 and it will be modular in nature so that every penny that's spent on this single wall facility will be penny money that will be used for the ultimate end product.
So there's no waste. It's actually been designed as a bigger facility than being created in a modular way.
Hopefully our programs will be as successful as they can be in that we'll actually have need to expand the facilities.
But if we don't, we're going to have a very nice facility that actually accommodates what we currently are able to use.
Our track facilities will be, will be repaired.
Our current track is not, you know, NCAA regulation as a matter of fact, it's spite of the fact that we have one of the most successful track and field programs in the country.
None of our students have ever seen a home meet.
There are 200 regulation tracks in high schools, but the university doesn't have one.
So that would be...
It was missing a lane.
It's missing a lane and it's also the inside lane is shorter than the others so...
We could cheat.
I was going to cheat.
Tell everybody what you're saying.
I was wondering why I went in college I had that for a minute in my own.
It was a four minute, three quarters of a mile.
What's the time table for that?
We are hoping to have a football game, the last home football game of next this coming year.
Okay.
On the football game or hoping.
What's the date of that?
At the very, I don't know.
At the very worst, it'll be the first football game of next year of the 13 year.
But if...
We're going to play the next spring.
But another component of that of course is a turf facility that will be over by the day.
That will be not part of the athletic department and not part of the athletic program.
It will be student life.
It'll be for intermural and club sports.
And it'll be purely for student use, not for intercollegiate student use.
So that's also a sorely needed facility for our students.
The other 17-5.
The other 17,500 students that don't participate in intercollegiate sports.
So that's an important component of that.
Next, giants are coming.
The giants are coming.
I was told by John Marra that they're coming.
We've had confirmations for many number of politicians.
Whether they're based on fact or just based on their desire to get some publicity.
I don't know, but the media has confirmed.
The mayor has confirmed.
Senator Schumer has confirmed.
So I guess it's true.
I guess it's true.
Senator Schumer said it.
That's it.
Exactly.
Already at the cross the street pub says they're coming.
So let me not start.
The morning says they're coming back too.
So we're in good shape.
We know that Coach Coughlin wants to come back.
I was very grateful to know that he was going to continue his coach because, frankly,
I think if he left it would have been problematic because I know the general manager is not crazy about coming to all of you.
Oh, really?
So, uh, but...
How do we get rid of him then?
Well, after you went to a camp, you know.
After a camp, you got to do it.
I got to do it.
Well, the coach is pretty important to them.
Now we do have a concern.
And the concern is going to be how we stage our construction with the giant camp.
And that's a significant concern because, frankly, although we have a plan, they have to accept that plan.
It does require that the players walk a little further.
Oh, well.
I know.
It's a terribly.
But hey.
It's part of their training.
Well, yeah.
You don't even want to know what we went through with that with the cafeteria stuff.
If you recall.
I'll do it.
They have to walk a little further because we changed their cafeteria and they weren't happy with that.
Because they don't mind practicing, but they don't walk to get the practice, I guess.
But in any event, that's going to be a problem.
I don't know.
Steve may know what happened with the meeting.
Did they go down to...
Oh, no, yeah.
...and I get that's next week or what.
Okay, there's...
I know there's a meeting schedule with our people and the giant's people to talk about.
Yeah.
And they are concerned.
They're concerned about the construction, but we're mindful of the impact.
I'm concerned, primarily, because they want...
I'm happy they won the Super Bowl.
But we know that the last time they won the Super Bowl, we had record crowds here for the community.
I'm worried about record crowds in an environment where we've got construction going on.
So I'm more concerned.
I don't care about the walk, but I'm more concerned about dealing with the public at large that comes to make sure that we provide a safe environment.
But we're working hard on that.
Along the lines of football, as we're talking about that, on February 2nd, the city of Albany declared it...
Bob Ford Day.
Bob Ford is our football coach for the last 42 years.
The only football coach the university has ever had.
He was thrilled.
Lee, you were the great.
He was thrilled.
His comment to his wife was when he told her about Bob Ford Day, said,
Oh, wow, the streams that you ever think they would have a day for me, Bob Ford.
She said that you're not in my wildest dreams.
I thought it was a great line.
That's spectacular.
Last week, we had the Marvin & Company and our School of Business announced the Business Climate Survey results here on campus.
This local economy is ranked for the first time in...
Second time in 17 years is one of the top local economies in the country.
Forbes Magazine said this was the fourth best area for job creation and the like.
Almost all of that is really a function of the success of our nanophosilities and our nanoprogram.
So that's important.
There's a website if you want to learn more about that.
You all of any day downtown was a terrific success.
Actually, I think the best we've ever had, primarily because it started out with 1200 K through 12 students coursing through the area there.
You want to talk about generating some excitement and noise.
We generated a lot of noise and excitement.
Those little kids had a great time.
We had 35 student performances.
Our kids are really good.
They're really good.
The performances I thought were terrific.
You were down there.
It was a great advocacy visit.
It was actually a pleasant environment because most of our advocacy visits were to say thank you not to ask for something.
You could see a lot of blank looks on the legislators face when they said you're not asking for anything.
No, we're thanking you for your support.
I know that went very well.
The Purple Grout was a complete sell out as far as both the dinner and the basketball game.
The REDC process has been reinstated.
The results of the first REDC.
And I continue to be on that board.
But I will see what happens once I leave.
But the first REDC, we submitted three proposals and got funded for all three, which is very good.
We were much more modest.
One of the proposals that we had funded was a research alliance with the University Albany Medical College and RPI.
And other partners that are going to be brought in.
That's in the works, Jim and Vince are working on that along with others.
There's some real possibilities there of some collaborations that will work really well.
Our seed program at its first anniversary, our seed program is a loan program that's run by our small business development center, the Empire State Development and CFQ Credit Union.
We've given out $365,000 worth, $385,000 worth of loans.
We've created 52 jobs, which seems modest, but these are not loans that are traditionally underwritten.
These are loans that are based on the quality of a business plan and the personal integrity and reputation of the person who's asking to borrow the money.
It's not a situation where, in other words, the borrow money, if your business may have to have money.
All you have to have is a good name and a good business plan and a good idea.
Our small business people and our school of business people have been intimately involved with helping these people to develop these businesses.
And again, this is a program that is sort of groundbreaking.
We have a $2.5 million commitment for CQ for the loans that will grow as this program grows and it's very exciting.
Well, I'll just take questions.
Jim, did you have a question?
I will mention that Abner has asked a question about the management study and the alternatives to Founda Day.
And before I won, the Founda Day alternatives, as you all know, last year around this time, maybe a week later.
Somehow March 17th, right now.
I remember the date.
I know it says vacation day.
Something there that brings them up.
We stopped Founda Day, much to the chagrin of many of our students.
This year, of course, it was anticipated we wouldn't have Founda Day because of that we were going to basically start construction, construction of our Founda renovations as well as the water tank.
Let me digress for a minute.
What we're doing in the fountain area is not purely aesthetic.
The water tower, that tower that sits there is the source of all water pressure on campus, including our fire safety stuff.
So that has been in place for 47 years and it is in dire need of rehabilitation.
So we actually have to take that down as part of this process.
We're actually taking the tower down.
Is it down or right now?
We're not taking it down.
Not down.
Taking it down, meaning we have to apply it.
So offline.
I can't say that.
I'm saying that.
Why do the same thing?
I mentioned Mohawk Tower.
Sorry to speak up like that.
I mentioned Mohawk Tower.
I said we have to take it down and they said you're going to take down a tower?
Would it take it offline?
So that's a fire safety thing that has to be done.
But if you've looked at the plan, the resulting aesthetic changes that are going to be made for the fountain in the air are spectacular.
They're going to be beautiful.
It will be a gorgeous amenity down there.
So be patient.
It will look a lot better.
We are doing Park Fest, which is going to be an expanded Park Fest on the same day.
I'm looking at trade because I don't know the details.
Park Fest is now we were approved a couple of weeks ago to do our normal spring concert out in Colable and not concert.
Where the columns are.
Where the columns are.
We do a commencement.
Yeah.
Plaza.
Nice.
So that will be a, but there will, there won't be a water event.
Water event.
Water event.
Water event.
There won't be a water event.
And Steve, why don't you, for two years, for two years, say, that'll be out of town.
You know what?
Steve, why don't you mention the matrix?
The matrix.
The matrix study, that's the management permit we used to do that study.
Is in what I would suggest is draft final draft form.
We've had a chance to clean up the writing of the, they've omitted a couple things we wanted in there.
So I got it to George last week in, in final draft form.
He's going to take a look at it to see if there are any omissions that he wants covered.
