UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MEETING MINUTES
March 1, 2004

TAKEN BY: MARGO N. BRYAN,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND COURT REPORTER

P R O C E E D I N G S
MR. MINUS: We'll come to order, please. Dr. Oliveira, would you lead us in prayer?
(BRIEF PAUSE FOR PRAYER)
MR. MINUS: Thank you, Doris.
John, would you call the roll, please?
MR. SMITH: Mr. Bunn?
MR. BUNN: Here.
MR. SMITH: Ms. Hardaway?
MS. HARDAWAY: Here.
MR. SMITH: Mr. Barlow?
MR. BARLOW: Here.
MR. SMITH: Ms. Lovett?
MS. LOVETT: Lovett. Here.
MR. SMITH: I'm sorry.
Dr. Oliveira
DR. OLIVEIRA: Present.
MR. SMITH: Mr. Keahey?
Mr. Minus?
MR. MINUS: Here.
MR. SMITH: Mr. Smith? Here.
MR. SMITH: Mr. Spree?
MR. SPREE: Here.
MR. SMITH: Mr. Northcut?
MR. NORTHCUT: Here.
MR. SMITH: Ms. Nolen?
MS. NOLEN: Present.
MR. SMITH: Dr. Umphrey?
DR. UMPHREY: Here.
MR. SMITH: And Mr. Saad?
MR. SAAD: Here.
MR. SMITH: You got a quorum, Mr. Chairman.
MR. MINUS: Thank you. Quorum being present, we'll proceed. Do I have a a motion on the approval of the minutes from the last board meeting?
MR. SPREE: I so move.
MR. MINUS: Mr. Spree makes a motion.
MR. SMITH: I second it.
MR. MINUS: It's been seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor, say aye.
ALL MEMBERS: Aye.
MR. MINUS: All opposed? Without objection, we're going -- the governor is running a little late. We're gone skip over the president's report and go down to the honorary degree committee. And I don't know is it y'all gone report individually or you got one man whose gone give it all?
MR. SMITH: I'm gone give it all. The Honorary Degrees Committee had a meeting this morning. Mr. Keahey wasn't here, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Umphrey, Mr. Bunn, Mr. Spree, and myself and Robert J. Romine, Anne Payne, Ron Creel, and Alva Lambert have been nominated and recommended from the Honorary Degrees Committee to the Board of Trustees. And what we've asked is that Dr. Holland in getting the information together, for him to make the determination of who's honored in the May graduation and then the other two in the December graduation for the sake of time and so we'll move with that. This comes as a recommendation from the committee, Mr. Chairman.
MR. MINUS: We do not require a second. Is there any discussion on the three? All in favor say aye.
ALL MEMBERS: Aye.
MR. MINUS: All opposed? Gentleman, we're gone recess now until the Governor gets here and the Governor, we'll go to the president's report. We'll have the Governor's remarks and in fairness, I've talked to the individual board members. We will ask the Governor to appoint the nominating committee that's gone elect the next officers in the June meeting. So we'll just recess until he -- Dr. Holland said he'd be here in about ten minutes, so we'll just recess until he gets here and then we'll have the president's report and the remarks from the Governor, then the Governor can appoint his nominating committee for the next term. We'll recess now.
(BRIEF RECESS)
MR. MINUS: Ladies and gentlemen, we'll come back to order now.It's a great honor and privilege for the University of West Alabama to have the Governor of the State of Alabama present with us today and it's my honor and privilege to recognize the Honorable Governor Bob Riley.
