Approval of the Minutes. The February minutes were approved as distributed.

Chancellor's Business -- none

Vice Chancellor's Business -- none

Associate Vice Chancellor's Business

 
A. Commencement. All are urged to attend. Please contact Judy Consorti to order caps and gowns.

B. Noel Levitz. Will return to campus on April 13-15 and May 20-21. A tele-recruiting office is being set up near the registrar's office. Students are needed to staff the office.

C. Red Carpet Day. The next Day is April 15^th. The most recent Day attracted 35 potential students.

D. Budget. The House budget includes an appropriation for the Professional Building. The Senate has passed a budget. Chancellor-Select Bergland will attend the budget meetings with President Brand.

E. Admissions. Although it is early, admissions are up 6% from last year and applications have increased 5%.

F. Dean of Education. Stan Wigle assumed his responsibilities as Dean of Education this week. Bill May has returned to the Academic Affairs office. Yoti Kale and John Kroepfl have moved to new offices in Hawthorn.

Chair's Business

A. Web Pages. K. Horvath demonstrated the web page's search engine, encouraged committees to place minutes on the web, and announced web training sessions.

B. UFC. The April meeting of the UFC will be held at IUN on April 13^th.University Faculty Council Home Page

Committee Reports

A. Calendar Committee. The calendar was approved as distributed.

B. Constitution Committee. The second reading of the proposed Constitutions was tabled.

Old Business -- none

New Business. Chair, J. Tolhuizen, summarized the recent meetings with the Executive Committee, President Brand, and Chancellor-Select Bergland. The campus has a twelve month window of opportunity to identify our strengths and plan for the future. A small committee consisting of faculty, staff, students, and Deans will work over the next two weeks to develop a planing process. This committee will not address substantiative issues. Considerable discussion ensued regarding the "process committee." Some concerns were: the Committee's charge and membership, the future of curriculum offerings, the campus' mission, purpose, and vision, enrollment, recruitment, and retention, research, money, etc.

Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 p.m.