Facilitator: Claudia Isaac

Recorder: Jackie Hood

Committee Presenter

Communication and Collaboration with Stakeholders, Claudia Isaac

Strategic Partners, Alumni (for Rick Richardson)

Support for New Mexico Economy, Adult and Continuing Bob Paine

Education, Vocational Education, Economic Development,

Commercialization of Intellectual Property

Community Outreach/Relations Ed Rodriguez

Public Support/Institutional Image Shawn Shepard

Relations with Other Educational Institutions Cindy Stuart

Contributions to Quality of Life in New Mexico,

Community Development, Delivery of Services,

Urban Agenda, State Agenda David Stuart

Additional Strategic Planning Committee attendee: Lawrence Roybal

Provost’s Office attendee: Nancy Middlebrook

Number of participants (not including Strategic Planning Committee members and subcommittee members): 6

Comments by attendees:

1. An individual from the Albuquerque International Folk Dancers noted that the parking spaces for their practice sessions in the Carlisle Gym have been whittling away since 1986. The Folk Dancers practice on Saturday night and often do not leave until 10:30 p.m. She is afraid that people will not come to the dances if they have to ride the bus. Parking behind Zimmerman is now all reserved spaces and she does not feel secure on campus due to the recent rapes.
2. One individual noted that the campus has been perceived as very unfriendly. He commented that he has had corporate donors visit and they have been ticketed when they have displayed properly filled out parking passes on their windows. One donor went back to his car to find a tow truck about to haul his car away.
3. One member of the Faculty Organizing Committee had several comments as noted below:

• More students and faculty should have been on the strategic planning committees.
• The faculty is being asked to do more with less, causing turnover of faculty to other schools.
• If faculty are expected to do more, then faculty who were lost need to be replaced.
• To enhance public support and our institutional image, we should create a portal on the Website. Linda Miller is an expert in this area. A customizable portal is critical for internal communication for all our constituents. Currently, CIRT has only 256 dial-up lines, so the University community cannot get to their own Website. Increase dial up lines.
• The quality of life committee should add science along with arts and culture to their report. A formal consortium on quality of life initiatives should be developed.
• If we want to advertise UNM, we should not use a general image campaign. Spend the $200,000 where is actually serves to enhance our image.
• In terms of community outreach and relations, we should understand that TVI is our competitor. We are being hurt by TVI since they are taking away our credit hours.
• We will not be at the forefront of technology until we have the infrastructure – telephones, computers, and data lines.

1. A staff member noted that we rarely mention staff in the reports, but primarily faculty and students. We need to look more carefully at staff involvement in the process. Also, more attention should be given to staff involvement with the community. Staff could be given paid time off to contribute to the service agenda of the University. For example, the University community could build a house for Habitat for Humanity. Staff would be working next to faculty and students to meet the University’s service commitment to the community.
2. The member of the Economic Development committee noted that he disagreed with the emphasis of the report of his committee. He did not believe that economic development should be a core mission for a faculty member. The committee had a large argument over this issue. In his opinion, the best economic development we can do is to create good thinkers and good writers. He found his committee to have a large concentration of technology-type people whose focus was on creating jobs for the community. He did not believe there was a strong concern for teaching or research on the committee. The report overemphasized the creation of jobs and, as a faculty member, he does not believe his job is to create new industries and jobs.

Another individual in the audience commented that he does not believe the faculty should serve corporate America. A member of a different committee noted that if economic development meant supporting the existing players, then she was not for it. But, if economic development is defined as the University having a role in finding solutions to poverty, then she was for it. A discourse on who should be the players at the table should be a fundamental role of a University. The University can be a convener for free and open discussion.

3. One audience member introduced himself as a retired Sandia Labs engineer. He noted that in his opinion the University is a wonderful place with wonderful people and that he does not find it forbidding. He believes that the strategic planning process tends to promote self-flagellation. He did believe that the room (Woodward 101) was not an appropriate setting to promote discussion. He noted that the campus and physical environment is a great asset and we need to encourage the Architecture and Planning faculty to get involved in forming the city and in mass transportation to help with parking. A committee member concurred noting that we need to have formal planning involvement on what the local area should look like.

Attendees were thanked for their participation. A reminder was given that the full reports of the committees are currently on the Web.