A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State College System was held at Wayne State College on Monday and Tuesday, November 12 and 13, 2001.

In compliance with the provisions of Neb. Rev. Stat. Section 84-1411, printed notice of this meeting was mailed to each member of the Board of Trustees. In addition, copies of such notice were sent to the Presidents of the State Colleges, Associated Press, and selected Nebraska newspapers. We, each of us, hereby acknowledge due and sufficient service to the above, the foregoing notice of the time and place and object of said meeting, and agree to meet in said meeting at the time and place presented.

Board members present:
Doug Christensen, Lincoln
Richard Halbert, Falls City
Willa Kosman, Scottsbluff
Steve Lewis, Lexington
Sheryl Lindau, Wayne
Jeff Renner, Bellevue
Larry Teahon, Chadron

Student Board Members present:
Jennifer Chleboun, Wayne State College
Tammie Mundil, Peru State College
Katie Watt, Chadron State College

NSC Staff, present:
Stan Carpenter, Executive Director
Larry Schultz, Associate Executive Director for Academic Affairs & Legal Services
Jean Dale, Associate Executive Director for Administration & Finance
Sheri Irwin, Public Relations Director
Lynne Olson, Administrative Assistant
Thomas Krepel, President, Chadron State College
Sheila Stearns, President, Wayne State College
Joyce Hardy, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chadron State College
Ed Hoffman, Vice President for Administration, Chadron State College
Rex Cogdill, Dean of Students, Chadron State College
Cyd Janssen, Director, Media and Public Relations, Chadron State College
Jerome Martin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Peru State College
Linda Jacobsen, Vice President for Administration and Finance, Peru State College
Ted Harshbarger, Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment Management, Peru State College
Kent Propst, Vice President for College Advancement and Institutional Relations, Peru State College
David Fuller, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wayne State College
Carolyn Murphy, Vice President for Administration and Finance, Wayne State College
Curt Frye, Vice President and Dean of Students, Wayne State College
Judy Johnson, Director of College Relations & Interim Vice President for Development, Executive
Director/Wayne State Foundation, Wayne State College
Steve Alston, Dean, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Wayne State College
Vaughn Benson, Dean, School of Business and Technology, Wayne State College
Timothy Anderson, Professor of Business, Chadron State College
Gerald Conway, Associate Professor, Business, Wayne State College
Cheryl Waddington, Assistant Professor, Business, Wayne State College
Lisa Coble, Wayne Stater Editor, Wayne State College

The Academic and Personnel Committee and the Fiscal and Facilities Committee met separately to discuss agenda items. No action was taken. The committee meetings adjourned at 12:15 p.m.

Dr. Deborah Whitt, Professor of Communication Arts, Wayne State College was presented the 2001 Teaching Excellence Award during lunch.

The Fiscal and Facilities Committee reconvened at 1:30 p.m. to continue discussions of its agenda items.

The Board of Trustees and the Executive Director met with members of the Faculty Senate, support and professional staff employees and members of the Student Senate throughout the afternoon.

Board Chair Renner called the business meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.

The meeting agenda for November 13, 2001 was approved as presented.

Minutes of the September 11 meeting were unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION

Academic and Personnel Committee
Personnel Recommendations

A motion to approve the personnel recommendations submitted by the colleges, with the following change, was unanimously adopted. Wayne State—Mimi Moore dates of contract to 8/13/01 – 8/3/02 rather than 8/13/01 – 8/3/01. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.) Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to amend Policy 3401, to expand the Non-Resident Scholars program to students from all states in the U.S. not to limit it to states contiguous to Nebraska and to change the required cumulative SAT score to 1130 to make it consistent with the ACT score, was unanimously adopted.

A motion to approve the following grant applications and awards as submitted by the colleges was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

Chadron Application

Wayne Application

Chadron Award

Peru Award

Wayne Award

A motion to approve the following contracts and change order submitted by the colleges was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

Chadron State College Change Order

Peru State College Contracts

Wayne State College Contracts

A motion to approve the allocation and retrieval of LB 309 funding was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

Chadron State College

Peru State College

Wayne State College

A motion to approve Chadron State College’s participation in the Master Lease Program was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion that, in light of the fiscal circumstances in which the state finds itself, yet recognizing the importance of the deficit requests listed below, the Executive Director is authorized to submit all, some, or none of the requests to the 2002 regular session of the Nebraska Legislature he determines is in the best interests of the Nebraska State Colleges was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to approve the redistribution of funds after the special session budget cuts was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to approve a resolution authorizing Wayne State College and Peru State College to temporarily use operating funds for capital projects until bond proceeds are available was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to approve the campus facilities master plan for Chadron State College as developed by Bahr Vermeer and Haecker Architects was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to appoint the following substantial completion committee for Memorial Hall – Chadron State College was unanimously adopted.

