A guest asked who makes the decision on the president. Regent McFayden replied that the committee will. The guest noted that therefore more faculty should be on the committee.

Chair Andries noted that there are more people on the committee from the community than those who will serve under the president. Chair Glass expressed the concern that the committee may have an outdated view of the current struggles at the university and who we are now. She cited Chair Rye's research that showed 2-3 faculty members on presidential search committees at the other public universities in the state. VP Jackson asked about the size of the faculties at these institutions, and how proportional the committees are. Chair Andries noted the community member representation was not proportional on the current committee. He that adding more faculty would help with the problems of trust between faculty and the administration as well as low morale at the university. VP Jackson replied that she notes these concerns but did not have input on the make up of the committee. Regent McFayden stressed that stakeholders across campus will be able to have input on the presidential candidates.

President Sipes reiterated that all points of view could be expressed to Academic Search through Christina Leath.

Dr. Wheeler shared a powerpoint that addressed concerns about the university's movement to a centralized advising model, particularly the concerns expressed in a memo from PCC. Regarding the concern that there was not enough faculty input on the model's design, she noted that chairs were asked for input in meetings starting last May. This model may seem like a drastic change, but the existing process was weak. This is not so much a new policy as a clarification of the advising structure.

The new system allows faculty to serve in career mentoring. She has spoken with faculty and chairs and has heard that faculty want to spend less time with audits and the like and more on building relationships and getting students into their career field of choice.

Due to budget constraints, the university will not be able to hire career coaches. There is one professional advisor left from the old system; everyone else is new. Two of these new staff members have worked on improving the graduation rate for the 2010 cohort.

A guest asked if it will be the job of success coaches to manage specific cohorts. Dr. Wheeler replied that two coaches have worked that way for about nine months. They provide consistency and help identify overall factors that help or harm graduation rates.

A guest asked if the success coach works with everyone in a specific cohort. Dr. Wheeler noted that they do and their work needs to be data driven. Students have many reasons why they drop out; success coaches work to remove those barriers. A number of students have re-enrolled due to the efforts of these coaches. Dr. Jackson noted that these success coaches allow the university to work with students in a different way than faculty can. Since there is a natural attrition rate, we have to work very hard to graduate students. Dr. Wheeler noted that her goal is