THE Governor: Thank you. Thank you very much. Please. Thank you very much. I apologize for running a little late, but I did want to attend this meeting. There has been a lot of speculation. There's been a lot of controversy. There's been a lot of hurt feelings in this community. This community, I'm sure, is very, very apprehensive about this university being on probation. I have one mission and one mission only. That's to bring this family back together for the good of this university. We have some outstanding individuals that have agreed to serve on this board. I think that they're going to offer the type of leadership, the type of comradery that has been needed in this university for a while and I think it does open up a new opportunity for the university to move beyond and transcend anything that it's ever done before. But we have to approach this with a different method. We have to approach it with a different mind-set. We're basically all committed to making this a part of the community, making it an economically viable university, opening up the opportunities for as many students as wish to come here. But it all starts with the personalities on this Board and their ability to work together for a common goal and a common vision. That's the reason I'm here today to offer the Governor's help, the Governor's support in anything that we can possibly do to help this community. So with that, let me say thank you to all of the new members that have agreed to serve. We appreciate your willingness to serve. I think we can say without any contradiction every one of the new members comes on with no agenda. They're basically here and my charge to each one of them is to come over here and do what's best for this university in each and every occasion, so I appreciate it. I appreciate the people who have served before because I know you love this university. I know that you care very deeply for the university and I appreciate all of your service up to this point. So with that, we'll move right along with the agenda and now receive the president's report.
DR. HOLLAND: Thank you, Governor. At this time, I would like to introduce the three new members. They were on campus about ten days ago and so many members of the university community know them. Mr. Thomas Ballow. If you would stand, please, Mr. Ballow. Mr. Ballow is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the MAX Federal Credit Union and he lives in Montgomery. Thank you. Ms. Margaret Lovett, if you'll stand, is from Tuscumbia and she is the Executive Director of the Southern Rural Health Care Consortium in Russelville, Alabama. Thank you. And Mr. John Northcut, who is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Robertson Bank in Demopolis and lives in Demopolis. Thank you, John. Most of you have copies of the remaining portions of my report. I'm not going to read all 26 pages. I am going to hit the highlights. This has been a remarkable year for the institution. We need to thank the Board of Trustees and the faculty and staff and students for making it so, and as we walk through this, you will see our accomplishments. You will also see the projects, though, that we have before us and the challenges that we have before us. The first part of my report is from Academic Affairs and I'll very quickly walk through that. In nursing, which was one of our most outstanding divisions in the university, they had a 100 percent pass rate on the national nursing exam for this graduating class of last year and that's a remarkable accomplishment. Only 3 of 34 programs in the state have such an achievement of 100 percent pass rate and once again we need to thank the faculty in that particular area. Mr. Homan is the Chair of that division. In the Julia Tutwiler Library, this past year since October they have been working primarily on special collections. Those collections that deal with the university archives, the Sumter County archives, and the Arrington collection archives, which are from Judd Arrington who lived in York, and his family gave those papers to the university. The College of Business, they have been very, very active working primarily in developing the online courses, but very importantly, they are sponsoring a voluntarily income tax assistance program. This is sponsored in connection with the Internal Revenue Service. I mentioned to some of you that last year I was in a meeting in Montgomery and met the Director of IRS for the State of Alabama and he came to me and said I need to talk to you about something and I thought God. But what he wanted to tell me was that this program has been a model not only for this state but throughout the South and it had been very, very successful. It is a program that is supported by our staff here and our students and we're very appreciative of that. And in the College of Natural Science and Mathematics, as you go through their report, you will see that they have been heavily involved in regional activities, outreach into the service area working with the regional science fair which covers nine counties that we serve. Also this past week we had our first regional elementary science olympiad for grades I think it was three through six. Had a wonderful turnout for that. Many of the faculty also at this college have been working on the leader institute in math and science, which is a program that is funded by Bellsouth foundation grant that we have received. They've worked very closely with the