Ed Hoffman, Vice President for Administration, CSC
Joyce Hardy, Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, CSC
Tom Krepel, President, CSC
Don Green, Dean, School of Liberal Arts
Blair Brennan, Coordinator of Physical Facilities
Dana Fuller, Fuller Construction
Jean Dale, Assoc. Exec. Director, Administration & Finance, System Office
Bruce Donelson, Director, Facilities Management & Planning, System Office
Larry Teahon, Board member
Willa Kosman, Board member
Steve Lewis, Board member, Fiscal and Facilities Committee Chair
Steve Hotovy, Representative of the State Building Division
Dan Worth, Bahr Vermeer and Haecker

A motion to approve Peru State College’s change in the technology fee from a flat fee to one based on a per credit hour fee of $2.50 per credit hour was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to grant the Executive Director the authority to approve and sign a general construction contract for the Peru State College Library/ARC Capital Construction Project was unanimously adopted. The date for the bid opening was changed to December 11, 2001. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to authorize the Executive Director to negotiate a purchase and sales Agreement with Energy Systems Company to buy its power plant and associated assets at Wayne State College if approved by the Governor was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to grant the Executive Director the authority to approve a contract amendment with Leo A. Daly for the energy plant project at Wayne State College was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to grant the Executive Director the authority to approve a contract for the Wayne State College broadcast studio renovation was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

A motion to approve the Wayne State College "1% for Art" project was unanimously adopted.

Operating Audit Reports

A motion to accept the operations audit reports for the colleges for the year ended June 30, 2001 and approve the responses to the auditor’s comments and recommendations was unanimously adopted. Trustee Lewis congratulated the colleges on their successful audits and recognized the business office staff for their extra effort during the audit process.

Revenue Bond Operating Budget Audit Reports

A motion to accept the 2000-2001 revenue bond operating budget audit reports as submitted for each of the state colleges by KPMG Peat Marwick was unanimously adopted.

A motion to authorize bond counsel Lauren Wismer to prepare a master bond resolution to provide for system bonding for capital projects was unanimously adopted. Voting aye: Christensen, Halbert, Kosman, Lewis, Lindau, Renner, and Teahon. Voting nay: None. Student Opinion aye: Chleboun, Mundil, and Watt.

Personnel actions not requiring Board approval were reported for information. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

Each of the colleges reported on their plans to reach compliance with Title IX requirements. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

The annual Quantitative Academic Report provided Board members with a status of all undergraduate and graduate programs. The report identified the number of graduates on average for the past five years by major, and the average number of student credit hours provided by full-time equivalent faculty assigned by department. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

College Diversity Plans

Each of the colleges provided an executive summary on their activities related to campus diversity. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

Board of Trustees Scholarship Acceptance Report

Each of the colleges reported the number of Board of Trustees Scholarships offered to entering freshmen, and the actual number in effect for each academic class (freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior). (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

Off-Campus and Early Entry Course Offerings Report

Board members were provided a summary of off-campus and early-entry courses offered during 2000-01. Over 950 courses were offered at 108 locations throughout the state to over 10,100 students. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

Endowment for Teaching Excellence

The Board discussed the need to raise additional dollars for the Board of Trustees Teacher Excellence Award fund. The fund has been reduced because of the declining investment market. Trustee Kosman asked each Board member to consider making a contribution to the fund.

Fiscal and Facilities

Grant Applications and Awards

The following grant applications and awards were presented to the Board for information.

Chadron Application

Peru State College Application

Peru State College Awards

Wayne State College Applications

Wayne State College Awards

The following contracts and change orders were presented to the Board for information.

Peru Contracts

Wayne Contracts

Wayne Change Order

Physical plant status reports from each state college not requiring Board approval were reported for information. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

The following capital construction progress reports not requiring Board approval were reported for information. (Copies are attached to the official minutes.)

Chadron State College

Peru State College

Wayne State College

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ITEMS

Executive Director’s Report

Executive Director Carpenter thanked Trustee Lindau and her husband Jim for hosting a reception in their home November 12 and thanked Wayne State College for dinner and the "All About Students" program.

Mr. Carpenter informed all that Bruce Donnelson, Facilities Management and Planning Director, was undergoing surgery to remove a growth on his pituitary gland and that all of our well wishes went out to Bruce.

Executive Director Carpenter reminded all that the System Office would be moving back to the 11^th Floor of the Capitol November 19. The office would not have phone service November 19 however, the office could be reached by calling the cell phone. E-mail would be unavailable from November 16 through November 20. He asked everyone to continue to use the following address: PO Box 94605, Lincoln, NE 68509.

Chadron State President Krepel announced that the grand opening of the Mari Sandoz Hall was held September 2. He further announced that several construction projects were in process at Chadron. Dr. Krepel noted that Chadron would be hosting the regional football playoffs Saturday, November 17 at noon.

Peru State Vice President for Academic Affairs, Jerry Martin reported that Peru received full accreditation after the recent Higher Learning Commission visit. The Higher Learning Commission will return for a focused visit in three years to review student assessment processes, off-campus programs, use of adjuncts and the teacher education program. A copy of the report will be shared with the Board when it is available.

Wayne State President Stearns reported the progress Wayne is making on the Academic Quality Improvement Program process. Six to seven priorities were identified as the initiatives the college would focus on during the 2001-02 academic year. She further noted that Wayne State College is committed to making progress on gender equity and diversity on the campus.

Student Trustee Watt reported that students from Chadron State had written several letters to legislators regarding the budget cut discussions at the last Board meeting.

Student Trustee Mundil reported that to her pleasure Peru State received full accreditation after the Higher Learning Commission visit. She further reported she had attended a Higher Education Student Rally on the steps of the Capitol.

Student Trustee Chleboun reported that she had attended an "etiguette dinner" on November 7 and the Wayne State volleyball team had won conference and would be going to the finals.

Next Meeting

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the NSC Board of Trustees will be held in Lincoln on February 11-12, 2002.

Board members convened in Executive Session at 2:30 p.m. to discuss the Executive Director’s evaluation. No action was taken.