MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF

THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

September 12, 2006

ATTENDANCE :

Regents present:

James Koch, President
Jack Fortner, Vice President
Sandra Begay-Campbell, Secretary-Treasurer
Raymond Sanchez
John “Mel” Eaves
Rosalyn Nguyen
Don Chalmers

Acting President present:

David Harris

Vice Presidents present:

Paul Roth, Executive Vice President, HSC
Reed Dasenbrock, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs
Michael Kingan, Interim Vice President of Development
Susan A. Carkeek, Vice President of Human Resources
Elisio “Cheo” Torres, Vice President of Student Affairs
Michael Kingan, Interim Vice President of Advancement

University Counsel present:

Patrick Apodaca

Regents' Advisors present:

Virginia Shipman, Faculty Senate
David Groth, President, Staff Counsel
Joseph Garcia, President, GPSA
Brittany Jaeger, President ASUNM
Roberto Ortega, President, UNM Alumni Association
Robert Bovinette, Chair, UNM Foundation

Others in attendance:

Members of the administration, faculty, staff, students, the media and others.

Regent Jamie Koch presided and called the meeting to order at 1:00 pm.

ADOPTION OF AGENDA, Regent James Koch

Motion approved unanimously to adopt today's agenda (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Nguyen).

APPROVAL OF SUMMARIZED MINUTES OF THE August 8, 2006 UNM BOARD OF REGENTS MEETING

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Summarized Minutes of the August 8, 2006 UNM Board of Regents meeting (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Nguyen)

INTRODUCTION – UNM DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS, Reed Dasenbrock, EVP, Provost

Provost Dasenbrock recognized the distinguished professors, the highest title for faculty at UNM, for Spring 2005, Fall 2005 and August 2006.

Spring 2005 : James Brown, Biology; Eric Charnov; Biology; Louise Lamphere, Anthropology; William Miller, Psychology; Randy Thornhill, Biology.

Fall 2005 : Chris Garcia, Political Science; Joan Bybee, Linguistics; Nitant Kenkre, Physics & Astronomy; Robert Paine, Chemistry; E.H.Uhlenhuth, Psychiatry; Gary Scharnhorst, English, Steven Feld, Anthropology and Music.

August 2006 : Jonathan Abrams, Internal Medicine & Cardiology; Keith Basso, Anthropology; Steven Brueck, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Physics & Astronomy; Carlton Caves, Physics & Astronomy; Judith Chazin-Bennahum, Theatre & Dance; Steven Gangestad, Psychology; Fred Hashimoto, Internal Medicine; Paul Hutton, History; Ruth Luckasson, Educational Specialties; Tey Diane Rebolledo, Spanish & Portuguese; Howard Waitzkin, Sociology.

PUBLIC INPUT:

•  None

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT, David Harris, Acting President

Just a few of the significant events that have occurred since our last Board Meeting. Later on the Agenda today, the Regents will be affirming the land exchange with Rio Rancho. At the Agreement ceremony we had at Rio Rancho last month, I was directed by the Regents present to try to devise a plan for a master plan campus. Roger Schluntz, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, is accomplished and experienced in this field. He is on sabbatical this semester. I met with Roger and asked if he would spearhead this effort to master plan this 216 acre track. He has agreed to take this task on. Hopefully we will be having a design workshop this fall inviting other distinguished academics to bring ideas.

