University
of Minnesota, Morris
April
30, 2007
Members Present: Andy
Lopez, Sharon VanEps, LeAnn Dean, Sara Haugen, Pete Wyckoff,
Lowell
Rasmussen, Bryan Herrmann, Jonathan Bringewatt, Dan Moore,
Pareena
Lawrence, Arne Kildegaard, Maddy Maxeiner, Ken Hodgson,
Sarah
Mattson
Guests: Jacquie
Johnson
Update regarding External Relations, Major Gift
Officer and proposed External Advisory Group
Fundraising: Maddy distributed a chart showing the
UMM gift production as of April 27, 2007.
At this time, gift production is at $1,155,552.
Major Gift
Officer: Maddy reminded committee
members that another candidate will be on campus tomorrow and encouraged
everyone to attend the open session.
She is looking for feedback.
External Advisory
Group: Jacquie reported that she
and Maddy have talked about the challenges with the structure here regarding
the proposed council. There
is a need for a group of people that could advise us and cultivate our
commitment to the University but this group would clearly not be a
policy-making body. There is a
real interest in some of the friends of the University that Jacquie and Maddy
have met with this year.
Additionally, this group would not compete with the Alumni Board. Both President Bruininks and Robert
Jones support the idea. Ideally,
we would like this group to have its first meeting this fall. Andy asked who would pay for
travel for the participants. Maddy
thought she could use money from the Foundation that is specifically to be used
to cultivate fundraising. Pete
said he had trouble envisioning what this group is and what it will do. Jacquie said she sees it
more in the capacity of an advisory group—to cultivate friends that could
potentially provide and/or help secure financial contributions. Ken made a motion to
endorse formulating a ChancellorŐs Advisory Council, second by Dan Moore. Motion passes.
Campus update
on May 3
Jacquie wanted to
explain to the committee the framework for her update to the campus later this
week. She will talk about new
initiatives; the budget status and the budget forecast for next year; changes
that have been made in faculty areas; retrenchment and reductions in support area;
and the effectiveness and efficiency of the various reports she has
received. Some of the new
investments/initiatives include:
1) adding three faculty lines to Environmental programming; 2) market
research/branding; and 3) pre-design phase for Community Services Building and
a green residence hall.
LeAnn added that she hopes there is someway to increase our
SE&E. Ken added that he would
like to see UMM recruit more students interested in music.
Andy thanked the
committee for their service this year.
Minutes prepared
by Carrie Grussing