Administrative Council Meeting: October 2018

Meeting Date

October 26th, 2018

Call to Order

A meeting for School of Allied Health Sciences Administrative Council was held at Health Sciences Riverside Room 209 on October 26, 2018. Attendees included Robert Wood, Kristy Grabert, Lillian Smith, Joie Burns, Jennifer Eichmeyer, and Lutana Haan. Members not in attendance included John McChesney.

Agenda

• Approval of minutes (N/A)

• Announcements

  • Department Announcements:

    • Lutana: Celebrating Respiratory Care this week
    • Joie: Brown Bag Luncheon on Nov. 2; Radiologic Sciences Week Nov. 4-10
    • Lillian: April Public Health Week
    • Jen: Genetic Counseling Day (Nov. 8); Virtual Open House on Nov. 13

  • Textbook Adoptions

    • Reminder to report necessary texts and books to the Boise State Book Store

  • Early Career Workshop on Workload and Allocation of Effort (November 15th,

    2PM, Bergquist Ballroom SUB)

    • Bob: Ideally, we will have a clinical faculty member on the panel as well.
      • Action Item: By Thursday, Nov. 8, please submit any names of a seasoned
        clinical faculty member who might be willing to serve on the Nov. 15th
        workshop panel (if any.)

  • SAHS Spotlight Series

    • Departmental presentations
      • Cynnie Curl (Nov. 1, 3 PM, Hatch A.)
      • Call for new awardees
        • Action Item: By Thursday, Nov. 8 (with the exception of Lillian),
          please submit the name of at least one, but no more than three, individuals who the School might “spotlight” this Spring. The spotlight need not necessarily be on Scholarship, but if you have a faculty member who has made some notable scholarly contributions (e.g., recently received federal funding or perhaps national recognition), then the School would like them to be considered.
      • Invited Lecturers
        • Spring 2019: Robert Pangrazi, Faculty Emeritus, Arizona State
          Univ. (looking at the week of April 15th)
          • Bob: Intent is to create a presence in the community by
            bringing in a scholar. In this case, to share ideas and promote
            physical activity in youth.
        • Open call for 2020 lecturers
          • Will recirculate information / Call to Action about this

• Old Business

  • BB 2 FY_20 requests, processes, and presentations (All)

    • Bob: Presenting to Dean and other leaders. Thinking Nov. 29. Willing to work around schedules for those that cannot attend.
    • Bob: Sending a list of possible metrics that we might use to evaluate the
      health/progress of our programs. What do you see as quality indicators?
      • Action Item: By Thursday, Nov. 8, please submit suggestions for additions to the list of possible metrics we might use to evaluate the health/progress of our programs. (Will be sending an attachment)
    • Lillian: Add “High Reliance on Adjuncts” to CEH Pressure Points. May need to adjust Budget Model; the predicted baseline is inaccurate.

  • Dept. Chair and School Director Selection Processes (All)

    • Bob: Should Clinical Faculty be a part of the voting process? Would like to see them included so it is the same across departments.
    • Bob: Edited the proposed university policy for chair selection to be
      considered for our SAHS policy. Please consider this a “straw-man” that is
      intended only to give us a starting point that is not inconsistent with university policy.
      • Action Item: By Thursday, Nov. 8, please submit any suggested edits you
        may have to the proposed university policy for chair selection.
    • Planning and Evaluation processes for School Director, Heads/Chairs (All)

• New Business

  • Discussion about Strategic Plans and timetable for School Plan

    • Updates on any strategic plans you may be working with.
      • Bob: Would like a timeline for developing Strategic Plans for the
        school with enough time. May try to have drafted by the end of the year.
    • Quality indicators that interest you (data mining)
    • Marketing Analysis Discussion
    • Marketing Strategies: Social media, video production, hard copies, etc.
      • Bob: Would like to have a Spring event to support programs. We need to
        decide marketing strategy – hard-copy assets with QR Codes a possibility.
      • Bob: We’ll be hiring a student for social network support. Would like
        departments to give student content they’d like to include in the future.
      • Lillian: CEH does a lot of their own marketing. (Lizzie and Chelsea).
      • Department contacts for marketing:
        • Resp Care: Naomi Sallay
        • Rad Sci: Sue Antonich
        • CEH: Maria Tellez
        • Kines: TBD
        • Gen: Susie Seltzer
    • Changes in GA allocations at College Level. Perspectives and suggestions. (All)

  • Other items (All)

  • Adjournment

Action Items

• By Thursday, Nov. 8, please submit any names of a seasoned clinical faculty member who might be willing to serve on the Nov. 15th workshop panel (if any.)
• By Thursday, Nov. 8 (with the exception of Lillian) please submit the name of at least one, but no more than three, individuals who the School might “spotlight” this Spring. The spotlight need not necessarily be on Scholarship, but if you have a faculty member who has made some notable scholarly contributions (e.g., recently received federal funding or perhaps national recognition), then I would like them to be considered.
• By Thursday, Nov, 8, please submit suggestions for additions to the list of possible metrics we might use to evaluate the health/progress of our programs. (Will be sending an attachment)
• By Thursday, Nov. 8, please submit any suggested edits you may have to the proposed university policy for chair selection.

Other notes

• Lutana:

  • Would like to discuss Market Analysis (ran out of time.)

• Joie:

  • Would like to make HSR 101 Conference Room Zoom accessible by adding
    video/audio hardware. Priced at $200/month through campus, or we can purchase our own hardware but would be more maintenance.