President’s Cabinet Meeting
Tuesday, May 17,
2011
9:00 a.m.
MINUTES
ATTENDEES: President Ivory V.
Nelson, Executive Vice President Michael B. Hill, Michael Byers
for Vice President Howard E. Merlin, Dean Gladys J. Willis, Dean Judith A.W.
Thomas, and Ms. Diane M. Brown.
MINUTES
Cabinet meeting minutes of May 3, 2011 were accepted.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
·
Assessment Activities – Deans Thomas and Willis
reported that the writing of the Monitoring Report is going well and that all
but five programs’ assessment plans have passed review or need little work to
meet standards. Work will continue in
order to bring the five programs up to standard to begin assessment in the 2011
fall semester. President Nelson confirmed that the Core Curriculum is to be
included in the University’s Monitoring Report to MSCHE.
·
Federal
cuts to HBCU, TCU, and HIS Titles II and V accounts – President Nelson shared
correspondence to/from Honorable Martha Kanter, Under Secretary, U.S. Department
of Education in follow up to a May 10, 2011 conference call regarding
the approximately $350 million budget cut from the account that funds higher
education programs. Congress indicated that $50 million of that reduction
is to be taken from “Aid for Institutional Development,” the Minority Serving
Institutions’ budget of which HBCUs are a part.
FISCAL AFFAIRS
Vice President Merlin led the discussion of Lincoln University’s
spending/budget for the ten months ending April 30, 2011.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, President Nelson adjourned the
meeting at 11:30 a.m.