Meeting Notes from June 29, 2000

Present: I. Cheney, D. Greenlee, M. Haapapuro, M. Hendricks, E. Horsch, R. Keen, D. Lassila, J. Pickens, A. Quinn, B. Seely, J. Seppala.

E. Horsch distributed the membership list of each subcommittee:

Chairs are expected to organize subcommittee meetings, determine time-line, and regularly report back to the overall committee. Each subcommittee must have completed their charge by August 31, 2000.

B. Seely summarized the perspective from the Strategic Planning Work Group regarding research. Overall, research should not be viewed as needing to be "subsidized." The University needs external funding to support buildings, facilities, and such. B. Seely will also call the Academic Policy Committee together to discuss Research Faculty.

Overall principles of the committee were revised as follows:

  1. Cost drives fringe benefits charge structure where possible.

  2. To be competitive with other Universities, will consider subsidizing to select research and graduate studies/education.

  3. Recommend policy and incentives that are consistent with strategic goals.

To improve communications with the campus community, the meeting notes and the agenda will be on the University website.

No meeting on July 3 and 10. The next meeting will be July 17, 2000, at 8:30 a.m.

Submitted by Marilyn Haapapuro



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