Minutes - DRAFT

Executive Committee (EC) Meeting

October 22, 2015

2:00 pm-3:10pm

Members Present: Davis, Dawkins, Eltantawy, Fadil, Gallo, Goel, Italia, Jaeger, Johnson, Loh, and Watts

Members Absent: Cobb (teaching), Frankel (Study Abroad/Germany)

Guest: Paul Mason

Meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by Mark Dawkins.

  1. EC minutes from 10/01/15 meetingwere approved with a friendly amendment to correct item 5 of new business from 2-week class schedule to 2-year class schedule.

Old Business

  1. Development Office Update – Mark announced that Teresa Nichols has accepted the position of Director of Development and will start on November 9th. She is an alumni who previously worked at First Tee and Wounded Warriors.
  2. Points of Pride Update – Shannon Italia mentioned that her office is still in the process of updating and work is still in progress.
  3. Faculty Photos and Bio Updates–Mark mentioned that the latest update on faculty bios will be next Tuesday prior to transferring the money to each department.

New Business

  1. Linda and Tom Slade –Mark and Josh Merchant had a 3 ½ hour dinner with Linda and Tom Slade to discuss entrepreneurship. They have an interest on Coggin moving towards entrepreneurship. We will present a proposal by next January getting back on the right track. We can be hiring adjuncts to teach entrepreneurship that will be more feasible for the gift that Linda and Tom Slade gave to the Coggin College.

Mark is going to have a property tour of the Vulcan Materials with a 75,000 sq. ft. for a possible incubator site for Coggin.

  1. Ken Lewis (Greater Impact Foundation) – Andres will have lunch on Monday with Ken Lewis who will give us an update.
  2. Sabbatical Priority Committee Recommendation –No new report for this item since we discussed it last meeting.
  3. Professorship committee recommendations –Paul Mason presented the first draft copy of policies & procedures for awarding Endowed Professorships to the executive committee for discussion. The members of the professorship committee are: Bruce Kavan, Reiny Lamb, Tim Bell, Rob Frankel and Paul Mason (chair). The committee met 3-4 different times discussing the policies & procedures of awarding professorship. Tim Bell did research on similar programs and the committee looked at5 programs from other universities as their starting point. Paul also discussed the eligibility and the endowment levels to the committee. Andres suggested that there should be a 3-page limit on the application plus CV. Further discussion will continue in the next executive committee meeting.
  1. Master of Management APCs – The APC committee will meet on November 5thand Mark is hopeful that our Master of Management (MoM) will pass.
  1. Dale Carnegie opportunity – Mark will discuss next meeting.
  1. Posting faculty ads to PhD Project website – Mark will discuss next meeting.
  1. Posting Working Paper Titles on website –A faculty member asked Mark if we can create a working paper page in our website in order to enhance collaboration with other faculty. The college used to have this type of working paper before but many faculty member opposed this before because of a journal submission related issue.Mark asked the chairs to ask their faculty if this is something they would want to do.
  1. Josh Samli workshop requests

-The Impact of Merger Mania on Our Market Economy

-How to Develop an Innovation Culture

-Insourcing vs. Outsourcing

Josh approached Mark because he wants to conduct workshops with the topics outlined above. Mark asked the committee’s approval. It was decided that it is Josh’s responsibility to reach out to faculty and send e-mail invites.

  1. Other Items:

-Andres handed the 2015 executive education rankings to the committee and discussed the exchange agreement to be partners with Ipade Mexico which is ranked 13a on the top 85 customized program providers from the Executive Education Rankings 2015.

  1. Adjournment – Meeting adjourned at 3:10pm.

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