October 26, 2011

1. Louisiana Board of Regents October 26, 2011

2. Committee Meetings • Finance • Facilities and Property • Academic and Student Affairs • Planning, Research and Performance

3. Finance Committee W. Clinton Rasberry, Jr., Chair Donna Klein, Vice Chair Scott Ballard Robert Bruno Maurice Durbin Joseph Farr Mary Ellen Roy Representatives from Management Boards Todd Barre´

4. Agenda Item III. • Preliminary FY 2012-13 Formula Funding Request • Total base funding request of $1.26B • $340M over current state funds budget • In addition, we are requesting pool funding for: • Enrollment growth/Stabilization - $24M • Performance - $36M

5. Recommendation Agenda Item III. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of the Preliminary FY 2012-13 Formula Funding Request.

6. Agenda Item IV. • BA-7 for the University of Louisiana System GRAD Act Carry-Forwards • System-wide total of $447,998 • Campuses participating: Grambling, La Tech, Northwestern, Southeastern, and UL Monroe • Must be approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget (JLCB)

7. Recommendation Agenda Item IV. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of the BA-7 for the University of Louisiana System GRAD Act Carry-Forwards.

8. Agenda Item V. • BA-7 for Carry Forward of Act 971 Balances under GRAD Act Provisions • Total of $1,675,372 • UL System and SU System campuses • GRAD Act statute language replaces Act 971 • Act 971 fund balances were previously approved by the Board of Regents • Must be approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget (JLCB)

9. Recommendation Agenda Item V. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of the BA-7 for Carry Forward of Act 971 Balances under GRAD Act provisions.

10. Agenda Item VI. • BA-7 for Louisiana State University System LSU A&M Enrollment Increase • Total of $8,000,000 • Budgeted for Salaries, Related Benefits, Operating Services, and Supplies • Must be approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget (JLCB)

11. Recommendation Agenda Item VI. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of the BA- 7 for the Louisiana State University System LSU A&M Enrollment Increase.

12. Agenda Item VII. • Response to House Resolution 161 of the 2011 Regular Legislative Session FINDINGS: • Louisiana’s HBCUs funding is comparable to Louisiana institutions. • For state appropriations per FTE student, HBCUs’ three year average was essentially the same (within 8/10th of a percent) as state-wide institutions. • For the last three fiscal years, the average formula funding implementation rate at HBCUs has exceeded the state-wide average.

13. Agenda Item VII. • Response to House Resolution 161 of the 2011 Regular Legislative Session FINDINGS: • When looking at the state funds per degree ratio, for four-year institutions, HBCUs ranked 1st, 3rd, and 5th highest. • When comparing Louisiana to SREB peers for total funds for Education and General (E&G) Operations, Louisiana’s 4-year institutions rank last in the SREB, while Louisiana’s 4-year HBCUs rank 3rd from the bottom.

14. Agenda Item VII. • Response to House Resolution 161 of the 2011 Regular Legislative Session RECOMENDATIONS: • HBCUs continue to work within the parameters of the funding formula. • HBCUs develop a solid recruitment plan to bring in students who are prepared to be successful at their institution. This will be of paramount importance as Louisiana’s admissions requirements become stricter over the next few years;

15. Agenda Item VII. • Response to House Resolution 161 of the 2011 Regular Legislative Session RECOMENDATIONS: • HBCUs continue to streamline their campus administrations and operations in an effort to redirect scarce resource to functions that increase student success; and • Staffing patterns and policies related to staff may need to be adjusted to allow greater budget flexibility.

16. Recommendation Agenda Item VII. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of the response to House Resolution 161 of the 2001 Regular Legislative Session.

17. Facilities and Property Committee Robert Bruno, Chair W. Clinton Rasberry, Jr., Vice Chair Charlotte Bollinger Maurice Durbin Joseph Farr Chris Gorman John Mineo IV Victor Stelly Representatives from Management Boards Rich Griswold

18. Agenda Item III. Capital Outlay Budget Request for FY 2012-2013

19. Emergency Category • Conditions that pose a threat to life. • Conditions that if not addressed soon will get worse with time and cost far more to deal with later. • Conditions that if not addressed could result in campus closure or partial closure.

20. Self-Generated Category • Projects that the institutions intend to provide funding to accomplish, either from donations, federal funds, self-generation, reimbursement bonds, the selling of revenue bonds, or from the operating budget in some cases.

21. Continuing Project Category • Projects that were previously partially funded, typically from GOB (State General Obligation Bonds), and now require continuation funding, usually for construction, but sometimes to supplement changes in the scope of the project or cost estimate increases.