members of the College of Education making this a very successful activity. In fact, it is up for renewal and we have every reason to believe it's going to be extended another year. The College of Liberal Arts, this past week they hosted the state Alabama Honor's Conference on this campus. I came over and spoke to those young people and I told them -- as I saw them sitting outside when I came up, I was envious because they were all sitting around talking about how they were gonna solve the world's problems and I kind of wish I were back at that point, you know. I wished them luck on solving them because we had those same conversations four years ago and we still have some of the same problems. But I got several E-mails from the other universities who attended the program here. They were some complimentary of this institution, its faculty, and its students. In the College of Education, once again the faculty there continues their leadership role in the state and in the region, and you can see this by looking at the members of that faculty who hold state and regional offices. For example, Dr. Smith, Louis Smith, is the Chairman of the State Board of Directors of the Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education. Dr. Martha King is the president of the Chapter of Alabama and Dr. R.T. Floyd was recently inducted into the Alabama Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame. Brad Montgomery, who is in that college, is the president of the Alabama Athletic Trainers Executive Board of Directors. And Janet Montgomery, of course, is the Chair of the NCAA Division II South Regional Softball Committee, which is a national position. The Division of Continuing Education has expanded their offerings within the last year not only on the residential programs here on campus, but they are now offering 65 programs online. And this university and this community has a treat this coming summer when we will host a two-week long program, an international continuing education summer program where we will have approximately 40 students from Asia and other countries here on the campus for those two weeks. The Distance Education Program also continues to expand. We have offered since Fall of 2002 a degree program, one degree program, and then the Masters of Science and Continuing Education in Counseling and Psychology. But this coming fall we will offer two additional programs online and this summer in the College of Business we will be offering the Bachelor of Business Administration online. There's a tremendous need for such programs worldwide but particularly with the military personnel in installations throughout the world. And we're appreciative of the work in that area of the faculty and staff. The next section of the report deals with grants which have been funded since October 1. There's a list of them there, but the main thing to realize is this, that since October 1, the first five months of this year, our faculty and staff have received more than four million dollars in grants and awards and we're most appreciative of this because these funds enrich the activities of the campus, but also by professional development of our faculty and staff. And we have to thank them for their work because they have made this possible. We also have a little over nine and a half million dollars in funds that we have applied for. We feel fairly confident particularly in two of those Grants. The next part of my report deals with enrollment. And as you know, this has been a remarkable year for enrollment. Particularly if you look at our undergraduate enrollment this past fall we had a 4 percent increase in undergraduate enrollment, and graduate enrollment on campus we had a 21 percent increase, which was the largest graduate enrollment in the institution's history until this semester and this semester we exceeded that. So we are very appreciative of the faculty in that area and particularly Dr. Wilkins and his staff and the School of Graduate Studies. This past fall our total enrollment was an 18 percent increase, the largest enrollment in the history of the institution and the largest percentage enrollment of any of the state institutions. By all measures, enrollment is up, the quality of the students -- the quality of students is up, and our retention efforts are up. And again, I have to thank the faculty and the staff and the entire university community and our alumni and all who have made this possible. Through their efforts we continue to grow. We've set some realistic goals. Being realistic within five years we would like 3,000 students on this campus and we think we can do it and that's our challenge and we will. The next report is from the Division of Student Affairs. Not only are they meeting our campus needs and this is a real challenge as I've told some of you before and I've told Danny Buckalew and those people who work in this area. And I realize that in order to really work this area you have to be young at heart and young in spirit. And I appreciate Danny and his staff because this department, since they keep up with our students, it's 24-7. I mean I don't know how Danny goes out to these 2:00, 3:00 a.m. parties and checks on these students. I appreciate that. But not only do they meet our needs on this campus, but we have been epanding their efforts more and more into the region. In fact, in January, we hosted the district three high school student government association meeting on