President’s
Cabinet Meeting
Tuesday, November
4, 2008
10:00 a.m.
Vail Hall Board Room
Minutes
Attendees: President
Ivory V. Nelson, Vice
President
Michael B. Hill, Vice President Grant D. Venerable, Vice President William B. Bynum, Vice President Howard E.
Merlin, and
Ms. Diane M. Brown.
MINUTES
Cabinet minutes of October 21,
2008 were approved.
PRESIDENT
President Nelson reminded the
vice presidents of the upcoming Board of Trustees Meeting, Saturday,
November
15, 2008. All material for the meeting
mailing is needed by Thursday, November 6.
Cabinet discussed the recently
completed audit, the current economic picture and its impact on Lincoln University.
Architects will be asked to
inspect Cresson Hall to determine its useable life.
Additional capital funding in the
amount of $19,800,000 has been released by the Commonwealth for library
renovations and FF&E, Wright Hall FF&E, and emergency
generators.
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
The “Textbook Adoptions” policy
negotiated by the vice president for fiscal affairs, the academic deans
and the
bookstore was adopted by the faculty at its meeting on November 3.
FISCAL AFFAIRS
Cabinet approved the “No Smoking
and Tobacco Use” and “Substance Abuse Prevention” policies.
Spaces will be set up in the
modulars for faculty placement.
Cabinet reiterated that the
university’s email is not to be used for the campus-wide distribution
of
personal messages.
Overtime reports were distributed
for the different divisions. Payroll
will move toward refining the overtime report and producing it on a
regular
basis.
STUDENT AFFAIRS AND ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
Vice President Bynum reported
that five students had to be administratively withdrawn due to their
financial
situations.
The kitchen health inspection
finding related to the freezer will be corrected over the holiday break.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, President
Nelson adjourned the meeting at 1:00 p.m.
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