When we get it back, when I think George was looking at it next week, when he's going to wait, when we get it back,
make any changes that he had to make.
None of his direct reports have seen it yet.
So I suggest to George, that probably the next best step before we come to a meeting like this and make it public,
is for him to meet with each of his direct reports to show them the final draft and say, you know,
are there any manifest errors in here that need to be, the need to be corrected?
Then we'll go to final and then make a public come back to you folks.
And do the other things we need to go to the Senate with it and in general, we're going to make a public.
You know, the hope is this will be a tool for the new president as well.
We email it to us then, I said, how you, we'll get it.
It's a big document.
Uh-huh.
Or mail it to us.
Or mail it, yeah, probably.
Yeah, because then we don't have another meeting tool.
Thank you.
And we'll make it.
So I'm, yeah.
I just, I did not orchestrate this.
Steve was the focal point.
He's, he's, he's also a lame duck.
So I figured he was not someone who is going to be in a lame duck.
I'm not pushing.
I'm not taking it down.
I'm using it.
I'm using it.
But, uh, yeah, I'm taking you down.
Uh, the, uh, so it's, this is not something that was orchestrated by me.
I was not intimately involved with, uh, actually I met with them twice.
No, it just wants to, you know, basically, you know, once and with you when you, that's it.
I mean, that's, that's my, my full involvement.
Uh, there was, there's no interference on the part.
And of course, as I mentioned to you earlier, the, one of the criticisms of the process was, uh, why did we pay an outsider to do this?
Uh, of course, if I had had it done inside, it would have had no credibility and the criticism would have been, um, big deal.
You know, your base itself serving in terms of the, uh, so you can't win anyway.
Yeah, nice stuff.
But, uh, in any event, that'll be a useful tool for the new president.
And I hope, uh, to implement that.
Absolutely.
Okay.
Any other questions?
Thank you, George.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Um, just a couple of quick updates.
Um, we did just our, our student association, did just recently completes our, uh, our general elections for next year.
Um, however, our president, vice presidents, we had so many candidates are going into a runoff.
So we'll have a runoff election after spring break.
So we'll know then who are new presidents and vice presidents.
We do have a new university council representative.
Um, it was supposed to show up today, but, uh, he, I think he was, was taking a little sick.
Um, so, so, so, so, so, so, that, that, we're gonna leave it in there.
Yeah, but he could, the buses are out front.
Yeah.
I'm done.
I'll probably be home for a few days before I have to come back and do some work.
But, um, but yeah, so we have, we just finished that.
Um, we, we are also in the process of crafting our budget for next year.
Um, so that process is going fairly well, fortunately, um, because last year, we, uh, we did not get the, the complete student activity increase that we had, we had requested.
Um, and we had over budgeted somewhat because we had expected more money than we actually brought in.
Um, so we, we, unfortunately had to cut back, um, our budget is a little bit this year so that we can equalize for next year.
I'm hard to get a proof.
Um, as of sometime earlier this week, the remainder of that student activity fee, so that'll be $90 a semester for every student, um, starting next year.
So hopefully we'll be able to equalize things out and get ourselves back to, um, a little bit more of a, a state of financial solvency.
Um, let's see, we also just read it on our, our student government constitution.
Um, we held a constitutional convention that was redone and passed also during our election by referendum.
Um, so that passed, uh, just a couple of updates, um, in the area of, uh, gender sexuality concerns, um, our director has been working very hard on, uh, a number of programs.
You see gender gender sexuality concerns.
Um, so they worked a lot with the gender and sexuality resource center, um, on campus.
It's run out of the multicultural students, access offices.
So they have, uh, they are, they're working on a take back the night, which is an event that'll be downtown this, this, uh, this year on April 26th.
I believe, um, the, uh, the lavender graduation also will be May 18th at one.
I think that's the time.
Um, she's also working on, uh, on, uh, on getting together a workshop, um, to show a movie called, it's called the G-Hod for Love, um, which is basically a movie that deals with, um, religion and the LGBT community and how, you know, how, how to, you know, work together and, and don't always coincide with each other.
So you work on a workshop with that, um, with the gender sexuality resource center, um, still working on a couple of other lectures, um, you know, trying to promote, um, the LGBT community on campus and raising awareness, um, especially now with the gender neutral housing, um, experience is going on, um, beginning next semester.
So, the general of the housing is, um, thank you.
Yeah, I figured that would be, uh, in effect, it's, it is, uh, on the face of it, it's something that if you're a parent, you'd say what?
What?
But it's, it's primarily designed to provide for safe and not hostile housing for, in particular, our transgender students.
And we have a number of them.
Yes.
And it's, uh, I believe, and it's, uh, the students are transgendered and they identify as transgender, they can, they do make special circumstances for them.
However, the problem with that is, don't get those special circumstances, you have to identify as transgender first.
So this allows them to not have to, to do that.
So it's basically a measure to help them.
So all housing going to be a part of each inter-general housing?
Yeah, but it will be a, a, a technically controlled process.
It's believe, I, I, I had extensive, it's opt-in and it's, I've had extensive conversations about this because being an old person that, uh, needed to be educated on, uh, the concept of just general
neutral housing, that, I, you know, if I had a daughter, there was no way she'd live with what you guys, I'd say that right now.
But I mean, it's not, it's not as open as that you think of that.
It's basically, it's, it's opt-in, it's, it's a very careful process.
And it is designed primarily to protect vulnerable students on campus.
And that's not an uncommon thing, or?
No, it's not. It's, uh, very common schools that have similar things.
Um, I'm an air-evac-demo-gefairs. I'm an air-evac-demo-gefairs director and I've been working on, um, getting together, um, an outstanding faculty award.
Um, something that, uh, you know, we've been trying to do just as a way for us as students to, you know, recognize, you know, you know, if you've faculty members at Wiesen, we find to be, you know, outstanding, um, or have made an impact on our students lives.
Um, so we are working on that, um, and I believe, um, Rebecca, our academic fairs are just going to try to bring it up at the spring faculty meeting whenever that is.
Um, so we're getting together a committee for that so we can, we can get that, we can roll that out to the faculty.
It's just something for us to, you know, kind of say, you know, thank you to our faculty members, like Andy here.
On the community outreach fronts, um, we've got a ton of things going on in terms of community outreach.
Um, we've had our students student initiative, um, we've been working with, um, the president's office with the Miriam Termitose, um, and that, that has been, that has got off to a great start.
Um, basically, student student initiative is where, you know, a lot of, where are some of our, our students and some of our student groups are basically going into the high schools, um, and working with the students in the high schools.
Um, you have like a number of our, our student groups have been going on there, they do workshops with them and they, um, a lot of some of them, you tutoring and things like that.
So it's basically just a way for, you know, us as students to, you know, kind of be reaching out to the community, you know, reaching, you know, catching those high school students.
Um, so that'll be going on from now through till April 22nd, so this is sort of our pilot year to see how it goes.
And if it works, um, we'll probably be, you know, in future years, get more groups involved, get more students involved, and try to grow the program a little bit.
Um, but that'll be going on this year through, through April 22nd.
Um, the next event, I believe was actually just passed this past weekend.
It was the third, um, where a bunch of our, our student leaders got together with students from the local high school and our math and natural
club actually was tutoring students, um, and math and a bunch of things that happened this weekend.
Um, I don't know what else we got going on in the community.
We also now have a, we have a student, we have a consistent student representative in the Pine Hills Neighborhood Association Board.
Um, so there's the very advantages for us, um, to know, make it should, you know, they know that the students actually, actually care about the community,
which is all here to direct the place up.
Um, so they are, they are trying, we are trying to get a couple of community cleanups going for the end of the semester.
Um, at least one before the end of the year, if not two, if possible.
So we are working on those with the Pine Hills Neighborhood Association.
Um, we also have a can tab drive going on.
Just, just take a look.
Um, so that's just another, another fundraiser that's going on.
So basically where you could, where you basically collected the cans, the tabs of the soda cans,
and then it contributes to the Ronald McDonald House.
So for every pound of tabs that we receive, um, the money goes for upkeep to the Ronald McDonald House, which is a charity.
So we're doing that.
Um, we also have an autism speaks walk, which would be April 1st, um, tentatively from 12 to 4 on the podium.
Um, so we do have a, we have a group on campus that's, um, similar to our students evolving against cancer.
We have a group on campus who we're just trying to, you know, raise awareness about autism and that kind of stuff.
Um, so we are going to be having autism speaks walk on campus.
We also would be having, um, and out of the darkness walk for suicide prevention, which we did last year, which was extremely successful.
We'll be doing that again as well.
