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Meeting Notes #8 – March 29, 2011

ORILLIA CAMPUS

COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEETING

Notes of Meeting#8

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Present / K. Fedderson / F. Cappadocia
B. Jeffs / A. den Otter
C. Tomasini / S. Scott
K. Hunt / E. Thomas
J. Ryan / J. Kent
S. Unwin (notes)

Action By

8.0 / Review of Business Arising:

• Alice, Chris and Frank met regarding the lab in the commons. They will

forward a report to the group. / Info
8.1 / Area Updates:
8.4 New Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies
8.5 Enrolment Numbers
8.6 “My Lakehead” - Residence
8.7 Wireless Internet
8.8 Security
Emerging Issues:
8.2 / Next Town Hall Meeting (Kim) / Shelley

• Staff and faculty to get together to discuss long-term strategies

• Discuss recent changes: President, programs, chairs/directors, cafeteria/bookstore

• Kim – 15 minute presentation, then open up the meeting

• Suggested date: Thursday, April 14th or Friday, April 15th at noon

• Shelley to review exam schedule and advise

8.3 / Orillia representation at Oro-Medonte Chamber of Commerce Award Dinner (Kathy) / Info

• April 14th, 2011 @ Horseshoe Valley Resort

• LU is sponsoring environmental award

• Kim will attend and present the award

8.4 / New Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies (Alice) / Info

• Recommendation that Dr. Sree Kurissery be appointed the next chair of Interdisciplinary Studies was forwarded to Acting Vice-President Academic & Provost and to the President

8.5 / Enrolment Numbers (Frank) / Info

• 2,000 applications have been received to date

• Increase of 19% if Faculty of Education is removed

• Increase of 9% if Faculty of Education is in

• Overall down 3.5% with Thunder Bay campus included

• Kathy Hunt reaching out demographic groups

• Advertisements in the malls, facebook, etc.

• Next push – colleges

• Frank is co-ordinating a date to have Patrick Fogarty High School grade 11 students come for a campus tour and interact

• Regular tours – most tours we have ever had – many local and many from Georgian College

• Frank predicts that we will meet the target of 1100 students by the very end

• Kim asked Frank for flow through numbers – they should have very shortly

8.6 / “My Lakehead” - Residence (Kim) / Frank or

• If you look at the website under residence, there are no pictures of the new

/ Brian
Orillia campus residence or plan layouts of the rooms

• Kim would like these posted sooner than later.

• Frank or Brian will discuss with Robert or David from Thunder Bay to get this looked after

• Frank announced that Betsy Maus has been hired as a new recruiter. Betsy comes to us from Trent University

• Residence is guaranteed to all 1st year students (271 beds)

• There have been a few inquiries from returning students about getting into residence – this can be accommodated

8.7 / Wireless Internet (Brian) / Info

• Brian reported that the wireless internet is now up and running at all three locations

• Brian will have Tim Rowe send out an announcement to everyone

8.8 / Security (Kim) / Kim and

• At the PPG meeting, it was brought to Kim’s attention that there was a report complaining about security at the back of Town Court.

/ Mike

• The back doors have been left unlocked. Who is the last one out?

• Kim will speak to Mike at LUSU regarding this issue