this campus. We had over 300 high school students attend that and their advisors. It was a tremendous success. In February, we hosted the district three principals meeting on this campus. It's the first time in many years that is had been here. It was such a success that they've agreed to come back next year and we're going to expand that. Also one of the remarkable things is when you look at the quality of our students and what they're doing and what they're involved in, last week, for example, we had 14 of our students from the student government association attend the Collegiate Legislature in Montgomery. Out of those 14, three of those students were elected to leadership positions in that collegiate legislature. I think that's a definite reflection upon the quality of our students and the experiences they have here. We pride ourselves in leadership and training these students and other people recognize that as well. On March -- on the 5th of March, we're going to host a leadership day on this campus for high school students from this region. Last year we had over 100 students attend. We're looking for a larger crowd this year. One of the very important areas in Student Affairs, of course, is admissions and recruiting. Our efforts for the fall look very good. We are ahead of our projections. It's early in the game, but we feel very good about next year's class. The next report is the athletic report and I'll just mention the highlights here. In football, we've had a remarkable recruiting season. Interim Head Coach Sam McCorkle reports that we really exceeded our goals. In the recruiting efforts this year, the students came to campus with their parents and then members of my staff and also members of the dean's staffs and the provost office met with those students and their parents and it was just a remarkable group of young people and we were very fortunate that we got the majority of the people who visited the campus. Our cross country team is doing well. Our rodeo team placed third in the men's standing and women's fourth out of 18 teams. That season is just starting and doing well. In men's basketball, we're having a problem there, but we're working on winning there. In women's basketball, what can you say about that remarkable team and Coach Amanda Marks. We clenched the Gulf South Conference Eastern Division. We beat Montevallo this past Saturday night. They're going to go back to Tupelo this Friday to compete again and we're very, very appreciative of what they've done. They've represented us well. I talked to Dr. McChesney at Montevallo and I'm not going to give you his remarks. But he thought he had it this time he said. In our baseball this past Saturday, we improved our overall record to 10-7. This past Saturday we beat Delta State and Southeast Oklahoma. Both of them are rated in the top 25 teams in the nation. Once against it's reflective of the quality of our players and our coaching staff. Our softball season is just beginning. We're getting to regular play next week. Our volleyball under head Coach Karisa Wesley is improving. We have a great challenge there, but they have a great group of -- great team members there. Basically one thing we need to compliment the coaches and the players for is how well they have represented us, but also they have to raise a great deal of the money for their own programs. And to date they have raised over $140,000 to help improve the qualities of their teams, their equipment, and so forth. We're very appreciative of that. I also would like to mention one or two major undertakings we have there in athletics and we'll have a proposal ready for the June meeting of the Board of Trustees. We have a proposal to replace the lighting system in our football stadium. There's a great interest upon us having night games, particularly if you sat through this last season when it was 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon and 98 degrees out there. When we come and ask you for money, please contribute to this. You understand why we need those lights. Also we'll have a proposal in our June meeting to build an indoor hitting facility for baseball. We also will have a proposal at that meeting -- we are required under NCAA in our conference to add two additional sports by fall of 2005. We are finalizing that report. We'll have some cost estimates that we'll talk to the Board about. But once again, our athletic teams are doing remarkably well and we're very appreciative and supportive of that. The next items deal with the area of Institutional Advancement. First the annual fund. The annual fund, if you remember, is our primary fund for raising money for scholarships. Last year we exceeded our goal for that. This year five months into the campaign, in other words, we're 42 percent into the campaign, but we have raised 81 percent of the money that we expected to raise for the entire year. It's been very successful. We must thank the people in this university community and our alumni who are so supportive of this money which goes directly to scholarships. Also you'll note there about a scholarship that was endowed in December. Dr. Sisk, who was a long-time faculty member and administrator of this institution, and most of you know him from probably from Sisk Hall named after him. But his grandson contacted us and had a desire to establish a scholarship in honor of his mother who grew up here in Livingston. He started out by saying that he could