Minutes of the Meeting of Tuesday, February 8, 2000

Minutes of the Meeting of Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 2:00 p.m., Octavia II

PRESENT:

Michelle Andrews
Catherine Comiskey
Debbie Diliberto
Bob Gross
Charlotte Harris
Gail Howard
Dave Huffman
Avia Morgan
Robert Reed
Paula Ruiz-Saurage
Karen Shields
Jay Sonier
Arthur Stern

ABSENT:

Al Alcazar
Jay Calamia
Germayne Turner

GUESTS:

Laura Gallien, Campus Ministry
Julia McSherry, Publications Director

I. Arthur Stern called the meeting to order at 2:01 p.m.

II. Approval and/or correction of the Minutes of the January 11, 2000 meeting

MOTION was made and seconded to approve the minutes of the January 11, 2000 meeting. MOTION passed.

III. Old Business

A. Ongoing Institutional Objective #5: Staff Responsibilities

Mr. Stern sent the final form of the objective via e-mail to all the senators. He thanked everyone who contributed to the report, and he read the cover letter that will accompany the response to the UPT committee. Institutional Objective #5 will be on the agenda for the upcoming UPT meeting.

B. Survey on staff salaries (peer group comparison)

This item was brought up at the last meeting by Billie Baladouni. Ms. Harris said that within the last two years, when staff salaries were reviewed, the peer group was not used for comparison. Loyola’s salaries were compared to local and regional companies. Mr. Reed said the new peer group was used to compare retention, residences, and law schools, but agreed that it was not used for purposes of salary comparisons. Mr. Stern will ask John Sears for the list of the universities included in the new peer group and for any information on staff salary comparisons.

IV. New Business

A. Guest - Laura Gallien, Associate Campus Minister

Ms. Gallien distributed letters and a pledge sheet, created by the U.S. bishops for the Jubilee Year 2000. She spoke to the group about an event to be held on the evening of February 16 in the St. Charles Room. All groups on campus are invited to come together and challenge the university and local community to live the ideals of everyday Christianity. She explained the eight sections listed on the pledge sheet and urged the Senate to develop a challenge for a certain goal.

Mr. Stern asked that suggestions be sent to him before Friday and he will e-mail all comments to the members. He also asked for a volunteer to represent the group at the event.

B. Committee Reports:

1. Senate subcommittee/Staff-Students - G. Howard - A second meeting was held to narrow down ideas and begin to implement them. The subcommittee decided: 1) to promote more staff involvement on campus, and, 2) that staff members will attend student group meetings, beginning with the SGA. A voice vote was taken and all senators approved the suggestions.

2. Rec Sports & Athletics - R. Reed - No meetings held.

3. Parking - R. Reed - The University Police Department is rewriting all parking regulations and adding some new ones. There will be no significant changes.

4. Fringe Benefits - J. Sonier - The Fringe Benefits Committee met on January 19. Leo Guibault of the consulting firm of Bearden & Guibault reviewed recommendations concerning Loyola’s life insurance and long-term disability plans. Some of the recommendations include considering a change to the basic benefit maximum for the life insurance plan and considering changes to the elimination period and own occupation characteristic of our long-term disability plan.

Recommendations and discussions will continue at the next meeting in February.

5. Jesuit/Catholic Identity - D. Huffman - There will be a meeting Tuesday, February 15 with Loyola delegates to the Santa Clara conference to network ideas on our Jesuit Identity.

6. UPT - A. Stern -Dr. Eiseman reported on Objective #3: Co-Curricular experiences. He highlighted Student Affairs’ offerings. There was also a report given by John Sears on the 1998-1999 Student Satisfaction Inventory reports.

V. Guests - Debbie Stieffel, Admissions, and Lydia Voigt, Academic Affairs

Ms. Voigt and Ms. Stieffel gave a PowerPoint presentation on the work that Admissions is doing in attracting and keeping students. They also provided a handout to follow along with the visual presentation. Additional pages in the handout included several graphs and charts reflecting enrollment management. They spoke on goals and objectives, displayed a Freshman profile, and explained the FTE count. This spring, the numbers on Freshman retention are the highest in recent history. The student satisfaction survey taken in 1998-1999 was discussed and explained. They also reported that the Noel Levitz software for leveraging students is a tremendous aid in identifying prospective students. In conclusion, it was reported that Loyola is attracting more students, offering better financial aid, and gaining more net revenue.

VI. Open Forum

Michelle Andrews brought up a problem she was experiencing in Residential Life with a decreasing number of Work-study students. There is a campus-wide shortage. Ms. Harris suggested that we ask someone in Financial Aid to answer the question of the Work Study budget problems.

Mr. Stern will include this item on next month’s agenda.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:55 p.m.