minutes from 8/20 meeting

Minutes from 8/20/07
20 August 07 Student Council Meeting as written by Paméla Tate-Roger

In attendance were:
Michael Boyd, Law School
Gillian Chachere, Grd Psych
Janet Ector, MFA – Writing Consciousness
James Sheldon, Grad ASC
Paméla Tate-Roger, MA Humanitites and Leadership
Sara Zesmer, ASC
Animal Prufrock, MFA
-- Creative Inquiry

Facilitator: Janet Ector

Agenda:
1. Updates on Meeting with Acting President Molina
2. Charter

MOLINA MEETING 8/14/07 @11am
Janet discussed the meeting with Acting President Molina, Abigail Wick and herself. Written minutes were unavailable, but Janet gave the following highlights from memory.
1. The meeting was very positive and Molina and the students shared mutual concerns regarding Financial Aid, Student Representation of the Board of Trustees and transparency.
2. President Molina was receptive and approved the IISC requests for the following:
a. Student representation on the Board of Trustees
b. Student representation on the Hiring Committee
c. Outreach to all students and all campuses (they are currently putting together an email list of all students). Teachers will make announcements of in their classrooms.
d. A student link on the main web page for New College entitled Meet the Students (note this link is already up and operational).


HIRING COMMITTEE MEETING 8/20/07 @ 4pm
Janet informed us that she attended the Hiring Committee Meeting after receiving a call from Acting President Molina on Saturday, August 18, 2007. Janet was unable to contact IISC Members so she attended the meeting. Animal Prufrock and Paméla Tate-Roger agreed to attend the Hiring Committee Meetings and Sara Zemer will serve as back-up in case one of the two selected representatives are not available. As the discussion progressed, it was decided that Sara Zemer will attend the Hiring Committee meetings with Animal and Paméla. The next meeting is on August 27, 2007 at 4pm in Room 7. We also discussed getting student input on questions.

Our next meeting will be August 27, 2007 at 6pm at 741 Valencia Street in the Art Studio.

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Please see the minutes below from the original transcription from Kendall Donovan:

Presidential Search Committee Notes
Monday, August 20, 2007


Next meeting: Monday, August 27 at 4 pm (distance folks will use the same conference call in code.)

Participants:
Jane S- BOT (chair)
Phillip- BOT
Janet- student council- MFA WC
Millie Henry- Faculty BA Hum
Linda James Meyers- Dean of Grad Psych
Mitch – Dean of the School of Humanities
Kathy V- Director of Alumni and assistant to the President
Craig Rasmussen- Enrollment services
Kendall- NB BA director and faculty (notes)

Today’s Agenda:
Role of the Interim president
Timeline/process for hiring
Potential candidates
Process to finding additional candidates

Future agenda items:
Specific process for selecting the interim pres
Job description and purpose of interim president
How long is interim term?


Agenda Items

Role of the president:
General brainstorm ¬ A person who can bring sound organizational systems to
New College within the mission of New College; a person who can take action
to address the issues identified by WASC; coalition builder, able to deal
with the dire financial issues and PR issues; healer; confidence to
lead us into the full compliance with all of the WASC standards for accreditation.

Proposed Timeline:
Week 1 (8/20) – Research places to find interim presidents; cost and time of listings
(Mitch) for cost analysis; creating job announcement

Week 2 (8/28) – Post job announcement to listing sites; create detailed job
description and set interviewing and hiring process

Week 4-5 (9/3) – Receive applications and pursue contacts

Week 5-6 (9/10) – Interviews and send recommendations to the BOT

Week 7 (9/24) – BOT hires Interim President


Potential Candidates:
Luis will ask Ralph Wolfe for recommendations. He has already recommended two people that Luis will pass on to us. Luis will give us the information about the Registry for College and University Presidents (http://www.registry-online.org/default.asp)

FC may have a list of 2 or 3 people. We may ask for ideas from faculty, staff, and students.

Places to post the job listings:
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• New York Times
• Inside Higher Ed
• Idealist.org
• Registry for College and University Presidents
Mitch will contact each to find out the cost and timing of announcements.

Discussion on Process for hiring:
• Screening process to select interviewees and vote on the interviewee group
• Hiring criteria
• Interview questions
• Identify an interview team
• The interview process –
- set maximum number of interviews (5-8)
- round 1 (committee members) and round 2 (BOT executive group)
- hiring team and interview dates
- hiring criteria/rubric chart for scoring interviewees
- interview questions
- individual vs panel interviews?
- interview process observer
- ranking process for selecting the 2-4 people we will recommend to the BOT.

Action Items:
• Mitch will research the places we can do listings for costs and time considerations.
• Linda, Kathy, and Phillip will work on the process for communicating to NC community and posting on web via Edwardo. This communication will include the names of the committee participants and an email contact for the committee (Craig will monitor). .
• Jane will send notes on to the committee and work on a job announcement that she will email out for our feedback over the next week.
• All- give feedback to Jane about job announcement over the next week.