give us a small amount, probably 5,000 and then every time Clemit talked to him or opened the mail, there's another check. And it is now at 33,000, the endowment on it, but he assures us that it will grow and we're very appreciative of this. He plans this summer to be in this area. He wants to come back and visit the campus. This scholarship is going to be for someone in elementary education and we're very appreciative to the McDaris family for making it possible. Another aspect of Institutional Advancement, of course, deals with Alumni Affairs. We've been very, very active in this area meeting with the different chapters. We have nine active chapters. We are in the process of establishing three new ones. We met last week in Winfield with a group from northwest Alabama representing five counties and we have appointed the steering committee and we expect that to become active very quickly. We are going to make a trip to the Dothan area. We've had a request from a number of people in that area that we establish a chapter there and we've also been approached about establishing a chapter in Florida. And then Friday night was the 40th anniversary of the TEKE fraternity on this campus, which is not only a milestone for this campus, but it was the first national fraternity in any of the state regional colleges or normal schools at that time and we're very, very proud of that. And Butch Price, who was the original TEKE member on this campus, is now retired and lives in Georgia and he has asked that we go there and establish a chapter. He can readily identify 40 to 50 people who are graduates of this institution in his home town and we're going to take Butch up on that. I must thank Clemit Spruill and Barry Watson and Rob McInturf and Karen Welch and Shelly Finley for the work they've done on this. The alumni throughout the region are very, very excited about these efforts and these are the people who provide all the constant leg work just daily. We also, though, will be turning more and more towards the university community for your help with these alumni chapters. We've very appreciative of that. The next part of this report deals with the report of the UWA Foundation. The Foundation board members have been very active, very, very supportive and right now we have 1.68 million in our Foundation account. As you know, this is used for scholarships and special projects and we're very appreciative of that. We have set some new goals in that area for this year. One of the most active areas in Institutional Advancement, of course, has been in the area of marketing. We reported on this at our previous meeting. We've been working on this for over a year. We've always known we have an exceptional institution here and that we do make a difference in this part of the state. And as we have talked to our different public, we have found that they believe that we're a very fine institution, but they wanted to know more about us. They wanted us to sort of brag on what we have done and can do. And so we have approved this integrated marketing the communications campaign and you can just see just very briefly some of our efforts in this area and they're really paying off particularly in advertising, whether it's outdoor advertising or internet or television or radio or magazines. We have really been fortunate in the impact that we have had and the responses that we have received. Not only are we marketing the institution within this region, but we have gone back to areas where we have historically been strong in Mobile and Baldwin County, Shelby County and you will see more and more of this. In fact, you will see soon not only on local TV and all, but national television we had a group here from the E Entertainment Television Network about six months ago and they have a program called the National College Review and we were chosen as one of the schools in the South to be highlighted on that. Our program will run three times on national television. It will be seen by 84 million people each time. So you can be proud of the institution and its reputation. This has a direct impact not only on our students, but it's having a direct impact on our efforts to raise money for foundations and businesses. When you go now to foundations and you talk about what we are and what we're trying to accomplish, they know who we are. They know what we're about. You see on the second page of that report, particularly on page 20, the research findings. One of the components of this campaign was that we would conduct the campaign, but we needed some idea of how we were doing. And we started that research and you see that, for example, that 79 of the 258 freshmen and first-year transfers that were surveyed, 31 percent stated that they learned about the institution through internet, newspaper, billboards, radio. 