Group, um, I don't think we'll be on the podium again this year, but they haven't quite figured out where they will be, because I guess they went so well last year.
They're looking to expand somewhat on the organization, um, that, that runs the, where the, where the chair that the chair that goes through.
So we'll be doing that also. We also have relay for life, um, leaves the weekend of April 14th.
Um, so that's, uh, students of all, when it gets cancer, um, it's very, very active in doing that.
I know they just had a TCBY, uh, fundraiser, uh, last Wednesday. So we went to TCBY and got ice cream that day.
Part of the proceeds went to, to the American Cancer Society. So that was good.
Um, and essay is trying to, to help them in any way we possibly can, um, and kind of get a better essay presence than we've had.
Some had some previous years, um, it's probably not the best thing for our student representatives to have a low turnout at one of the biggest community events on campus during the year.
Um, so we're working with that. Um, we're trying to help them get, uh, actually, uh, chicken joes on campus.
There's some catering for, for relay for life. So if anyone likes chicken joes, they may be here for relay for life.
They sack them with char wells and char wells approved. Instead of being able to kind of be a good way for us to kind of, you know, help, you know, get the community, you know, community, you know, build this more involved.
Um, let's see what else we got. Cleanups, um, and then towards the end of towards sometime in April. I believe, I believe the end of April will be having our purple and gold awards,
which are our awards for our different student student groups and organizations, um, which was something that was started two years ago under, um, former as a president, just assessment.
Um, so we'll be working on that. Um, it's basically where we recognize different student groups, um, or outstanding student leaders are like up and coming.
Um, student leaders, you know, like, you're years of sophomore, so it really shown, um, you know, exactly work in, you know, student leadership, just another other way to recognize, um, our students and our student groups.
I can't, so that would be going on. Um, and you do your leadership training, uh, leadership training as well for future student leaders as well.
It was a great program that you have as well.
Yes, the off-student will also run some emerging leaders program for up and coming freshman and sophomores.
They do a lot of leadership development activities. They go to workshops, some FDS speakers, they meet with our student leaders on campus a lot.
And so we're very involved with that too. Um, so that's very good. Um, I think the last thing that I have, um, we're also our student association, our senior leadership team is also working on right now with the office of a student involvement in campus recreation.
It's Anchor's Bishar's office on developing a proposal from us to campus recreation, I believe, um, our student president is a fear in Arthur, Kamikaz, president Phillip earlier in the semester, um, about some, so issues, I believe they believe they have campus recreation.
So we are coming up with polls over them, um, um, ways to help us better, better organize, better find, um, better coordinates, our club sports program on campus.
I think the biggest problem that we have as student government club sports is that a lot of our club sports, um, although they are just club sports are competitive.
Um, it's a lot of them travel like our crew, like our crew team are rowing, this is, this is very good. Um, I mean, they compete at almost no, but one to, you know, varsity level.
So, um, a lot of them have coaches and other, so a lot of issues come into play that a lot of times we don't have for these staff or the expertise to manage them.
Um, so we're trying to work more with campus recreation to kind of help us, you know, improve that program while leaving some of the burden for our, um, our student leadership.
So yeah.
What happens when they travel? I mean, are they cover insurance?
That's part of our, that's part of our, that's one of the issues.
That's one of the issues.
So right now, um, the way, the way things are set up because our student association is a completely separate entity from the university, we have our own insurance policies and all that kind of stuff like that.
But our insurance policy is very limited.
Um, um, a few years back, we had the women's rugby team gotten to a serious accident on a trip.
Um, and essentially what happened was they have got a proof for funding for a trip for like, like they paid like a tournament fees or something like that, but didn't approve.
Um, for the gas where they were driving, there was something that didn't happen that should have like in terms of control, internal control policies.
And they went and got an accident, sued the student association for quite a bit of money.
And I mean, we just settled out of it.
It's like two years ago, maybe, um, for, for about a five figure some.
So our insurance insurance agent then said no more, no more, no more personal travel.
So now we have to either allow them to use buses or, or airfare or something that affects our costs for clubs boards have gone.
They're using an individual vehicle at the time.
This is several years ago this before, uh, and that was the big issue was, yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't university supplied transportation.
It wasn't a supply transportation.
It was covered by, you know, the typical insurance coverage that you might have if you provided it.
And that's an area of concern.
We're working with, uh, with student success, the essay and we'll come up with a resolution.
Yeah, no, that's, that's the other piece of taking of internal controls as we have been working with, um, student success and, uh, how many clubs were steeper?
Um, we have, maybe now, I mean, we have about 21 dedicated clubs for sports, but I'm pretty sure that number has grown.
Um, someone, and not all of them are at the same level, like they vary to the level, like crew is obviously one of our top tier in terms of competitiveness and funding,
whereas we have groups like, um, like handball or badminton, which, you know, we give her 200 bucks to go, you know, where I hit a ball around throwball around something like a showcock.
It varies, it varies.
Um, but, uh, we have been working with, uh, Steve's office on the Kevin Wilcox, um, on trying to improve, um, essays and travel control policy.
Um, and our risk management policies as well, um, to mitigate some of those, those issues that we've, that we've had over the years, um, we are trying to improve today.
I mean, uh, I'm sorry, Tim.
Um, your report's always, the, the great interest in perhaps we could schedule a more detailed, um, presentation on what the student association does at the council member.
Your budget's got to be at $90 a student, is that, that your revenue source is in fees, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.50, $90.
We cut one of them this year for budgetary reasons, obviously, but we're hoping that next year we will still have, we're still always banking on the one in the at homecoming, because that's the easiest time, but just for us, because it's homecoming, so everyone's here.
Brother, we will continue to do two. We'll be, if you have done that, we're just going to do that for two or three years.
We did two, the first year, and we did two last year, and we only did magic on some of the year for financial reasons.
We'll see. As of right now, we're looking to, in addition to our regular university sponsors, we're also looking to seek some outside sponsors as well, because it as it goes on,
financially, it's just not sustainable for us to continue doing it year after year without any sort of support.
However, I know we have spoken with Fardin's office, and Fardin has mentioned that, we have, I think, proven to the community at large that, I mean, this is completely student-run initiative, that we have obviously been able to show that it's something that is sustainable, and that we can do,
and that's something that a lot of people in the community, not only students, would like to see continue.
So, we are looking into more outside sponsors as well to kind of help us with the sustainability of the event.
Two quick things. One, I certainly, you know, I try to talk to a lot about student involvement in the community, and I think you know we've been named to the President of Obama's Honoural for the first time ever,
largely because of the, primarily because of our student involvement in the community.
So, that's something that is a source of great pride for this university. And along those lines, as you know, as we mentioned earlier, sort of ingest, but this is the first anniversary, or close to the first anniversary of our cakes and eggs, Viesco.
And you should know that MSNBC is intending to do a piece, a national piece, on cakes and eggs, which will be basically taking some of those photographs that we foolishly, our kids foolishly put on the whatever the social media sites are, whatever.
That will actually open the wounds and open the sores they have, they have actually interviewed a number of kids on campus.
Or so, I don't know what the results are going to be, but that's something that will probably impact us as soon as that happens with MSNBC.
I guarantee you that the local media will pick it up, and we will, it will anyway, that we will be reliving the events of last year one more time.
So, just be prepared for that. And the last thing in terms of our students, we've just been involved with lobbying for restoration of funding for a program that we have at the University called Just For The Kids.
It's a program that, where we actually provide consulting services for K-12 schools, what we've done is we've done research for what makes the difference between a higher performing school that's equally, that has an equal amount of money and similar demographics.
So, if you're school A, and you get this amount of state aid, and you have this amount of demographics, 50 or 60 percent free and reduced lunch populations, et cetera.
Why do some of these programs perform better than others? We've developed a real good program. It's been in place since 2004. It's the only one of its kind.
We lost funding for a variety of reasons. None of which was the fault of the program. We're in the process of getting it restored. The reason I'm bringing this up is that an instrumental in our getting this program restored was the lobbying efforts of our students.
So, they too are very active politically on behalf of the University. So, another reason to thank them for all of the good work that they've done.
It's a state funded. But governors line items since 2004 that we lost almost impossible to do. But it's on the tape. I'm not telling you why.
I also forgot one more thing. We're also our community outreach department is very active this year. But we're also doing a fundraiser for a little girl who's a member of our U Kids,
you know, our university, a pre-Kindegarten who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, I believe. So, I believe our director of operations at SA has her children go there. So, she knows the little girls we are also doing a fundraiser from April 14th.
From 2 to 5 at the Delmar Reformed Church in 386 Delaware Ave in Delmar, New York. So, we will be there. It's volunteers helping to do some fundraising for this little girl as well.
