Minutes of the Steering Committee Meeting
30 June 2008
10:00 p.m.
208 Samford Hall
Submitted

Attended by: Bob Locy, Kathryn Flynn, Dennis DeVries, Sue Barry, Gary Martin, John Heilman, Bliss Bailey (non-voting member), Sharon Gabor (non-voting member)

Absent:  David Cicci, Jim Bradley, Robert Gross, John Hung

--Bob Locy (Chair) called the meeting to order at 10:03 after which the minutes of the June 2nd Steering Committee meeting were approved with one correction. The words  “uncompensated workload” were changed to “Uncompensated Workload Policy.”

Chairs Remarks:
--Bob informed the committee that Dr. Gogue would be out of town for the Senate meeting and that Dr. Heilman would fill in for him with some comments on the Strategic Plan that were given to the Board of Trustees. The committee asked John to include in his remarks the contact information for those in charge of the various areas to be addressed by the Strategic Plan. John will focus primarily on the actions being taken in the first year of the plan.

Action Items:
--Sharon Gabor will present the Policy on Withdrawals/Resignations after Midterm.
--Sue Barry will present nominations for the remainder of the Senate Committees for approval.

Information Items:
--Don Large will give the Budget Advisory Committee Report.  There will be a 12% increase in tuition with no raises except for promotion.
--John Heilman will give the report for the Academic Program Review Committee.
--John will make some remarks regarding the 2008-2009 PTR Policy
--Sharon Gabor will give the Enrollment Management report.  She told the steering committee that Auburn is expecting 3900 freshmen for fall 2008, whereas last year we had 4190 freshman. The positives concerning this year’s class are that the average score on the ACT for this year’s class increased to 25+ and that 1000 more scholarship students have accepted this opportunity to attend Auburn.  Finally, although there is an increase in enrollment in the honors college, this doesn’t mean that we are satisfied with what we are doing in the honors college. The committee is still looking at models from other universities in order to improve our honors college offerings.
--Bliss Bailey on changes in OIT policies due to concerns raised by Dr. Thomas at the June Senate meeting.  Therefore, he will give an update on the changing of usernames in the system as well as some general information regarding the structure of OIT.

The meeting adjourned at approximately 11:30 am.