22. New Projects Category • In the capital outlay system, a new project is one that has not received and encumbered previous funding. • New projects may not be new to us, and often have appeared in our recommendation before, without success. Regardless, they are “New”.

23. Five-Year Plan Future Projects • Capital Outlay requires planning for the future. Projects appearing in the five-year plan are those that we intend in future years, years two through five but not in year one of the five year plan.

24. Recommendation Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of the Capital Outlay Budget Request for FY 2012-2013.

25. Academic and Student Affairs Committee Mary Ellen Roy, Chair Harold Stokes, Vice Chair Charlotte Bollinger Maurice Durbin John Mineo IV Albert Sam Joe Wiley Representatives from Management Boards Karen Denby Jeannine Kahn Jeanne Burns

26. Agenda Item III. Letter of Intent • University of Louisiana at Monroe • Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT)

27. Recommendation Senior Staff recommends the Committee approve the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s Letter of Intent for a Master in Occupational Therapy.

28. Agenda Item IV. Proposed New Academic Programs • Louisiana Tech University • Bachelor of Science in Cyber Engineering

29. Recommendation Senior Staff recommends that the Committee grant conditional approval for the B.S. in Cyber Engineering (CIP Code 14.9999) at Louisiana Tech University. By November 1, 2012, the campus will update the Board on program implementation, to include data relevant to enrollment.

30. Agenda Item V. Louisiana Transfer Degree – New Statewide Concentrations

31. Recommendation Senior Staff recommends that the Committee endorse the new statewide concentrations in Business and Mass Communication for the Associate of Arts, Louisiana Transfer degree.

32. Agenda Item VI. Reports of the Staff • Blue Ribbon Recommendations • Staff Approval of Routine Academic Requests • Progress Reports for Conditionally Approved Academic Programs & Research Units • Proposed New Programs/Units • Past Due Reports for Approved Academic Programs and Research Units

33. Recommendation Senior Staff recommends Committee receive the reports and approve the recommendations of the staff included in Agenda Item VI, particularly: VI-A – Appointment of new members to the Blue Ribbon Commission; VI-B – Staff approval of routine academic requests; VI-C – Staff recommendations for conditionally approved programs and units.

34. Planning, Research and Performance Committee Victor Stelly, Chair Joe Wiley, Vice Chair Maurice Durbin William Fenstermaker Chris Gorman Mary Ellen Roy Harold Stokes Larry Tremblay Theresa Hay

35. Agenda Item III. R.S. 17:1808 Licensure of Academic Degree-Granting Institutions • Initial license • Liberty University • University of Northern Colorado • University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

36. RECOMMENDATION Agenda Item III.A. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of initial operating licenses for Liberty University, University of Northern Colorado, and University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences with the requirement that if the institution either currently offers or plans to offer Teacher Education or Education Leadership programs to Louisiana residents, it must follow additional Board of Regents’ regulations regarding approval to operate these programs.

37. Agenda Item III. R.S. 17:1808 Licensure of Academic Degree-Granting Institutions B. License Renewal • Panola College

38. RECOMMENDATION Agenda Item III.B. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of Panola College’s request for license renewal.

39. Agenda Item IV. GRAD Act A. Intermediate Level Autonomies Performance Requirements

40. ACT 418 • Defines 3 Levels of Autonomies • Base • High • Intermediate • Defines Performance Requirements for Each Level • Base – annual review • High – IPEDS graduation rate compared to SREB • Intermediate

41. Intermediate Level • Performance Requirements • Meet the short-tem targets (Base) and • Meet BoR requirements for streamlining academic service delivery…and support targeted measures • To demonstrate, institutions must • Choose and implement 2 items from list approved by BoR • Implement and annually report during period of GRAD Act agreement

42. Performance Requirements Choose 2 items, in these major categories: Items developed in conjunction with Systems/Institutions

43. Recommendation Agenda Item IV. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval of the Performance Requirements for GRAD Act Intermediate Level Autonomies.

44. Agenda Item V. Other Business A. Admission Standards

45. Recommendation Agenda Item V. Senior Staff recommends Committee approval that universities may admit 2012 high school graduates who have not met the Arts Category of the Core 4, but otherwise meet the minimum admission standards.

46. Louisiana Board of Regents October 27, 2011

47. Public Comments

48. Approval of Minutes September 22, 2011

49. Approval of 2012 Schedule of Board of Regents’ Meetings

50. Reports and Recommendations by the Commissioner of Higher Education