Thank you. We've killed your day, sir. That's a lot. Yeah.
I'm still processing all that. That's impressive. I mean, the level of involvement, both in depth and breadth, is pretty impressive.
Okay, Andy. Okay, we've faculty are way less than that.
You know, we've passed the torturing. In terms of centered activity update, there's a new and improved and streamlined genit proposal that appears to be gaining support from momentum.
We'll reach the floor of the Senate in April and we hope it will be passed in time to actually roll out in the fall. And so far, there have been no stumbling blocks. We're hoping this won't actually work.
There were three resolutions brought by a senator from LLC to the Senate floor at the meeting on February 6th, all of which passed.
And so the various councils have been charged with looking into these situations that one was involving violations of governance procedures in the program deactivations, a resolution to institute specific consultation procedures before enacting deactivation and a resolution to determine offerings in European languages and classical studies in accordance with the U-all of these missions for the strategic plan.
So I should see these issues from the forefront of some faculty's minds much like we heard this morning in the president.
Yes, yes. What are you doing about that? What are you doing about that? What are you doing?
There's also been a discussion of strategies for bringing the work of the administrative review committee into line with the needs of the administration after President Philip Grayson's significant concerns at the February Senate meeting.
As an immediate result, the proposed charter amendment to create a council charge with administrative review has been withdrawn with the intention of after discussion reconsideration and collaboration.
Some proposal will be brought back to the Senate for consideration next year.
The Senate Council also sent a letter to President Philip requesting that he put together a task force to consider moving you Albany toward a smoke-free campus.
And in terms of general faculty concerns, the presidential search committee is, you probably noted small but vocally concerned groups of people.
It does remain a central concern on campus and their concerns seem to overlap pretty consistently with what we heard this morning.
The area of serious concern is the proposal as part of the master plan to move to departments in the College of Arts and Sciences down to the downtown campus from the uptown campus and the resulting loss and ready collaborations between those closely related programs.
The news media having picked up on our provost status in the UMass Amherst search, the campus is, of course, buzzing the speculation about the future of the strategic plan and implementation and the future of the University of general and concern for general fatigue and morale on campus.
I'm sorry, it wasn't nearly as far as my colleague to the...
We should let you go first.
By way of explanation, the four finalists for the UMass Amherst position were published yesterday.
Yesterday, Susan Phillips, who's sitting provost is one of the four finalists as is Carlos San Diego, which is one of our previous provost, one of the four finalists for that.
It's kind of interesting that the University has actually populated many presidencies throughout the country.
Does that mean we're really refraining around?
I think it does mean that.
This is a tough job here.
It's all uphill, downhill.
I feel here, downhill, but I think that's the one concern that they have.
Clearly, the strategic plan is a university-wide commitment, you know, and to be really honest with you,
a new president is going to do with the strategic plan.
What he or she wants to do, but certainly there's so much effort put into it, and I'll be honest with you.
If I were the person coming in, there's no way I'd want to do it over again.
It's a fresh document.
There's been a terrific crosswalk between what we want to do and what SUNY is going to do.
A lot of effort has been put into it, and I greatly doubt that it will do anything but implement it.
But I understand the concerns.
What's the view on SUNY 2020 from a faculty?
I suspect our president could answer that as effectively as any of us mere rank and file types.
It's mixed, shall we say?
What it evidence is that we've done a bad job explaining it because clearly there are a lot of people on campus that don't understand what it is.
Some people view it as, I mean, they actually have characterized it as a way of pinning different elements on campus against each other.
Which I mean, couldn't be further from the truth.
I mean, the fact of the matter is there's no such intent. There's no such impact.
There are those that are concerned that it focuses more on the heart sciences than it does on the humanities and the other areas.
And frankly, the 2020 is not just a single structure.
The fact of the matter is it's a part of an entire reinvestment plan that we've implemented.
And for the most part, one of the largest beneficiaries of the reinvestment plan are going to be the arts and sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, in terms of retooling and hiring.
So people view the capital part of it, they don't understand the impact that is going to occur on campus.
The reinvestment plan is heavily skewed towards faculty and faculty appointments and it's not just in the heart sciences.
And just one important consideration with regard to the 2022 that you should have a much needed zest.
The difference in the views is also shared at Vantan, Stony Broken Buckleone.
And a large measure, that's because of the charge that the governor and the chancellor laid out there.
The faculty, the over arching purpose of this is to drive economic growth and build your university.
And two of the major criteria are faculty hires that generate produced research dollars and can support enrollment growth.
So those two components largely drive the four university center plans.
And it's a source of discussion and different views at the university center.
And the support and enrollment growth, frankly, which is the nephysis in our program, is hiring faculty so that we can actually reduce the ratios that are on campus.
And I think the objective right now is, at the end of the five years, will be down to under 19.
For five years ago, I would have said it's not adequate, but since we went to 25 or six, I guess that is getting adequate.
And of course, from the faculty's perspective, the question was, well, if this money's coming back, why not first start by...
Restoring the...
And of course, I'm sure the president can test. He's still trying to convince people about the difference between capital money, why are we building new buildings?
Why are we doing that?
This is building and why aren't we using that money for instructional work?
So certainly, there's a disconnect, but it's not for lack of continued reiteration of those facts.
The sad thing is that, and then it'll happen to anyone. We happen to be the only ones that make strategic cuts.
The others did it across the board.
It's painful as across the board cuts are. They're not programmatic in nature. They're just across the board.
We were left out. And frankly, our experience was the reason others didn't do it.
My colleagues basically said, there's a quote, you know, we love and respect you, but we all want to be...
That was basically the nature of the conversation.
They put the brakes on in terms of what happened here.
This was a situation where on our campus, we basically shot ourselves.
What happened here is when I write my book.
Is there some appreciation amongst some portion of the faculty that this might have been a wise thing to do to make strategic cuts or is it sort of universally held?
I have heard that off the record in some places.
I have heard that from other people, because sometimes people are a little reluctant to say that to me, thinking I will take it personally being for one of the effect parts.
She was cut. The department was cut.
Right, but in fact, there have been people who have all along said, you know, I'm glad it wasn't me, but this made sense given...
Is it not true to say that in the bag recommendations, again, that there was actually a recommendation for even deeper strategic cuts?
Yes, it was.
And that there was a universal concept was that strategic cuts were the way to go.
Right, absolutely.
But there's another story once it happens.
And fortunately, for better or for worse, Steve and the provost gave the bag committees an ability to the cloak of...
Right, yeah, we could disengage and say, oh no, we didn't actually say any of that.
You didn't name the departments.
Because we didn't name departments.
But the strategy was clear.
And the strategy was like, yes, it was.
So that reason it's my fault because I'm the one who actually said not to do that.
Well, I mean, that's unfortunately what happens to the staff.
Yeah, that's it. I paid for it.
Yeah.
The bug stops at the end.
One of the two departments that are going to be in the floor.
The two departments, I believe, are sociology and geography and urban planning.
They're isolated to move downtown.
So any of their offices move down to their instructions?
Well, no, actually, the instruction will move downtown.
That's part of the motivating reason for that.
The master plan, the master plan that's being developed incidentally,
which has been with great collaboration.
And I'll defer to Steve on this.
But the downtown campus, there is, we are going to invest in expanding and rehabilitating the downtown campus,
including we're going to be acquiring the Skylar, the old Albany High School.
We hope to be open.
I mean, it's that possibility of building another building on one of the sites down there.
Some significant rehabilitation for the existing facilities.
If you've been down there, I have a personal soft spot for that.
I'm sure Pierre does too, because we both were in school there.
And as do you, okay, but at the end of the day, that's a vital part of the university.
The programming is not done.
I mean, these are, this is a master plan like instrument that says,
if we were to do this and this, how would we fill it?
How would you comment?
I mean, there's a lot of room for statements involved with this too.
I think the master plan is coming to its conclusion.
And so if we can possibly accommodate a master plan presentation, perhaps if the next council meeting can be...
I think a big big fact.
...that they would find it very interesting.
The idea is that we agreed on several high principles.
One of them is that we're an entire university.
The downtown campus is in a gulag and not post where somebody doesn't want to go,
but for some graduate schools at night.
And so the notion, the second principle was to try and kill more than one bird with one stone,
or more possible, this we invest our capital money down the stream.
We saw an opportunity to do two things.
To build the downtown campus, to build out the downtown campus in a way that would make it much more viable and robust by getting in by night.
It's primarily an evening division right now.
And by decanting an extra building on the downtown campus and moving some academic programs down there,
be able to finish the up-down podium renovation a full decade sooner than it would otherwise occur,
so one building at a time, each building is a five or six year process.
