President’s Cabinet Meeting
March 28, 2007
9:00 a.m.
Vail Hall Board
Room
Minutes
Attendees:
President Ivory V. Nelson,
Vice President Howard E. Merlin, Vice President Grant D. Venerable, Mr.
Andre
Dixon for Vice President Michael B. Hill, Dean Jerryl Briggs for Vice
President
William B. Bynum and Ms.
Diane M.
Brown. Attending for portion
of meeting: Mr. John Thompson,
Director of Physical Plant
Minutes
Cabinet minutes of March 20, 2007 were approved.
Physical Plant
Briefing
Campus Traffic
Patterns
Permission has been received from Township authorities to
move forward with the University’s plan to change the overall flow of
traffic
on the campus. The plan, which is being
proposed due to safety concerns, would change the main gate to an entrance only gate. The
Physical Plant and gymnasium gates would
be exit/entrance gates. Additional
changes will be made, including
driveway modification at the gymnasium and installation of gates and
guard
houses.
Mr. Thompson submitted a preliminary list of 2007-2008
capital items/projects which must be accomplished.
The list will be prioritized and projects to
be completed over the summer months will be identified.
As, not all projects on the list will be
addressed during the 2007-2008, the vice presidents were asked to
identify
their priorities so that a determination can be made as to which
projects will
be addressed first.
Work has begun on the repair to the baseball dugout.
Nelson Testimony
President Nelson shared with the Cabinet, copies of the
statement he presented at the March 27, 2007 hearing on “The Role
Higher
Education Plays in Remediation,” which was convened by the Subcommittee
on
Education-Higher Education of the House Appropriations Committee. President Nelson was joined on the panel by
four other representatives from various segments of higher education in
Pennsylvania.
Development and External Relations
Mr. Dixon informed the Cabinet that the divisions of Student
Affairs and Enrollment Management and Development and External
Relations have
teamed together to create a “Women in Leadership” series.
Two programs have been scheduled thus far;
the first on Wednesday, March 28th will feature panelists
Barbara
Gee, Vice President, Strategic Sales Alliances, Comcast Cable
Communications
LLC; Rev. Lorina Marshall-Blake, Vice President Government Relations,
Independence Blue Cross; and Kimberly Reed, Regional Diversity Recruit.
Manager, Deloitte Services LLP. The
second Women In Leadership program will take place on April 11th
and
will feature panelists Joan Simpson ’76, Vice President Finance,
Verizon;
Lorraine Ballard Morrill, News and Community Relations Director, Clear
Channel
Radio-Philadelphia; and Irene Marshall ’91, Partner, Mitchell and Titus.
Fiscal Affairs
Vice President Merlin distributed copies of the first draft
of the 2007-2008 operating budget. Some
adjustments will have to be made before the budget is finalized for
presentation to the Board of Trustees for approval.
Student Affairs and Enrollment
Management
Admission Statistics for fall 2007 (as of March 26, 2007)
# Undergraduate applications received for fall
2007……………………….. 4499
# Undergraduate applications received for fall
2006……………………….. 4076
# Undergraduate students admitted for fall 2007……………………………
1261
# Undergraduate students admitted for fall 2006……………………………
1183
# Undergraduate deposits paid for fall 2007…………………………………. 53
# Undergraduate deposits paid for fall 2006…………………………………. 72
# Graduate applications received for fall
2007…………………………….... 134
# Graduate applications received for fall 2006………………………………. 129
# Graduate students admitted for fall 2007……………………..……………
3
# Graduate students admitted for fall 2006……………………..……………
25
There being no further business, President Nelson
adjourned the meeting at 10:30 a.m.
Diane M. Brown
Assistant to the President
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