Everything Nac

OPEN MEETING NOTICE
Stephen F. Austin State University
Board of Regents Board Meeting and Committee Meetings
Nacogdoches, Texas
Jan. 30 and 31, 2017
Meeting 308
Austin Building 307

The Board of Regents of Stephen F. Austin State University will convene a two-day Board Meeting and Committee Meetings according to the following agenda:

MONDAY, JAN. 30
8 a.m.
CALL TO ORDER IN OPEN SESSION

MEETING OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE

(scheduled for 8 a.m.)

Presentation and Committee Action on Agenda Items 19 – 22:

Oncor Electric Easement at the Housing Operations Facility
Water Well Transfer from SND Operating, LLC to Stephen F. Austin State University
Pineywoods Native Plant Center Greenhouse
Approval of Building and Grounds Policy Revisions

Austin Building Conference Rooms 16.5

Report: Current Construction

MEETING OF THE FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
(This meeting will convene at approximately 8:30 a.m. or following previous committee adjournment.)

Presentation and Committee Action on Agenda Items 7 – 18:

Acknowledge Receipt of Audit Services Report
Approval of the Fiscal Year 2015-16 Annual Financial Report
Resolution to Acknowledge Review of Investment Policy and Strategy
Resolution to Approve Qualified Financial Institutions and Investment Brokers
Education Advisory Board Student Success Collaboration Contract Amendment
Grant Awards Ratification
Tuition for Excessive Hour or Repeated Course Undergraduate Hours
Designated Tuition Fixed-Rate for 2017-18 Entering Students
Designated Tuition Rate
Room and Board Rates FY 2017-18
Changes in Course and Lab Fees FY 2017-18
Approval of Financial Affairs Policy Revisions

Central Receiving 17.2

Gifts, Loans, Endowments and Bequests 3.17

Investments 3.21

Investments-Endowments 3.20

Prompt Payment to Vendors and Employees 17.13

Property Liability 16.22

Proprietary Purchases 17.15

Purchase of Surplus Property 17.17

Safe and Vault Combinations 14.9

Student Fiscal Appeals 6.19

Report: Texas A&M University System Investments

Report: Electricity Contract Update

Report: Senate Bill 20 Update

(At approximately 11:15 a.m. the committee will recess for lunch and the board members will attend a 1 p.m. reception for the opening of the Rusk Family Papers in the Steen Library. A quorum is expected to attend but no action will be taken. The meeting will reconvene in Austin Building, Room 307, at approximately 2 p.m.)

Report: Richards Carlberg Update

MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC AND STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

(This meeting will convene at approximately 3 p.m. or following previous committee adjournment.)

Presentation and Committee Action on Agenda Items 5 and 6:

5. Request for Name Change for the Master of Science in Resource Interpretation

6. Approval of Academic and Student Affairs Policy Revisions

Academic Appointments and Titles 7.2

Academic Facilities for Non-Academic Activities 16.1

Academic Probation, Suspension and Reinstatement for Undergraduates 6.4

Administration of Academic Units 4.4

Administrative Evaluation of Adjunct Faculty Performance 7.5

AIDS and HIV 13.1

Annual Disclosure of Crime Statistics 13.3

Certificate Programs 5.2

Compensation Plan for Exempt and Non-Exempt Staff 12.2

Course Scheduling 4.13

Credit and Contact Hours 5.4

Designation of School Status 4.5

Developmental Education and Texas Success Initiative 5.8

Doctoral Students: Allowable Credit Hours and Completion Times 6.11

Faculty Development Leaves 12.7

Faculty Disagreements 7.25

Faculty Search 7.12

Fair Labor Standards 11.14

Guest Lecturers 7.15

Laboratory Fees 3.22

Library Faculty 7.17

Overtime and Compensatory Time 12.14

Out-of-State Course Delivery 5.15

Part-Time Faculty 7.21

Performance Review of Officers Reporting to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 4.8

Purchased Instructor-Generated Materials 7.16

Recombinant DNA and/or Infectious Biohazards in Teaching and Research 8.9

Records Management 2.9

Selection of Academic Deans 4.9

Small-Size Classes 7.26

Student Academic Dishonesty 4.1

Student Evaluation of Instruction 7.27

Student Media 10.8

Student Service Fee Allocations 10.11

Student Travel 10.12

Substantive Change 4.10

Summer Teaching Appointments 7.28

EXECUTIVE SESSION

At approximately 3:15 p.m. or immediately following the prior meeting, the board will move to executive session for consideration of the following items:

Deliberations Regarding the Deployment, or Specific Occasions for Implementation, of Security Personnel or Devices. (Texas Government Code, Section 551.076)