And so, you know, ten buildings there, 60 years.
And so if we empty two buildings, which we can do with this plan,
it not only adds greatly to the value and the viability of the downtown campus,
it just starts us up here.
So that's the reason for doing it.
I think much like in the bad committee, no one can argue with the principles.
It's who's affected.
That's probable that there are other options.
We can talk about it.
It's not a dondeal.
This is at least five or six years out that just would occur.
But we definitely need to set some things in motion.
And frankly, under the current construct, this campus will not be rehabilitated in any of our lifetime, including traits.
We're talking about a long way to go for him.
So we really need it to do something that's going to make a difference in terms of that.
And we don't have the ability to construct the kind of swing space that's necessary to do what we do on this campus.
So, you know, I know that the faculty often basically view it through a very small prison.
But we've got a view of the bigger picture.
We've got to basically maintain the viability of this campus for a long, long time.
Well, after we're gone.
So, there's no one will ever be happy with anything or everything.
There's a reluctance, certainly, for anyone to move.
The other principle that felt we're trying to articulate or make folks understand is that everybody's going to have to move at least once, as we've hopped skyche around the podium.
No one gets to stay in place because everybody needs to move to new quarters at some point or another.
But what I've been offering the critics, my experience with the history department, some 15 or so years ago.
We moved history over to Timberlake, out of social sciences, and we need to Timberlake.
They fought and screamed and threatened not to go.
It had to happen.
It moved over to Timberlake.
We rehabbed this place about 10 or 15 years later.
It was time to bring it back.
We refused to come back.
We love it here.
So, yeah, exactly when you come back to the new space, we've run it back.
We had to fight twice when we fought back.
So, I think we're seeing just that human nature.
And I understand there is an additional factor of classroom space that is a part of that.
True.
In terms of being 110%.
Are you able to let us say 110% on the Oak Town campus?
We're oversubscribed completely.
And let me leave it at 110%.
More like 50% down down down down.
Because most of the programming is in the evening.
So, one option that we considered in 10,000 hours of discussion was to move the school of education down.
That would fit beautifully.
Footprints about right.
Return them to their ancestral home.
The problem is most of their programming is in the evening.
There's no classroom space down there.
What we want to do is move some academic programs.
That would better use the daytime space.
Because those classrooms lie foul almost the week during the day.
So, there's that two evening.
We're trying to balance the load.
And accomplish lots of different things with just a few moves.
This campus was designed and built for capacity of 10,000.
Right.
We've got 18,000.
It's a problem.
It's a problem that the sociology professor doesn't have to deal with.
So, in any way.
Okay.
Go.
Okay.
Nicholas.
I still try to aim somewhere between Indian and Trace.
Sounds like a graduate student.
Yeah.
So, it's a bit of a background.
The GSO, we're about third the size of essay in terms of number of students.
But you'll get our budgets about a magnitude smaller.
Our annual budget for everything that we do is about when essay spends for one of the concerts.
There's a tremendous amount of four they have about 21 club sports.
We have less than 20 student groups total compared to their 200.
I just remember he used to be essay.
The week was at the other show at one point.
This is very true.
But that said, the registered organization under the great leadership of our president,
Heidi Nichols, who is finishing her second term by the way.
And the rest of her team is continuing its mission.
Educational, cultural, social events.
And highlights include a screening of the PHD comics movie.
So, based on this comic strip that's all about being a graduate student.
Very funny if you're ever a graduate student.
Not terribly funny if you ever were.
And then we'll be out of using Stanford graduate students.
We had a Marty Brock, a senior night down at Gillians.
We had a trip to the Turkish American Scientist and Scholars Association conference.
And plenty of other stuff.
We can get you out of Kate Funds to our small number of student groups.
We have grants to graduate students for travel and research.
We do the community outreach.
And so on.
Planned to hold our elections next month.
We'll also be having some constitutional amendments and proposals.
One of the things that we're going to try is to use the internet to have people get feedback on the post changes.
Instead of doing any of these committee meetings.
We'll let you know and may have that goes.
And other than that, we're just trying to keep our heads down.
Teach classes, working the offices, and do our research in life.
Thank you very much.
We'll also work very extensively.
Heidi and Zafir, we're very extensively on a lot of our community engagement initiatives.
Like a lot of stuff we have done.
We have had full support from the GSO on many things.
Heidi and Zafir actually attended the chamber dinner last night.
And they actually look really good dressed up.
Zafir actually looked at top several of these.
That's a picture of Heidi.
And we're getting back to both of them.
There's a picture in the top.
I didn't get that.
I think so.
It's enough for me to never.
I think so.
Yeah, it's definitely on the website too.
Heidi and Zafir are both on the search committee.
So they're integrated up and down.
Thank you, Nicholas.
Okay.
Thank you.
First of all, our board and nominations want to thank the whole of you.
I'm overwhelmed by your response to my request for board nominations.
I don't want to say it's the first time that nominated, but it's very, very impressive.
And we really want to thank you.
Okay.
Let me update you on how we're putting in action a couple of ours strategic plans.
First, the shame was added.
Passed around.
One of the first of our initiatives, helping students find positions in their field of interest.
And you see the top question on this.
And is can you give most people stop there to bring their money?
It's been 15 minutes to be all been used to.
And the answer is you can't.
What is you can't?
That is introducing the University of Homeland Career Advisory Network.
And basically what we're recruiting is for alums to volunteer to create a profile
and just spend a few moments.
They control the whole interaction and so forth to share their professional experiences.
Maybe some internships, but overall inspire and encourage alums as young alums as well as recent graduates.
To that end, here's our goals.
We're going to, in the process of recruiting about 1200 alums.
Then in the fall, we're going to make this widely known.
We have a number of strategies.
We've softmores through radstools.
And in fact, this area that you see here will be in the Eualveen magazine this month.
Our second one I wanted to talk about, we have three action on that.
It's helping to attract more of the best students.
We know we have the best students, we just want to attract more.
So the first thing that we're doing as an along association is the...
That's a question.
Yes.
You talked about the Eualveen magazine.
Is there a reason why people don't get that?
Right, about the first, because I explained that.
We actually, because of the budget cuts, we eliminated the previous...
So you have to go online.
Well, we didn't limit the magazine per se with the hard copy.
Right, the hard copy.
And you get the Eualveen I think.
Right.
I will be back.
But we are bringing it back.
We have some salary savings that we're doing this one time edition.
And we are only going to send it to limited doby in a longer time.
No, I was just curious, because I haven't seen it in ages.
What's the name?
Sorry.
The meaning.
No, no, that's a good question.
But we will have one coming out in the spring, right?
The hard copy.
Exactly.
Which this will be in then.
Let's say I'm sorry.
Okay.
Our second issue that I want to just highlight is helping to attract more of the best students.
And under that guy's one thing we're doing is we're sponsoring and coordinating with staff,
actually appearing at 10 accepted student receptions.
And of those 10, in order to help the admissions with our out of state recruitment,
we're actually sponsoring six one in New Jersey.
New Hampshire.
I'm sorry, two New Jersey, one in New Hampshire, one in mass, two in Connecticut.
And that, of course, the traditional Westchester, Long Island Rochester, and so forth.
In addition, we're recruiting alumni association members to attend college fairs,
help with some of the actual recruitment, open houses, and so on.
So that's our three initiatives in coping to attract more of the best students.
In the area of engaging alumni supporting institutional, academic priorities, and enhancing philanthropy,
we have a whole range of strategies.
But I thought I would just mention to illustrate what we're doing, some things in March and April.
We just finished on March 6th, a career marketing panel on the Delovinite House, which was highly successful.
On March 20th, we're going to have a, I gotta be careful, I say this, red vest.
I didn't say gay vest when I did this the last time.
We do that in the church.
We're very fast is on here.
We're working with the grad students and, of course, this group and so forth,
where we'll be welcoming the class of 2012.
March 21st, I'm going to let the Cardina show be further this, but we have an event,
an event on, on, on, on, on, on, on April 4th, we're doing a pre-law panel, career planning,
and so forth here at Delovinite House.
On the 14th, we're doing the spring stamp at the, across the vent, the John Fallon field.
The 28th, we have our alumni volunteer recognition lunch in Call of Fame room.
And then on April 28th, which we're very excited about, is our excellence award scale,
a very formal event held at the downtown, hotel, and so on.
Widely attended, in fact, it usually causes out, or thrilled about that.
And then lastly, again, the 14th, I'm sure we've heard this, but we're dissipating
in the two days, studies lecture at the Museum of Heritage.
