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| Report from President
Mock |
The following is an excerpt from President Mock's December
report to the Senate. You can read the full report
here.
The regularly scheduled Executive Committee meeting with
President Webb and Provost Radke was held on Tuesday,
December 4th, with Provost Radke representing
administration: President Webb was in Indianapolis dealing with the ongoing NCAA
situation. We spoke about the dependent benefits component
of the faculty insurance plan, noting especially that
dependent coverage is dropping in price. Ongoing
investigations into the insurance plan indicate that UCO is
not ‘doing badly’ when the fine print of coverage is
compared with competing plans: this will be addressed in the
Personnel Policies Committee report.
The current senate bills were presented and discussed, with
extensive conversation about FSR 2007/2008-03, Creating a
New Vice President for Advancement. The light-hearted part
of the conversation revolved around this being an almost
unprecedented senate request (adding to administration) but
the serious conversation centered upon the overwhelming
importance of gaining new revenue: the proposal was
considered to be promising.
We discussed the Merit Pay Task Force, the suggestions from
which are being carefully considered and which seem
promising. Enrollment is up for two semesters running,
mostly in the graduate student categories, although
international undergraduate enrollment is also rising,
possibly indicating rule changes at the Federal level.
Graduation numbers are up, to approximately 1,200 for the
fall ceremony. There was discussion of the graduation
ceremony process and space concerns for such ceremonies.
Old North is now entering the planning diagram phase, and it
seems certain that there will be forty eight faculty
offices, five classrooms, and a new president’s office area,
designated for the next UCO president. There will be an
annex for elevators, and heating and cooling machinery. It
is probable that, with the
Transformative
Building and the new
forensics building, the total of new faculty offices will be
about 70. The Center for Global Competency in the
University
Center has arrived at the
finishing-up stage and Enrollment Management has received a
large grant (100,000 dollars) to develop a living-learning
center with a global focus. |
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