 Update from chief information officer

 Information technology security

 Bursar’s office security

Deliberations Regarding the Purchase, Exchange, Lease, Sale or Value of Real Property (Texas Government Code, Section 551.072)

Consideration of Individual Personnel Matters Relating to Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Assignment, Duties, Discipline, or Dismissal of an Officer or Employee, including but not limited to the interim chief information officer, football coaches, vice presidents and the president (Texas Government Code, Section 551.074)

Deliberations Regarding Negotiated Contracts for Prospective Gifts or Donations (Texas Government Code, Section 551.073)

 Possible naming opportunities

Consultation with Attorney Regarding Legal Advice or Pending and/or Contemplated Litigation or Settlement Offers, including but not limited to Reported Complaints, Personnel Policies and Procedures, Courtnay Christensen v. SFASU, et al., and Timothy Dugger v. SFASU (Texas Government Code, Section 551.071)

Estimated adjournment: 5 p.m. The board will reconvene in open session and recess for the evening with no further action expected.

THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF A TWO-DAY BOARD MEETING AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS AGENDA:

TUESDAY, JAN. 31

9 a.m.

RECONVENE BOARD MEETING IN OPEN SESSION

Call to Order and Pledge to the Flags

Invocation

Building and Grounds Committee Report and Board Action on Agenda Item 24 (Executive Session Item)

24. Possible Naming Opportunity

Special Recognitions

Board Action on Agenda Item 1:

1. Approval of Board Minutes from November 6 and 7, 2016

Presentation and Board Action on Personnel Items 2 – 4:

2. Approval of Faculty Appointments

3. Approval of Staff Appointments

4. Approval of Changes of Status

Committee Reports and Board Action:

Academic and Student Affairs Committee (Report and Board Action on Agenda Items 5 and 6):

5. Request for Name Change for the Master of Science in Resource Interpretation

6. Approval of Academic and Student Affairs Policy Revisions

Academic Appointments and Titles 7.2

Academic Facilities for Non-Academic Activities 16.1

Academic Probation, Suspension and Reinstatement for Undergraduates 6.4

Administration of Academic Units 4.4

Administrative Evaluation of Adjunct Faculty Performance 7.5

AIDS and HIV 13.1

Annual Disclosure of Crime Statistics 13.3

Certificate Programs 5.2

Compensation Plan for Exempt and Non-Exempt Staff 12.2

Course Scheduling 4.13

Credit and Contact Hours 5.4

Designation of School Status 4.5

Developmental Education and Texas Success Initiative 5.8

Doctoral Students: Allowable Credit Hours and Completion Times 6.11

Faculty Development Leaves 12.7

Faculty Disagreements 7.25

Faculty Search 7.12

Fair Labor Standards 11.14

Guest Lecturers 7.15

Laboratory Fees 3.22

Library Faculty 7.17

Overtime and Compensatory Time 12.14

Out-of-State Course Delivery 5.15

Part-Time Faculty 7.21

Performance Review of Officers Reporting to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 4.8

Purchased Instructor-Generated Materials 7.16

Recombinant DNA and/or Infectious Biohazards in Teaching and Research 8.9

Records Management 2.9

Selection of Academic Deans 4.9

Small-Size Classes 7.26

Student Academic Dishonesty 4.1

Student Evaluation of Instruction 7.27

Student Media 10.8

Student Service Fee Allocations 10.11

Student Travel 10.12

Substantive Change 4.10

Summer Teaching Appointments 7.28

Finance and Audit Committee (Report and Board Action on Agenda Items 7 – 18):

7. Acknowledge Receipt of Audit Services Report

8. Approval of the Fiscal Year 2015-16 Annual Financial Report

9. Resolution to Acknowledge Review of Investment Policy and Strategy

10. Resolution to Approve Qualified Financial Institutions and Investment Brokers

11. Education Advisory Board Student Success Collaboration Contract Amendment

12. Grant Awards Ratification

13. Tuition for Excessive Hour or Repeated Course Undergraduate Hours

14. Designated Tuition Fixed-Rate for 2017-18 Entering Students

15. Designated Tuition Rate

16. Room and Board Rates FY 2017-18

17. Changes in Course and Lab Fees FY 2017-18

18. Approval of Financial Affairs Policy Revisions

Central Receiving 17.2

Gifts, Loans, Endowments and Bequests 3.17

Investments 3.21

Investments-Endowments 3.20

Prompt Payment to Vendors and Employees 17.13

Property Liability 16.22

Proprietary Purchases 17.15

Purchase of Surplus Property 17.17

Safe and Vault Combinations 14.9

Student Fiscal Appeals 6.19

Building and Grounds Committee (Report and Board Action on Agenda Items 19 – 23):