And I have to say, you've heard me say this over and over again, but I really
need to stress it.
We couldn't do any of this without 14 in his shop, they're just, they're always there for us,
as, as I like to say, his help does fall at all times.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
Is this a young far-reign?
It's just a photo of a young far-reign?
I wish.
That is just a photo of his GQ page, right?
Let's go in like a young far-reign.
See what you see there?
He was for it, look like that.
Okay, Mr. Mappelroy, I believe you're up next.
Please, let's just start with the mouse, and it should plug it in.
Nick, am I right?
Good luck, please.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Nick, this guy didn't win, but she...
Oh, all right, all right.
You just put the mouse in there.
I'm going to open it.
Okay, good.
We're going to go through Athletics 101 in about 10 minutes, but before I get into it,
I want to just make some quick announcements.
George, if he didn't mention that, I think it's worth bearing again.
The NCAA certification process was successful, and basically what that means is that our entire
program under one of self-study by the campus chaired by Provost Phillips and three chairs
from the campus, not the athletic program.
And they look at three areas, they look at academic integrity, they look at student-athletes,
well-being, inequity, and rules compliance, which if you're reading the paper today,
and you're a Syracuse grader, Connecticut grader, Boston University grad,
we think there is no rules compliance, but that was very well done with fully certified,
which basically means we meet all regulations and elements of the NC and the campus and the institution.
So that's important.
Good for 10 years, too, guys.
Yeah.
So George, really liked that part.
My second announcement is that our We Play Championship game tomorrow for our women in our arena in America,
each championship in two years.
My coach of the year, Coach A, has taken our team which never had a winning season in 11 years,
the Division I to produce two winning seasons, a championship team,
and in today's time, Julian, that was an article on Julie Foster, who's in our school of governance.
I've had three professors say to me on the record, she may be the smartest student in the business school that they've seen,
since they may have teaching here.
So, 3.97, she's the real deal.
Well, another young lady, Julie was not on scholarship, that's what's so great about this article,
what's so great about my business is that you not only can develop opportunities, you can create opportunities.
So she came in as a walk-on, great student, great kid.
Now she's a post-coach, she was a kid doing well.
We have another young lady, Ebony Henry, who was from San Diego, California,
and I might add, to give the coach my former coach-coodles, both of these two,
and athletes were recruited by training practice, so we don't want to leave her out.
She did a great job of bringing young women to our campus.
But Ebony is from San Diego.
She's a junior when she first came in, she wouldn't even look at it.
George knows this story.
Okay, man, she made all of our young women say, when you were talking to alumni, friends, president,
whomever, you look them in, you shake them, you tell them what you do,
and how they may be able to help you.
So Ebony is like a totally transformed young lady, and it's just a really nice scene.
The engagement of our student athletes, if you don't know,
and we'll talk about it briefly, we donate 2,500 hours of community service
to the Capitol region.
We're involved with McDonald's.
McDonald's software involved with the American Cancer Association involved
with the American Heart Association, on and on and on.
There have been five organizations selected before they're working in the community
by the Northeast Parenting Child Organization.
We're going to be recognized nationally, not me, not a coach, not administration,
but our entire five minutes through athletes, for the course that they do, are going to be acknowledged there.
So with that said, you get a quick sense of what we're doing and how we're going about it.
Nick just takers through this very quickly.
Keep moving.
You know, this is something we went over with you last year, and when Peter and I talked about this,
I think it's very important that people know what we do and what we live by,
because the students are going to change every year a lot of times,
as I mentioned, the coaches change.
A lot of things change with regard to athletics and regulations,
but there are certain values and things that guide you, and we try to live by those things.
Hit it again, big man.
Again, we talked about respect and communication, and making sure that athletes not only
compete in the classroom, compete on the field, but when they leave here, as Cage just said,
they're able to be successful in the community and the service leaders,
and they've all done that.
Keep going, that's the thought.
Again, the values stand out there in your organizations, there what you do.
And again, the people that reflect them have to do it on a consistent basis.
All right, Nick.
We've got 19 programs.
We've got more women's programs than guys.
But actually more women athletes.
We've got 260 female athletes, you know, 140 men.
And as you will see, they all compete very well, and they all have a chance to compete for conference titles next.
The people that you affiliate with, and Andy and Dan, and Patricia and I heard us today about quality,
of institution and values, and what it means, and why we shouldn't be at the top,
or why we're tier three, and why we aren't tier two or tier one.
But as you go down those universities, Boston is a top 75 university.
The U.N.B.C. and Vermont, a top 100 universities in Stony Brook, is an AAU.
And believe it or not, even as Jocks, we talk about what goes on other than athletics.
And so the people you are affiliated with, and perhaps you also have a very fine academic institution.
It's more than just trying to beat them up for 40 minutes, and we're going to try to do tomorrow on the court.
There are other assets, there are other elements of the university that are very important.
Next.
Good ball. George talked about our facility, I'll give you a handout at the end about that.
But Bob Ford has been extremely patient for 42 years.
I mean, he's a guy that is unbelievable in terms of his patience and his ability to improve the quality of life for young students.
I mean, there's a bit of the first meeting to talk about building a football facility was in 1973.
1973.
And George has been with us five years now as our leader.
We started talking about this three years before he came as a principal remember I still have the paperwork for him.
And now it's come to fruition.
And Mike Ferrin Steve and his area in Jerusalem and George, and everybody was really a team effort.
But not these conferences where we played there and our woman's golf team is in the metro and lining with that ugly team across town.
And I'm one name nation.
Keep going.
Yeah, it's just a reflan.
I think really captures everything we do.
What's the lights out for there?
It's the bottom area.
It's the bottom button here.
It's very brief.
Actually, that number is 53 now folks.
That's 29.
Our volleyball team won the best in the country.
We talked about football.
We know what they've done.
Next, our championship team in 2007.
We're not representing John Fallon Field right now.
We're getting better.
That you have commitment, excellence, dedication and the ability to move forward and attain the highest goal.
And they've been never faced an enemy.
It's a desire.
Hard work.
Field hockey is for really doing ranked match.
So we in the country in the top 15.
Wow, as is volleyball.
Joy's already talked about track and field.
They're fantastic and fantastic kid.
And by far, I'm most diverse program.
Men's track and field, seven consecutive years of America's championships.
That's right.
Last year, we were ranked number five in the country, one of the crops.
Hard work right here.
And attitude where you do nothing last but one of the way.
Hard work, dedication and commitment.
The key to success is being committed to art and art.
You are the only man that has better student athlete because you can't get a chance.
The same lady was an academic and an athletic alma mater.
Nikki Branchini, she's not a graduate student at the university.
Andrew Smith, chair of my student athlete, advisory committee is one of my most outstanding leaders.
He's local.
Yes, he's from Gilets.
What a terrific football player he is.
He's terrific.
On Nikki's also local.
Yes, yeah.
Gilets as well.
Yeah.
Who's the coach of the track field?
Nikki was a total lead.
And he been with us all the time.
He's been with us.
We have our own Monzi.
We've been with us for the last seven years.
George.
Our key Monzi, but we've only, in the history of this university, only had two track and field coaches.
Monzi created the program.
Yeah.
And over 50 years.
Yeah.
And they both have been equally successful.
I just had an aside case, speaking of alumni two years ago.
Two years ago.
Two years ago.
We inducted a coach once into the Hall of Fame.
We had double the size and attendance that we've ever had.
We had to actually move the staff out into the hallway because we had no scene.
We did you know?
Two years ago.
Yeah.
Monzi was in the team.
Yeah.
Fascinating, but it was quite a character.
Yeah.
Tell me about it.
Yeah.
Fascinating.
His comment was, I had no idea that that's not known as Greek.
I recruited what you could be.
I even mentioned it.
That was me.
Are you already track story?
I was in a star of anything.
Tracks.
This is important, folks.
And this is what George loves about our program.
Our graduation rate, and that's a federal rate, it's 69.
We have a GSR.
It's called a graduate successful, 82%.
And it's a little slightly different metric that's measured in taking away people that transfer.
So that's why it's higher.
And our GPA is 2.0.
The other thing that's not over there, three point 0.
Three point 0.
But the other thing that's not up there is our students are in the same way.
They are in the same majors as the general student population.
So students that are in the students that are in communication,
those are two more popular areas.
And in the College of Arts and Sciences, our student athletes reflect the general student population.
So what you want to have next week is your student athletes looking like the rest of your campus.
I talked about the service.
There it is.
A lot of them clearly are next next week.
We're going to move quickly.
I'll keep going.
Okay.
This is, you know, always comes up.
It'll be coming up more than I would march.
