Minutes
Auburn University Steering Committee
Thursday, June 5, 2014
206 Samford Hall

Submitted by Patricia Duffy, Chair-Elect

Present: Chair Larry Crowley, Chair-Elect Patricia Duffy, Larry Teeter, Don Mulvaney, Mike Baginski

Absent: Secretary Judy Sheppard, Immediate Past Chair William Sauser, Secretary-Elect Gisela Buschle-Diller, Laura Plexico, Tim Boosinger

The meeting convened at 3:30 p.m. The minutes of the May 1 Steering Committee meeting were approved, subject to corrections.

The first business following approval of the minutes was a discussion of a resolution from Steering concerning creation of an ad hoc Senate committee on strategic budgeting. Patricia Duffy was charged with writing the resolution, to be presented at the June 17 meeting of the Senate.  It was decided that this Committee, which will be staffed by the Rules Committee, should include one faculty representative from each of the academic schools and colleges and the University Libraries, as well as representatives from Central Administration or other units, as determined by Rules. 

Chair-Elect Larry Teeter provided Steering members with a paper on RCM budget models by Kim Emery. He also mentioned that the University of Arizona has a good presentation on the web concerning RCM budgeting. Mike Baginski noted that Georgia Tech had increased its academic reputation considerably over the past several decades and thought it might be wise to find out what budgeting model was used there. 

Following this discussion, Steering approved the agenda for the June Senate meeting.  The resolution on the ad hoc Senate Committee on Strategic Budgeting would be an action item. Information items would include a presentation from Assistant Provost Andrew Gillespie on Auburn's international programs and a presentation by Mark Armstrong concerning Camp War Eagle and the First Year Experience. Mike Baginski suggested that the presentation on Camp War Eagle include the following information:  the purpose of the camps, the duration of the camps, the number of students attending the camps, and a break-down by in-state and out-of-state residence, and faculty participation in the camps.

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 5:15.