President’s Cabinet Meeting
Tuesday, September
23, 2008
9:00 a.m.
Vail Hall Board Room
Minutes
Attendees: President
Ivory V. Nelson, Vice
President
Howard E. Merlin, Vice President Michael B. Hill, Dean Jerryl Briggs
for Vice
President William B. Bynum,
Dean
Judith A.W. Thomas for Vice President Grant D. Venerable and Ms. Diane
M.
Brown. Ms. Rita Myers attended for a
portion of the meeting.
MINUTES
Cabinet minutes of September 15,
2008 were approved.
PHYSICAL PLANT BRIEFING
Mr. Thompson provided an update
on the status of on-going renovation and construction projects.
There has been an increase in the
cost of van transportation. The
pertinent parties will work out the best way to allocate the “real”
cost to the
appropriate budgets. The parties will
also try to devise a plan that would curtail the number of requests for
unscheduled van usage.
PRESIDENT
Commonwealth Budgetary Reserve – The Commonwealth has
placed 4.25%
of each nonpreferred appropriation in budgetary reserve.
This represents approximately $616,000 of Lincoln’s
$14.5 million 2008-2009 appropriation. Lincoln’s last
scheduled will
be reduced by this amount if it is determined that the commonwealth
must retain
the 4.25 percent in budgetary reserve.
As such, the vice presidents and Ms. Brown have been instructed
to reduce
their 2008-2009 operating and capital budgets by 2.0 percent. President Nelson has also asked for a written
potential impact of this reduction and a strategy to minimize that
impact. In addition, an immediate freeze
on
employment, with the opportunity to justify an absolute necessity for
hire has
been put in place.
University Reports - President Nelson indicated that
going forward,
quarterly reports on recruitment, retention, marketing, and assessment
are to
be prepared for submission to the Board of Trustees.
As an informing mechanism, the
quarterly reports on Physical Plant, Information Technology and the
Library
prepared for the Board of Trustees will be distributed to all directors.
Electric Rate Caps – The electric rate caps in the PECO
service
territory are coming off in 2011. As
with all entities, advance planning will be critically important for Lincoln University
Institutional Assessment – A “Plan for the Office of
Institutional
Effectiveness, Research and Assessment” and job description for the
Director of
Academic Assessment and Learning have been developed and will be
distributed to
the faculty at the upcoming faculty meeting.
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Dean Thomas reported that all
three schools have met regarding the four goals established by the
University
in order to move closer to its goal of achieving academic excellence.
The following are important
dates/events in the School
of Social Sciences
and
Behavioral Studies
1.
October 2, 2008 –
4:30-6:30 p.m. – Chapel
– Opening Program for Forever Free – Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to
Emancipation
– Dr. James Oliver Norton will serve
as the guest speaker.
2.
October 10, 2008
– Cancer Disparities
Workshop with Fox
Chase Cancer
Center – Ware
Center
Theatre.
3.
October 23, 2008 –
4:30 p.m. – DH
Auditorium - Charrise Carney-Nunes (L.U. alumni) will present “The
Presidential Election and Why We as a People Must Vote for the Best
Candidate.”
4.
November 7, 2008
– Lincoln
Day at Fox
Chase Cancer
Center
5.
November 8, 2008
– 1st Annual
Melvin Tolson Debate Competition – Ware
Center Theatre for opening activities.
6.
November 13-15, 2008
– 8th
Annual Underground Railroad Conference – Historic
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal
Church,
Churchtowne of Lancaster,
PA. Members
of the Lincoln
University
faculty and staff served on the organizing committee for the Conference.
7.
December
4, 2008 – PA-DOH – University
of Pennsylvania
Review
Meeting for “Center for the Study of
Gene-Environment Interactions in Lung Cancer.” Grant for which Dean
Thomas
serves as Co-PI.
FISCAL AFFAIRS
Employees in possession of a
University issued American Express card will be given two weeks to
reconcile
their AMEX statements once received.
This new procedure has been implemented to better insure
compliance with
University policy regarding reimbursement of business expenses.
Vice President Merlin presented
the FY09 Enrollment numbers (reported below in SAEM).
STUDENT AFFAIRS AND ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
PHEAA 2007-2008 Financial Aid Summary for Lincoln University:
|
PROGRAM |
Recipients |
Value |
|
PA State Grant Program |
544 |
$ 1,887,034 |
|
FFELP (Net Stafford & PLUS) Loans |
2,618 |
24,808,575 |
|
Public Service Benefits ADMINISTERED by PHEAA |
27 |
95,051 |
|
Public Service Benefits PROVIDED by PHEAA |
3,162 |
930,613 |
|
PHEAA Loan Forgiveness Programs |
12 |
27,141 |
U.S. Department of Education Federal Student
Aid:
Lincoln
University Default
Rate 11.2%
Regulatory
threshold
25.0%
Fall 2008 Enrollment (As
of 9/15/08)
Undergraduate students enrolled:
2,035
Graduate students enrolled
551
Total
2,586
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, President
Nelson adjourned the meeting at 12:15 p.m.
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