The madness coming up.
But if you look at Stony Brook and you look at Bameyton and you look at Buffalo,
they obviously will certainly not be in the, they don't have football.
Buffalo is not not a conference.
But you see what they spend, you see what we spend.
And those of you that were at the football game against Stony Brook and NCAA playoffs,
you know that we had a pack towels.
I would say a pair of half and half, maybe between purple and red.
And you see they spend a lot more money than we do.
And I think we're better.
Well, I know we're much better.
This is a change a little bit now in that the amount of investments by the state of New York
and capital projects which George mentioned earlier, that six million will now be 30 million
because we've got $24 million if you also include the six million that 40-inch raises.
So a very limited investment, you see what Bameyton has just stayed invested in their athletic facilities.
Stony Brook, Stony LaValle, is up in very well in Buffalo.
So that is a big disparity in terms of staying investment in capital projects for athletic facilities for us.
Yes.
Actually, when you showed the budgets, is that our entire athletic budget?
Is that much less than those other universities?
Do we have another form of revenues that we're not counting?
That's all in budget and frankly, the only one that's there that's lower is being them to put no football.
Yeah, no football right now.
It's a very expensive, how do we do it?
We, you know, they do it kicking and screaming and crying.
Well, and when you have a Bob Ford, it's been with you for 42 years.
I know we have a World War V Vaz. It's been with you for 28 years and on and on.
If you look in Stanford, and this is a bad name now,
whether a few years ago in Penn State and so forth,
about many programs in the country that have good academic reputation,
you see a lot in consistent sensibility in the staff and the administration of the number of people that have been there.
So that's a matter of reason that you don't need to be bought in.
They keep on being there.
Please, I can't.
The small liberal arts at NTA appearances?
It would be something.
No, the NTA is.
NTA is, you pull season.
The second one is, fling championships.
Yes.
And then the third one is pull season.
And if you'll notice that we have more league championships, more postseason appearances,
than any of the others, to spend a whole lot more money.
Right.
We don't have, we can kind of skip this because what we've done as George said
is really addressed to Capitol Peace.
And we've done it with a phase two, and you know, maybe the governor will begin to be very kind to us.
And I won't put a year on when that would come about.
But if we were to add on to the stadium, the infrastructure is George indicated.
It's already there.
So we're not wasting any money in this Capitol project and moving forward.
That's the stadium as it's going to look in about, Steve, what's 14 months.
And very much needed.
And people already calling us for the aim is raise a lot of money.
We went a lunch early in the week, and the lunch was pulled the last hour.
It lasted three hours because two very prominent billionaires people were saying this is going to do more
and it just have activity.
It's going to have a lot of things.
Because you were negotiating.
You would do it.
You would do it.
I told this company.
Nicknase.
Parting was actually negotiating the check.
It's not the restaurant.
That's an important thing.
That's an heritage.
Yes, there was.
Okay, stop there.
Because this is the thing that, at this will not be read until the spring of 14.
And that's how track and field facility, which will be where the existing track and field location is.
And as George said, we've never had a regulation in CAA track and field facility.
And so we've not been able to host competition.
And we have one of the top 20 track and field men and women programs in the nation.
So thanks to George and Steve and the state of New York.
In 2014, we're going to have a heck of a competition coming up with the N4D and as well with the home meet.
So we can end it there.
I do want to give you one other item.
And that is source that some of you were not familiar with.
What are all the elements of the stadium or what's in tail?
And what I'm passing around is just information on each of the three venues.
The size of the venue.
What we hope to accomplish by them.
And who was responsible for putting this through?
George came up with a very creative financial model.
I'm not going to go into it because it's outlined in there and the principles that were involved.
Yes, ma'am.
Oh, you have more.
We've got some excellent things.
And so it just outlined the black, all those things.
And I will quote by saying that last week in the New York Times, there was an article on people.
And so all the people that they spoke of are no longer there.
Today's New York Times has an article on Boston University and they're a hockey program.
And basically essentially what both of them say and you can summarize and conclude from those articles.
Or that if you're not in concert with the rest of your university, you're at a late program and everything and everything that you do.
And so if you can go into that as well, you're going to have problems.
I can assure you that your athletic program fits very closely with the values that we've learned from our graduate and undergraduate representatives of the students.
So I'm going to stop there and if there's any question or comments.
Well done.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Congratulations to the community.
If you're in town tomorrow night.
That's seven o'clock.
Seven o'clock.
Eight o'clock.
Yes, we're going to write it and also a time.
Well, it's a time keeper in that Stony Brook game, by the way.
Oh boy.
We're negotiating as we speak.
I'm going to get a call.
Hopefully.
That was a rock.
And another hour for inside of dot com, which is obviously not the NC, but it's a poll season game that will take teams that don't make the NC.
Right. Right. Right.
So I'm hoping that our kids, if we are able to make this work, will be in that game.
I've never seen a more disappointed group of young men.
We were down there.
It was.
I watched it.
And it was in our business, the, you'll see on the back board, you'll see, you know, on an image, if you will.
Right.
And then you have a sound.
Right.
In the real world, they're supposed to be synced up.
Right. They weren't found.
No, they were not.
You could tell them.
You came off and then you, you know, you saw the.
We actually lost on a tip in at the after the game was over.
No, all right. That's what I'm saying.
After the game was over, we lost on a tip in because he announced you said they didn't get it off in time.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
So it was not in sync and, you know, it's, it's a move point now.
But I had people telling it well coach Bob, how long the well no one.
Yeah, I was having.
Everyone was watching.
Right.
They all held the heads up.
They walked away, but they were extreme.
Unfortunately, I didn't go because I would have been.
I would have been.
I would have been.
I would have been.
You know, no, the drugs didn't like official.
I was watching it while we were in dinner and I was screaming at the little car.
It was all one awful way to the truck.
Yeah.
Yeah. I was there.
Did you see it?
I didn't see it.
I was like, Brian.
You know, we were, we were, you know, with all the group now.
We could see it.
Yeah.
I had to go to that's why I left the ghost.
Let's check the mom TV.
And it was a rank call.
Yeah.
Well, it was the right call based on the on a white gun.
Yeah.
But it was the wrong call.
If you look at the clock, the clock had expired.
It wasn't.
It wasn't.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Next up, you know, I don't hope we had a chance to look at what has been circulated, but is adoption of canceled by laws.
Actually, more of a suggestion that we consider the adoption and take a look at them.
No, absolutely.
We're not a resolution today.
No, no, no, no.
Not at all.
I think there's a couple of things have been happening that I'm aware of.
This is serving as the president of ACT.
Yes, there is a very active college council's at Canton and Potsdam and put more spill and SUNY IT.
And in some of the shared services stuff.
We saw last year that Stoney Brook had to adopt a resolution after the fact on the transfer of some facilities, etc.
I think that we're seeing that there are constituencies that are looking at college councils and saying that, yes, college councils have the statutory responsibility duties, powers to look at major projects, whatever that is, of student activities, of buildings and grounds, of student conduct, and making sure that the college council is not going to be able to do that.
We're sure that the college councils are really fulfilling that role and that responsibility in addition to other stuff.
Now, that's on the kind of the statewide ACT.
Stoney Brook has a bylaws which I share.
The COBA skill is more specific as to what they have following the law that they will get a budget briefing prior to, basically what it says in statute.
I know that Ferdonia is working on their bylaws as our Potsdam and probably more.
So I thought that it may be a good opportunity to have either the entire council or a special group.
Take a look at various bylaws, look at them to see if there's some continuity, if there's some interest that this council may have in adopting bylaws, putting them out on the website, etc.
You know that we got to notice from an open meetings law and requirements there and other things that may very well want to be included in the bylaws.
I think it addresses some of the concerns that other council members have brought up as to, you know, what are we doing? How can we contribute?
What can we do? Is there a standing committee that we ought to have? Is there special committees that we ought to have?
Well, I merely offer that up and for comment, suggestions and whatever the council feels.
I personally thought from a sort of governance is this important and best practices would really tell you you should have bylaws.
I enjoyed, you know, I perused and I can't say I did the deep dive but I went through it and I saw a lot of them there that make sense and certainly having the framework for how you're governed and people clearly understanding, you know, how that transpires.
And what the bylaws and how it's codified, I thought it made sense to me, you know, and from my standpoint, probably having a subcommittee or some smaller group work on the bylaws or a proposed draft to consider and share with the broader council made a law.
Yeah, I'm kind of in the same place I agree.
So, here I think you're the committee head. That would have to be happy to add to the committee.
Well, I think I heard a governor volunteer.
Yes, I want to ask.