99 percent of the faculty and staff, of course, approve of what we're doing and think we should do more. That's typical of the faculty. We'll do more. The students, 84 percent of them indicated they noticed an increase in the approach to what we're doing. And in surveys of the general public, 89 percent think that we have increased our visibility and so this is paying off. In the area of University Relations, which is also under Institutional Advancement, this particular office deals with our web site. Shelly posts the activities at the university campus weekly on that web site. She works with over 20 weekly newspapers and three daily newspapers getting the story out about this institution. Through her efforts and the efforts of the alumni staff, we started an electronic alumni newspaper entitled, "Bridges," trying to bridge that gap. You know Mr. Bridges says we named it after him. That's fine with me. We have had a tremendous response from alumni through this electronic newsletter. We appreciate the works in that area. The last part of my report deals with the work of the Regional Center for Community and Economic Development, Mr. James Mock and his -- and Sanquinetta Thompson that works in his office. One of our goals for the last two years has been to be more involved in regional decisions, having a regional impact. And it's through this center that you can see that we have been really focusing on that. Whether it's work on a business incubator that James has been working on with the College of Business and Dr. Bazyari or a trucking school. As you know, we're not in the trucking school business. But Mr. McElroy of McElroy Trucking of Cuba asked if we could help train drivers for his over 340 rigs. We have an agreement with Shelton State. They have -- they're using facilities on our campus. They're teaching this program and meeting the employment needs of this area. We're working with Congressman Davis on his Initiative 7, particularly on work force development. Working also with the Black Belt Rural Development Summit. This particular one deals not only with health issues but other community, quality issues in communities. And one of our major efforts, as you know, has been with the West Alabama Regional Alliance. This is an alliance of five counties: Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, and Sumter. We provide the administrative oversight for that particular alliance. Not only do they have an emphasis in tourism and recreation, and that's really growing, we have an 800 number here at the university that individuals can call about that. We also have a web page that is up, but we're also working with that group on a task force on education and also work force development. Another aspect of this center has dealt with a leadership summit. We work very closely with the Montgomery Institute in Meridian and with the Commission on the future of East Mississippi and West Alabama. And James Mock, our senator director, has been working with this group, has been working with a group of leaders in Washington on how to promote this area making them aware, once again, of our needs and our progress and our programs. We've also been working closely with the Coleman Center in York promoting it as a regional center for culture and art and working also with the West Alabama Regional Work Force Development Task Force. Sanquinetta Thompson has done a great deal of work there as far as coordinating their activities, doing the analytical work for that particular task force. We have worked closely with the Department of Human Resources and their job task force development. And we're also working in conjunction with the West Alabama-Tombigbee Regional Commission on an infrastructure study for this region particularly what is needed for not only community development, but growth of industry along the interstate corridor. In the area of community development, particularly leadership development, we're working on a project right now with middle school students to get them involved and work with leaders in their community. Also working with Green County Industrial Board and the City of Eutaw and Alabama Power on a strategic plan for Green County. We spent a great deal of our time and efforts on health care and wellness issues. We have the Health and Wellness Educational Center that we manage. It is now located in the Sumter County Public Health facilities offices. This is an effort where we have tried to pull together Robert Wood Johnson's efforts in this area, the Delta Regional Authority, the children's trust fund. When we got into this, one thing we found was that everybody in the world was interested in health care and I do mean everyone. I hosted a meeting in my office from 16 people in Sumter County working on health care. Eight of them didn't know the other eight sitting across the table from them, but we're all working on the same issues. And what we've been trying to do is get everybody together and focus their efforts and we've had tremendous success. We've been working on a hypertension program with the county health department and Rush Medical clinics, also working with the Black Belt community health services. I bet you as you go through this list, and many of you have lived in this community longer than I, I bet you didn't even know these groups existed. But they're here and we're trying to focus their efforts. We're working with establishing care teams. Many churches already have them, but this is an answer to many people in rural areas who cannot get to the doctor. They cannot make an appointment for a checkup. But mobilizing care teams within churches, we can address this need. We've also been working on a number of tourism projects, which I mentioned to you. We also were told, notified last week that we will have a Kid One office in this county. In fact, it will be on this campus in which there will be a Mercedes provided by Mercedes, a vehicle provided by Mercedes and a driver who will pick children up and take them to doctor's appointments in this area. And Law -- Lamar who has been so instrumental