BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES
WESTERN COUNCIL OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS Region 7 of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs
Business Meeting Agenda Friday, November 1, 2013
Salt Lake City, Utah
1. Welcome and Approval of Agenda
2. Approval of Minutes, June, 2013 Meeting in Salt Lake City. A request to verify attendance at Boise meeting was made by Steve Mountjoy. (Verified-‐Actual number registered was 41. Actual number attended 40.) Action item from last minutes: Steve Mountjoy to verify last year’s Boise meeting meal expenses. Steve reported the amount was verified and was accurate.
3. Continuing Business a. President’s Report
i. Attendance: 49 pre-‐registered for this conference. We had 40 in winter 2013, 60 attendees in 2012, and 56 attendees in 2011.
ii. $500 scholarship donation in the name of the Excellence in Teaching award winner, J. Aaron Christopher, was made to California Baptist University iii. Presentations
1. Past President: Stephen Mountjoy.
2. 2013 Excellence in Teaching: J. Aaron Christopher, California Baptist University (not present, award sent with fellow employee.)
iv. A new region succession plan was implemented whereby the position(s) of Secretary and Treasurer were divided as of July 1st. The new succession plan details that the Secretary will become the President Elect, and then the President. We will elect a Secretary-‐designate later in the meeting.
v. In January a discussion ensued about moving the date of the annual regional meeting to a more “temperate climate” time period. The executive committee considered this and after some research on hotel rates and availability, with difference given to conflicting events and temperature, moved the annual regional conference to October 30-‐Nov 1. It was also decided that the discussion on when to meet next would be continued at that time.
b. Treasurer’s Report
Motion to pay off ACBSP Capital Campaign balance of $2,000 was made by Ron Galloway, seconded, approved unanimously
c. Committee Reports: (discussed after committee reports) d. Nominations and Elections:
i. Election for Secretary-‐designate 2013-‐2014, four year institution (3-‐year
succession commitment: Secretary 2014-‐15; President-‐elect 2015-‐16; President 2016-‐17) Craig Brewer from Notre Dame de Namur University was nominated, nominations closed, unanimous approval
ii. The following individuals were nominated to fill open committee positions 1. Publication Committee: Jim Wang, Westminster College
2. Global Business Education: Sam Dunn, Northwest Nazarene University 3. Business/Industry Relation Committee: Tom Skochinski from Grand
Canyon University said he had a collague who would like to serve in this capacity. He would check with them and get back to Dennis Bromley, President.
4. New Business
a. Site for 2014-‐15 Regional Conference – Vancouver, Canada hosted by Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Dates October 22-‐24, 2014, Lee will investigate, with national, having pre-‐conference workshop(s) suggested evaluator training
b. Site for 2015-‐16 Regional Conference – San Francisco, California hosted by Skyline, Dates October 21-‐23, 2015, probably at Notre Damede Namur University
c. Site for 2016-‐17 Regional Conference – possibly in Seattle (Corrine Holden) or San Diego d. National Committee Updates:
i. By-‐Laws Committee – Teresa Gillespie, Northwest University (WA) (4-‐yr, Region 7, 2011-‐2013) -‐ No update
ii. Marketing Committee – Freda Hartman, University of Phoenix (4-‐yr, Region 7, 2010-‐2013) -‐ No update
iii. Strategic Planning Committee – Ron Galloway, Northwest Nazarene University (ID) (4-‐yr, Region 7, 2013-‐2015) Update: The most recent work has been to build out the plan to include international areas. The current draft in online and available for review on the ACBSP website.
iv. Articulation Committee – Hal Morgan, University of Phoenix (AZ) (4-‐yr, Region 7, 2011-‐2014) -‐ No update
v. Business/Industry Relations Committee – Stacey Garrett, Grand Canyon
University (AZ) (4-‐yr, Region 7, 2013-‐2016) -‐ No update-‐need 1 year replacement vi. Global Business Education Committee – -‐ No update Diana Gilmore, Notre Dame
vii. Committee for New Media – Jeff Lineman, Northwest Nazarene (ID) (4-‐yr, Region 7, 2013-‐2016) Update: new name “Digital Media Communications Committee”. Current work has been to bring new website online and to improve website usage.
