RELEASE DATE:  March 13, 2007

CONTACT: 

Public Affairs

 

State Board to review Governor’s Budget recommendations

New student member to take the oath of office

 

RALEIGH -  When the State Board of Community Colleges meets on Friday, March 16 in the Caswell Building, the members will have money on their minds.  Specifically, they will discuss the money Governor Mike Easley wants spent to serve the almost 800,000 students attending North Carolina’s community colleges.

 

This is the first meeting since Easley released his State Budget Recommendations which includes generous salary increases for community college faculty and professional staff; enrollment growth reserve; distance learning and technology support; money to increase the number of minority male mentoring programs by four; and money to provide 58 new counselors, one for each college.

 

The Board will review the recommendations and compare them to the specific budget request they approved earlier this year.  Though the Governor has not included everything the Board requested, this budget proposal is considered to be extremely favorable for the System.

 

The Board will welcome a new member.  Bently C. Pagura is the new president of the North Carolina Comprehensive Community College Student Government Association (N4CSGA).  His position includes serving as the student representative on the State Board.  Pagura is a full-time student pursuing his Associates Degree in Heat, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology from Alamance Community College.  He has three children. He will take the oath on Friday from The Honorable Robert Edmunds, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

 

Also on the agenda for Board approval are two programs that are new to the System.  Lenoir Community College is submitting a program in Voice Writing and Realtime Reporting. Montgomery Community College is submitting a program in Business Administration with a concentration in Shooting and Hunting Sports Management.

 

The Board members will attend a reception at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday that signals the formal opening of the 10^th President’s Art Exhibit in the Caswell and honors the artists from the community colleges who created the art that is on display throughout the Caswell Building.  (A separate release on the Art Exhibit is forthcoming.)

 

The complete agenda follows.

 

STATE BOARD OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES

March 16, 2007

 

Raleigh, North Carolina

 

March 15, 2007

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

 

Issues Session/Luncheon - 12:00 noon    State Board Room

   “Overview of 2+2 Initiative and LateNite Lab Demonstration”

           Dr. Linda M. Nelms, Distance Learning Coordinator

           Academic and Student Services, NCCCS

Financial and Capital Needs         1:30 p.m.          Room 201-A

Policy                                                      1:30 p.m.                AW North Carolina Conference Room

Program Services                                    1:30 p.m.                J. Gregory Poole Conference Room

Personnel                                                3:00 p.m.                AW North Carolina Conference Room Chairman’s Agenda Review                                                    3:30 p.m.                AW North Carolina Conference Room

Opening Reception for the           4:00 p.m.          State Board Room Lounge

      President's Art Exhibition                              

 

March 16, 2007

BOARD MEETING 

 

9:00 a.m.          -     Call to Order

-     Administering Oath of Office to Bently C. Pagura

-     Approval of Minutes of the February 16, 2007 Meeting

-         Approval of Agenda

-         Approval of Consent Agenda
(Consent Agenda items are listed on the Consent Agenda

and are designated by [CA] on Full Agenda)

-     Report from the NC Association of Community College Presidents

Dr. Don Reichard, President

Report from the NC Association of Community College Trustees

Helen Newsome, President

Report from the NC Comprehensive Community College Student Government Association (N4CSGA)

Bently Pagura, President

 

Committee of the Whole, Hilda Pinnix-Ragland, Chair

 

For Information

§         Formal Charge to Strategic Plan Implementation Teams (Attachment SBCC-1)

 

-  Standing Committee Reports

 

Policy Committee, Dr. Stuart B. Fountain, Chair

 

For Future Action

§         Redesignation of Wilkes Community College’s Ashe County Center to a

Multi-Campus Site (Attachment Pol. 1)

§         Initiate Rulemaking to Amend 23 NCAC 02E .0204 “Courses and Standards for Curriculum Programs” (Attachment Pol. 2)

§         Performance Measures Review and Modifications (Attachment Pol. 5)

 

 

For Action

§         Proposed Amendment to Article XII of the Bylaws of the State Board of Community Colleges (Attachment Pol. 3)

§         Approval of Proprietary School Licenses  (Attachment Pol. 4) [CA]

 

Program Services Committee, Norma B. Turnage, Chair

 

For Information

§         Special Application Approvals By System President (Attachment Prog. 1)  

§         Special Termination Approvals By System President (Attachment Prog. 2)

 

For Future Action

§         North Carolina Transitional State Plan for Career and Technical Education (Attachment Prog. 3)

§         Basic Skills Revised State Plan (Attachment Prog. 4)

§         Curriculum Standard Revisions – CIP (Attachment Prog. 5)

§         Curriculum Standard Revisions (Attachment Prog. 6)

 

For Action

§         2007 Cooperative Innovative High School Programs (Part I) (Attachment

Prog. 7) [CA]

§         Curriculum Program Applications (NS) (Attachment Prog. 8) [CA]

§         Curriculum Program Application (FTFA) (Attachment Prog. 9) [CA]

§         Courses of Instruction to Captive/Co-opted Groups/Continuing Education (Attachment Prog. 10) [CA]

§         Continuing Education Master Course List – Course Approvals (Attachment

Prog. 11) [CA]

§         Continuing Education Master Course List – Course Modifications (Attachment Prog. 12) [CA]

 

Finance and Capital Needs Committee, Herbert L. Watkins, Chair
 

For Information

§         Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUB) State Bond Utilization Report as of December 31, 2006 (Attachment FC-1)

§         Estimated Receipts (Attachment FC-2)

§         2007-2009 Governor’s Recommended Budget (Attachment FC-3)

§         Allocation of FY 2006 Homeland Security Grant Funds (Attachment FC-4)

§         CIS Project Discussion and Implementation Update (Attachment FC-5)

 

For Action

§         NCCCS BioNetwork Validation Academy – Transfer of Oversight and Management to Wake Technical Community College and the Capstone Center (Attachment FC-6)

§         Professional Development Institute for Community College Financial Aid Officers (Attachment FC-7)

§         Amendment to 2006-2007 Need-Based Financial Aid for Teaching and Nursing (Attachment FC-8) [CA]

§         Termination of Scholarship Agreement  - State Board of Refrigeration Examiners Scholarship (Attachment FC-9)

§         UNC/NCCCS 2 + 2 E-Learning Initiative Funds Allocation:  Contractual Services – University of North Carolina General Administration - Evaluation of Resource Development for Online Math Faculty (Attachment FC-10) [CA]

§         North Carolina Research Campus at Kannapolis (Attachment FC-11)

§         Prison Education Funds Allocation – Pamlico Community College (Attachment FC-12) [CA]

§         Construction/Property/Bond Authorization Report (Attachment FC-13) [CA]

 

Personnel Committee, Dr. Linwood Powell, Chair

 

New Business

 

President’s Report

 

Chair’s Remarks

 

Date of Next Meetings

April 19-20, 2007   SBCC Meeting – Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, NC

 

                        Adjournment