in work throughout the Black Belt, whether it's Hale County or Marengo County, we have him to thank for this. When he came to us, he said don't you think we need a Kid One in Sumter. And I thought well we have many Kid One. We have outstanding kids, but this is a program we desperately needed. And then just quickly to wrap this up. There are some other things going on. Next door in the Webb Hall galleries, we have just opened a Smithsonian exhibit entitled, "Vanishing Polinators." It will be here through May the 9th. It's open to the public, but it's going to be used primarily for school children in this area. We're working with Becky Graham and the people in the Biological and Department of Sciences. They will be bringing students from the surrounding schools in and work through different activities while this exhibit is here. Also April the 24th through May the 1st, we will be sponsoring the Sucarnoochee Folk Life and Heritage Festival. It will be in downtown Livingston and part of it will be here on this campus. But we're going to highlight the culture and the history of the Black Belt and there will be crafts, demonstrators there, and music, ghost tours, tours of historic churches, and then Katherine Tucker Windham will be here that Saturday night to wrap up the activities. And then the last big project that I'll mention to you that we've been working on. We have had meetings for this past year to consider establishing the Black Belt Regional Museums of West Alabama. We've had consultants in. Their report is due next week. We have met with Tom Tartt, the mayor of the City of Livingston. We've met with Aubrey Ellis from the County Commission and all three of us including the university are going to go together and make this happen. We have a very rich history in this area and I know they're problems. I know they're challenges, but we need to highlight what is good. And so the university is so fortunate to have absolutely closets full of collections. We've been here 169 years and it's about time that we started showing off those collections. And working with the City and the County we hope to take two or three of the buildings on the square, which are not being used, and convert those into museums. We can provide the expertise, the staffing, and work with the City and the County, we'll make this a success. Senator Shelby was here three weeks ago and we discussed the idea with him. We showed him the buildings and he's very, very supportive and will help us in those items. And that's the end of my report unless you have questions and did I get pretty close?
THE Governor: You did good. Thank you, Dr. Holland. Does anyone have any comments, questions, observations? Now no one can speak for that long and not have any comments. Dr. Holland, let me tell you how much I appreciate that. It's amazing how much you do have going on over here. It's greet to see that your numbers are expanding. You have so many things that's going to make a tremendous difference in this community and I can't think of any that's going to be more important than Kid One. That is a fantastic organization. They do a wonderful job with people who desperately need their services. There's one thing that I would like to ask just as a point of personal information and that's how is the process with SACS? What's going on? Where are we in the process? And what type of strategy do we have to alleviate some of the problems?
DR. HOLLAND: We feel very good about where we are at this point in time. At the end of March, we have the preliminary report that is due, and based on our conversations with Dr. Allen, who's our liaison, we're making progress. And by September, when our final report is due, we feel very confident that the probation will no longer be an issue.
THE Governor: I think we vote on that in December?
DR. HOLLAND: They vote in December. They submit the report the last part of September.
THE Governor: Anyone else? Next on the agenda is the appointment of a nominating committee. I understand that the committee members who have served aschairman is up in June. And as chairman, I would like to ask to serve on this Ms. Louise Nolen as chairman of the nominating committee, Mr. Thomas Ballow, and Margaret Lovett. If there are no objections and if each one agreed to serve, Madame Chairman, if you will call this group together as soon as possible and begin that deliberation, we would certainly appreciate it.
MS. NOLEN: Thank you. I will.
THE Governor: Is there any other business to come before the Board? I hate to have this many people in an audience and not have any participation. Does anybody have anything that they'd like to bring before this Board at this time? Evidently, there is no other business, so with that I declare this Board of the University of West Alabama in recess. Thank you.
C E R T I F I C A T E
STATE OF ALABAMA
JEFFERSON COUNTY
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing board meeting was taken down by me in stenotype and the minutes thereto were transcribed by means of computer-aided transcription, and that the foregoing represents a true and correct transcript of the subject matter given by said witness upon said hearing. I further certify that I am neither of counsel, nor of kin to the parties to the action, nor am I in anywise interested in the result of said cause.
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MARGO N. BRYAN
COURT REPORTER
NOTARY PUBLIC
My commission expires 5/22/07