19. Oncor Electric Easement at the Housing Operations Facility

20. Water Well Transfer from SND Operating, LLC to Stephen F. Austin State University

21. Pineywoods Native Plant Center Greenhouse

22. Approval of Building and Grounds Policy Revisions

Austin Building Conference Rooms 16.5

23. Possible Naming Opportunity (Executive Session Item)

Reports:

President

 Upcoming Dates

 Legislative Session

 Student Regent

 Student Application to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

 Nacogdoches SFA Days in Austin

 Articulation Agreement with Panola College

Faculty Senate

 Faculty Accomplishments

 Financial Forum Report

 Faculty Socials and Coffee

 Post-Tenure Review Concerns

 Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award

 Spring Semester Activities

Student Government Association

 SGA Elections

 Spring Initiatives

Report from Nominating Committee and Election of Board Officers for 2017-2018

Recognition of Outgoing Regents 2017

ESTIMATED ADJOURNMENT OF BOARD MEETING

(approximately 10:30 a.m.)

Where appropriate and permitted by law, Executive Sessions may be held for the above listed subjects (Section 551.071). Possible action may be taken in Open Session on matters considered in Executive Session. Further details regarding the posted agenda are available for public review in the Office of the Board of Regents, Austin Building 308, Telephone (936) 468-4048.

The Stephen F. Austin State University Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony will present their first concert of the semester at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.

The concert, entitled “Earth Dreams,” will feature the works of American composers, including Timothy Mahr, Timothy Broege, John Mackey and Frank Ticheli.

The Symphonic Band, directed by Dr. Tamey Anglley, assistant director of bands at SFA, will open the concert with Mahr’s “Daydream.” The composer intended it to be a musical daydream, with introspective sound eliciting mood changes and shifting images, Anglley explained. Mahr wrote about the piece: “I hope to conjure up in the listener the sense one perceives when he or she ‘pulls out’ of a daydream, returning to reality after a transient mental trip to places of flight and fancy.”

The program also includes Broege’s “Dreams and Fancies,” which is a four-movement work that alternates between slow and fast tempi. The Symphonic Band will close its half of the concert with “Waves March” by Henry Fillmore. Over the span of his 50-year career, Fillmore wrote more than 250 original compositions, including 113 marches.

The Wind Symphony, under the direction of Dr. David Campo, associate director of bands, will open its half of the concert with the John Bourgeois edition of Pieter Leemans’ “March of Belgian Parachutists.” Leemans served in the Belgian army during World War I and was asked by his regimental commander to write a march. He began the march, but did not finish before the end of the war. Later, near the end of World War II, he was asked by a group of Belgian paratroopers to compose a march, and remembering his earlier theme, he completed this popular march, which has enjoyed great success and is Leemans’ best known work, Campo explained.

The Wind Symphony will also perform Mackey’s “Sheltering Sky,” which was intended by the composer to exude a folksong-like character, and Ticheli’s “Gaian Visions,” which was commissioned by the Gamma Phi chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi in honor of Dr. Donald E. Bowen, SFA’s fifth president.

Of the piece, Ticheli wrote: “The title of the work refers to Gaia, the Earth goddess of ancient Greece, and to British scientist James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, which holds that the Earth is a living, self-regulating organism that is capable of annihilating anything it perceives to be a threat, including the environmentally destructive human race itself.”

Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.

The Children’s Performing Arts Series at Stephen F. Austin State University will present two performances of “Seussical” on Friday, Feb. 10, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.

Presented by Theatreworks USA, the play is based on several Dr. Seuss stories, including “Horton Hears a Who,” “Horton Hatches the Egg” and “Gertrude McFuzz.”

“The Cat in the Hat is host as Dr. Seuss’s beloved characters find themselves intertwined in an incredible crazy-quilt adventure in which the power of imagination saves the day,” said Diane Peterson, Fine Arts Box Office manager and director of the series.

The play is adapted especially for young audiences from the Broadway version of “Seussical.” It is recommended for children in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Written by Broadway veterans Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the production features 10 actors and enhanced production values, and it is Theatreworks’ biggest show ever, Peterson said.

Presented by the SFA College of Fine Arts, the Children’s Performing Arts Series annually features five shows designed to entertain, educate and engage young audiences of all ages, according to Peterson. Study guides provide suggestions for pre- and post-performance activities and discussions for teachers to use in the classroom.

“Teachers may want to utilize Theatreworks’ study guide to help make students’ theater experience with ‘Seussical’ as meaningful as possible,” Peterson said.

Performances are at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $7.50 for individuals and $6 per person for groups of 20 or more.

Other upcoming CPAS performances include “The Little Mermaid” on Tuesday, March 7; and Super Scientific Circus on Thursday, May 11.

To order tickets, call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS. Visit the CPAS website at www.cpas.sfasu.edu for additional information.