viii. Member Relations Committee – Brenda Johnson, Northwest Nazarene (ID) (4-‐yr, Region 7, 2013-‐2016) Update: A new member of staff at the ACBSP home office will be hired to help coordinate activities. Mentioned it is interesting to meet with the new members from the regions as the time zones are quite different. e. Region 7 Committee Updates:
i. Strategic Planning Committee (Chair, Clarissa Cota) Update by Lynnette Yerbury. Moving forward on some of the plan initiatives. A payout was made for the Teaching Excellence Student Scholarship. It was decided that a copy of the current strategic plan should be emailed out to attendees of the annual conference in Chicago in advance and that members come prepared to revise and review as deemed necessary.
ii. Teaching Excellence Award Committee (Chair, Alisa Fleming) Update: send out application announcement early. Members were asked to urge their peers to apply for the award. It was noted that we now have three additional months between our regional conference and the due date, and it is hoped this will encourage more individuals to apply. There will be a need to replace Alisa at the national conference meeting.
iii. 2014-‐15 Regional Conference Committee (Chair, Helen Vallee) Update: Plans are currently underway for next year’s regional conference. A motion was made and seconded to have a preconference workshop. Lee Smith agreed to contact the ACBSP home office with a request to provide.
iv. 2015-‐16 Regional Conference Committee (Chair, Linda Whitten): Update: Skyline is excited to have the conference come to California. They will include University of DeVry and Notre Dame de Namur in the planning process and make it a group
effort. The mentioned that they would like to have a preconference workshop on how to prepare a Self-‐Study.
5. Recognitions 6. Other Business
I. Approved $250 scholarship funding to both honor societies this year with the amount to be re-‐evaluated for following years with desire to increase if possible. Kappa Beta Delta (Check to Mary Riley at ACBSP)
Delta Mu Delta (Chuck Fazzie)
II. We need to address the idea of paying a 20% of incidential conference cost fee to host institutions. It has been done sporadically in the past. The Treasurer would like to have a policy regarding this. It was agreed to put this on the agenda for the Region 7 Business Meeting in Chicago next June.
was nominated. The motion was seconded and passed.
7. Adjourn
List of Attendees:
Jacob Avila California Baptist University [email protected] Lori Becker British Columbia Institute of Technology [email protected] Charles Beem Bucks County Community College [email protected] Arun Bhardwaj Northern Alberta Institute of Technology [email protected]
Michelle Bradford DeVry University [email protected]
Craig Brewer Notre Dame De Namur University [email protected] Dennis Bromley Salt Lake Community College [email protected] Debra Bryant Dixie State University [email protected]
Bob Burdette Salt Lake Community College [email protected] Rolayne Day Salt Lake Community College [email protected] Darla Donaldson California Baptist University [email protected] Samuel Dunn Northwest Nazarene University [email protected]
Alisa Fleming University of Phoenix [email protected] James Fogal Notre Dame de Namur University [email protected]
Ronald Galloway Northwest Nazarene University [email protected] Alexander Garcia Jones International University [email protected] Roger Goodson Notre Dame de Namur University [email protected] Donald Gren Salt Lake Community College [email protected] Shauna Hatfield Salt Lake Community College [email protected] Corrine Holden City University of Seattle [email protected]
Clifford Hurst Westminster College [email protected] Brenda Johnson Northwest Nazarene University [email protected]
Craig Johnson George Fox University [email protected]
Melissa Koerner Westminster College [email protected] Dennis Lessard Colorado State University -‐ Global [email protected] Jeffrey Lineman Northwest Nazarene University [email protected]
Timothy Lucas Northwest University [email protected]
Joel Maier Delta Mu Delta [email protected]
Soledad McCarthy Skyline College [email protected]
Stacee McIff Snow College [email protected]
Stephen Mountjoy Northwest Nazarene University [email protected]
Stephanie Moyle Westminster College [email protected] Tammie Neeley Salt Lake Community College [email protected]
Kevin Nelson Western State Colorado University [email protected] John Nordstrom College of Western Idaho [email protected] Paige Paulsen Salt Lake Community College [email protected] Mark Pieffer Jones International University [email protected]
Christine Roumbanis Skyline College [email protected]
Tom Skochinski Grand Canyon University [email protected]
Sharon Starcher DeVry University [email protected]
Helen Vallee Kwantlen Polytechnic University [email protected]
Jin Wang Westminster College [email protected]
Joe Welker College of Western Idaho [email protected]
Linda Whitten Skyline College [email protected]
Barbie Willett Salt Lake Community College [email protected] Lynnette Yerbury Salt Lake Community College [email protected]
