Administrator Assembly Minutes
Monday, September 19, 4:00 p.m.
Riley 201
The meeting was called to order at 4:07 pm by Peter McGraw, chair of the Administrator Leadership Council.
Introductions of new administrators
Lisa Knodle-Bragiel introduced Michelle Morain as the new visit outreach coordinator.
Andrew McNall introduced Christina Ries as the new Wellness Coordinator.
A closer look
Brian Winkenweder– Winkenweder, Assistant Professor of Art History, shared some insight into his life.
Barbara Seidman - Seidman shared some insight into her life and job.
Committee reports
Professional Development Task Group – Tina Dumonceaux & Delane Hein will be co-chairs this year. Members of the group are Joanne DeMay, Eileen Dowty and Joyce Savage. They have an upcoming event, October 5th, noon, Riley 201, titleds “Creating a Positive environment in the workplace.”.
Compensation Committee - Gordon Kroemer, will be the chair this year. Members of the group are Kristi Mackay, Irv Wiswall, Bahram Refaei, Aaron DeClerk, and Paula Gunder. The group is currently working on administrator awards.
Handbook Committee - Jonathan Pierce will be the chair for the year. Members of the committee are Laura Davis, Bahram Refaei, and Joanne DeMay. They have made some changes to the handbook which reflect job title changces, department name changces and workflow changes.
Social Task Group – Meredith Symons will be the chair for this year. Members of the group are Suzanne Frum, Joyce Anderson, Elaine Burke, and Dave Hansen. Wednesday, October 12th , is the administrator breakfast at Wildwood. Tuesday October 25th there will be a wine tasting event at the Harmon residence. Theatre tickets will be available as shows begin, watch for announcements.
College Budget Advisory Committee – Jonathan Pierce is the administrator representative on this committee.
College Planning Committee – Shaik Ismail, Jeff Mackay and Lisa Knodle-Bragiel are the administrator representatives on this committee.
ALC—Peter McGraw is the chair for this year. Members are Ann Hardin-Ballard, Dan Fergueson (Secretary), Sue DeHut, Lisa Garvey(Chair Elect) and Cindy Homestead. McGraw reported that the ALC had met to discuss the agenda for this meeting. The ALC has an upcoming meeting with the President’sial Cabinet. You can contact any of the ALC either individually or by emailing the group at
Other reports
Enrollment Report – Dan Preston
Preston discussed said that there is a very fine line between havinge too few students and having too many students when doing admission. The numbers are projected to be:
1748 headcount, which is up from the census of 1656 in 2004.
489 freshman, which is the largest class in history. This is up from 433 in 2004.
394 headcount on the Portland Campus, which is slightly down from 422 last year. That turns out to be a good thing for the facilities that they have, and they are still above the budget number.
3444 credit count for the adult degree program, which is 105% of the goal for the year.
79.4% freshmen to sophomore retention which is slightly down, 6.1%, from 2004
2676 all- college headcount, which is up from 2606 in 2004. This is the largest number Linfield has had since 1998.,
Online Sexual Harassment training – Cindy Homestead
Cindy reported on the new sexual harassment training program. This will be an online training system that should take people about 30 minutes to complete. The system will let Human Resources know when individuals have completed the training. You can find a link to the training from the Human Resources website (www.linfield.edu/humanresources) . The goal is to have a 100% completion of the program for employees by December 1, 2005.
Presidential Search – Bruce Wyatt
Everyone should have just received an email from Eileen Bourassa that the Presidential Search Committee will be meeting with 4 presidential candidates. From those meetings, they hope to invite candidates for on- campus visits. More info will be distributed via email over the next week.
Old business
None
New business
Parent’s Parents’ Website – Lisa Garvey
Garvey reported that there is a new website for Linfield college parents. There was a handout that was distributed to parents during new student orientation. Check it out at www.linfield.edu/parents
On C-campus Construction projects – Lou Tarney
Tarney reported that the construction of the new Residence Halls has started and they are in the final stages of approval to start the construction of the music building. The east sidewalk on Renshaw Avenue has been closed due to the construction, please walk on the west sidewalk through the project and not in the road.
President’s report
President Henberg wanted to thank all of the campus for the splendid job they did on the new student orientation and registration process. He said he felt like the coach who knew all of the players, but did not have a copy of the playbook. He just had to trust that things were going well, he didn’t have the ability to verify. He did mention that he had yet to receive any complaints about orientation, and that was a good sign.
Henberg also reported that the Board of Trustees had appointed Barbara Seidman as the vice president of for academic affairs, as well as the dean of faculty, which was something that only they could do.
Henberg reported that the executive committee of the board had met and decided what to do with the surplus from the 04-05 budget, which was about $1.5 million. A portion went to the Portland Campus endowment. They were able to completely restore the McMinnville Campus enrollment management fund. Other things that money went to were new furniture for the Portland campus, technology uses on the McMinnville Campus, future planning costs, sesquicentennial celebration, and staff development opportunities.
For the good of the order
None
The meeting was adjourned at 5:09 pm.
Reminder:
Next meeting
Monday, October 24, 2005, at 4:00 p.m. in Graf 101
Respectfully submitted,
Dan Fergueson, secretary
Tuesday, October 25, 2005