President’s
Cabinet Meeting
May 1 2007
2:00 PM
Vail Hall Board
Room
Minutes
Attendees:
President Ivory V. Nelson,
Vice President Howard E. Merlin, Vice President Grant D. Venerable, Vice President Michael
B. Hill, Vice President William B. Bynum
and Ms. Diane M. Brown. (Attending
for portion of meeting: Dean Jerryl Briggs)
Minutes
Cabinet minutes of April 25, 2007 were approved.
Senate Education
Committee Campus Security Public Hearing
President Nelson presented testimony at the Senate Education
Committee Campus Security Public Hearing held May 2, 2007 in Harrisburg.
The hearing was convened to allow representatives of the
Commonwealth’s
colleges and universities to testify about their campus security
systems and to
discuss any improvements that might be suggested.
Senator Specter
Proposal to address “at risk” youth
Dean Briggs provided the Cabinet with an update on the April
30, 2007 meeting convened by Senator Arlen Specter on the topic of
violence
among our youth. The proposed program
would involve Lincoln University and students from other
universities
serving as mentors for “at risk” youth in the Philadelphia area.
Lincoln
University has
programs
in place on its campus to begin to address issues facing young males
and has indicated
its desire to be actively involved in the Senator’s mentoring program
should
funding be secured for this initiative.
State Audit
The Commonwealth of
PA Department of the Auditor
General
will begin an audit on May 8, 2007 of the appropriations earned by Lincoln University for the fiscal year
ended
June 30, 2006.
Lincoln University
Emergency Response Manual
President Nelson asked the Vice Presidents to review the
University’s Emergency Response Manual for any necessary
updates/revisions to
be adopted by the Cabinet.
Lincoln University
undergraduate receives Fulbright Grant
Mr. Lamonte Aidoo ‘07, a French major, graduating with a
3.91 GPA, has been selected as a Fulbright student grantee to Colombia,
placing him among a very
small group of undergraduate individuals who have been given the rare
opportunity to conduct research under the Fulbright Program. Lamonte is the first Lincoln University
senior to be awarded the Fulbright Scholarship grant.
Horace Mann
Bond-Leslie Pinckney Hill Scholarship
Mr. Jack Drummond ’00 and Ms. Chima Oparah ’03 are the two
most recent recipients of the Commonwealth’s Hoarace Mann Bond-Leslie
Pinckney
Hill Scholarship. Mr. Drummond received
the award for graduate study in the Doctor of Education program in
Educational
Administration within the College of Education.
Ms. Oparah’s scholarship is for continued study at the
University of
Pittsburgh School of Law.
Student Affairs and Enrollment
Management
Admission Statistics for fall 2007 (as of April 23, 2007)
# Undergraduate applications received for fall
2007……………………….. 5144
# Undergraduate applications received for fall
2006……………………….. 4815
# Undergraduate students admitted for fall 2007……………………………
1688
# Undergraduate students admitted for fall 2006……………………………
1572
# Undergraduate deposits paid for fall 2007………………………………….
191
# Undergraduate deposits paid for fall 2006………………………………….
192
# Graduate applications received for fall
2007…………………………….... 147
# Graduate applications received for fall 2006………………………………. 239
# Graduate students admitted for fall 2007……………………..……………
12
# Graduate students admitted for fall 2006……………………..……………
91
Fiscal Affairs
The University received over 150 applications in its search
for the Director of Human Resources.
Interviews of selected candidates have begun.
There being no further business, President Nelson
adjourned the meeting at 4:00 p.m.
Diane M. Brown
Assistant to the President
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