• We are going to be initiating our United Way Campaign this month. Our co-chairs for this campaign will be Josh Kavanagh from Parking and Transportation and Dr. Breda Bova from my office. WE are going to begin with our Women in Philanthropy breakfast on September 21 st . Last year, UNM had a record year by raising $432, 599 – a 30% increase from the prior year. This year our goal will be $475,000.
• The University of New Mexico School of Law is ranked the number one law school for Hispanics, according to Hispanic Business Magazine, as published in its September issue. UNM's School of Law total graduate enrollment is 360, of which 87 are Hispanic, representing 24 %. UNM awarded 98 J.D. degrees, of those 26 were awarded to Hispanics, representing 27 percent of graduates. In addition, our School of Medicine was ranked 4 th and School of Engineering 10 th .
• Long-time University of New Mexico employee, Theo Crevenna, was honored last week. He received the Order Mexican del Aguila Azteca, which is the highest award given by the Mexican government to a foreigner.
• Barbara Carver , Program Operations Director for the Executive Vice President's Office at HSC, has been appointed Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies. In her new position she will work closely with Dean Amy Wohlert to develop and implement Office of Graduate Studies initiatives and will oversee day-to-day operations. She will begin her new duties September 25 th .
• Pam Hurd-Knief has been appointed Interim Associate Vice President for Development. She will lead the day-to-day operations of UNM's Development programs and serve as a Senior Advisor in planning and established UNM's upcoming comprehensive campaign.
• Terry Babbitt has promoted to Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management and Tim Gutierrez has been promoted to Associate Vice President for College Enrichment and Outreach. Terry has set a world record for being in an interim role and I am very pleased he was finally made permanent.
• John Pieper has been appointed Vice President for Research and Sandra Ferketich will be the Vice President for Interdisciplinary Education at HSC.
• This morning in a press conference Governor Richardson announced that Gary Bland, State Investment Officer will be transferring $5M of the state's permanent fund to the Anderson School of Management portfolio, which will enable our students to manage these funds. This brings our total portfolio to $7M.
• About two years ago, the Economic Development Department asked the three research universities to join them in contracting for an Asian Economic Development Specialist, which we have been doing. I am going to be heading a Delegation, including the Provost, to Japan next week. I'll be gone for four days.

RE-APPOINTMENT TO UNM LABOR BOARD , Susan Carkeek, VP, Human Resources

•  The new Resolution that you passed includes a term of appointment for the Labor Board with a September expiration date. I ask for the re-appointment of the three board members. We had our first meeting and there are two more coming up. We request your re-appointment of Carol Oppenheimer, Peter Malory and Stephanie Wilson for one year terms on our new Labor Board.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the re-appointment of Carol Oppenheimer, Peter Malory and Stephanie Wilson to the UNM Labor Board (1 st Koch, 2 nd Eaves)

COMMENTS FROM REGENTS ADVISORS

Virginia Shipman, Faculty Senate

•  My two action items are: to re-affirm the characteristics the faculty sees as minimum qualifications for the president and the support for the new Masters and PhD program in Nanoscience and Systems. The College of Arts & Science and the School of Engineering are working together on this new program.

David Groth, President, Staff Council

• Our Staff Council Staff Picnic, which is our annual event, will be on October 7 th at our Homecoming football game. We are selling about 3,000 tickets.
• Our committees are working on our three primary goals this year: compensation, retirement and health care.
• We are playing a large role in the leadership of New Mexico Higher Education Staff Association.

Joseph Garcia, President, GPSA

•  We had our first meeting and it was very well attended.

• The GPSA is discussing the student regent election process. There is a little bit of a bad feeling left with the selection committee. Will the selection process that we will go through to select a student regent be taken into consideration?

Brittany Jaeger, President, ASUNM

• This past Thursday was our annual Red Rally barn fire and it was a huge success. We had the football team on the stage.
• All the student body presidents of institutions of higher education in the state have been meeting. We try to meet every other month in different places all around the state. We have talked about student initiatives, student goals and how we can increase the voice of students across the state.
• This year is the 10 th birthday of the New Mexico Lottery Scholarship and we are celebrating the birthday the entire year.

Roberto Ortega, President, UNM Alumni Association

• This is our busiest time of year with Homecoming coming up. The theme this year is “There's No Place Like Home.”
• The Lettermen Hall of Honor Banquet will be held September 21 st at 6:00 pm.
• Our Welcome Back Days were very successful, 40+ alumni volunteers helped over two days.
• The Legislative Appreciation Reception will be held on January 29, 2007.
• We are beginning to launch In-Circle, a new social networking tool exclusively for UNM Alumni.
• We are re-configuring Hodgin Hall since it has become the permanent home for the Alumni Association and Alumni Relations.
• We began our chili roast, the most popular of our programs.
• Our civil engagement pilot project, which is being co-sponsored by the Provost Office, is in planning.

Robert Bovinette, Chair, UNM Foundation

• I'd like to start with the performance of the consolidated investment fund over the course of this past fiscal year. We ended the fiscal year with a market value of $266.1M.
• The Foundation is excited about meeting some very ambitious fund raising goals.
• The Foundation is committed to the development of strategic partnerships with the Regents, University leadership, faculty, students, staff and friends of the University.

COMMENT FROM REGENTS

Regent Begay-Campbell provided recognition to 15 tribal leaders who came together at the UNM Football game last week and participated in the opening events.