Joe, why don't we say what an extra by gathering the number of bylaws that are out there.
Yeah, let's see what's on there.
Other campuses will kind of share those will put the same boilerplate information.
It's on most of them and then we'll have points to discuss.
I mean, obviously there's a handbook. There's a statute. There's a lot of things out there. But I think it would be really helpful to have councils specific bylaws as the first place that people can look to understand procedures by which we would go.
Yeah, finally we'll know what we're doing.
I'm supposed to be doing it.
No, we're doing it.
My hope was to get it before you know what you're doing.
Tonight.
Yeah, that's very fun.
Farting gets extolled every meeting once again. You're up next.
Thank you.
I want to start with an announcement that the University at Albany Foundation established that George and Sandra Philip, potential scholarship fund.
All right.
The Foundation board members started a fund of $100,000 matching funds for redone initiative that comes from $400,000.
And the first $50,000 was donated by our very good friend, Mr. Norris Masery.
Our hope is to raise some of the post to half a million dollars.
So George, either I get, or you can't leave until I get the money.
He's going to use me to a less.
I mean, every answer that to.
It was interesting that when we were speaking to one of our platic friends on the last was it Tuesday.
He indicated, yeah, I love it.
Let me spot a lot of George too.
So he's going to be gifts coming in both directions.
Also, our citizen laureate event this year, our citizen laureate, our normand and Mickey Masery.
And our academic laureate is captain Laura Larson.
And John Nygrove, who is a citizen laureate from two years ago, is going to be in chairing the event.
And I am guaranteed this is going to be our most successful citizen laureate.
The high water mark was two years ago, $178,000.
It's your voice, $200,000.
And I already told John Nygrove, whatever I'm sure that we sent him a check.
And we are going to be hosting a breakfast.
It's called the President's Breakfast that we invite our local business supporters at certain levels and up.
And we do it just usually in the fall.
But because of the great speaker that we were able to secure, we are going to do another one.
The speaker is going to be Craig Hatkov, he's the co-founder of Tribeca Film Festival.
And he's a local product. He's from a capital region area.
And also this year, we are going to be the breakfasts from 8 to 9,
from 10 to 11, he's going to be open to the public at the performing arts center.
We're going to invite the public for his talk and there's going to be panel discussion too.
The person who is spearheading this is Mary Valentes.
And she's one of our faculty members. She's just wonderful.
And speaking of magazine, we are bringing the magazine print edition back.
As you know, we had the iPad version of it, electronic version of it last year.
And we cut it. I tried to massage it and tell everybody for me we were going green.
No, we were just trying to save green.
And it's going to be fun.
And it's going to be fun.
And so this edition is going to be featuring, believe it or not, our alumni in fashion.
We discovered that we have quite a few alumni who are very successful in the fashion industry,
from being agents to top models or to being just at Goldman, at the Sax 5th Avenue,
at the executive level.
And they are also at Sax 5th Avenue. The Alumni Association is co-hosting with Sax 5th Avenue,
an event on March 21st.
And it's brilliant idea.
Yeah, it really is.
And we're getting a great response.
Also, as I said, magazine is going to be featuring our alumni in fashion.
And also Kate mentioned, April 29th, I invite all of you to New York City, apart from April 28th here,
or the alumni awards.
April 29th is the final event for the series of programming that we did with the joy of the day to studies.
And this is going to be at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park,
and our speaker is one of the best speakers in the nation in the Matheson object.
And you will hold a receiving invitation on that too.
And that is my report.
And we have secured since last evening for six figure gifts.
And I'm hoping to report a lot more six figure gifts,
quite an extra meeting towards the state in Paris.
Thank you.
Excellent.
Please.
I think it was an October that you had mentioned that there was a naming that we did kind of quietly.
And is that the million dollar?
Yes.
Yeah, I mean that's the bill.
He building?
Yes.
That was the anonymous donor, which I talked to him in doing not to be anonymous to many people,
because his name really delamps credibility to my...
Turn off the tape.
Well, I think we never say that.
I'm not going to say that.
I'm not going to say that.
Where are we?
His name will let credibility to my fundraising at first, as I say.
It's not every day that we will get a million dollar gift.
He actually came with Leonide to our solicitation call.
He was actually...
Is this the name of the PE building or the stadium?
Stadium.
Not an ER.
Just a P.
He can build that, not to say.
Not to say.
At the time when he's ready to release his name for the public, you will...
Great.
Great.
So...
That's my report.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Very, very, very, very, very creative too.
Next up, Presidential Search, Patton.
You covered that.
No, no, there's nothing going on.
No, no, I mean, was...
Man, you want a little bit.
I think...
Yeah, we're doing our best, George.
I'm sorry.
To help you out the boy.
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So, also about to have another agenda though.
I think it's much as possible.
Listen, we're very early on in the search...
Listen, we're very early on in the search...
The search committee has had one official meeting...
Our meeting...
We, as this group knows, we have hired the search consultant...
As it's in Miller.
And their representative is a guy named Michael Bear.
He's already spent two days on campus.
Obviously, he spoke to this group.
I think he's spoken to every group that exists that might have an interest in the search.
Today we also held the first of two listening sessions that actually turned into Q&A session.
The second one, lots of Q, yes, exactly.
There will be a second one a week from Tuesday that will be at the downtown campus.
I regret I will not be attending that one.
Thank you, Karen.
Dr. Jackson, I'll be with you.
Yes, Pierre and Jim Jackson are going to be host to him.
But it's early on.
I mean, we're still writing the, working on the draft position profile or the job description,
which is the purpose of all of this.
And once done, then at that point is when they'll go out with advertising and really seeking candidates.
So we're, I'm going to guess probably three weeks away.
It's probably about the end of the month is when that profile will be done.
And that's when the interesting stuff will probably begin.
I mean, are they still targeting trying to have someone here next academic?
I'm going to get him.
I think that would be everyone's objective to have someone here for the start of the next academic year.
Some people have the objective of having this done by the end of this academic year.
By the end of this.
But I don't know that we'll make that target.
Some people are quite anxious.
Read, Sandra.
I'm sure for the start.
Secondary.
The only thing I would add to that is, you know, if the committee got a charge from the chancellor,
she's very focused.
And one she's very auditory of the work as we all are that George has done.
And has put us in a marvelous position to now go out and recruit the next president.
Again, can't start any conversation about the next president with starting with our current,
well, it's their current president, which is really true.
But very focused on being an advocate for the search, being helpful, talking about environmentally,
I think we're in a different spot.
And, you know, we've talked about this before.
We have a chancellor now.
We have a governor who's focused with the SUNY 2020 plan.
George is really positioned the university very well for the next president.
So I think there's a lot there to build on to your point, Michael, about schedule.
I mean, I think as a practical matter,
it's not going to certainly be done by the end of the school year, which really is May.
But, you know, it should go, hopefully in line and in pace with, to be in a position
with somebody who can make a commitment to coming next year,
whether that's a commitment to be here, you know, as the school starts,
or slightly later we'll see.
But I think that's where all the focus is.
And as everybody knows, you're as good.
Your president says it's good as who you attract and that can't it at all.
It's all about who you are.
So that's where the focus is.
I think that's it.
The line about walk on water, I think, into the carry on in the tradition is going to be a little tricky film.
I'm hopeful.
And then making water into wine, which is great.
Right, yes, actually, for all meetings, right?
I'll make them a little bit more smooth.
It doesn't end well.
What do you guys do today?
I don't know.
Oh, oh.
Would you like to speak that out?
I could walk on water, but I gave 30 pounds, so it was.
Floating and walking.
I think holding you water is a risk.
I don't want to warm winter.
I don't want to warm winter too.
Any other business people would like to raise,
otherwise it's like a motion to adjourn?
For that.
For that.
Okay.
Oh, I'm sorry, Swirl.
The open meeting thing.
Hello, Paul Weijern.
No, no, it came out.
Remember I said, yes.
I'm sorry.
Just wanted to report that the SUNY trustees adopted this.
I should come through the assembly.
I guess I don't need you to.
Statue will affect us.
You want to add something?
I don't know.
We need an agenda out ahead of time.
Okay.
So whatever comes up in advance of the meeting,
we'll look right on our website.
Take a look at it the overall.
It gives everyone in the community an opportunity to look
in advance of a meeting of what we're, if we have a document,
of what that document includes.
One day is the beginning of Sunshine Week.
It's a cool.
Sunshine Week.
So expect to see a lot of other stuff about
at the legislature.
Sunshine.
Okay, transparency.
Transparency.
That'll go into the Bible.
What are they talking about?
Okay.
Meeting adjourned.
Thanks.