• James Koch asked Ann Monson, Susan McKinsey and Susan Carkeek to stand up briefly. I want to thank you again for your help in developing this UNM Impact 2006. It is a very good document.
• I'd like to talk about our successful meeting in Las Cruces last Saturday with the Board of Regents of NMSU. We will be collaborating on the Rio Rancho campus and our legislative issues and priorities. Between the two Universities, there are over 60,000 students, our budgets are over $2B, and we had the best meeting we could have. We will meet with them again next year and there will be some other meetings off and on. Our Pharmacy Program was very well received.
• David Harris commented that former governor Caruthers is developing two different initiatives that would benefit the University. One of them is a program for endowed chairs. It would appropriate $20M to be matched by each university that participates in the program. He has developed a statute. The second item is a proposal for $10M per year, recurring appropriation, for additional graduate assistance and improvement in graduate assistance salaries. Both of these efforts would benefit the University greatly.
• James Koch commented that they had an important meeting today with Central New Mexico Community College. We have agreed to collaborate with them, as far as Rio Rancho. They have some 20,000 students. This would be 90,000 students between the three institutions that will be working together.

DISCUSSION AND ADOPTION OF BOARD OF REGENTS SCHEDULE AND CONSENT CALENDARS 2006-07 , James Koch, President

The work of the Regents will be done in the Committees. The Chairmen of those Committees will completely control those Committees. The Committee meetings will be held on different days of the month to have balance.

• All meetings are open meetings. Regents can attend all Committee meetings. Regent Advisors can attend all Committee meetings.
• I will be talking to you all individually about how you are going to present your reports to the Regents, maybe it will be every other month so we can cut down the amount of time. I hope you all continue to attend the Regents meeting.
• We are going to go to a consent calendar. I am trying to make the majority of the work done in the Committees. My feeling is that's where the majority of the work should be done. The only Committee that will meet every month is Finance and Facilities. As far as the monthly Regents meeting, as we see this move along, we may go to every other month, if we see things moving in a proper manner.
• Patrick Apodaca explained the applicable requirements of a consent agenda for the Regents Board meetings. A consent agenda involves grouping certain items, usually non-controversial, and routine matters that come up and are reported by a Committee to the full Board on the Consent Calendar. There is a provision in the Regent's Policy 1.2 that allows for consent agenda matters. Under our current Regents policy, the Committee meetings are not subject to the Open Meetings Act, by policy. If a standing Committee is to take up a consent agenda item, that portion of the meeting is fully subject to the Open Meetings Act. One of the points to consider, if the Board decides to implement this practice, it might want to consider changing the policy.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the amendments of Regents Policy 1.2 to add this additional language “all matters of categories of matters within the subject matters regularly assigned to a standing committee shall be deemed to have been referred by the board of that standing committee.” The second amendment would be “any board member shall have the right by request to remove an item from the consent agenda.”(1 st Eaves, 2 nd Koch). This motion may be refined by University Counsel to accurately reflect the intention.

Motion approved to further amend Regents Policy 1.2 to say that all standing committees shall comply with the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Koch)

ACADEMIC/STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE , Regent Rosalyn Nguyen

• The Maxwell Museum was re-accredited.
• There are several searches going on at the present moment: one is for the Director for the School of Public Administration; second is for a Dean for the Library: and the third is for a Dean of Arts & Sciences. Also, a Campus Director for the Taos Branch.
• Two action items: 1 st – approval of Masters and PhD program in Nanoscince

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Masters and PhD program in Nanoscience. (1 st Koch, 2 nd Begay-Campbell)

• The 2 nd item - approval of a new endowed chair, in Creative Writing.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the endowed chair in Creative Writing. (1 st Nguyen, 2 nd Chalmers)

Information Items :

• Provost Dasenbrock stated the six goals for Academic Affairs and Student Affairs and Research for the coming year.
1. short and long-term strategy for smart enrollment growth
2. agenda for excellence in undergraduate education
3. areas for marked opportunity and public engagement
4. strengthen relations with national labs
5. take advantage of the new opportunities by the lab contract
6. continue to improve community connections

•  We also had a presentation on the UNM Graduation Task Force.

The Summer Success Grants helps students have the Lottery Scholarship. This grant helps students, who have the possibility of losing their scholarship, to regain and retain their Lottery Scholarship.

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH UPDATE, Raymond Sanchez, Chair

We are on track for the Advisory Committee. We have it at 18, can go as high as 21 members. I think the community is going to be pleased with the diversity of the Committee. We are hoping that we will have a list, of a minimum of five, to the Board of Regents in March and have this process concluded by July 2007 and have a new president on board.

ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE , Don Chalmers, Chair

Neither the Advancement or Development Committee has met since the last meeting, but the work has continued. The Needs Assessment continues to be refined. Our wish list has totaled between $7M - $8M.

• The budget, $400 - $500M, a campaign like that generally has a budget 15% - 17%. That is the total amount of what we will be raising. Last year we raised just under $50M.

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE , Don Chalmers, Chair

• See above.

FINANCE AND FACILITIES COMMITTEE , John “Mel” Eaves, Chair .

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Surplus Property Disposition Detail list for the month of August, 2006. (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Koch)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Revised Major Capital Project Priorities. (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Fortner)

Motion approved unanimously to approve four Capital Projects: (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Nguyen))

•  Castetter Hall: undergraduate Laboratory Renovations

•  Popejoy Auditorium Seating Replacement

•  Research Laboratory Building Phase II – Sevilleta Field Station

•  Indoor Practice Facility, South Campus (there was discussion on “stamping” the plans by outside architect or by Roger Schluntz, subject to Dean Schluntz's review).

•  There may be a fund-raiser to auction off the old seats from Popejoy Hall.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the new name for the Science and Technology Corporation @ UNM to STC.UNM. (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Koch)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the following items related to the Hospital. (1 st Koch, 2 nd Fortner)

•  3.0T MRI Renovation for OSIS

•  Two “DDR” Rooms for BBRP Emergency Imaging Center

•  Partnership Agreement – Tricore Reference Laboratories

•  Corporate Express Inc.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Quasi Endowment Funds division into two endowed chairs in the Department of Pediatrics. (1 st Koch, 2 nd Fortner)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Administrative Allocation Increase from the Consolidated Investment Fund. (1 st Fortner, 2 nd Nguyen)

• The letter agreement was signed by Acting President Harris and Commissioner Lyons on August 17, 2006, subject to Board of Regents approval.
• Yesterday, the Finance and Facilities Committee was presented with a detailed Agreement, which is not in the final form, but was approved by the attorney for the Commissioner. We made some suggested changes. The Committee decided it should be left to the discretion of Acting President Harris and University Counsel to actually make the changes and put the Agreement in final form.
• The form of Resolution in your agendas was approved by the Committee. The form gives Acting President Harris blanket authority to put the Agreement in final form and execute and deliver the final Exchange Agreement on behalf of the Regents

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Land Exchange Agreement between UNM and the State Land Office for UNM West Campus in Rio Rancho.

• James Koch commented that there will be a closing on this. Once this is finished and signed-off, there will be a closing. The purpose of closing would to be to go into escrow. Patrick Apodaca commented that the closing will be October 1 st , with an actually transfer of title and conveyance of the real property.

Information Items :

• No action is needed on the information items from the Board.

Major Capital Projects – Quarterly Update

A quarterly report is presented by Andrew Cullen. The most major change we suggested in the form was to show the source of the funding. This was the only change that we made. The main purpose of considering this item was to make sure that this form provides the information the Board would like to have in these future reports.

HEALTH SCIENCES COMMITTEE , Jack Fortner, Chair

Motion approved unanimously to approve the permanent appointments to UNMH Medical Staff. (1 st Eaves, 2 nd Nguyen)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the reappointments to the UNMH Medical Staff. (1 st Fortner, 2 nd Nguyen)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the expansion of privileges of Dr. Isaac Tawil. (1 st Fortner, 2 nd Eaves)

Information Items :

• What is available to find the information on-line for medical services all over the state? Is this something we want the full Board to see? It is just the start of more people finding out about it. Dr. Roth commented that we can present this new program out of the Library to the whole Board.

EXECUTIVE SESSION:

Discussion and determination, where appropriate, of matters subject to the attorney-client privilege regarding pending or threatened litigation in which the University is or may become a participant pursuant to Section 10-15-1.H (7), NMSA.

Discussion and determination, where appropriate, of strategic and long-range business plans of public hospital pursuant to Section 10-15-1.H, NMSA.

Certification that only those matters described above were discussed in Executive Session. If necessary, ratification of actions, if any, taken in Executive Session regarding matters subject to the attorney-client privilege.

Adjournment at 3:45 p.m.

Re-opened at 4:00 p.m.

Final Adjournment at 4:05 p.m.

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Regent James H. Koch Regent Sandra Begay-Campbell